John Fellowes

EU Commission proposes unlimited pesticide approvals: Science abandoned, industry interests above health and environment A draft Omnibus regulation on Food and Feed reveals that the European Commission’s DG SANTE is attempting to deregulate all chemical pesticides. This comes under the guise of “simplification”, intende...

A draft Omnibus regulation on Food and Feed reveals that the European Commission’s DG SANTE is attempting to deregulate all chemical #pesticides.
Read more here: www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

"Collaborations among conservationists and artists can invite a process of mutual unlearning of disciplinary assumptions, methods, and hierarchies. This opens space for more reflexive and plural ways of knowing..." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Green funds only slightly differ from others, new study finds.

Researchers have analysed nearly 7,000 European funds to see how green portfolios differ from conventional ones.

They found that the differences are surprisingly small, for all but one sector.

Business Won’t Save Nature (Until Governments Change the Rules of the Game) (SSIR) If private finance is to shoulder the burden for nature conservation, government has to create the necessary incentive structure.

"To realize the potential of private sector investment in nature protection and conservation, governments must put in place policy measures—such as tax breaks, de-risking guarantees, and regulatory requirements—that induce the private sector to invest." ssir.org/articles/ent...

"In the meantime, drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions will help limit the weakening of the MOC and preserve the delicate balance of our planet’s climate system and the ecosystems it supports." antarctic.org.au/wp-content/u...

Climate: Key issues at COP30 The United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties 30 (COP30) is currently underway in Belém, Brazil until Nov 21. A few key issues, such as climate finance, protection of indigenous peoples’ rights an...

"If indigenous and local community governance remains peripheral, the climate architecture will keep replicating the same extractive logic under a green banner” theedgemalaysia.com/node/779613

UK being sued by billionaire Russian oligarch in ‘secret corporate court’ - Global Justice Now THE UK government is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court, it has been revealed. Answering a question in Parliament from Labour MP Martin Rhodes […]

🚨 NEW: The UK is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court 🚨

Mikhail Maratovich Fridman - one of the wealthiest individuals in the world - has brought a case against the UK under #ISDS

www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/uk-bein...

Mark Carney seems to think he needs permission from Exxon to impose a carbon price or GHG emissions cap (spoiler: he doesn't), but doesn't need permission from First Nations to build a new tar sands pipeline (not a spoiler: he does).

Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘ The Arsenal and England forward is backing new global campaign because talent and teamwork should decide the game – not the climate

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”

Nestle accused of risking baby heath in Africa, Asia and Latin America NGO says Swiss food giant is 'putting the health of babies at risk for profit' by adding sugar to babyfood.

NGO says Swiss food giant is 'putting the health of babies at risk for profit' by adding sugar to babyfood.

Beef and dairy can never be "net zero".
But that doesn't stop the industry aggressively pushing its greenwash, including through its 72 delegates (lobbyists) at the Belém climate COP: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures

"Our environmental crisis is deeply connected to the conflicts which lead to people to our borders. We can’t isolate one section of people and label them as a problem that can be easily addressed. If one part of the body hurts, it hurts the entire body.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

"Climate and biodiversity policies must consider and take an active role in shaping the reform of the global financial architecture to enable a transformative shift in forest governance towards biodiversity restoration and climate resilience." landgap.org/2025/report

Shameful and outrageous

"Sea ice could affect marine transport; extreme weather could severely affect our capabilities to maintain any agriculture and fisheries, which are central to our economy and food systems. We cannot afford to wait for definitive, long-term research before acting." www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

What we’ve done to the salmon The particular cruelty behind farming America’s favorite fish.

"If we accept that farming salmon is bad for them and the environments in which they’re raised — and that we should protect dwindling wild populations — then we’ll have to accept eating a lot less salmon." www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Fossil fuel infrastructure puts rights of 2 billion people at risk 520 million children live within 5km of fossil fuel infrastructure.

“The fossil fuel era is inevitably coming to an end and states must stop criminalizing environmental human rights defenders fighting to protect their communities.” www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

"Over the past decade, weather-related disasters have caused some 250 million internal displacements – equivalent to over 67,000 displacements per day. This represents a 10 per cent increase compared to the ten-year average
through the end of 2023." www.unhcr.org/media/no-esc...

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

What happens after Europe's NGOs are dismantled? What does Europe look like when independent civil society is silenced, sidelined or slowly starved out of existence? This is not dystopian fiction. It is the logical end-point of a trend already visib...

"Civil society is Europe’s early-warning system, evidence engine, accountability safeguard and bridge between institutions and people." euobserver.com/eu-political...

I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

"His argument that we should align all funding to current “data-based analysis” of improvements in human welfare, while it might sound rational, introduces in the face of systemic change a profound irrationality, prompting us to ignore the greatest threats." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A wheel-like visualization of bird feathers colored from wikipedia descriptions

It took me about three months to get here but...

Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions.

10,151 species.

#dataviz #birds #data

New Report Exposes How Global Banks and Investors Are Still “Banking on Biodiversity Collapse” — Coalition Calls for Financial Regulation to Halt Deforestation - Rainforest Action Network São Paulo, Brazil – As world leaders will soon convene in Brazil for COP30, a new report from the Forests & Finance Coalition reveals that finance for sectors driving tropical...

“This decade of self-regulation has been a political choice — not a technical failure. If we want to deliver on the Paris Agreement and the Global Biodiversity Framework, governments must move from paper promises to enforceable rules.” www.ran.org/press-releas...

Rescuing 1.5°C: new evidence on the highest possible ambition to… This study shows that, even after years of insufficient action, the world can still return to well below 1.5°C of warming this century if countries pursue the “highest possible ambition” in climate ac...

"Legally, morally and politically, the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit stands. It now acts as a North Star, guiding ambition and action for the world to avoid long-term overshoot of 1.5ºC and the catastrophic impacts this would entail." climateanalytics.org/publications...

"comprehensive spatial analysis of extractive threats and Indigenous-led solutions across four key tropical regions: the Amazon, Congo Region, Indonesia, and Mesoamerica." earth-insight.org/report/iplc-...

Gates' subtle anti-renewables messaging, possibly related to his investments in small modular nuclear reactors, was well known, but this is next level: financially supporting a guy whose core business it is to argue for less climate action.

"comprehensive spatial analysis of extractive threats and Indigenous-led solutions across four key tropical regions: the Amazon, Congo Region, Indonesia, and Mesoamerica." earth-insight.org/report/iplc-...

The real aim of Farage’s big speech on the economy Farage’s ulterior motive...

🔴 NEW - The real aim of Farage’s big speech on the economy

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