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We work to protect climate, forests, biodiversity and communities from destructive impacts of large-scale bioenergy, Website: www.biofuelwatch.org.uk Email: biofuelwatch[at]gmail[dot]com
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 3h
The Chancellor says she 'fixed' a problem caused by “some snails or something”.

Comments like this pit nature against growth – it’s the wrong target.

Here, the system has worked: protecting one of UK’s rarest species while allowing 20,000 homes to proceed.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 16h
🌍 The World Is Watching: A Global Call to Uphold the EU Deforestation Law

Groups around the world are demanding no further delays or weakening of the #EUDR b/c our forests, communities, and the climate can’t wait.

The latest 👉 environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/the-...

#ClimateAction #EUClimateAction
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Dogwood Alliance @dogwoodalliance.org · 13h
From Plantation to Promise, the #FreedomLand Community #Forest groundbreaking marked the start of a new chapter for this sacred land. Thank you to the #community and partners whose hearts and hands made this moment real.
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justtransitionw.bsky.social @justtransitionw.bsky.social · 1d
Oh dear, Rachel - what have you said now?
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There is a reason why species are protected. To risk the extinction of a species for a few houses is #uncivilised, #ignorant, #AntiScience and shows no respect for life-forms considered more lowly than herself. Who's next?
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 6d
👏 New from World Rainforest Movement: a sharp briefing exposing how the pulp & paper industry manufactures demand to expand monoculture plantations at huge cost to forests & communities. Essential reading! 🌍

📖 www.wrm.org.uy/publications...
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 7d
We have signed this important letter, too:
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Zero Waste Europe @zerowasteeurope.eu · 9d
NEW: 156 organisations call for EU-wide ban on new waste incineration.

Why?
🔥 EU already has 60M tonne overcapacity crisis.
🌍 Higher carbon emissions than many energy sources.
♻️ Blocks circular economy progress.
☠️ Toxic chemicals found in nearby communities.

Joint letter: www.betterthanburning.eu
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Zero Waste Europe @zerowasteeurope.eu · 9d
NEW: 156 organisations call for EU-wide ban on new waste incineration.

Why?
🔥 EU already has 60M tonne overcapacity crisis.
🌍 Higher carbon emissions than many energy sources.
♻️ Blocks circular economy progress.
☠️ Toxic chemicals found in nearby communities.

Joint letter: www.betterthanburning.eu
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Real Zero Europe @realzeroeurope.bsky.social · 8d
👉 What risks do these solutions pose, and how do they distract from real climate action?

Join us to dig into the dangers of these false solutions and learn how NGOs and activists can push back.

🗓️ Monday, 13 October
🕒 15–17 CEST

Register here & share widely 👇
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Real Zero Europe @realzeroeurope.bsky.social · 8d
🤔 Wondering how to recognise a false solution when you see one?

This time in our Pulling Back the Curtain webinar series, we’ll explore some of the most common so-called land-based solutions—like carbon and #biodiversity offsets, #carbonfarming, and #biochar.

👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 9d
FSC has suspended its MoU with Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings (APRIL) after serious allegations of violence, including attacks on community members in #Indonesia. Full statement here: fsc.org/en/newscentr...
FSC Suspends Memorandum of Understanding with APRIL Following Reports of Alleged Violence
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ROBIN WOOD e.V. @robinwood.bsky.social · 19d
Jetzt mit uns Deutschlands größtes #Holzkraftwerk stoppen - in unter einer Minute!
In Stade werden #Umweltbelastung und #Emissionen als grüne Energie verkauft. Nicht #cool? Dann unterschreibe jetzt unseren #Protest: www.robinwood.de/holzkraftwer...
Text: Mit uns Deutschlands größtes Holzkraftwerk stoppen! Was in Stade als grüne Energie verkauft wird, bringt massive Umweltbelastungen und gesundheitsschädliche Emissionen mit sich! Holzverbrennung ist ein Rückschritt auf Kosten von Mensch und Natur. Jetzt Protest unterschreiben.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 10d
This is utterly horrific. Literally blocking the ability of people to object to nature being trashed and destroyed. What a lovely govt we have!!

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews
Exclusive: One option could be to leave treaty that allows legal claims against projects such as Heathrow expansion
www.theguardian.com
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Campaign for Freedom of Information @campaignfoi.bsky.social · 12d
📢FOI in the News!

The government is considering leaving the Aarhus Convention, which allows groups to judicially review environmentally damaging proposals without massive costs if they lose.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#Aarhus #EIR #informationrights #transparency
Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews
Exclusive: One option could be to leave treaty that allows legal claims against projects such as Heathrow expansion
www.theguardian.com
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 12d
Awful. It's also about access to environmental information, btw., such as getting information about levels of local pollution. Right now, with the UK being in the convention, challenges can only be brought if there's a credible argument of legal flaws in a decision. Now, even that right is at risk.
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Tim Altmann @timaltmann.bsky.social · 12d
Leaving the Aarhus convention is being discussed. An international treaty signed up to by the EU and other countries in Europe, protecting the right to bring legal claims against large infrastructure projects inc waste plants, nuclear power stations & motorways
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews
Exclusive: One option could be to leave treaty that allows legal claims against projects such as Heathrow expansion
www.theguardian.com
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 12d
Shocking to read that the government is considering the option of withdrawing from the Aarhus Convention, with grants basic rights to environmental information and justice and which has been ratified by almost all European and Central Asian countries.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d
Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews
Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews
Exclusive: One option could be to leave treaty that allows legal claims against projects such as Heathrow expansion Keir Starmer has tasked a Conservative peer with writing a new planning bill to remove the ability for environmental groups to delay projects such as Heathrow’s third runway with judicial reviews. The Guardian understands that leaving the Aarhus convention is being discussed as an option. This is an international treaty signed up to by the EU and other countries in Europe, which protects the right for campaigners to bring legal claims against large infrastructure projects such as waste plants, nuclear power stations and motorways. Continue reading...
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Francis Sealey @globalnet21.bsky.social · 12d
An insatiable thirst for cheap, ready-to-build furniture has been linked to illegal logging of protected areas and assassinations of forest defenders.

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Bounties, Mafias, and the Climate Cost of IKEA’s Fast Furniture | Atmos
An insatiable thirst for cheap, ready-to-build furniture has been linked to illegal logging and assassinations of forest defenders.
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San Francisco Baykeeper @sfbaykeeper.bsky.social · 12d
Coming up on 10/02 in Berkeley! Catch this screening of CHASING CHIMERAS, which exposes the fossil fuel industry's push for false climate "solutions" while endangering communities & delaying real climate action @foodandwater.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social www.mobilize.us/fww/event/82...
Berkeley, CA: Chasing Chimeras Film Screening · Food & Water Watch
Join Food & Water Watch for the screening of a new documentary by Barbara Bernstein. _**Chasing Chimeras: The Lure of Deceptive Climate Solutions**_ exposes the fossil fuel industry's push for false ...
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 15d
A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing

The web of life is unravelling fast
Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in ‘dramatic freefall’
Species index fell by 4% between 2019 and 2024 – although data shows woodland populations beginning to stabilise
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Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ @rajannaidu.bsky.social · 14d
Activists cleared of locking on charges at Drax power station - BBC News
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Activists cleared of locking on charges at Drax power station
Fifteen people are cleared of planning to lock themselves to objects during climate protest.
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 13d
#AxeDrax banner at the #MakePollutersPay march last weekend!
Photo showing demonstrators in a London street in front of a large plastic barrel saying "Make Polluters Pay" and, in front of it, a banner saying "Drax the destroyer".
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 14d
🚨 Attack on North Sumatra's indigenous community linked to pulp & paper giant APRIL

❌ We must not admit these communities to be terrorised and assaulted by these companies private security forces.

👉 Read the entire story here: environmentalpaper.org/2025/09/indi...
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 16d
It is likely no coincidence that yesterday the EU announced a Free Trade Deal with Indonesia...

...And today EU Environment Commissioner Jessica Roswall announces at AGCO that there will be yet another one-year delay to the EU Deforestation Regulation.
EU, Indonesia agree on free trade deal – DW – 09/23/2025
The near decade-long negotiations between the EU and Indonesia were hastened by the threat of US President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff policy. The free trade deal will scrap most tariffs between ...
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 15d
Despite the promises of governments of all colors, and relentless propaganda from the intensive farm lobby, the collapse of nature continues steadily.

The collapse of farmland birds is just a reflection of a self destructive farming system.

We can change, if we wanted.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 15d
More bad news on #Biodiversity, on one of the most nature-depleted corners of this battered planet

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in ‘dramatic freefall’
Species index fell by 4% between 2019 and 2024 – although data shows woodland populations beginning to stabilise
www.theguardian.com
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 15d
EP committees just rejected the proposed EU #forests monitoring law.

Great victory for the nihilistic clear-cuts forestry lobby.

With climate change hammering our forests we desperately need comparable data. But the Trumpian logic is that if you don't measure problems they will disappear.
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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 15d
🤩 Hundreds of people joined the anti-deregulation march yesterday 🤩

Including @larawolters.bsky.social ⬇️

“Deregulation is not going to solve the problems [...] If we are serious about making Europe more robust, more future-proof, then this is not the way to do it"

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Activists lead three-day march on Brussels against EU's 'deregulation wave'
NGOs and trade unions want to draw attention to what they call a "deregulation wave" in the EU. They have been marching from Maastricht (the Netherlands) to Brussels for the last three days, claiming ...
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