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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 6d

Heartfelt congratulations to the amazing 2025 Right Livelihood Award laureates

Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & Julian Aguon
Justice For Myanmar
Audrey Tang
Emergency Response Rooms

learn more about these remarkable change-makers & be inspired:
www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 6d

Warmest congratulations to the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & Julian Aguon on receiving the 2025 Right Livelihood Award! 👏👏👏

You took on the #ClimateCrisis, & carried the voices & lived experiences of frontline communities to the #ICJ & you won‼️

www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...

2025 Right Livelihood Laureates Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Julian Aguon | Lotte Leicht

✨ Warmest congratulations to the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Julian Aguon on receiving the 2025 Right Livelihood Award – the “Alternative Nobel Prize”! 👏👏👏 You took on the gr...

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 8d

Trump & his enablers do not care about your kids & grandkids

By expanding coal mining -the most GHG polluting industry- they are turbo-charging the #ClimateCrisis threatening rights, lives & livelihoods of present & future generations in the US & around the world
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump administration spending $625m to revive dying coal industry

White House allocating 13.1m acres of public land to coal mining, which has been on rapid decline over past 30 years

www.theguardian.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 10d

Ridiculous! Banning words won’t change reality

US EnergyDept adds “climate change” “green” “decarbonization” to list of forbidden terms

Censorship can't erase facts: the #ClimateCrisis is real, it’s human-made & deadly

Silencing science=endangering lives
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

POLITICO Pro: Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list

It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 5d

#ClimateJustice: Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy - but anti-climate litigation is also on the rise incl against activists & journalists.

Fourth report by #UNEP & Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.

www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy today

Nairobi, 3 October 2025 – Climate litigation is now being pursued across more countries than ever before, according to a report published today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Cen...

www.unep.org

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 5d

#ClimateJustice: Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy - but anti-climate litigation is also on the rise incl against activists & journalists.

Fourth report by #UNEP & Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.

www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy today

Nairobi, 3 October 2025 – Climate litigation is now being pursued across more countries than ever before, according to a report published today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Cen...

www.unep.org

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 6d

Heartfelt congratulations to the amazing 2025 Right Livelihood Award laureates

Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & Julian Aguon
Justice For Myanmar
Audrey Tang
Emergency Response Rooms

learn more about these remarkable change-makers & be inspired:
www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 6d

Warmest congratulations to the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & Julian Aguon on receiving the 2025 Right Livelihood Award! 👏👏👏

You took on the #ClimateCrisis, & carried the voices & lived experiences of frontline communities to the #ICJ & you won‼️

www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...

2025 Right Livelihood Laureates Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Julian Aguon | Lotte Leicht

✨ Warmest congratulations to the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Julian Aguon on receiving the 2025 Right Livelihood Award – the “Alternative Nobel Prize”! 👏👏👏 You took on the gr...

www.linkedin.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 8d

Trump & his enablers do not care about your kids & grandkids

By expanding coal mining -the most GHG polluting industry- they are turbo-charging the #ClimateCrisis threatening rights, lives & livelihoods of present & future generations in the US & around the world
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump administration spending $625m to revive dying coal industry

White House allocating 13.1m acres of public land to coal mining, which has been on rapid decline over past 30 years

www.theguardian.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · Sep 6

“The problem that we’re now facing is that there are traditional rightwing parties that perhaps don’t deny the scientific reality, but which act and behave as if #ClimateChange doesn’t exist."

Pedro Sánchez, Spanish Prime Minister
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Spain and Portugal wildfire weather made 40 times more likely by climate crisis, study finds

Wildfires were 30% more intense than would have been expected without global heating, scientists say

www.theguardian.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 10d

Another night & day of horror,death & destruction in #Ukraine

#Russia’s ruthless #WarCrimes continue w utter impunity. Families torn apart. Cities shattered. Lives stolen

Putin is an #ICC fugitive wanted for atrocity crimes. His criminality must never be normalized
www.euronews.com/2025/09/28/a...

Four killed in Kyiv, including a child, in overnight Russian attacks

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy slammed Russia for the new wave of attacks, which killed at least four in Kyiv, including a child, and accused them of deliberately targeting civilian positions...

www.euronews.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 21d

“The causal chain from #FossilFuel burning to rising heat & increased mortality is undeniable”

Research concludes human-made global warming ‘caused 2 in 3 heat deaths in Europe this summer’

The #ClimateCrisis impact is devastating

Time for #climateJustice ‼️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’

Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases

www.theguardian.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 23d

They watched #ClimateChange ravage their home countries as rich, polluting nations did nothing. Then they had an idea.

Powerful piece about how Pacific Islands students brought the biggest global #HumanRights crisis, the climate crisis, to the world's highest court.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...

How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law

www.nytimes.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · Apr 2

What Are the Rights of Nature?

Here’s what you need to know about one of the fastest-growing environmental and social movements worldwide — to secure legal rights for ecosystems and other parts of the natural world.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0204202...

What Are the Rights of Nature? - Inside Climate News

Here’s what you need to know about one of the fastest-growing environmental and social movements worldwide—to secure legal rights for ecosystems and other parts of the natural world.

insideclimatenews.org

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · Aug 8

The #ICJ delivered a historic Advisory Opinion on #ClimateChange that cuts through decades of delay, denial, & legal ambiguity. It did so with moral & legal clarity that leaves no doubt: states must act to prevent climate harm or be held legally responsible.

Read our Q&A: cri.org/cri-qa-on-th...

Q&A on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

On July 23, 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the world’s highest court, issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change and international law. In clear legal terms, the Court confi...

cri.org

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · Sep 5

#ClimateCrisis:"the more we burn #FossilFuels, the harder it is”

📣New research shows links btw human-caused warming & rising fire risks in Europe & devastating fires in Spain & Portugal this summer killing at least 8 people & displacing tens of thousands👇

insideclimatenews.org/news/0409202...

Fossil-Fueled Climate Heating Set the Stage for Devastating Fires in Spain and Portugal This Summer - Inside Climate News

New research shows the links between human-caused warming and rising fire risks in Europe, and offers a path toward a more resilient future.

insideclimatenews.org

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · Sep 5

Following extreme events with severe impacts, public interest is generated in its causes.

One of the dominant questions is: “Was this event caused by #ClimateChange?”

This WWA guide is intended to help journalists navigate this question👇

www.worldweatherattribution.org/reporting-ex...

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 10d

“There’s no fixing this once it starts. It’s another irreversible shift driven by a warming planet”

Alaskan rivers turn orange as permafrost thaws, threatening fish and communities

#ClimateCrisis is the global #HumanRights crisis of our time.
#ClimateActionNow

news.mongabay.com/2025/09/alas...

Alaskan rivers turn orange as permafrost thaws, threatening fish and communities

The writer John McPhee once described Alaska’s Salmon River as having “the clearest, purest water” he’d ever seen. Today, that same river runs orange with toxic metals unleashed by thawing permafrost....

news.mongabay.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 10d

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56%, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors

The Arctic Research Consortium of the US funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

#ClimateCrisis
grist.org/politics/aft...

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

grist.org

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 10d

“There’s no fixing this once it starts. It’s another irreversible shift driven by a warming planet”

Alaskan rivers turn orange as permafrost thaws, threatening fish and communities

#ClimateCrisis is the global #HumanRights crisis of our time.
#ClimateActionNow

news.mongabay.com/2025/09/alas...

Alaskan rivers turn orange as permafrost thaws, threatening fish and communities

The writer John McPhee once described Alaska’s Salmon River as having “the clearest, purest water” he’d ever seen. Today, that same river runs orange with toxic metals unleashed by thawing permafrost....

news.mongabay.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 10d

Another night & day of horror,death & destruction in #Ukraine

#Russia’s ruthless #WarCrimes continue w utter impunity. Families torn apart. Cities shattered. Lives stolen

Putin is an #ICC fugitive wanted for atrocity crimes. His criminality must never be normalized
www.euronews.com/2025/09/28/a...

Four killed in Kyiv, including a child, in overnight Russian attacks

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy slammed Russia for the new wave of attacks, which killed at least four in Kyiv, including a child, and accused them of deliberately targeting civilian positions...

www.euronews.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 10d

Ridiculous! Banning words won’t change reality

US EnergyDept adds “climate change” “green” “decarbonization” to list of forbidden terms

Censorship can't erase facts: the #ClimateCrisis is real, it’s human-made & deadly

Silencing science=endangering lives
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

POLITICO Pro: Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list

It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

subscriber.politicopro.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 10d

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56%, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors

The Arctic Research Consortium of the US funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

#ClimateCrisis
grist.org/politics/aft...

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

grist.org

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 13d

📺 In this video, Johan Rockström explains the key findings of the 2025 Planetary Health Check: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndPV...

Official Planetary Health Check 2025 with Johan Rockström

YouTube video by Planetary Boundaries Science

www.youtube.com

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 14d

Within-country inequality can reduce acceptance of #ClimatePolicy.

Study @pnas.org co-authored by PIK now explores how #CarbonPricing with redistribution can help the energy transition & reduce economic inequality – which is important for enforceability.

www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

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