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Emma Bryce
@emmaanne.bsky.social
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Journalist, covering #plasticstreaty, oceans, food systems, forests. Writing in @theguardian.com‬ @dialogueearth.bsky.social @anthropocenemag.bsky.social @ted-ed.bsky.social‬ & more
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Jul 24
"We thought that the taboo was so firm that no one ever would even dare think of using anti-personnel mines," one source told me. "Much like chemical weapons or biological weapons.”
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Jul 24
I usually cover environmental policy, but here's my first piece on global disarmament — and how one celebrated disarmament treaty that has protected countless civilian lives is now under threat.
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Jul 24
Why did the CEO of one of the world's largest demining charities The HALO Trust defend a shipment of banned landmines from the US to Ukraine? spoileralerts.substack.com/p/questionab...
Questionable incentives
Why is the CEO of the world’s largest demining organisation defending banned landmines?
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Magnus Løvold @magnuslovold.bsky.social · Jul 23
The story — written by journalist @emmaanne.bsky.social — raises tough questions about the perverse incentives at play in mine action.

Emma reached out @thehalotrust.bsky.social for comment. They declined.

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Questionable incentives
Why is the CEO of the world’s largest demining organisation defending banned landmines?
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Magnus Løvold @magnuslovold.bsky.social · Jul 23
Why is the CEO of the world’s largest de-mining NGO defending landmines?

James Cowan of @thehalotrust.bsky.social has publicly supported the shipment of anti-personnel mines to Ukraine — even suggesting the Mine Ban Treaty should be revised 🧵
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Apr 4
The UN Human Rights Council has just officially recognised plastic pollution as a threat to human rights. Here's a look at how plastic disproportionately affects Indigenous Peoples - and how they're fighting back dialogue.earth/en/pollution... @dialogueearth.bsky.social
Indigenous Peoples fight to be heard at plastics treaty talks
Though disproportionately affected by plastic pollution, Indigenous Peoples are struggling to shape a global treaty on it
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · Mar 25
✊ "We were completely being ignored. We were saying: ‘Chair, we need just two minutes. Chair, Indigenous Peoples are also here!’"
– Prem Singh Tharu, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact

Indigenous Peoples fight to be heard at plastics treaty talks.

✍️ @emmaanne.bsky.social

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Indigenous Peoples fight to be heard at plastics treaty talks
Though disproportionately affected by plastic pollution, Indigenous Peoples are struggling to shape a global treaty on it
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Joseph Winters @jbwinters.bsky.social · Feb 3
Super proud of this co-publication with @emdashsanders.bsky.social at ExxonKnews, about the DOE's unusual relationship with plastics industry lobbying groups. @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/accountabili...
‘Plastics are awesome’: Inside the Energy Department’s partnership with the plastics industry
Critics argue that the agency’s work with a lobbying group is a conflict of interest.
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Jan 17
I, for one, chuckled in delight at this title, Alex!
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Jan 17
"Plastic, he added, is undeniably useful. But it comes with a clear risk. One day, if fire strikes, 'it will burn faster, and it will burn hotter.' The advantages will turn to threats." www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
What Happens When a Plastic City Burns
Most modern couches are basically blocks of gasoline.
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Daniel Cressey @dpcressey.bsky.social · Dec 18
Lovely to wrap up the year (nearly) by publishing this piece from @oliveheffernan.bsky.social on @dialogueearth.bsky.social

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Explainer: Why ocean temperatures are a growing concern
Cleaner global shipping, El Niño and a subsea volcano have all been implicated, as scientists rush to understand record-breaking ocean heat
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Dec 18
I don't think we talk nearly enough about the quiet wonders of #peat and what it does for our planet - or how frightening it is when it catches fire! Thanks to TED Ed for featuring this video, with beautiful animation by Ivana Volda, and expert insight from Guillermo Rein youtu.be/brdrOzVgZX0?...
How are these fires burning underground? - Emma Bryce
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Dr Winnie Courtene-Jones (Plastic pollution scientist) @winniecj.bsky.social · Dec 15
I spoke to BBC Radio Wales' Science Cafe about Christmas waste, listen:
🗓️ 17th December
⏰ 18.30
📍 BBC radio Wales

Or on demand : www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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#Christmas #plasticwaste #plasticpollution
BBC Radio Wales - Science Cafe, Christmas Waste
Adam Walton explores the environmental impact of Christmas.
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Magnus Løvold @magnuslovold.bsky.social · Dec 13
When the history of the #PlasticsTreaty process is written, #INC5 in Busan 🇰🇷 will be remembered as the point where the large majority of countries in favour of a strong treaty discovered their capacity for collective action medium.com/points-of-or...
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BUSAN, MONDAY 2 DECEMBER 2024: Ambassador Luis Vayas had until the very last moment been unwilling to consider requests for extension…
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Dec 13
Thanks to @dpcressey.bsky.social and @dialogueearth.bsky.social for regularly making space for coverage on this fraught and fascinating topic, and @gridarendal.bsky.social for the funding to report from Busan!
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Dec 13
The Busan talks were a disappointment for many. Yet some feel that they marked a turning point on the road to an ambitious global treaty. It's a mixed picture, but it's not over. And looking out to 2025, I wonder where all that optimism, energy, and raw emotion will take the process.
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Dec 13
That collective hope also means that for those who have now dedicated years to the process, the lows feel really low - as one negotiator explained to me in Busan, beginning to cry as he contemplated returning to his island nation, whose shores are often awash with plastic, without a treaty in hand.
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Dec 13
When countries first officially agreed to write a plastics treaty in 2022, I spoke with people who said they had literally wept with joy as that gavel came down!
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Dec 13
The talks reached a stalemate and were not agreed by the December deadline, so the process will continue in 2025. It's been described as a 'failure'. But something that doesn't always get its due is the enormous optimism that is required to propel these multilateral processes into existence.
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Dec 13
Late to post, but still thinking about the INC-5 plastics treaty talks in Busan, where 100+ countries stood up to support an ambitious agreement to tackle the escalating quantities of plastic that enter our lives each day dialogue.earth/en/pollution... @dialogueearth.bsky.social
INC-5: ‘dark arts’, filibusters, and the final meeting that wasn’t
Plastic treaty stalls despite 100 nations pushing for deal, as lobbyists outnumber larger delegations and negotiations spill over into ‘INC-5.2’
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Laura Mercier @lauramercier.bsky.social · Dec 2

#PlasticsTreaty: La communauté internationale quitte aujourd'hui Busan sans l’accord qu’elle était venue y chercher. Si la majorité en faveur d’un traité ambitieux repart renforcée, elle se heurte à la ferme opposition d’une minorité de pays. Partie remise en 2025.
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À Busan, l’échec des négociations sur le traité plastiques promis deux ans plus tôt - Contexte
Après sept jours de pourparlers, la communauté internationale a quitté la Corée du Sud, ce 2 décembre, sans l’accord qu’elle s’était engagée à conclure avant la fin de l’année 2024. Si la majorité en ...
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Nov 30
"There’s a great lot of countries that want to see the betterment of this planet.” Fiji's Sivendra Michael on the 100+ nations who now want curbs on plastic production to be included in a global #plasticstreaty being debated in Busan www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...
Hope of breakthrough at international plastic treaty talks after two-year deadlock
‘Important shift’ made in global attempts to address plastic pollution though final treaty text yet to be agreed
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Anja Krieger @anjakrieger.bsky.social · Nov 28
What’s going on at the #PlasticsTreaty talks? Slightly jetlagged, I got together with the one and only @magnuslovold.bsky.social for an update last night. Listen to where we stand midway at #INC5:

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How (Not) To Make a Plastics Treaty - Part V: Things Get Circular
Play How (Not) To Make a Plastics Treaty - Part V: Things Get Circular by Plastisphere Podcast on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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Emma Bryce @emmaanne.bsky.social · Nov 27
220 industry lobbyists here at the global #plasticstreaty talks in Busan, making it the largest delegation, outnumbering those of both Korea and the EU @cielorg.bsky.social www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...
Plastics lobbyists make up biggest group at vital UN treaty talks
Fossil fuel and chemical industry representatives outnumber those of the EU or host country South Korea
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Andrew MacAskill @macaskillaf.bsky.social · Nov 22
Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7
Hidden state inference requires abstract contextual representations in the ventral hippocampus
The ability to use subjective, latent contextual representations to influence decision-making is crucial for everyday life. The hippocampus is hypothesized to bind together otherwise abstract combinat...
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