Belfast Climate Commission
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Part of the @PCANcities project, bringing together the evidence base and local organisations to ensure a just energy transition to a climate resilient Belfast
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joined June 2019
There is something jarring in the presentation of two main news stories in the North today as unrelated things: A) A worship of intensification of production & extraction at the investment conference & the implicit values of this outlook B) An extinction of life at Lough Neagh
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Official now! I'm pleased to work as a postdoc at the Centre for Futures of Sustainability @fos_uhh! From next January, my four-year project will investigate peace and security implications of the global movement to criminalise 'ecocide'. Really excited for my life in Hamburg!!!!
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I’m happy to share that @Centre_SECA & @daera_ni will co-host #publicConsultation event on #NI #CarbonBudgets Join us in @QUBelfast on 22nd Sept for our event on #ClimateAction @QUBEngagement @HAPPatQUB
eventbrite.co.uk
A consultation on NI's Carbon Budgets, co-hosted by SECA, GroundsWell and DAERA
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This summer has been brilliant for researching some of the biodiversity at @NTmountstewart. Our focus is on the ghost ponds and pollinator strips in field margins, both buzzing with life! 🐝🦋🐞🐸
Helping with homework? It's good to learn with others. @QUBMarZooSoc recently visited @NTmountstewart as part of two research projects. They found plenty of damselfly and dragonfly larvae in the ghost ponds and collected valuable data for pollinator projects.
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Copernicus Sentinel imagery of Lough Neagh taken last week. I don't think it's supposed to look like this?
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My #EarthsCorr column from the weekend and another HUGE issue facing NI governance - should one council be allowed to make decisions that will impact every council area - and why are DfI sitting on their hands on major fossil fuel projects? https://t.co/wPOxIwlEXt
belfastlive.co.uk
They have given the green light for a huge oil terminal to allow Go Petrol Station owners, LCC Group, to bring huge amounts of oil and gas into the country
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#OpenBotanic is back! Join us on Sunday 24 September to enjoy art, greening, cycling, health, music, games & more! It has been wonderful for our team to work with Sandy Row, Donegall Pass, Holyland, @friendsoffield and @AnakaCollective
@ForwardSouthPB
@QUBEngagement
@QUBarch
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Lough Neagh today. The polution smells, looks and feels as if it has come from another planet.
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#ClimateConversationsNI 🗨️Join us in person/or online & be part of discussion on NI’s first 3 carbon budgets & 2030 & 2040 targets 💁Next event is Tues 5 Sep Belfast City Hall @2PM 💻Register at: https://t.co/3hH5KqpeSL
@ExecOfficeNI @belfastcc @BelfastClimate
@NI_LGA @nidirect
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More lazy reporting from Richard Wright - neglecting to point out that reason for agriculture in Ireland being ‘in firing line’ to achieve Net Zero targets is … because it’s the largest source of GHG emissions!!! And it’s Carbon (not Cross) Border Adjustment Mechanism by the way
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Some positive news "Montana state court decided Monday in favor of young people who alleged the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful environment” by promoting the use of fossil fuels". https://t.co/g2SNbqqN0Z
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Here we are back to basics again. Not naming the sources that cause toxic blue-green algae : Unregulated industrial farming and human sewage https://t.co/iT6D3PlzKs
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Toxic blue-green algae has been spotted in the River Bann at Portglenone forest, Mid and East Antrim Borough Council has said.
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Just over 2 weeks to go until our hybrid workshop at @MyBCU! With fantastic talks by @ProfJohnBarry, @Prof_FSultana, @CamiloArdilaAr & more! Details & registration 👇. Please share widely! 🌏✊🌊 https://t.co/zuFsD5rA77
#ClimateJustice #ClimateEmergncy @PolStudiesAssoc #ecology
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Whats the future ownership of Lough Neagh, given unfolding ecocide? I trust neither state ownership or continuing with "the Earl of Extraction" Lord Shaftesbury. The rights of nature ie the Lough is given a legal right to own itself must be an option https://t.co/0Q2I64RAoe
bbc.com
Slurry, raw sewage and blue-green algae blooms are causing problems at Lough Neagh, anglers warn.
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“It’s a polycrisis…a crisis of climate, a crisis of biodiversity and a crisis of pollution.” Séamus Diskin with Jamie Murphy from Treasure Leitrim and conservationist Neil Folkes talk about the need to build grassroots resistance. #CommunitiesNotShareholders #ClimateCampIreland
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Attending #ClimateCampIreland in Co Leitrim.Session on data centres organised by @PBresnihan was packed. great selection of campaigns against their expansion & frightening projections of their consumption of electricity, water & limited job creation potential #datacolonisation
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Second proud supervisor moment, as Jaeim Park submitted her revised PhD thesis today after passing her viva examination in July, 'Caring democracy in a degrowth world: An ecofeminist-republican analysis', with thanks to Examiners Prof Joan Tronto & @ClaraFischer14
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Proud supervisor moment. Congratulations to @calum_mcgeown for successfully defending his PhD thesis, 'Revolutionary Green Republicanism: Anti-Capitalist Politics for the Planetary Crisis'...many thanks to Examiners Derek Wall @Anothergreen, @SusanMcManus10 & Chair, @AshMc8914
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Just back from brilliant talk by Prof Michael Cronin @tcddublin hosted my @GlorNaMona and part of @FeileBelfast - entitled ‘An Ghaeilge agus Éiceolaíocht | Irish Language & Ecology’ Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam & recovery of language inextricably linked to healing nature
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Proud to annouce Solastalgia EP 11 - part two of our conversation with Andy and Geraint, unlikely friends and accidental activists opposing plans to expand an oil facility at Cloghan Point on the Antrim coast. https://t.co/AtbO1QXZ6U
@CloghanNo
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