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In the last 10 years, 322 Land and
#EnvironmentalDefenders
were murdered in Colombia.
Activists like Óscar and Yuli are targeted for protecting their communities' land and water from damaging oil extraction.
Next week, the 🇨🇴 Congress can change this.
This is how 👇🏽
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⚫️Seven years ago on this day, the
#ParisAgreement
on climate change was adopted.
Since then (and until December 2021) over 1000 land &
#EnvironmentalDefenders
from around the world have been murdered, our global data shows.
Here are their names.
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NEW: Last year, 212 Land and
#EnvironmentDefenders
were murdered whilst defending their homes, their land and the environment against climate-wrecking projects.
2019 was the deadliest year on record.
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A major European company is illegally exploiting the
#rainforest
in the
#DRC
, damaging our global climate and undermining local communities.
WATCH:
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🔴BREAKING
Over 600
#FossilFuel
lobbyists have been granted access to the
#COP27
climate talks – that’s 25% more than last year.
The UN needs to kick big polluters out if it's serious about delivering
#ClimateAction
.
#PeopleNotPolluters
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NEW 🔴 200 land &
#EnvironmentalDefenders
were killed in 2021, nearly four people per week.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, defenders are frequently targeted with violence, intimidation and criminalisation.
#DefendTheDefenders
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🔴BREAKING
If the
#FossilFuel
industry were a country, it would have by far the largest number of delegates at
#COP26
A real problem for a vital conference that has left way too many voices out - and supposed to be focused on urgent
#ClimateAction
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The world is more dangerous than ever for
#EnvironmentDefenders
protecting our planet – new report:
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NEW | French oil giant
@TotalEnergies
is fuelling Russian military attacks on Ukrainian civilians from their joint-owned Siberian gas fields, our latest investigation shows.
It's time for Total to stop putting profit above peace.
#FossilFuelsFundWar
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👏 Defending our environment is not a crime👏
👏 Defending our environment is not a crime👏
👏 Defending our environment is not a crime👏
👏 Defending our environment is not a crime👏
👏 Defending our environment is not a crime👏
👏 Defending our environment is not a crime👏
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Money laundering! Narco cash! What went on at Trump Ocean Club Panama? Don’t ask
@realdonaldtrump
#TrumpInPanama
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US authorities must investigate
#Exxon
for its purchase of a corruption-tainted oil block in
#Liberia
.
#NoSecretDeals
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"While Western countries continue buying Russian gas and oil...they help Putin to wage war against Ukraine."
This
#EarthDay
reminds us that for the sake of peace, it's time to sanction the Russian fossil fuel industry.
#FossilFuelsFundWar
#EndFossilsAndWars
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The real culprits of our planetary crisis—climate-wrecking industries & the big 💸💸 behind them —often slip under the radar.
Taking them on will require all of us to fight back ✊
It’s time for a global
#ClimateRevolution
. Who’s in?
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BREAKING: More than 3 Land &
#EnvironmentDefenders
died every week in 2018 and many more were attacked and arrested. Calls to save the planet are growing louder – but those protecting it are being silenced. Read our report
#EnemiesOfTheState
:
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NEW: Two major US commodity traders are failing to ensure their palm oil sources are free from abuse against land &
#environmentaldefenders
in Indonesia.
We’re calling on
@ADMupdates
&
@Bunge
to address these failings and protect defenders.
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#Myanmar
’s military and military-linked companies have tightened their grip on the country's multibillion-dollar jade industry, using the proceeds to enrich themselves and their families, fund their ongoing abuses and hold onto power.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
- a thread 👇
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227 Land &
#EnvironmentDefenders
were killed in 2020 – the highest number of lethal attacks ever recorded, our latest data shows.
These attacks are being driven by the very same industries which are causing the
#ClimateCrisis
.
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Cuando las y los
#DefensoresAmbientales
y de la tierra se alzan contra las empresas respaldadas por Estados que amenazan a nuestro planeta 🌍, se arriesgan a ser encarceladas e incluso asesinadas.
Yo estoy con ellas. ¿Podemos contar con usted también?
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Hey
@HSBC
we're watching you! 👀
You're the UK’s biggest high street bank financing
#deforestation
.
As your shareholders meet today, maybe explain that they may be liable for the estimated £36.4m in profit they’ve made since 2016 from supporting forest-wrecking companies.
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Next week will mark 100 days since the start of the military coup in
#Myanmar
🇲🇲
What can the international community do to fight back against the Myanmar junta and hasten the return of democracy? A thread 👇
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BREAKING🔴We join activist
@SvitlanaRomanko
to tell EU politicians in📍Brussels today:
Stop funding Putin's war on
#Ukraine
!
Half of all the money needed to fund the Russian war machine comes from the sale of
#FossilFuels
to Europe.
Act now and RT 👇
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BREAKING NEWS: leaked emails show how
@Shell
scheme deprived Nigeria of $1.1billion. RT to expose
#Shellknew
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REVEALED: Over 300,000 UK companies say they have no owners 👥. Despite world-leading transparency rules, the lack of checks and enforcement by
@CompaniesHouse
means it's still far too easy to conceal the real owners. The Govt can and must act.
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BREAKING🚨
The EU 🇪🇺 just agreed a law that paves the way for people around the world to sue big companies for human rights abuses and linked environmental harms.
This is what it means ⬇️
#CSDDD
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Nearly 2000 land and environmental defenders have been killed since 2012.
Today, we're screening their names in New York's Times Square to pay tribute to them.
As global leaders gather for the
@UN
Climate Ambition Summit, we call on governments to
#DefendTheDefenders
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🚨 NEW: The
#FossilFuel
industry wants us to think blue hydrogen 🔵 is climate friendly.
@Shell
boast that their plant in Canada 🇨🇦 is helping to tackle the
#ClimateCrisis
.
We show it has the same emissions as a MILLION cars! 🚗
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What do the Presidential families of the US and Congo Brazzaville have in common?
1⃣ Both have been accused of enriching themselves while in power
2⃣ Both Presidents’ daughters work in the presidential offices
3⃣ A luxury
#Trump
apartment in NYC
Read more:
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NEW 📣 Major meat companies are buying cattle 🐄 from hundreds of ranches that contain illegal
#Amazon
deforestation 🌳, with some also linked to human rights abuses - and international banks are complicit 💰
Find out more:
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Land &
#EnvironmentDefenders
are our leaders in protecting the environment and halting climate breakdown. Yet they are increasingly threatened, attacked and silenced.
Unless civil society space for legitimate protest is protected, there can be no
#ClimateJustice
.
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How Many More environmental activists murdered in 2014? Find out here
http://t.co/vWmRgMumcr
http://t.co/TnrnDC0x89
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BREAKING
@Shell
have just announced the scrapping of its 1-2% oil reduction target.
A climate-wrecking U-turn that could add new carbon equal to Denmark’s annual emissions EVERY YEAR.
It’s profit over planet & people every single time for big polluters.
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NEW🔎: Chevron claims to support Black communities and racial justice, yet we’ve found they give *four times* more funding to US politicians with failing civil rights voting records. 👇
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AHORA 🔍 El año pasado, 212 personas
#Defensoras
fueron asesinadas mientras defendían sus hogares, su tierra y el medio ambiente de proyectos destructivos que exacerban la crisis climatica.
2019 fue el año con más muertes que hemos registrado
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📣BREAKING: New analysis by oil experts 🕵️
@Shell
and
@eni
’s
#OPL245
deal deprived the Nigerian people of an estimated $6 billion in potential revenues 💰
⏲️It’s time to
#TakeTheFuture
back. Watch and share!
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We’ve all experienced a
#ToxicFriendship
, and friendships don’t get any more toxic than those between
#Polluters
and politicians. It's time for our global leaders to break up with their toxic friends!
Keep an eye out for ways you can support our campaign to
#EndPollutersPower
✊
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Today, we took over a page in today's
@nytimes
to honour the
#EnvironmentalDefenders
killed for protecting our planet.
Defenders risk their lives to protect land, fight against new projects and champion sustainable solutions. They must be protected.
#DefendTheDefenders
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NEW REPORT: 🇮🇩 Vice Presidential candidate
@sandiuno
may have benefited from millions of dollars of questionable payments from an Indonesian coal company to an offshore firm.
Find out more:
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At least 207
#EnvironmentDefenders
were brutally murdered in 2017 – the deadliest year on record, with the rising death toll linked to demand for consumer goods like coffee, bananas and palm oil.
For the full picture see our report
#AtWhatCost
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We are projecting live from the Trump International Hotel to expose
@realdonaldtrump
’s conflicts of interest and
#TrumpDeals
.
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‘In any conflict, the last thing a dominant power wants is for the outside world to know the cost of their victory’ -
@jonathanwatts
on the importance of sharing the stories of
#EnvironmentDefenders
. Read our report
#AtWhatCost
for more:
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📣REVEALED: A luxury condo in
#Trump
’s flagship Hotel & Tower NYC apparently used to launder stolen public funds by daughter of
#Congo
#Brazzaville
kleptocratic President. Authorities in the US must investigate.
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Estamos preocupados por las irregularidades reportadas en
#Honduras
Observadores deben pronunciarse, alegaciones de fraude deben ser investigadas, y la voluntad del pueblo debe ser respetado
#HondurasVoto2017
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📆It’s time for a
#ClimateRevolution
.
Don’t miss our free, 2-day event highlighting climate solutions needed to protect people and the planet.
RSVP here & see the amazing lineup of global leaders & activists below⬇️
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Big polluters like
@Shell
make too much profit from
#FossilFuels
to be trusted to act on climate.
Right now the EU is negotiating a law that would force them to cut their emissions.
It’s the law that Shell doesn’t want but the rest of us need.
#CSDDD
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NEW 🔴 Facebook says that its efforts to detect hate speech in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 are ‘industry-leading’.
In a joint investigation with
@Foxglovelegal
, we show Facebook failed to detect ANY ad examples we submitted to them with inflammatory content.
#GWTech
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Congratulations
@Shell
on your former employee Liz Truss being selected as UK 🇬🇧 Prime Minister.
Your alumnus inherits a worsening
#EnergyCrisis
and an urgent
#ClimateCrisis
, both caused by a fossil fuel dependency that is making companies like yours richer.
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JUST OUT: One of the US’ biggest oil & gas producers, Occidental Petroleum, stands to benefit from bailout 💸 following intensive lobbying efforts. How did this happen? A thread 👇:
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Problematic beef companies linked to
#Amazon
deforestation & human rights abuses are being serviced and financed by major banks, including Deutsche Bank, Santander, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, ING and HSBC.
Find out more:
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Fantastic
@JesseDrucker
piece on our exposé of how the daughter of the Congolese President used apparently stolen state money to buy a $7 million Trump apartment in NYC.
@nytimes
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40% of defenders killed in 2019 belonged to indigenous communities. Hear from Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay on the struggles she has faced while standing up to destructive mining in her community.
#IndigenousDay
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Defenders are not
#terrorists
. Defenders are not
#criminals
. They protect our planet, our
#environment
and our future.
If you care about these things, then stand with Land &
#EnvironmentDefenders
and share their stories:
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You wouldn’t ask a tobacco company for health advice. We shouldn’t be asking
#FossilFuel
companies for climate advice.
For too long, fossil fuel companies have influenced politicians & benefited from their decisions. Time to
#EndPollutersPower
!
RT & sign:
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Today, we’re calling on the EU, US & UK to sanction Russia’s
#FossilFuel
industry.
The world must ensure not a single cent makes it into the Russian war chest through oil, gas or coal.
Fossil fuels are a driver of conflict and source of cash for despots:
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NEW 🔴 In 2022, 177
#Defenders
were killed for protecting their land & the planet. But around the 🌎 they remain steadfast in their struggle.
Their voices can’t be silenced. We join them in demanding justice and immediate action.
#DefendTheDefenders
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EXPOSED: The secretive offshore world is contributing to the
#LeaseholdScandal
in the UK – leasehold homeowners have no way of contacting their freeholders directly and are forced to send hundreds of pounds to tax havens for little in return.
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“If you’re shocked that 1 in 20 planes are running on jet fuel made from Russian
#oil
….you should be.”
✈️ Our
@sunlightprojec1
on why we should
#closetheloophole
that's still allowing Russian oil into the UK.
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.
@AlGore
is right - the fossil fuel industry has captured the COP process.
Our research with
@StopCorpAbuse
and
@corporateeurope
has shown the number of lobbyists growing sharply. We need fossil-free climate talks
#COP28
📈
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On
#WorldRainforestDay
we can’t forget the huge deforestation footprint that the UK has.
Imports of beef, leather, soy, palm oil and timber require an area almost *the size of the UK* to produce, much of it in countries with high deforestation risk 👇
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NEW |
#Myanmar
is now the world's biggest supplier of heavy rare earth minerals - crucial for the production of electric cars, wind turbines and electronics.
Demand for these minerals is harming people and planet, and could prop up the 🇲🇲 military junta.
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BREAKING 🔴 Dutch companies
@beleefboskalis
and
@atradiusdsb
will profit from a mega-airport in the Philippines which is displacing nearby communities and devastating ecosystems, our new investigation reveals.
Read and share:
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The invasion of
#Ukraine
🇺🇦 shows that there is no:
🚫 security
🚫 democracy
🚫 wealth
🚫 peace
…as long as we are dependent on
#FossilFuels
and their autocrats around the world, explains climate justice activist
@Luisamneubauer
from
#COP27
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There are over 37,000
#secretproperties
in
#London
. This secrecy is being used to funnel dirty money into the UK, and is entrenching corruption that keeps poor countries poor. Find out how your area compares:
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BREAKING 📣 New investigation shows
#Trump
’s nominee for Secretary of Interior may have misled Congress about his lobbying for Soviet-born oligarch Blavatnik:
#AskBernhardt
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🔴SHELL 2022 PROFITS
Shell’s profits could help bring an end to all UK strikes
Instead much of this money will go to its shareholders.
It's time to put people before profits ✊
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Today we remember Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres who was murdered 5 years ago for defending her land from a damaging hydroelectric dam in Honduras.
We join her daughter Bertha Zúniga Cáceres and
@COPINHHONDURAS
in demanding
#JusticeForBerta
.
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Solutions that just do the bare minimum will not achieve
#ClimateJustice
, let alone safety and security for people 💬
An urgent message to
@POTUS
from climate activist
@Ayishas12
speaking at
#ClimateWeekNYC
.
Watch and RT!
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.
@BiancaJagger
calls on governments and companies to stop murder of
#EnvironmentDefenders
via
@HuffPost
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Live from Glasglow 📍We're here urging world leaders at
#COP26
to put people and planet first.
Over 1,000 Land &
#EnvironmentDefenders
have been killed for protecting their land and our shared planet since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015.
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📱 ¿El aumento del uso de las aplicaciones de rastreo y monitoreo de síntomas podría darle a las corporaciones y a los gobiernos autoritarios una nueva forma de obtener datos personales?
Descubrimos un caso particularmente preocupante de una de estas aplicaciones 👇
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As
#Myanmar
's military killed 100s of civilians,
@Facebook
's algorithm amplified pro-military, misleading & violent content.
At
#GWTech
we reveal how Facebook failed to uphold its own rules on incitement to violence in the
#MyanmarMilitaryCoup
aftermath
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Tomorrow at 7am ET we’re launching a ground-breaking investigation with
@NBCNews
,
@Reuters
looking at
#Trump
’s business dealings in
#Panama
. Watch this space.
#TrumpInPanama
Tomorrow,
@RichardEngel
investigates the Trump Ocean Club Hotel in Panama, a magnet for dirty money. Watch
#OnAssignment
at 9pm ET on
@MSNBC
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BREAKING! Our new investigation Narco-a-Lago: Money laundering at the Trump Ocean Club, Panama. Read it here:
#TrumpInPanama
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This Valentine's Day, love is in the air for Shell...
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For decades, the
#FossilFuel
giants that caused the
#ClimateCrisis
have denied, delayed and distracted from their culpability, and the solutions we need to fix their mess.
@Ayishas12
calls out their role at COP27, and shares why
#PeopleNotPolluters
need to be at the table.
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🏭❌ Climate justice activist
@Luisamneubauer
explains how fossil fuel industries shouldn’t have a seat at the table at
#COP28
.
We need to hand control over to the people most affected by the
#ClimateCrisis
, not the ones causing it.
#PeopleNotPolluters
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Three years after
@ICIJorg
first published the Panama Papers, a massive $1.2 billion 💵 has been recovered .
That’s a blow to crooks worldwide, but for taxpayers it’s the gift that keeps on giving. 🎁
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Another week of atrocities committed against innocent civilians in with over 500 now murdered by the junta and over 2500 arrested in
#Myanmar
.
The EU must impose strong sanctions targeting the military and their access to revenues needed to finance their abuses.
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REVEALED: Europe’s climate goals are at risk.
The EU has given billions in taxpayer subsidies to fossil gas companies for unneeded, climate-wrecking infrastructure. A thread 👇
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"We cannot have any new fossil fuel development if we want a fighting chance at 1.5 degrees. This means a phase-out of all fuels without exceptions." -
@vanessa_vash
#Opec
countries are fighting against a
#FossilFuels
phase-out at
#COP28
. This can't happen. Oil and gas MUST go.
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🔴 177 land and
#EnvironmentalDefenders
were killed in 2022
🔴 Almost 90% of recorded killings took place in Latin America, with over a 1/3 in Colombia alone
🔴 Brazil, Mexico, Honduras and the Philippines were the next deadliest
Report out now 👉
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📣 JUST OUT: A staggering 61% of the world’s new oil and gas production over the next decade is set to come from one country alone: the US.
This would jeopardize global
#climate
ambition.
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We’ve been investigating this for 6 years. Shell consistently denied wrongdoing. But now it’s clear:
#Shellknew
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🇵🇭 BREAKING: 10 Filipino activists are being criminalised for daring to stand up for human rights, including our partners at
@karapatan
.
All charges must be dropped & steps taken to protect those standing up for their rights & our environment.
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In Brazil, a new bill threatens to open Indigenous lands to logging, mining and agribusiness - the very industries which are putting Indigenous
#EnvironmentDefenders
at risk and destroying the
#AmazonRainforest
.
Watch and share!
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Q: Is it legal for the US president to pursue private business while in office? A: There are no laws preventing this.
Before the
#Mueller
report lands, don’t forget that Trump’s foreign business interests put US national interests at risk.
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NEW INVESTIGATION: Exxon paid $120 million to the
#Liberia
government for an oil block it knew was tainted by corruption.
#NoSecretDeals
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The world’s biggest oil & gas companies would like you to think they’re going green. A new
@CarbonBubble
report shows just how untrue that is.
If the
#FossilFuel
industry won’t change, our governments need to force it to.
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📢 Almost 7 months after the invasion in Ukraine began, activists
@SvitlanaRomanko
@Val_Voshchevska
and journalist Igor Fedyk, urge the EU to act.
As Russia escalates its aggression, it's time to place a full embargo on Russian oil & gas.
#FossilFuelsFundWar
.
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Too often, the
#FossilFuel
industry uses PR tactics to make them look like they're anti-war whilst they *profit* from war and conflict.
This is also known as 'peace-washing'.
A thread🧵
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OUT NOW 📣 An obscure UK-based investment organisation, funded by taxpayers, has spent $750 million on climate-wrecking
#FossilFuel
projects abroad - often in the world’s poorest countries, whilst
@10DowningStreet
prides itself on being a 'climate leader'.
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