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Steve Trent

@steventrent

Founder, CEO, Environmental Justice Foundation. Founder, WildAid. 35 years campaigning for wildlife, environmental security and human rights.

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Thailand has established itself as a leader on sustainable, ethical and legal seafood. Ripping up fisheries legislation now would undo this hard-won progress, directly harming fishers, rebounding fish populations and precious ocean ecosystems. Our short film 📽️

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Shark finning and physical abuse of crew are just some of the crimes we found in our investigation of the Chinese distant-water fleet. 🇨🇳 and market states must do more to hold perpetrators accountable and ensure products linked to these abuses do not make it to supermarkets.

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Experience? We are poorer, more divided, less influential, more unhappy, less safe & more uncertain - all courtesy of a decade plus of Tory rule. They have failed by every measure. Excuses of “events” hold no water. Incompetent, unreliable, unelectable. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

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Support @greenpeaceuk 👇 Open letter to Wael Sawan, CEO of Shell plc via @greenpeaceuk greenpeace.org.uk/resources/shel…

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“Rather than exploiting a precious ecosystem... we can start by looking at the materials that have already been mined, and at the swift progress of new technology which doesn’t rely on deep-sea minerals.” Steve Trent on critical minerals 📝 ejfoundation.org/news-media/unl…

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Sofía S. Manzanaro @OCHBelga Mared Gwyn Nicolas Gros-Verheyde Andrea Valdambrini Wolfgang Hansson Karin Axelsson Seafood linked to these vessels is potentially entering global markets. More attention must be paid to 🇨🇳's DWF and fisheries investments in the SWIO by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, coastal, market, port and flag states and, most of all, by the Chinese government.

<a href="/sofiamazzanaro/">Sofía S. Manzanaro</a> @OCHBelga <a href="/MaredGwyn/">Mared Gwyn</a> <a href="/bruxelles2/">Nicolas Gros-Verheyde</a> <a href="/andreavaldambri/">Andrea Valdambrini</a> <a href="/WolfgangHansson/">Wolfgang Hansson</a> <a href="/KarinEAxelsson/">Karin Axelsson</a> Seafood linked to these vessels is potentially entering global markets.

More attention must be paid to 🇨🇳's DWF and fisheries investments in the SWIO by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, coastal, market, port and flag states and, most of all, by the Chinese government.
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Is the #AMOC approaching a tipping point? Here's my take after researching this topic for over 30 years. Open access, peer-reviewed, in full colour & understandable for non-experts. tos.org/oceanography/a…

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We believe this law can drive "a fundamental shift towards sustainable behaviour, but rigorous enforcement is needed to achieve this," says Steve Trent. The 🇪🇺 has the opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to environmental protection & human rights. ejfoundation.org/news-media/mep…

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🌳 🌊 Die Natur selbst liefert uns die Lösungen für die #Klimakrise. Doch unser Raubbau an ihr droht wertvolle Kohlenstoffsenken zu zerstören. Wir brauchen rechtsverbindliche Ziele für ihren Schutz. Wir müssen die Natur schützen, um uns selbst zu schützen. #TagderKlimademokratie

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"We can, and must, leave burning fossil fuels and forests to the history books." We cannot delay the transition to clean energy any longer. Elaborate greenwashing has no place in the 🇬🇧 Read Steve Trent on Drax's unproven & unsustainable bioenergy with carbon capture scheme ⬇️

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"The extent of the abuses on the Chinese fleet raises the question of whether authorities in Beijing are aware of the practices, or whether they have simply lost control of the fleet." However, solutions do exist, writes Steve Trent for World Politics Review 📝 worldpoliticsreview.com/china-illegal-…

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“Without knowing who is catching what, where, when and how, we cannot make progress for a safe, sustainable ocean.” Illegal fishing and human rights abuses at sea are intertwined – #Transparency is key to combating these abuses. 📝 Steve Trent: news.mongabay.com/2023/03/fishin…

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As EJF's Steve Trent says, the new generation of leaders did not cause the crisis in Senegal's fisheries, but they can end it. Enshrining the fisheriestransparency Charter for Transparency into law can help to achieve this. Read our full comment here: ejfoundation.org/news-media/eur…

As EJF's <a href="/steventrent/">Steve Trent</a> says, the new generation of leaders did not cause the crisis in Senegal's fisheries, but they can end it.

Enshrining the <a href="/FishCoalition/">fisheriestransparency</a> Charter for Transparency into law can help to achieve this. 

Read our full comment here: ejfoundation.org/news-media/eur…
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With no reservations, I hope these polls are right, liberté égalité fraternité: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third theguardian.com/world/live/202…

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These governments are making it clear that they are taking the urgent warnings from the scientific community seriously. We welcome them standing against the rushed introduction of a devastating industry and call on other countries to follow suit.

These governments are making it clear that they are taking the urgent warnings from the scientific community seriously.

We welcome them standing against the rushed introduction of a devastating industry and call on other countries to follow suit.
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Steve Trent “No country needs minerals from the deep sea to achieve their climate targets. A circular economy is a safe alternative.” - Steve Trent We can and must prevent this ecological catastrophe before it starts. The solutions exist, but we must implement them. ejfoundation.org/reports/critic…

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“We must not allow the last almost untouched ecosystems on Earth to be destroyed for the financial desires of a few.” #DeepSeaMining will be devastating for people and planet – we need a moratorium now. Read more from Steve Trent & @martin_webeler 📝 ejfoundation.org/news-media/the…

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Do something good, support this 👇 make a donation: As a sign of commitment to peace, help us support those affected by war theguardian.com/society/2024/d…