the only fucking decent European leader, again!
apparently, the rest are back to happy vassals, cheering US and Israel into another war.
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the only fucking decent European leader, again!
apparently, the rest are back to happy vassals, cheering US and Israel into another war.
IPBES: Public spending on environmentally harmful subsidies is approximately $2.4 trillion! Forget bs #biodiversity credits markets, we must focus our demands on shifting harmful subsidies and not stop until we get it.
...and be instrumentalised politically to distract from the need to regulated overextraction, shift existing harmful subsidies and curb water pollution at source.
Link to our short brief: greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u... 5/5
As the roadmap towards nature credits has been added under the flagship actions of the Water Resilience Strategy, we fear that water quality trading might be part of #naturecredits in the future, 4/5
The provision of clean water might even be more appealing to institutional investors than biodiversity, as it is perceived by some as having the potential to provide high revenue streams. 3/5
...several neoliberal governments and institutions are pushing to financialise the purification of water, using a similar framing and talking points to those used with carbon and biodiversity. 2/5
Is water insecurity going to follow the same political playbook as climate change and biodiversity loss?
Water insecurity is on the map of forthcoming national security risks, together with food shortages. Rather than addressing the root causes of water insecurity, many of which are political, 1/5
For every $1 spent protecting nature, over $30 goes to damaging ecosystems, UN finds. h/t
#ShiftHarmfulSubsidies #NoNeedForNatureCredits
www.sustainableviews.com/for-every-1-...
#omnibus
‼️Carbon budgets to start 2026
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Climate - Prof Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social
National Emergency Briefing
11 Dec 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8z...
@cducsueuropa.bsky.social @spdeuropa.bsky.social @spdfraktion.de @gruene-bundestag.de @dielinkebt.de @reuters.com
Same story with plastic offsets that some oil producing countries and lobbies push as a way to avoid a global cap on plastic production. 3/3
I couldn't agree more, biodiversity credits/offsets are indeed imo mostly about protecting the status quo, i.e. helping maintain the social licence to operate for harmful activities, rather than curb them & shift public subsidies away from them and towards conservation. 2/3
World Economic Forum recommends tech firms buy #biodiversity offsets to address their impacts and dependencies on nature or "risk undermining their licence to operate." 1/3
carbon-pulse.com/464775/?site...
The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...
to the weak additionality of maintenance credits, the allowance for the ex ante sale of credits and the absence of ban on secondary market trading. See our short brief: greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u... 2/2
Today the IAPB will host a session at #COP30 titled "IAPB Carbon & Biodiversity Credits – Integrity in Focus." Yet, their proposal for high integrity credits includes many features that arguably contradict the high integrity claim: from the allowance for offsetting, 1/2
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
Deregulation - the dark path to poison in your lungs, excrement in your rivers, carcinogens in your food.
A growing movement in Brussels is spreading the message that asking business to follow rules leads to economic death. They're working hard to destroy EU environmental + chemical protections.
from the lack of ambition and generosity of Global North Countries, and from Brazil's recent granting of a new oil drilling licence in the Amazon region. 3/3
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/21/a...
it also relies on a contested free lunch assumption, and its expected returns are based on a ridiculously short 20 years data sample.
It is however a political success, in that it occupies a lot of media space and diverts attention... 2/3
Far from being a game changing innovation, the #TFFF launched at #COP30 is a cleverly packaged fund where conservation funding is conditional and the last wheel of the wagon; as payments for conservation come last and are first to be impacted in case of underperformance; 1/3
274 civil society organisations have already signed a manifesto opposing this false solution, designed primarily to protect the status quo and the profits of harmful activities. 2/2 www.biodmarketwatch.info
Today 9 Brazilian Amazon States are launching a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. If you want to know what biodiversity credits are and why they are a predictable environmental failure, read this comicbook: 1/2 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...
I wrote in English, not sure why it mentioned French
On 12 Nov 9 Brazilian Amazon States will launch a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. This feels like a good time to publish the last 2 chapters of our comicbook on biodiv credits: who promotes these markets, why, and what are the alternatives greenfinanceobservatory.org/50-shades-of...
In this sense, we understand the politics of biodiversity markets to be like that of carbon offsetting, namely to protect vested interests and the status quo for a few more years, but at the risk of threatening our own survival. 3/3
Our brief greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...
We note that privatising conservation policies will weaken them by introducing a profitability requirement.
We understand the main objective to be diverting the conversation away from the need to curb biodiversity destruction in EU, as doing so would hurt short-term growth and competitiveness. 2/3
EU’s roadmap for #naturecredits confirms the fears we expressed about the leaked version. We understand that #naturecredits will most likely be used as international compliance offsets. 1/3
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Will this be financed via redirecting existing harmful subsidies or via offset/credits schemes, as part of the forthcoming EU nature credits? 3/3
To what extent will this be instrumentalised to allow for more water pollution in the future linked to EU's reindustrialisation strategy and refusal to abandon its anachronic growth maximisation paradigm? 2/3