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Europe needs to enforce ocean laws 🌊

The European Commission’s Call for Evidence on the #OceanAct closed yesterday – and it received nearly 800 responses. That level of engagement shows just how high the stakes are.

📌 Read our consultation response here: www.clientearth.org/media/dycip5...

The UK government has published its first 'forever chemicals' plan.

Forever chemicals – PFAS – are used in mountains of everyday items from frying pans to waterproof clothes.

But we know they never break down, and harm our environment and our health.

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‘Pesticide cocktails’ polluting apples across Europe, study finds Pan Europe found several pesticide residues in 85% of apples, with some showing traces of up to seven chemicals

🍎🍏A deeply unenticing sounding 'cocktail of pesticides' is polluting our apples all across Europe, a new study from @paneurope.bsky.social has found.

Eighty-five percent of the samples contained several pesticide residues, with some showing traces of up to seven different chemicals.

The ban would prohibit advertising for high-carbon products and services incl. flights, petrol and diesel vehicles, gas heating contracts and meat products.

More here: www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/a... 2/2

🎉Win against fossil fuels 🎉

The Dutch capital of Amsterdam has become the world's first capital city to ban fossil fuel ads, set to come into force on 1st May. 1/2

Dutch government discriminated against Bonaire islanders over climate adaptation, court rules Judgment in The Hague orders Netherlands to do more to protect Caribbean people in its territory from impacts of climate crisis

This ruling is yet another reference to the International Court of Justice's opinion given last year, which continues to shape climate litigation globally.

More here: theguardian.com/environment/... 3/3

The Hague District Court said the NL gov was failing to adequately reduce emissions & protect the people of Bonaire from climate change impacts eg. sea-level rise & extreme weather. It was ordered to develop an adaptation plan for the island & get tougher emissions targets. 2/3

📢Historic court win📢

A Court ruled yesterday that the Netherlands' climate policy was insufficient, and discriminated against islanders of Dutch-territory Caribbean island, Bonaire. 1/2

We’re supporting legal action against Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Danone for their misleading claims about recycling In May 2025, the EU Commission announced that Coca-Cola will change and remove some of its packaging recycling claims in the EU, in light of the complaint.

That’s why we’re taking legal action on plastic recycling greenwashing against Nestlé, Danone and Coca-Cola.

More here: clientearth.org/latest/news/... 2/2

Europe’s supermarket shelves packed with ‘misleading’ claims about recycled plastic packaging Manufacturers use method that labels plastic as ‘circular’ and climate-friendly, despite being mostly fossil-based

🚨Greenwashing alert🚨 The Guardian is reporting what we've known for years: our supermarkets are full of greenwashing recycling claims on plastic packaging.

theguardian.com/environment/... 1/2

A credibility test for Europe’s fisheries policy Europe’s fishers won’t be supported by rewriting policy that is already shown to work.

A law is not worth the paper if not applied ⚠️

The Common Fisheries Policy #CFP is no exception.

In a new op-ed, read about why Europe’s fishers won’t be supported by rewriting policy that is already shown to work.

@oceanaeurope.bsky.social #CommonFisheriesPolicy

www.politico.eu/sponsored-co...

Number of people living in extreme heat to double by 2050 if 2C rise occurs, study finds Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune

🚨There will be more than double the people living in extreme heat by 2050 if global heating reaches 2C.

This is according to a new study showing how energy demands for air conditioners and heating systems are expected to change across the world 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds Exclusive: Beijing, Delhi, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro among worst affected, with demand close to exceeding supply

Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds ⚠️

Beijing, Delhi, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro among worst affected, with demand close to exceeding supply.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tackling biodiversity loss cannot be kicked down the road, drifting with political cycles and short-term thinking. It needs global cooperation, and strong, enforceable laws to protect our environment and rapidly cut emissions.

Healthy, biodiverse ecosystems can tackle flooding, reduce the impacts of heatwaves and make food systems more resilient.

The solution? Nature restoration must become a priority for global and national security, treated with the same urgency as governments treat military and border defence.

The systems that underpin safe societies - agriculture, public health, our economy – all thrive when nature thrives.

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

The climate and biodiversity crises go hand in hand with national security.

Today’s chilling warning from intelligence experts shows the very real risks of inaction within the next five years.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

📢A study has shown that half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This agreement should put us on track to:

🌊 Restore 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030
🌊 Help address destructive fishing activities
🌊 Help challenge deep-sea mining

Now the commitments in the agreement have to be properly implemented and enforced because ‘protected’ must mean protected. 2/2

🎉 The High Seas Treaty came into effect this weekend after long international discussions.

🌊The treaty aims to give extra protection to the high seas – international waters not owned by any nation – that have historically had less regulation against damaging activities. 1/2

📢Key protections that UK nature desperately needs are hanging in the balance.

We still have a chance to convince the government otherwise, but we have to act now.

Take action here 👉 act.clientearth.org/page/184558/...

Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s ‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says

Good news 🙌 ‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says.

#climatechange

WMO confirms 2025 was one of warmest years on record

Yesterday the @wmo-global.bsky.social released its annual global temperature analysis.

The last 11 years have been the hottest on record, and ocean warming has continued unabated 👇

wmo.int/news/media-c...

EU governance revision must end fossil fuel subsidies, new paper argues - Stop Fossil Subsidies - United for Climate Justice A new policy paper, A framework for the phase-out of fossil fuel subsidies in the European Union, by Stop Fossil Subsidies, ClientEarth and CAN Europe, sets out how the European Union can finally phas...

Over €50bn in EU fossil fuel subsidies have no phase-out date ⚠️

Reporting is weak, rules are fragmented & enforcement is missing.

Our new paper shows how a binding EU framework can fix this and strengthen energy security, competitiveness & climate action. stopfossilsubsidies.eu/eu-governanc...

Mapped: how the world is losing its forests to wildfires Wildfires now destroy twice as much tree cover per year as two decades ago – a crisis fuelled by climate change

Wildfires now destroy twice as much tree-cover per year as two decades ago - fuelled by the climate crisis.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters, data shows Oceans absorb 90% of global heating, making them a stark indicator of the relentless march of the climate crisis

Rising ocean temperature is making extreme weather more dangerous around the world.

The ocean absorbs more than 90% of global heating and this trapped heat is intensifying hurricanes, typhoons and flooding.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Swiss court admits Indonesian islanders climate case against Holcim A court in Switzerland said on Monday it would admit a legal complaint against Swiss cement maker Holcim which alleges the company is doing too little to cut carbon emissions and hence contributing to...

A group of Indonesian island residents are suing one of the world's biggest cement companies, claiming its emissions are contributing to flooding of their home.

A Swiss court has admitted the case, allowing the claim to proceed.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Which countries lead on nature restoration in Europe? 👀

With the Nature Restoration Law implementation underway, we analysed EU countries' restoration plans 🌱

Several frontrunners pave the way, but the progress is uneven & too slow.

More: www.restorenature.eu/en/our-work-...

#RestoreNature