Fantastic to see #environmentalrights on the agenda The Citizens' Assembly on #Biodiversity Loss.
📺Watch back: valuable insights from 45 mins in with Professor Áine Ryall Áine Ryall youtube.com/watch?v=svGid2…
✉️Read our submission to The Citizens' Assembly: citizensassembly.ie/en/assembly-on…
#CABioLoss

I have put together a book with over 100 contributors that will share expertise and experiences from people all over the world. These crises are the biggest story in the world, and they must be spoken as far and wide as our voices can carry, and much further still.

Wednesday 🧵
1.For the past two days, I have described the invaluable & critical role that natural peatlands play in regulating the global climate through the sequestration & storage of atmospheric carbon.
Today, our thread takes us on a dark, dark road.
👉 PEAT EXTRACTION

🚨 BREAKING: The UK Government has announced a new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas.

This won't bring down #EnergyBills or increase #EnergySecurity - so why are they doing it?

Watch 👇

Governments around the world are being warned they face court if they don't act on the climate crisis, in an open letter published this morning by a group of legal activists. It's the first time lawyers & NGOs have joined forces in this way to threaten legal action

🚨25+ lawyers and orgs have written an open letter to send a strong message to govts in the lead-up to COP27:

Climate action is a legal duty. “If governments continue to fail us, lawyers and activists will turn to the courts to demand accountability.”

#ClimateTrials

We are joining forces with over 25 organisations to let governments know: climate action is a legal duty. If governments won’t follow through on their climate commitments, they will face their courts. #ClimateTrials

We are hiring for the position of Environmental Justice Lawyer

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the area of
environmental justice

The deadline for applications is Thursday 15th September at 5pm. To find out more visit
communitylawandmediation.ie/job_opportunit…

#jobfairy

We are delighted to be hiring for the position of Environmental Justice Lawyer

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the area of
environmental justice

The deadline for applications is Thursday 15th September at 5pm. To find out more visit
communitylawandmediation.ie/job_opportunit…

#jobfairy

This is a big climbdown from what Frank Mitloehner told the Oireachtas Ag Committee. California hasn’t reduced its livestock methane emissions by 30%, it’s met 30% of its reduction target!
I presume Committee record will be corrected Jackie Cahill TD Matt Carthy TD Brian Leddin Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾?

You were all elected to do enough

Good question

💶 Amongst other things, Irish Farmers' Association gets ~€3 million a year from levies on dairy and beef sales, which gives the IFA an enduring interest - separate from farmers’ and the public’s long-term interests - in growing dairy and beef production, despite the climate and other impacts

Mayo farmer Gerry Loftus writes “Farm organisations and many politicians are selling the message that a 30% [emissions] reduction in agriculture would decimate rural Ireland; this is totally false.”

thatsfarming.com/farming-news/e…