Revealing the massive economic benefits to the Global North of workers appropriated from the South makes even more disgraceful & duplicitous the 'performative cruelty' (as its been called) of UK and other Northern immigration policies

🚨 Temperatures at the Olympic Games in Paris will soar to 35°C+ today. As the climate continues to warm, this fatal level of heat has become disturbingly common. Despite this, the Olympics continues to promote the polluting industries most responsible. 🧵 #Olympics

"Climate crisis to blame for delay to triathlon, say Paris Olympic organisers" This being so, should the Olympics let itself be used as a billboard to promote major climate polluters such as sponsors Toyota & Air France? cooldownnetwork theguardian.com/sport/article/…

Hear our Andrew Simms on why a climate-endangered Olympics should rethink having major polluters as sponsors 👇🏼

"Paris wanted to be the greenest games ever, but it's turned into a billboard for very big polluters." Andrew Simms Lindgaard talk to Adrian Goldberg about #Paris2024 From Byline Times podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/par…

A really comprehensive and insightful piece from Dom Winter of ProtectOurWintersUK on the #Paris2024 #OlympicGames and the future this sporting mega-event faces in a warming world 👇 cooldownclimate.org/latest/the-cli…

Great piece from Dom Winter of ProtectOurWintersUK for the cooldownnetwork on the brutal reality of global heating for sport, and what it means for the #OlympicGamesParis2024 👇👇👇 badvertising Reclame Fossielvrij Fossil Free Football 🌍⚽️ Champions for Earth 🌍 cooldownclimate.org/latest/the-cli…

.Andrew Simms chatted to BBC News (UK) this week about the future of the #Olympics in a world that is rapidly warming He called on the organisers to drop polluting sponsors and become a force for climate action and justice #Paris2024

This morning, Rhydian Cowley became an Olympic medalist 🏅🎉 Here's what he had to say in a recent report: "Meaningful action on climate change… means calling out organisations who sponsor events but do not take climate change seriously." Full report 👉 newweather.org/2024/07/22/pol…

Yesterday the Olympic marathon, today the actual site of Marathon is evacuated due to wildfires. The Olympics claims sustainability, but was sponsored by one of the world's biggest climate polluters, Toyota. Time for coherence BBC News - Wildfires spread bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

“The 2023 temperature anomaly has come out of the blue, revealing an unprecedented knowledge gap... (it could imply) that a warming planet is already fundamentally altering how the climate system operates” Director, Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies theguardian.com/environment/ar…

This is why there should be a tobacco-style ban on adverts for SUVs... Stop creating demand for anti-social climate-killers👇👉 badvertising badverts.org/ministry-for-t…

🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 🔥🎮”𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴: How big polluters are gaming a new sport sponsorship market.” As Saudi Arabia's Esports World Cup draws to a close, here's an intro to the new polluter tactic. 🧵 Full report 👉 newweather.org/wp-content/upl… #EsportsWorldCup

🚨 NEW BLOG 🚨 tanya aldred of The Next Test lays out the realities of being a cricket fan in a rapidly warming world and where hope lies for a more sustainable future for cricket 🏏 cooldownclimate.org/latest/not-out…

Sport is on a collision course with global warming. Yet the "suffocatingly hot" US Open in New York is sponsored by the biggest commercial financier of fossil fuels, JPMorgan, and a heavily polluting airline and car maker, Emirates & Cadillac. Bad play promoting your own demise

🏏 Today, England take on Sri Lanka at the Home of Cricket. Like many Test cricket countries, Sri Lanka is already grappling with the harsh impacts of climate change. In our latest blog, Tanya Aldred introduces the issue. 🧵 Full article 👉 cooldownclimate.org/latest/not-out… #ENGvSL

This is what heat stress looks like. Temperatures soared to 35C at the US Open yesterday with many players struggling in the conditions. Yet the US Open Tennis continues to partner with the high-carbon industries most responsible for the warming world. 🧵 #USOpen

🚨 Sportswash alert! 🚨 The Paralympic Games symbolise the triumph of the human spirit, where athletes push the limits of the possible through sheer determination. Yet, the high-carbon sponsors of this year's games send a very different message. 🧵 #Paralympics

'Football needs our planet' - great initiative from cooldownnetwork Pledgeball This Fan Girl Heard 👇👇👇 watch & share... footballneedsourplanet.com

Terrible leader example 👇🏼 'Gianni Infantino flew over 600,000 km on a private jet owned by Qatar in 3 years - defying the pandemic & principles of good governance to become an elite polluter, disregarding Fifa’s own commitment to fight climate change.' josimarfootball.com/2024/09/12/fly…