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Ocean Advocate since 1975. Director, The Varda Group. Coordinator, Let's Be Nice to the Ocean. My bio online: https://www.vardagroup.org/bio/remi-parmentier

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Walking the Nice Talk By Rémi Parmentier, Co-Director of The Varda Group, Coordinator of the Let’s Be Nice to the Ocean campaign Sixty-four Heads of State and Government attended the UN Ocean Conference in Nice last wee...

Walk the Nice talk. Better yet, run!
"Walking the Nice Talk", my op-ed one week after #UNOC3, published by @iisd.org SDG Knowledge Hub one week after #UNOC3, the Nice Ocean Conference.
sdg.iisd.org/commentary/g...

19.06.2025 05:37 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1
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Nice Talk – Now, Walk the Talk! - #LetsBeNicetotheOcean Outcomes of UNOC 2025

Nice talk - Now, walk the talk!
letsbenicetotheocean.org/nice-talk-no...
#LetsBeNicetotheOcean #BeyondBlueBlueBlue #UNOC2025 #UNOC3

14.06.2025 11:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good job, Canada!
www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/a...

30.04.2025 06:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You can now sign & share the revamped #ProtectionPrinciple petition for the 3rd UN Ocean Conference (#UNOC3). IN english. En français. En español. #LetsBeNicetotheOcean
letsbenicetotheocean.org/sign-the-pet...

22.04.2025 16:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gracias Arturo, María y equipo. #LetsBeNicetotheOcean www.letsBeNicetotheOcean.org

17.04.2025 09:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Activista, consultor, fundador de Greenpeace en España y Francia y creador de Let's Be Nice to the Ocean..., Remi Parmentier (@remiparmentier.bsky.social) es uno de los grandes defensores del medio ambiente y, por ello; es el #PersonajeAmbiental de la semana efeverde.com/remi-parment...

17.04.2025 08:55 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

Way to go! Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Sara Agesen @saraaagesen.bsky.social @miteco.gob.es writes to 140 countries asking them to ratify the UN #HighSeasTreaty [#BBNJ]: www.lavanguardia.com/natural/2025...

11.04.2025 11:51 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Salvar el Océano En vísperas de la UNOC3, te invitamos a esta mesa redonda de alto nivel sobre el Océano, que reunirá a expertos franceses y españoles.

If you're in #Madrid this Tuesday, come & join Romain Troublé from @fondationtaraocean.bsky.social, myself & others for a roundtable conversation at the Institut Français about our expectations before the Nice UN Ocean Conference (#UNOC3). Click here to register: www.eventbrite.es/e/salvar-el-...

07.04.2025 22:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OPINION. « Et si la protection de l'océan devenait la règle, et non plus l'exception ? » OPINION. A l'occasion de la 3e Conférence de l'ONU sur l'Océan qui se tiendra à Nice, un appel urgent est lancé pour prendre des mesures ambitieuses afin de protéger l'Océan, notre bien commun vital. ...

What if protecting the ocean became the norm, not the exception? As UNOC approaches, we call with @benicetotheocean.bsky.social for a new paradigm: reverse the burden of proof. A constructive step toward ocean protection, included in SOS Océan Conference manifesto.

Read here (FR): shorturl.at/VZiCv

01.04.2025 09:15 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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The UN World Food Programme is scrambling to plug a multi-billion-dollar funding gap after the US froze foreign aid and slashed humanitarian budgets.

The situation has forced the agency to make previously “unthinkable choices.” 👉 ow.ly/IbzT50Vm3WQ

21.03.2025 09:46 — 👍 184    🔁 89    💬 17    📌 6
22.03.2025 08:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to confront Orbán and save the EU The legal tools to address this internal opposition exist — Europe just needs to use them, and meet the moment with courage.

OPINION: The legal tools to address internal opposition from Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán exist. Europe just needs to use them, and meet the moment with courage.

20.03.2025 16:05 — 👍 293    🔁 83    💬 21    📌 16

Why does Emmanuel Macron continue to use Musk's X? Why doesn't he use Agence France-Presse @afpfr.bsky.social instead? Incomprehensible.

20.03.2025 08:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Statement of Independent Trial Monitors On Verdict in Greenpeace Trial — Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace Trial Monitoring Committee

Statement of Independent Trial Monitors 👇On Verdict in Greenpeace Trial — Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace Trial Monitoring Committee www.trialmonitors.org/statement-of...

20.03.2025 08:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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# Let's Be Nice to the Ocean has published today a compilation of amendments aimed at strengthening the ambition and scope of the draft Nice Ocean Action Declaration, currently circulating at UN Headqua...

If the Nice Ocean Conference (#UNOC2025, June 2025) does not incubate or launch one or more ambitious paradigm shifts, there is a risk that multilateralism sceptics say that the Nice conference was a waste of time and money.
letsbenicetotheocean.org/annotated-dr...

10.03.2025 15:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, gracias et merci, Roberto por mencionarme en este artículo. 🙏

07.03.2025 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Enhorabuena, España @miteco.gob.es 👇
La política ambiental necesita "success stories".
👏👏👏💪
Más que nunca.

05.03.2025 19:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Even if we try to escape the world, the world will not escape us" 👇(will not escape US)

05.03.2025 19:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's official as of tonight: UN #PlasticsTreaty negotiations will resume 5-15 August in Geneva.
[Telling to my wife we need to reschedule summer holidays might be trickier than trying to convince Saudi Arabia to accept a treaty with strong provisions to phase down plastics production 😵‍💫]

03.03.2025 22:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today’s disgusting scene Friends,

Good read on yesterday's shit show, by Robert Reich.
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

01.03.2025 08:22 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

26.02.2025 22:13 — 👍 139    🔁 48    💬 1    📌 6

What would George Marshall, of Marshall Plan fame, think of that shameful TrumpMusk robbery plan?

25.02.2025 22:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What would George Marshall, of Marshall plan fame, think of that shameful TrumpMusk robbery plan?

25.02.2025 22:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Stand with #Ukraine 603,628 km2 🇺🇦

24.02.2025 15:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Teresa Ribera: “Europa no va a jugar a la política espectáculo, pero sí tiene que ser firme” La vicepresidenta europea para la Transición Limpia, Justa y Competitiva sostiene que la UE no debe caer en provocaciones sino actuar con inteligencia y defender sus valores frente a las injerencias

EU Commission VP Teresa Ribera in @elpais.com today: "The US offers us a wonderful opportunity to remind ourselves that we live in the best place in the world. An open, free market economy, with high environmental standards and high levels of protection [...] We must defend it." 👉 bit.ly/4ka1WDs

23.02.2025 17:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wish everyone in the US would read this piece 👇 And that everyone in Russia could.

19.02.2025 23:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Project 2025 is the equivalent of Mein Kampf online.

19.02.2025 23:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What level of ambition can we expect at the Third UN Ocean Conference in the current geopolitical seascape? - #LetsBeNicetotheOcean Potential modalities for the Nice Conference outcome

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐔𝐍 𝐎𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 (#𝐔𝐍𝐎𝐂2025), 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞? See below 👇 #LetsBeNicetotheOcean
letsbenicetotheocean.org/what-level-o...

13.02.2025 10:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'BACK TO PLASTIC!': Trump says he will sign executive order ditching paper straws President Trump said he will sign an executive order next week ending past efforts from Biden for the federal government to embrace paper straws.

As if everything else wasn't enough, here's Trump's declaration of love to single-use plastics. Bon appétit! www.aol.com/back-plastic...

08.02.2025 07:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UN food agency WFP received dozens of US stop work orders despite emergency waiver The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) was ordered by Washington to stop work on dozens of U.S.-funded grants, according to an email seen by Reuters, that was sent five days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a waiver for emergency food assistance.

Latest from #TrumpMusk killers: www.reuters.com/world/un-foo...

07.02.2025 09:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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