Delphine Lévi Alvarès

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This case is indeed way bigger than Antwerp.

It is a test of whether Europe will apply its own climate laws to stop the fossil-to-plastic buildout — and choose a just transition instead of locking in decades of fossil fuel dependence.

Europe does not need more plastics‼️

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A transatlantic movement is rising: the lawsuit comes just after community members from U.S. fracking hotspots and petrochemical hubs visited Antwerp — joining forces with locals to highlight the global costs of petrochemical expansion. 🌍✊

👉 toxictours.org/location/bel... 👈

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🗣️ Community members are speaking out 🗣️

The burden of INEOS’ Project One's is invisible in its environmental impact assessment.

But it cannot be invisible in court.

Europe’s biggest plastics lawsuit launches as frontline US and Belgian communities unite View the press release

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This case, filed by @clientearth.bsky.social and partners, is precisely what accountability is for: To bring the entire chain of impact into view before we get locked into decades of harm from new fossil infrastructure.

www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

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The landmark case will weigh full-lifecycle emissions: For the 1st time, a court will weigh Scope 3 emissions for plastics — the full climate footprint from fracked feedstocks to waste incineration.

⚖️ The law requires the whole system to be seen, not just what fits inside the fence line.

Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’ Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated

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The problem: INEOS drastically understated the climate + health impacts of the project. New independent research shows Project One would bring:
🏭 3.8M tons of CO₂e/yr
🫁 More early deaths from pollution than the jobs it will bring.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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🚨NEW plastics lawsuit just landed, targeting INEOS’s Project One in Antwerp.

Why? This €4bn #Plastics project would cause 5x more emissions than INOES claimed — and drive serious health harms. This is #PlasticAccountability!

READ: www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

This #GlobalFertilizerDay, let’s call it clearly: fertilizers are #fossilfuels in disguise.

This means when gas prices rise, food prices rise too —fertilizer companies profit while farmers and families pay.

Read more ⤵️
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...

@ciel.org @ipes-food.org @grain.org

⚠️ Big Ag has a dirty secret. More than half of fertilizers are made from fossil fuels. Industry claims we need fertilizers to feed the world — but we can feed the world without fossil fuels.
👉Read more in “Frack to Fork”https://bit.ly/4nYirn7
#GlobalFertilizerDay

Macron has defied the will of the people. He leaves the French public no choice but to Block Everything | Rokhaya Diallo The president they call Jupiter has repeatedly shown utter disregard for the public voice at the ballot box. No wonder we are taking to the streets, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

Macron has defied the will of the people. He leaves the French public no choice but to Block Everything | Rokhaya Diallo

We’re hiring! 🌏 Join CIEL as our Director of Development to help advance climate justice and human rights worldwide.
👉 Apply: bit.ly/3IfR9tf

Potential planetary health impacts of the airborne plastisphere Microplastics are a ubiquitous yet long-overlooked component of airborne particulate matter. The surface of these plastic particles provides a unique …

🌬️ 1/2 Our new review on #plastic and microbes in the air that we breath, i.e.„Potential planetary health impacts of the airborne plastisphere“, is out 👇
#plastic #microplastic
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge.

750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Les Suisses ont tout compris à Emmanuel Macron

Plastics Treaty talks are over. After 11 grueling days of delays, distractions, and gaslighting, we are leaving Geneva without a treaty. But countries stood firm against fossil-fueled interests — hope for an ambitious #PlasticsTreaty lives on.
🎥 @dlevialvares.bsky.social + @davzoul.bsky.social

Penultimate day of the last scheduled #PlasticsTreaty negotiations and Kuwait speaks again on behalf of the 'Like-minded countries', a group that has NEVER disclosed its membership. As far as we know it could be Kuwait and 1 other country. The bad faith is blatant, the gaslighting is disgusting.

⚠️ Fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have flooded #PlasticsTreaty talks at a record high. They're working with petrostates to distract, delay, and drag the treaty toward the lowest common denominator.
#KickPollutersOut #INC5-2
👉 Read more: bit.ly/41wUn1L

Legendary John Beard (Port Arthur) addressing need for proper #Plativstreaty at UN's #INC5!
@breakfreefromplastic.org @ciel.org @dlevialvares.bsky.social @exitplastik.bsky.social @parentsforfuture.de

❝ Petrostates are holding plastics treaty talks hostage. Countries should vote them down - Geneva Solutions As a minority threatens to block final negotiations in Geneva for a plastics treaty, countries should invoke their right to vote to ensure an ambitious agreement is reached, write Philippe Bolo (Franc...

@pbolo.bsky.social @ffivaz.bsky.social and Natacha Kpochan's oped in the @genevasolutions.bsky.social today is spot on!

And check this beautiful art piece by @vonwong.bsky.social 🥰

genevasolutions.news/climate-envi...

#PlasticsTreaty

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and…

To address plastics' harms globally, UN member states must seize the opportunity given to them in the coming 2 weeks to conclude an agreement on a legally binding Global #PlasticsTreaty covering the full lifecycle of plastic.

🤓 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@lancetcountdown.bsky.social

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and…

The principal driver of the plastic pollution-generated health crisis is accelerating growth in plastic production—from 2 megatonnes (Mt) in 1950, to 475 Mt in 2022 that is projected to be 1200 Mt by 2060.

🤓 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@lancetcountdown.bsky.social
#PlasticsTreaty

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and…

The impacts of plastic pollution fall disproportionately upon low-income and at-risk populations.

🤓 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@lancetcountdown.bsky.social
#PlasticsTreaty
#EnvironmentalJusticeNow

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and…

The @lancetcountdown.bsky.social on health and plastics is OUT! Findings are shockingly clear:

Plastics harm and kill, and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually.

🤓 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#PlasticsTreaty

“I want to be more radical, but I can’t” Indonesian lawyer and activist Tiza Mafira on the frustrating expectation that she’ll silence her feelings in the name of professionalism

“I want to be more radical, but I can’t”

Indonesian lawyer and activist Tiza Mafira on the frustrating expectation that she’ll silence her feelings in the name of professionalism

gendread.substack.com/p/i-want-to-...

Breaking: activists blocking #Ineos #Fracking4Plastics supply chain dragon ships at Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh!
#INC5 #Plasticstreaty now!
@dlevialvares.bsky.social @breakfreefromplastic.org @ciel.org @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @clientearth.bsky.social

Did you know the plastic industry is Making Oil Great Again? 🛢️🤑🛢️
But “Drill Baby Drill” doesn’t have to be the future for plastic (99% of which is made of oil or gas) or the planet!

🎥 Watch & check out @Greenpeaceuk’s new report
www.greenpeace.org.uk/resources/pl...

Opinion | Climate Science Is Now the Law A landmark legal ruling leaves no doubt that continuing fossil fuel production and use, let alone expanding it, violates the law.

📰The #CIJ_ICJ has spoken—fossil fuel production is no longer just bad policy, it’s a violation of international law.
Read our NYT op-ed on why this ruling is a legal game-changer for climate justice.
nyti.ms/3IKYNvs

Joint statement following the EU-JP Summit 2025!
#LNG becomes more and more the central issue!
Von der Leyen also congratulated Japan on its deal with Trump (which includes a possible US-JP-LNG-joint-venture)!
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
@oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @foejapan.bsky.social

UN international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution: Considerations for the final round of negotiations Markets for the core feedstocks of virgin plastics—are currently oversupplied, creating market instability and decreased profits.

@ieefainstitute.bsky.social ultimate recommendation ahead of INC 5.2:

With the petrochemical industry facing structural decline, THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW.

*Read the full Briefing Note: tinyurl.com/4cmu3m6p
#PlasticsTreaty