Brazil, Germany, South Africa and Spain call for the world’s billionaires to pay minimum 2% wealth tax - to raise an amount equivalent to economic damages caused by extreme weather events last year #G20

theguardian.com/inequality/202…

'Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, including some bound and stripped of their clothes.'

I do not understand why more people are not talking about this. I do not understand any of this at all.

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Financial Times & Reuters pull Saudi Aramco-sponsored climate content as regulators consider greenwashing complaint against the oil giant

desmog.com/2024/04/23/fin… via DeSmog

UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples calls for moratorium on carbon markets to stop human rights abuses

'Carbon markets provide the loophole the fossil fuel industry needs to continue extraction' Tom Goldtooth, director of Indigenous Environmental Network

reddmonitor.substack.com/p/un-special-r…

'If this decision is not contested, we accept that politicians can break the law and manage our resources blindly.'

WWF Verdens naturfond to take legal action against Norwegian government, unless it reverses decision to open up Arctic waters for deep sea mining

wwf.no/wwf-norway-tak…

Nature is something we are all part of, and we can only safeguard it from disaster by being joyously and defiantly tangled up in it theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'Deep sea mining is a relic of the cowboy economy almost 60 years on ... the ISA secretariat is engaged in unjustifiably heroic efforts to force this through, under pressure from just one or at most a handful of member-states'

Impressions of a scientist:
impact.economist.com/ocean/ocean-an…

“Once we've changed over the entire vehicle fleet to electric, we’ll only have to replace a couple % each year that’s lost in the process,” says Campbell. “It will become obvious to everyone that it doesn't make sense to dig out of the ground anymore” 7/ bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Tesla co-founder JB Straubel has built an EV-battery colossus in the scrublands of Nevada. He spent the day giving me the first look at everything @redwoodmat has been building.

It starts with *30 acres* of old batteries headed headed for recycling 🧵

WWF-Norway to take legal action against the gov't on #deepseamining . 'Never before have we seen a Norwegian government so blatantly disregard scientific advice and overlook the warnings from a united ocean research community.' - CEO Karoline Andaur #DefendtheDeep #ThinkDeeply …

📢 BREAKING: WWF Verdens naturfond intends to take legal action against its government for opening #DeepSeaMining .

The decision to open represents an unprecedented governance scandal, says WWF #Norway CEO Karoline Andaur.

More info👇
wwf.no/wwf-norway-tak…

#DefendTheDeep #ThinkDeeply

2 stories on the news:

1. Scotland not introducing enough policies to deliver clean tech and other measures for their climate targets

2. Anxiety about China (and others) ruthlessly subsidising clean tech and thus dominating the future global economy

Writes itself really.

At the #OceanDecade24 , Presidential Envoy for #UNOC25 Ambassador Olivier Poivre d'Arvor 🇫🇷 urged postponing the decision on a Mining Code at the International Seabed Authority. #DeepSeaMining

“It is about humanity as much as about respecting science.” enb.iisd.org/2024-ocean-dec…

Our eight legged friend is taking a stand against deep sea mining, along with:
✍️ 2.3 million petition signers globally
🌍 25 governments calling for a moratorium
🚗 Major companies like Google, BMV and Samsung

Sign the petition to join the movement: bit.ly/3JkY4hb

Wherever the deep sea mining industry goes, we’ll be there to stop them! 🚫

Today in London we confronted the CEO of Loke Marine Minerals, a company looking to mine the Arctic and the Pacific Oceans.

…oh and we crashed the deep sea mining industry conference he was attending…

'For Ireland, the decision to support a precautionary pause on deep sea-mining was grounded on three fundamentals: international law, science, and our commitment to sustainable development'.

What on earth is this giant pink octopus doing in the middle of London?!🐙

The secretive deep sea mining industry likes to operate out of sight but we’re making that a little harder for them by crashing their conference with our eight legged friend. SURPRISE!

We can’t save the…

🚨 BREAKING: Giant pink octopus takes a stand against the deep sea mining industry in the heart of London.

Wherever the industry goes, we’ll be there to stop them.

Together we can stop deep sea mining before it starts. ✊

Deep sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk

Leading scientists including Callum Roberts Kirsten Thompson call in nature for a moratorium on deep sea mining due to severe, irreversible impacts

#StopDeepSeaMining
nature.com/articles/s4189…

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