Workplace heat deaths up 42% in Europe - and rising faster here than anywhere else. EUROPEAN TRADE UNIONS calls for laws guaranteeing workers rest, water and time off in extreme heat. #ClimateCrisis etuc.org/en/pressreleas…

EU trade supremo (+ Brexit brains) Sabine Weyand calls the #deforestation regulation 'extremely burdensome,' says its 'pushed away' trade partners, calls on EU to 'learn lessons' + backs push to nix enforceable green rules in FTAs. Bye bye #GreenDeal palmoilmonitor.org/2024/04/26/exc…

“The stark reality is that longer hot seasons will enlarge the seasonal window for the spread of mosquito-borne diseases and favour increasingly frequent outbreaks that are increasingly complex to deal with.” #dengue #malaria theguardian.com/environment/20…

To all academics—students, faculty & staff —in universities throughout the US standing up for freedom & justice in Palestine: yours is the voice of courage & humanity. You are the antidote to racism & genocide. You are the conscience of the US, in contrast to the complicity &…

A revealing podcast exchange between the former editor of the Sun David Yelland and top PR man (+ former Murdoch son in law) Matthew Freud about why Keir Starmer should keep his distance from Rupert. From

'Since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion'

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Decided: Belgium will take the lead at the EU level to re-evaluate our Association Agreement with Israel.

We will co-sponsor a UN resolution in favour of full Palestinian UN membership.

And we call for an EU-wide import duty on products coming from illegal Israeli settlements.

Experts say the UN Food and Agriculture Organization seriously distorted their research, in a flagship report on #livestock emissions. 'Multiple, egregious and conceptual errors' served to reduce the climate potential of shifts to plant-based diets, says Matthew Hayek. Story by me: theguardian.com/environment/20…

After a big effort, MEP's will debate 'the repeated killing of humanitarian aid workers, journalists and civilians' by Israel in #Gaza on Tues. Thanks to all IFJ and NUJ who pushed. And to all Greens/EFA in the EU Parliament 🌍, S&D Group, Renew Europe CoR & The Left in the European Parliament who listened.

1. This week’s column is about something we badly want to believe, regardless of the evidence: that livestock farms are benign and harmonious. Why? Mostly, I think, because it chimes with books and cartoons we see as very young children. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Also: a thread

The EU's plan for a 'brown' European Commission until 2029 apparently. Sell out the environment. Give big #agribusiness what it wants and🤞 it keeps the far right at bay... but what if it does exactly the opposite?

The @Guardian view on Europe's #GreenDeal retreat: Make the case to the public, not concessions to the far right and #agribusiness lobby: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

US meat lobby celebrates ‘positive outcome’ of COP28 UAE. #Livestock lobbyists say it left them 'excited' and 'enthusiastic' for the sector's prospects. Food and Agriculture Organization emissions roadmap was 'music to our ears,' says one. scl.io/AAtQDCn via DeSmog

Over the years I’ve lost two friends, one Palestinian and one Lebanese, and nearly lost a third, a French cameraman, to the willingness of IDF soldiers to open fire even though they knew perfectly well who they were. But they felt sure their superiors would protect them.

So proud of my UK hometown

The EU's great #GreenDeal retreat benefits the far right. For the rest of us it's a looming disaster. Opinion by me: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The Israeli Knesset just enacted 'Al-Jazeera Law'. It allows the government to shut down foreign media outlets and block it from broadcasting.

They killed journalists. Prevented media from going to Gaza. Banned human rights experts.

I wonder why.

Netanyahu revives push to shut down Al Jazeera PR in Israel. Journalists beware ☠️ This sort of rhetoric has previously been followed by the targeted killing of reporters and their families. aje.io/fdcg9n via Al Jazeera English

Salt, air and bricks: could this be the future of energy storage? | Energy storage | The Guardian. Under-reported. Interesting. Significant. theguardian.com/environment/20…