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In the last 10 years, 322 Land and #EnvironmentalDefenders were murdered in Colombia. Activists like Óscar and Yuli are targeted for protecting their communities' land and water from damaging oil extraction. Next week, the 🇨🇴 Congress can change this. This is how 👇🏽
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⚫️Seven years ago on this day, the #ParisAgreement on climate change was adopted. Since then (and until December 2021) over 1000 land & #EnvironmentalDefenders from around the world have been murdered, our global data shows. Here are their names.
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NEW: Last year, 212 Land and #EnvironmentDefenders were murdered whilst defending their homes, their land and the environment against climate-wrecking projects. 2019 was the deadliest year on record.
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A major European company is illegally exploiting the #rainforest in the #DRC, damaging our global climate and undermining local communities. WATCH:
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🔴BREAKING . Over 600 #FossilFuel lobbyists have been granted access to the #COP27 climate talks – that’s 25% more than last year. The UN needs to kick big polluters out if it's serious about delivering #ClimateAction. #PeopleNotPolluters .
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NEW 🔴 200 land & #EnvironmentalDefenders were killed in 2021, nearly four people per week. This is just the tip of the iceberg, defenders are frequently targeted with violence, intimidation and criminalisation. #DefendTheDefenders.
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🔴BREAKING . If the #FossilFuel industry were a country, it would have by far the largest number of delegates at #COP26. A real problem for a vital conference that has left way too many voices out - and supposed to be focused on urgent #ClimateAction.
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NEW | French oil giant @TotalEnergies is fuelling Russian military attacks on Ukrainian civilians from their joint-owned Siberian gas fields, our latest investigation shows. It's time for Total to stop putting profit above peace. #FossilFuelsFundWar
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The world is more dangerous than ever for #EnvironmentDefenders protecting our planet – new report:
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👏 Defending our environment is not a crime👏.👏 Defending our environment is not a crime👏.👏 Defending our environment is not a crime👏.👏 Defending our environment is not a crime👏.👏 Defending our environment is not a crime👏.👏 Defending our environment is not a crime👏.
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Money laundering! Narco cash! What went on at Trump Ocean Club Panama? Don’t ask @realdonaldtrump #TrumpInPanama
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US authorities must investigate #Exxon for its purchase of a corruption-tainted oil block in #Liberia. #NoSecretDeals
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The real culprits of our planetary crisis—climate-wrecking industries & the big 💸💸 behind them —often slip under the radar. Taking them on will require all of us to fight back ✊. It’s time for a global #ClimateRevolution. Who’s in?
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"While Western countries continue buying Russian gas and oil. they help Putin to wage war against Ukraine.". This #EarthDay reminds us that for the sake of peace, it's time to sanction the Russian fossil fuel industry. #FossilFuelsFundWar.#EndFossilsAndWars
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BREAKING: More than 3 Land & #EnvironmentDefenders died every week in 2018 and many more were attacked and arrested. Calls to save the planet are growing louder – but those protecting it are being silenced. Read our report #EnemiesOfTheState:
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NEW: Two major US commodity traders are failing to ensure their palm oil sources are free from abuse against land & #environmentaldefenders in Indonesia. We’re calling on @ADMupdates & @Bunge to address these failings and protect defenders.
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#Myanmar’s military and military-linked companies have tightened their grip on the country's multibillion-dollar jade industry, using the proceeds to enrich themselves and their families, fund their ongoing abuses and hold onto power. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar - a thread 👇
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227 Land & #EnvironmentDefenders were killed in 2020 – the highest number of lethal attacks ever recorded, our latest data shows. These attacks are being driven by the very same industries which are causing the #ClimateCrisis.
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Cuando las y los #DefensoresAmbientales y de la tierra se alzan contra las empresas respaldadas por Estados que amenazan a nuestro planeta 🌍, se arriesgan a ser encarceladas e incluso asesinadas. Yo estoy con ellas. ¿Podemos contar con usted también?
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Hey @HSBC we're watching you! 👀. You're the UK’s biggest high street bank financing #deforestation. As your shareholders meet today, maybe explain that they may be liable for the estimated £36.4m in profit they’ve made since 2016 from supporting forest-wrecking companies.
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Next week will mark 100 days since the start of the military coup in #Myanmar 🇲🇲. What can the international community do to fight back against the Myanmar junta and hasten the return of democracy? A thread 👇
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BREAKING🔴We join activist @SvitlanaRomanko to tell EU politicians in📍Brussels today:. Stop funding Putin's war on #Ukraine!. Half of all the money needed to fund the Russian war machine comes from the sale of #FossilFuels to Europe. Act now and RT 👇.
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🚨BREAKING: COP29 CEO EXPOSED using climate summit to discuss new oil deals. Our latest investigation exposes how Azerbaijan were willing to facilitate fossil fuel deals as part of a sponsorship package. 🌍💰.
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BREAKING NEWS: leaked emails show how @Shell scheme deprived Nigeria of $1.1billion. RT to expose #Shellknew
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REVEALED: Over 300,000 UK companies say they have no owners 👥. Despite world-leading transparency rules, the lack of checks and enforcement by @CompaniesHouse means it's still far too easy to conceal the real owners. The Govt can and must act.
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BREAKING🚨. The EU 🇪🇺 just agreed a law that paves the way for people around the world to sue big companies for human rights abuses and linked environmental harms. This is what it means ⬇️#CSDDD
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Nearly 2000 land and environmental defenders have been killed since 2012. Today, we're screening their names in New York's Times Square to pay tribute to them. As global leaders gather for the @UN Climate Ambition Summit, we call on governments to #DefendTheDefenders
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🚨 NEW: The #FossilFuel industry wants us to think blue hydrogen 🔵 is climate friendly. @Shell boast that their plant in Canada 🇨🇦 is helping to tackle the #ClimateCrisis. We show it has the same emissions as a MILLION cars! 🚗
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What do the Presidential families of the US and Congo Brazzaville have in common?.1⃣ Both have been accused of enriching themselves while in power.2⃣ Both Presidents’ daughters work in the presidential offices.3⃣ A luxury #Trump apartment in NYC.Read more:
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Land & #EnvironmentDefenders are our leaders in protecting the environment and halting climate breakdown. Yet they are increasingly threatened, attacked and silenced. Unless civil society space for legitimate protest is protected, there can be no #ClimateJustice.
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How Many More environmental activists murdered in 2014? Find out here http://t.co/vWmRgMumcr
http://t.co/TnrnDC0x89.
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NEW 📣 Major meat companies are buying cattle 🐄 from hundreds of ranches that contain illegal #Amazon deforestation 🌳, with some also linked to human rights abuses - and international banks are complicit 💰. Find out more:
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NEW🔎: Chevron claims to support Black communities and racial justice, yet we’ve found they give *four times* more funding to US politicians with failing civil rights voting records. 👇
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BREAKING @Shell have just announced the scrapping of its 1-2% oil reduction target. A climate-wrecking U-turn that could add new carbon equal to Denmark’s annual emissions EVERY YEAR. It’s profit over planet & people every single time for big polluters.
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AHORA 🔍 El año pasado, 212 personas #Defensoras fueron asesinadas mientras defendían sus hogares, su tierra y el medio ambiente de proyectos destructivos que exacerban la crisis climatica. 2019 fue el año con más muertes que hemos registrado.
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📣BREAKING: New analysis by oil experts 🕵️ @Shell and @eni’s #OPL245 deal deprived the Nigerian people of an estimated $6 billion in potential revenues 💰.⏲️It’s time to #TakeTheFuture back. Watch and share!
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We’ve all experienced a #ToxicFriendship, and friendships don’t get any more toxic than those between #Polluters and politicians. It's time for our global leaders to break up with their toxic friends!. Keep an eye out for ways you can support our campaign to #EndPollutersPower ✊
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Today, we took over a page in today's @nytimes to honour the #EnvironmentalDefenders killed for protecting our planet. Defenders risk their lives to protect land, fight against new projects and champion sustainable solutions. They must be protected. #DefendTheDefenders
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NEW REPORT: 🇮🇩 Vice Presidential candidate @sandiuno may have benefited from millions of dollars of questionable payments from an Indonesian coal company to an offshore firm. Find out more:
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At least 207 #EnvironmentDefenders were brutally murdered in 2017 – the deadliest year on record, with the rising death toll linked to demand for consumer goods like coffee, bananas and palm oil. For the full picture see our report #AtWhatCost
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‘In any conflict, the last thing a dominant power wants is for the outside world to know the cost of their victory’ - @jonathanwatts on the importance of sharing the stories of #EnvironmentDefenders. Read our report #AtWhatCost for more:
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We are projecting live from the Trump International Hotel to expose @realdonaldtrump’s conflicts of interest and #TrumpDeals.
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📣REVEALED: A luxury condo in #Trump’s flagship Hotel & Tower NYC apparently used to launder stolen public funds by daughter of #Congo #Brazzaville kleptocratic President. Authorities in the US must investigate.
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Estamos preocupados por las irregularidades reportadas en #Honduras.Observadores deben pronunciarse, alegaciones de fraude deben ser investigadas, y la voluntad del pueblo debe ser respetado #HondurasVoto2017.
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📆It’s time for a #ClimateRevolution. Don’t miss our free, 2-day event highlighting climate solutions needed to protect people and the planet. RSVP here & see the amazing lineup of global leaders & activists below⬇️
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Big polluters like @Shell make too much profit from #FossilFuels to be trusted to act on climate. Right now the EU is negotiating a law that would force them to cut their emissions. It’s the law that Shell doesn’t want but the rest of us need. #CSDDD.
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Congratulations @Shell on your former employee Liz Truss being selected as UK 🇬🇧 Prime Minister. Your alumnus inherits a worsening #EnergyCrisis and an urgent #ClimateCrisis, both caused by a fossil fuel dependency that is making companies like yours richer.
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NEW 🔴 Facebook says that its efforts to detect hate speech in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 are ‘industry-leading’. In a joint investigation with @Foxglovelegal, we show Facebook failed to detect ANY ad examples we submitted to them with inflammatory content. #GWTech
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JUST OUT: One of the US’ biggest oil & gas producers, Occidental Petroleum, stands to benefit from bailout 💸 following intensive lobbying efforts. How did this happen? A thread 👇:
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Problematic beef companies linked to #Amazon deforestation & human rights abuses are being serviced and financed by major banks, including Deutsche Bank, Santander, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, ING and HSBC. Find out more:
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40% of defenders killed in 2019 belonged to indigenous communities. Hear from Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay on the struggles she has faced while standing up to destructive mining in her community. #IndigenousDay
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Defenders are not #terrorists. Defenders are not #criminals. They protect our planet, our #environment and our future. If you care about these things, then stand with Land & #EnvironmentDefenders and share their stories:
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Fantastic @JesseDrucker piece on our exposé of how the daughter of the Congolese President used apparently stolen state money to buy a $7 million Trump apartment in NYC. @nytimes
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EXPOSED: The secretive offshore world is contributing to the #LeaseholdScandal in the UK – leasehold homeowners have no way of contacting their freeholders directly and are forced to send hundreds of pounds to tax havens for little in return.
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You wouldn’t ask a tobacco company for health advice. We shouldn’t be asking #FossilFuel companies for climate advice. For too long, fossil fuel companies have influenced politicians & benefited from their decisions. Time to #EndPollutersPower!.RT & sign:
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Today, we’re calling on the EU, US & UK to sanction Russia’s #FossilFuel industry. The world must ensure not a single cent makes it into the Russian war chest through oil, gas or coal. Fossil fuels are a driver of conflict and source of cash for despots:
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NEW 🔴 In 2022, 177 #Defenders were killed for protecting their land & the planet. But around the 🌎 they remain steadfast in their struggle. Their voices can’t be silenced. We join them in demanding justice and immediate action. #DefendTheDefenders.
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“If you’re shocked that 1 in 20 planes are running on jet fuel made from Russian #oil….you should be.”. ✈️ Our @sunlightprojec1 on why we should #closetheloophole that's still allowing Russian oil into the UK.
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🚨We’ve taken over to demand #BigOil pay up for its role in climate disaster. Fossil fuel companies are raking in billions while record heat, floods and hurricanes destroy lives🌪️🔥. This #COP29, it's #PaybackTime for polluters💰.➡️
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NEW | #Myanmar is now the world's biggest supplier of heavy rare earth minerals - crucial for the production of electric cars, wind turbines and electronics. Demand for these minerals is harming people and planet, and could prop up the 🇲🇲 military junta.
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On #WorldRainforestDay we can’t forget the huge deforestation footprint that the UK has. Imports of beef, leather, soy, palm oil and timber require an area almost *the size of the UK* to produce, much of it in countries with high deforestation risk 👇
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.@AlGore is right - the fossil fuel industry has captured the COP process. Our research with @StopCorpAbuse and @corporateeurope has shown the number of lobbyists growing sharply. We need fossil-free climate talks #COP28 📈
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BREAKING 🔴 Dutch companies @beleefboskalis and @atradiusdsb will profit from a mega-airport in the Philippines which is displacing nearby communities and devastating ecosystems, our new investigation reveals. Read and share:
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There are over 37,000 #secretproperties in #London. This secrecy is being used to funnel dirty money into the UK, and is entrenching corruption that keeps poor countries poor. Find out how your area compares:
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The invasion of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 shows that there is no:. 🚫 security.🚫 democracy.🚫 wealth.🚫 peace. …as long as we are dependent on #FossilFuels and their autocrats around the world, explains climate justice activist @Luisamneubauer from #COP27
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BREAKING 📣 New investigation shows #Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Interior may have misled Congress about his lobbying for Soviet-born oligarch Blavatnik: #AskBernhardt
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🔴SHELL 2022 PROFITS . Shell’s profits could help bring an end to all UK strikes . Instead much of this money will go to its shareholders. It's time to put people before profits ✊ .
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Solutions that just do the bare minimum will not achieve #ClimateJustice, let alone safety and security for people 💬. An urgent message to @POTUS from climate activist @Ayishas12 speaking at #ClimateWeekNYC. Watch and RT!
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Today we remember Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres who was murdered 5 years ago for defending her land from a damaging hydroelectric dam in Honduras. We join her daughter Bertha Zúniga Cáceres and @COPINHHONDURAS in demanding #JusticeForBerta.
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.@BiancaJagger calls on governments and companies to stop murder of #EnvironmentDefenders via @HuffPost.
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Live from Glasglow 📍We're here urging world leaders at #COP26 to put people and planet first. Over 1,000 Land & #EnvironmentDefenders have been killed for protecting their land and our shared planet since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015.
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As #Myanmar's military killed 100s of civilians, @Facebook's algorithm amplified pro-military, misleading & violent content. At #GWTech we reveal how Facebook failed to uphold its own rules on incitement to violence in the #MyanmarMilitaryCoup aftermath .
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📱 ¿El aumento del uso de las aplicaciones de rastreo y monitoreo de síntomas podría darle a las corporaciones y a los gobiernos autoritarios una nueva forma de obtener datos personales?. Descubrimos un caso particularmente preocupante de una de estas aplicaciones 👇.
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Tomorrow at 7am ET we’re launching a ground-breaking investigation with @NBCNews, @Reuters looking at #Trump’s business dealings in #Panama. Watch this space. #TrumpInPanama
Tomorrow, @RichardEngel investigates the Trump Ocean Club Hotel in Panama, a magnet for dirty money. Watch #OnAssignment at 9pm ET on @MSNBC
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BREAKING! Our new investigation Narco-a-Lago: Money laundering at the Trump Ocean Club, Panama. Read it here: #TrumpInPanama
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BREAKING 🔴 . Over 2,000 land and #EnvironmentalDefenders have been murdered since 2012. 196 of these murders occurred in 2023 alone. We demand immediate action to #DefendTheDefenders.
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For decades, the #FossilFuel giants that caused the #ClimateCrisis have denied, delayed and distracted from their culpability, and the solutions we need to fix their mess. @Ayishas12 calls out their role at COP27, and shares why #PeopleNotPolluters need to be at the table.
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Azerbaijan is hosting climate summit COP29 this year, but it's just recorded its worst methane flaring in a decade. This easily avoidable & dangerous pollution is harming Azerbaijanis - and the planet. They're practising climate vandalism, not leadership.
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🏭❌ Climate justice activist @Luisamneubauer explains how fossil fuel industries shouldn’t have a seat at the table at #COP28. We need to hand control over to the people most affected by the #ClimateCrisis, not the ones causing it. #PeopleNotPolluters
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Three years after @ICIJorg first published the Panama Papers, a massive $1.2 billion 💵 has been recovered . That’s a blow to crooks worldwide, but for taxpayers it’s the gift that keeps on giving. 🎁
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Another week of atrocities committed against innocent civilians in with over 500 now murdered by the junta and over 2500 arrested in #Myanmar. The EU must impose strong sanctions targeting the military and their access to revenues needed to finance their abuses.
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REVEALED: Europe’s climate goals are at risk. The EU has given billions in taxpayer subsidies to fossil gas companies for unneeded, climate-wrecking infrastructure. A thread 👇
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"We cannot have any new fossil fuel development if we want a fighting chance at 1.5 degrees. This means a phase-out of all fuels without exceptions." -@vanessa_vash. #Opec countries are fighting against a #FossilFuels phase-out at #COP28. This can't happen. Oil and gas MUST go.
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📣 JUST OUT: A staggering 61% of the world’s new oil and gas production over the next decade is set to come from one country alone: the US. This would jeopardize global #climate ambition.
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🔴 177 land and #EnvironmentalDefenders were killed in 2022 . 🔴 Almost 90% of recorded killings took place in Latin America, with over a 1/3 in Colombia alone . 🔴 Brazil, Mexico, Honduras and the Philippines were the next deadliest . Report out now 👉
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We’ve been investigating this for 6 years. Shell consistently denied wrongdoing. But now it’s clear: #Shellknew
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🇵🇭 BREAKING: 10 Filipino activists are being criminalised for daring to stand up for human rights, including our partners at @karapatan. All charges must be dropped & steps taken to protect those standing up for their rights & our environment.
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In Brazil, a new bill threatens to open Indigenous lands to logging, mining and agribusiness - the very industries which are putting Indigenous #EnvironmentDefenders at risk and destroying the #AmazonRainforest. Watch and share!.
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Q: Is it legal for the US president to pursue private business while in office? A: There are no laws preventing this. Before the #Mueller report lands, don’t forget that Trump’s foreign business interests put US national interests at risk.
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NEW INVESTIGATION: Exxon paid $120 million to the #Liberia government for an oil block it knew was tainted by corruption. #NoSecretDeals
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The world’s biggest oil & gas companies would like you to think they’re going green. A new @CarbonBubble report shows just how untrue that is. If the #FossilFuel industry won’t change, our governments need to force it to.
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