Climate Forum Uganda

URGENT:8 activists, including 2 female climate defenders, were arrested today at NEMA headquarters while delivering a petition to save the critically important Lwera wetland. Silencing the voices of those who protect our environment is an injustice to us all. #FreeTheDefenders #SaveLwera

Cases against anti-EACOP activism are skyrocketing in Uganda. Witness Radio has documented close to 60 cases in the last eight months. By the dedicated efforts of the Witness Radio team. The Witness Radio team has documented nearly 60 cases of arrest, detention, and prosecution targeting activists protesting the East African Crude Oi...

Thread 1/2: As activism against the #EACOP Project intensifies in Uganda, many youth activists leading the fight face strong resistance from the government and its agents to suppress and weaken them with prolonged detention and unscrupulous to pave the way for oil developments.

🚨@witnessradio.bsky.social has tracked 56 cases of arrest, detention & prosecution of #StopEACOP #EndFossilFuels activists in Uganda in 2025. People have been "suppressed & weakened with torture, unlawful arrests, & prolonged detentions accompanied by unscrupulous charges." None have been convicted.

David Lammy faces possible legal action over Foreign Office secondments Campaigners say placing staff from Shell and BAE Systems in ministries creates potential for improper influence

SERIOUSLY?! 😡 David Lammy wants SHELL🛢️ & BAE SYSTEMS ☠️ inside the FCDO ministry?!

Oil profiteers + arms dealers helping to run UK Govt’s foreign policy - you really couldn’t make this up.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UN tax talks could push polluters and billionaires to pay for harm to climate and nature - Greenpeace International New York, United States – New global tax rules that could help fund climate action, protect nature, and reduce inequality are being negotiated at the historic UN Framework Convention on…

PRESS RELEASE: This UN process could reform global tax rules so that the richest individuals and multinational corporations like oil and gas companies are forced to pay their fair share for the pollution they cause.

www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Reform UK says if elected they'll slash taxes & restrictions for fossil fuel companies, grant new #OilAndGas licences, scrap net zero policies, support fracking & new coal mines. In 2024, almost half Reform’s donations were linked to climate denial & fossil fuel interests
greens.scot/news/farage-...

The entire world is inspired by your braverly- the 12 members of Students Against EACOP Uganda currently on remand for protesting East African Crude Oil Pipeline

“This scheme cries out for judicial scrutiny. Seconding employees from powerful corporations to the Foreign Office or other ministries & vice versa is a recipe for potential serious conflicts of interest... Both Shell & BAE Systems have been accused of human rights violations...," Nicholas Hildyard

Nigel Farage & #ReformUK are in the pockets of the #FossilFuels industry. Now Reform has opened floodgates to dark money in UK politics by being the 1st party to accept crypto donations. Pl ✍️ to call for a ban on untraceable crypto donations to political parties act.38degrees.org.uk/act/stop-sha...

Thank you

Update: 15 of our members will be brought back to Buganda Road Court Tomorrow from Luzira Maximum Security Prison where they have been on remand since 11th November due to calling for an end to EACOP @shellslies.bsky.social

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The criticism from X-creters about Bluesky as an "echo chamber" are funny.

1. They exist in echo chambers and won the election

2. People agree about facts in many areas, how rockets are made, whether you need gasoline or water in your gas tank to make your car go. Sometimes, it's just reality.

The Drawdown Roadmap: a science-based plan for climate action

When it comes to climate solutions, the "how" is as important as the "what." Where to start? drawdown.org/drawdown-roa...

To my 6000 lovely followers👋🏾

Soon, maybe in a few days there will be more users on Bluesky than the population of Australia. #ozsky.

Why are we not following each other? Say Hi👋🏾 I follow you now

We continue to demand for the freedom of the Brave 15 Anti EACOP youth Climate Activists who were brutally arrested and are are spending their 15th day in custody at Luziira Maximum Security Prison because of their involvement in a peaceful protest against EACOP. @shellslies.bsky.social

COP29 Deal in View as Key Nations Agree Outline, Negotiators Say COP29 appeared set for a last-ditch deal as key negotiators agreed to a broad blueprint on climate finance, pulling the United Nations talks in Azerbaijan back from the brink of collapse.

Back from the brink: After a chaotic day of COP29 talks marked by finger-pointing & frustration, key factions homed in on a possible deal to deliver billions of dollars for poor nations confronting climate change: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... w/ @akshatrathi.bsky.social @johnainger.bsky.social

SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds SpaceX's growing Starlink megaconstellation could be hindering the Earth's ozone layer from healing itself, researchers find.

Why is the #FAA allowing #SpaceX, #NASA and others to launch satellites into space if this very dangerous issue is hanging over all earthlings? futurism.com/the-byte/spa...

A friend called #climate Instagram an “activist mall.”

💯 I honestly couldn’t have said it better myself.

My son is making a lemon tart for his friends. I like it.

The feeling I get the moment I hear someone praising the “MAGA” shit

Amen

Blessed Sunday folks!

If you see this post please say hi 👋🏽 I want to make sure I’m following you.

Wow, thank you all for following: 300k-plus followers on @bsky.app, for a site I only had 30k followers on before the election and that I barely checked. Crazy growth in just a couple of weeks.

I am loving the energy and engagement, and lack of trolls, on this site.

Aren't you?

Global solidarity with brave activists being targeted with arbitrary arrest & imprisonment in Uganda for peacefully campaigning for investment in renewable energy & to #StopEACOP #EndFossilFuels, which is devastating communities. We call on Uganda's govt to release them immediately & unconditionally