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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · Sep 5

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India 36% reduction in GHG emissions from 2005 -2020 🎉✌️

Experts agree Climate Change is real, it's us, it's bad, but there is #hope, because we have the solutions 🛠️⚖️🔍to take #ClimateAction.

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36% dip in emission intensity in 2020 against 2005 level: Govt | India News - Times of India

India News: India has successfully reduced the emission intensity of its GDP by 36% in 2020 compared to 2005 levels, reflecting significant progress towards its c

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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · Aug 31

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Mature forests vital in fight against climate change

nature action equals #ClimateAction

older trees respond to increased atmospheric levels of CO2 by increasing production of woody biomass

find out more: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-o...
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Mature forests vital in fight against climate change

Mature forests have a key role to play in the fight against climate change – extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and locking it into new wood, a new study reveals. Researchers discovered that

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XR London @xrlondon.bsky.social · Aug 23

Reality of #ClimateCrisis for a grandma in Malawi - Gladys Khumbidzi first moved due to repeated floods. Then the water supply began drying up at her new home so she moved again. Now she is struggling to feed herself & her family as flooding one yr & drought the next means she cant grow enough food

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ShellsLies @shellslies.bsky.social · Aug 27

Met Office attributes #ClimateBreakdown as a cause of summer '25 likely to be UK's warmest on record. June & July had 4 heatwaves🥵. England suffering what govt calls “nationally significant” water shortfalls, w/ very little rain & reservoirs, rivers & groundwater running dry
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · Aug 26

Summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be UK’s warmest on record, Met Office says: Mean temperature is tracking at 16.13C after four heatwaves, significantly above current record of 15.76C This summer is set to be the warmest on record for the UK, the Met Office has said, after the country ...

Summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be UK’s warmest on record, Met Office says

Summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be UK’s warmest on record, Met Office says: Mean temperature is tracking at 16.13C after four heatwaves, significantly above current record of 15.76C This summer is set to be the warmest on record for the UK, the Met Office has said, after the country ...

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David Suzuki Foundation @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social · Aug 27

Excluding nature investments and lumping clean electricity in with pipelines? Canada's pre-budget survey is looking a bit Trumped up. ☠️

Fill out the short survey and pick ‘Other’ for Q1. Demand nature funding and clean energy before Aug. 28: ow.ly/W5B750WN4ec

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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · Aug 27

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We need to choose #climate resilient development (1)

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#ClimateAction
original graph by IPCC

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Women worriers for nature Uganda @womenworriersug.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our comrades who were jailed for peacefully protesting against the destructive East Africa crude oil pipeline will be returning to court on Monday 18th for bail hearing after spending 18 days in Luzira maximum prison @shellslies.bsky.social
#StopEacop
#FreeClimateActivistsr

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Women worriers for nature Uganda @womenworriersug.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our comrades who were jailed for peacefully protesting against the destructive East Africa crude oil pipeline will be returning to court on Monday 18th for bail hearing after spending 18 days in Luzira maximum prison @shellslies.bsky.social
#StopEacop
#FreeClimateActivistsr

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Women worriers for nature Uganda @womenworriersug.bsky.social · Aug 5

Day 5 of incarceration of the 12 brave climate activists in Uganda…

You will abduct us, torture and arrest us but we will not stop advocating for climate justice @shellslies.bsky.social
#FreeThe12ClimateActivists

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Women worriers for nature Uganda @womenworriersug.bsky.social · Aug 5

Day 5 of incarceration of the 12 brave climate activists in Uganda…

You will abduct us, torture and arrest us but we will not stop advocating for climate justice @shellslies.bsky.social
#FreeThe12ClimateActivists

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · Aug 5

Could the European Parliament be the first legislative body on the planet prepared to pause proceedings to allow for a jury to scrutinise amendments, using a corporate-friendly 'impact assessments' methodology?

Doing so risks further eroding democratic decision-making
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Corporate lobbyists will weaponise European Parliament's plan for 'impact assessments'

Impact assessments have been used by the EU Commission for many years, but until now the European Parliament has been hesitant to introduce them. But this has changed now the EU has enthroned ‘competi...

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ShellsLies @shellslies.bsky.social · Jul 7

Reform UK says if elected they'll slash taxes & restrictions for fossil fuel companies, grant new #OilAndGas licences, scrap net zero policies, support fracking & new coal mines. In 2024, almost half Reform’s donations were linked to climate denial & fossil fuel interests
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Aug 4

PRESS RELEASE: This UN process could reform global tax rules so that the richest individuals and multinational corporations like oil and gas companies are forced to pay their fair share for the pollution they cause.

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UN tax talks could push polluters and billionaires to pay for harm to climate and nature - Greenpeace International

New York, United States – New global tax rules that could help fund climate action, protect nature, and reduce inequality are being negotiated at the historic UN Framework Convention on…

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Women worriers for nature Uganda @womenworriersug.bsky.social · Aug 2

Hello Claire, how can we personally have a talk about climate action with you

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Climate Cabinet Action @climatecabinet.org · Aug 1

We agree with @jigarshahdc.bsky.social completely 😎

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Extinction Rebellion Ireland @xr-ireland.bsky.social · Jul 16

Open to all - find your place in the Extinction Rebellion movement - Tuesday 29th July 7-8.30pm actionnetwork.org/events/welco...

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Women worriers for nature Uganda @womenworriersug.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Women worriers for nature Uganda @womenworriersug.bsky.social · Aug 1

Earlier our comrades in climate activism have been shave been arrested as we peacefully protested outside Stanbic bank headquarters uganda , Our demand was that the bank denounce its partial debt financing of the destructive East African Crude Oil Pipeline

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · Jun 20

#HelpTheHub! Your recyclables can make a big impact on your environment and here at the Hub! Donate your bottles and cans using #SkipTheDepot ( @skipthedepot.bsky.social) & all refunds will go towards supporting grassroots climate action here in #Calgary! #yyc

"ALT TEXT Image of a full recycling box, caption reads ""GOT BOTTLES?""

Hub and Skip The Depot logos

Content reads ""bag your bottles, select a date, they re picked up from our door. No stress donating!""
Image of a full recycling box, caption reads ""GOT BOTTLES?""

Hub and Skip The Depot logos

Content reads ""bag your bottles, select a date, they re picked up from our door. No stress donating!"""

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XR Horsham @xrhorsham.bsky.social · Jun 17

WARNING - This may make you angry…

“Two-thirds of the world’s largest 65 banks increased their fossil fuel financing by $162bn from 2023 to 2024”

(including Barclays who are still the biggest European funder)

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds

Two-thirds of the biggest 65 banks increased financing by $162bn from 2023 to 2024, walking back climate promises

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Extinction Rebellion Ireland @xr-ireland.bsky.social · Jun 17

Bloomsday or Doomsday ? Climate activists protest Zurich-sponsored Bloomsday event in Blackrock. 8.8% of Zurich’s pension fund assets are invested in the fossil fuel industry - more than any other major pension provider in Ireland extinctionrebellionireland.com/press-releas...

CLIMATE ACTIVISTS SILENTLY PROTEST ZURICH-SPONSORED BLOOMSDAY EVENT IN BLACKROCK — Extinction Rebellion Ireland

Through 1904-style placards, banners and leaflets they called on Zurich to divest its Pension Funds from Fossil Fuels to stop driving climate breakdown  6:30pm, 16th June, Blackrock, Dublin, ...

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Women worriers for nature Uganda @womenworriersug.bsky.social · Jun 19

Why is SpaceX trending?

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Women worriers for nature Uganda @womenworriersug.bsky.social · Jun 12

The 11 climate activists who were arrested for protesting over KCB’s funding of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline(EACOP) and charged with trespassing have been denied bail today. Nakawa Magistrates’ court has adjourned their case till 26th June, 2025
@shellslies.bsky.social @calgaryclimatehub.ca

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