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📽️ Watch how Shell and ExxonMobil are suing the Dutch government for shutting down a harmful gas field in Groningen 👇

More information ➡️ www.somo.nl/aftershock-i...

Learn more:

- IACHR ruling ➡️ www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/opinion...

- ICJ ruling ➡️ www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

These rulings send a clear message: States MUST regulate corporate emissions, including fossil fuel subsidies and licensing, or risk breaching international law.

We now have stronger tools to push for climate justice and to hold governments and companies to account.

Let’s use them! 💪

This follows the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' powerful ruling earlier this year.

It recognised the right to a healthy climate as an autonomous human right and called on states to adopt legislation to tackle the climate crisis, including the role of companies in driving it.

Big wins for climate justice ✊🌍🎉

In a landmark move last week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) affirmed what frontline communities have long been demanding:

✔️ A clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right.
✔️ States must limit emissions to stay within the 1.5°C pathway.

Episode 31 of Art of Citizenry Podcast dives into the corporations underpinning and profiting from genocide in Gaza

The Tel Aviv stock exchange has surged 179% since the start of Israel’s military assault on Gaza. I spoke with Lydia de Leeuw @somoamsterdam.bsky.social on the corporate architecture that sustains and profits from occupation.

🎧Tune in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

⚠️ The Dutch state is deeply embedded in the machinery that enables Israel’s genocide in Gaza, from exporting weapons & attack dogs to financing occupation.

On 3 Sept, the Dutch Court of Appeal will hear our case demanding an end to Dutch material support to Israel’s atrocities.

📖 bit.ly/4l51wNX

Yesterday, UN Antonio Guterres called for “just & equitable” mineral supply chains & a fair energy transition.

Here’s the issue: It’s not a transition but an expansion.

Renewables aren’t replacing fossil fuels. They're stacked on top.

Real just transition 🟰 equity, accountability & reduced demand

🛑 Court victories aren't enough when those who defend their territories remain at risk.

✊🏽 Land rights and climate justice must go hand in hand with protection for human rights defenders.

We stand with the Ka’apor people. We'll continue to support their resistance and fight for accountability.

Brazil: threats and intimidation of indigenous Ka'apor human rights defenders in the state of Maranhão (joint communication) This is the summary of a joint communication sent to the Governments of Brazil and the USA, as well as the US headquartered company Wildlife Works, about alleged threats and intimidation of indigenous...

A Joint Communication by UN Special Rapporteurs has denounced threats, intimidation and criminalisation against Ka’apor leaders defending their land and rights.

👉 srdefenders.org/brazil-threa...

This shows what too many Indigenous communities face when standing up against carbon offset projects.

No intimidation of human rights defenders 🚨✊

A few weeks ago, we celebrated a landmark legal victory in Brazil: the Maranhão Court of Justice suspended a #carbonoffset project imposed without the Free, Prior and Informed Consent of the Ka’apor people.

But today, we must raise the alarm. (thread)

Geen land investeert meer in Israël dan Nederland - The Rights Forum Voor een rechtvaardig Midden-Oosten beleid

In Nederland gevestigde bedrijven hebben in 2023 bijna 50 miljard euro in Israël geïnvesteerd. Nederland kan dus behoorlijke economische druk uitoefenen op Israël – als dat het wíl.

https://rightsforum.org/geen-land-investeert-meer-in-israel-dan-nederland

The EU is fueling Israel's genocide and occupation in Palestine🚨

As EU foreign ministers meet to decide on sanctions against Israel, our new analysis reveals that the EU is pumping billions of euros into Israel’s economy.

🔴 It's time to stop business as usual.
www.somo.nl/economic-san...

🚨 SOMO stands with UN Rapporteur @franceskalbs.bsky.social following US sanctions aimed at silencing her work.

An attack on her is an attack on international rule of law.

States must act with:
- sanctions
- arms embargo
- corporate accountability

No business as usual during genocide!

#Palestine

Annual Report 2024 - SOMO The 2024 Annual Report of SOMO; detailing publications, work & financial statements. SOMO, critical, independent, and factual.

2024 saw the relentless rise of far-right, racist agendas and the failure of corporate and political elites to take real climate action.

So we kept rising against the tide 🌊

Swipe for some of our highlights and see everything we achieved at:
somo2024.jaarverslag.org

@ainowinstitute.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com @karenhao.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @parismarx.com

Can genAI start-ups really challenge #BigTech's dominance? 🧐

🔎 We analysed 12 start-ups' value chains and what we found is clear:

They're highly dependent on Big Tech companies, particularly Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Nvidia.

Read our full analysis: www.somo.nl/the-real-win...

New UN report: a pathway for ending corporate complicity in Palestine - SOMO A new report by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese presents groundbreaking findings on the role of the private sector in the commission of international crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territ...

Many corporations are profiting from Israel's crimes in Palestine 🚨

New report by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese exposes corporate complicity and draws a clear pathway for ending it.

Here's our response to the report:
www.somo.nl/new-un-repor...

🔴 The EU’s updated Climate Law falls short of delivering the real solutions needed to reach real zero.

The new proposal rely on international carbon offsets and #CDR — approaches that undermine climate ambition and delay real emission cuts.

Read more 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...

Shell and ExxonMobil are suing the Dutch government for shutting down the Groningen gas field.

They want billions to compensate for their lost profits.

They want the public money that should be used to repair the damage they have caused.

The ISDS system needs to end: www.somo.nl/aftershock-i...

📕 In our new report, we call on the Dutch government to:
- end its 69 remaining ISDS agreements
- reject ISDS in future treaties
- ensure that disputes involving public interests are settled in domestic courts, not in private tribunals.

Read our analysis: www.somo.nl/aftershock-i...

Big oil and gas companies are increasingly using ISDS to slow down government efforts to phase out fossil fuels, address environmental harm, and protect affected communities.

📣 Governments must urgently dismantle ISDS.

They're asking for billions in compensation for lost profits.

They want the public money that should be used to repair the damage caused by the gas field and support the people who have suffered most.

Isn’t that the world turned upside down? 🤔

🤑Despite making nearly €65 billion from gas extraction in the Groningen region, Shell and ExxonMobil refused to take responsibility for over 1,600 earthquakes and 122,000 damaged homes.

Now, they’re suing the Dutch government for shutting down the Groningen gas field.

Let's say a government shut down a harmful gas field.

With ISDS, the companies that have invested in this gas field can legally claim compensation for their lost profits - not in public courts, but in secret arbitration.

That's what Shell and ExxonMobil are doing in the Netherlands right now ⚠️

Investor-State Dispute Settlement lets companies run away from the harm they cause and blocks a just fossil fuels phase-out. ⛔️

It allows foreign investors to sue governments when their actions are alleged to harm their investment.

Here's a stark example of why governments must dismantle it:

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Communities are increasingly taking companies to court for human rights abuses linked to renewable supply chains.

🙌 Highly recommended read! SOMO is glad to have contributed, alongside other members of the Just Transition Litigation Coalition. Have a read! ⤵️

What are the responsibilities of corporations in the case of #Palestine?


Learn more from an expert panel this Wednesday 2 July ⤵️

📍Online, RSVP: bit.ly/44oZOAJ
⏰ 15:30 CET
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📢 69 NGOs call on the EU to deliver a Climate Law that rejects international carbon offsetting & Carbon Dioxide Removals (#CDR), commits to a full fossil fuel phase-out, and reflects Europe’s fair share of climate responsibility!

Read the statement👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/st...

🇪🇺🚗 The EU car industry is NOT in crisis. It’s profitable, powerful, and using its influence to delay climate action.

Our new research reveals how the interests of the car industry have steered EU policy to put profits before people and the planet.

Read our analysis: www.somo.nl/manufactured...