🌊Marine protected areas aren’t always as “protected” as they sound.
Spain is still allowing destructive #BottomTrawling inside these sites, and that’s why we, together with @clienteartheur.bsky.social, are taking the Government to court. #ProtectedMeansProtected #30x30
Learn more📽️⤵️
This is the moment we either fight back or watch it all collapse.
What we’ve built over the last decades to protect nature is being torn down fast.
Pesticides back on our plates.
Protections ripped away.
Nature and water laws in danger.
👉 Go comment on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
#HandsOffNature
El Aneto agoniza: el mayor glaciar de España queda partido en tres y acelera su desaparición elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
🌊 We’re taking action against #BottomTrawling in marine protected areas.
Last year, we joined forces with @clientearth.bsky.social to take Spain to court for failing to protect their seas, but still nothing has changed.
#ProtectedMeansProtected
@clienteartheur.bsky.social
BREAKING: The EU watchdog just replied to our complaints. And she stands with us.
She has found that the @ec.europa.eu committed maladministration when it prepared its Omnibus I and 2024 CAP proposals to roll back key environmental protections.
Here are the findings:⬇️
Europeans want #MPAs to be protected from destructive fishing like #BottomTrawling. The @ec.europa.eu must listen to citizens & ensure the upcoming Ocean Act delivers real protection. The ocean deserves more than lines on a map.
More here: seas-at-risk.org/press-releas...
We join over 100 businesses, investors & civil society voices with one message: implement the EU Deforestation Regulation now.
No more delays. 📄 Read the joint statement here:
The new report from Climate Litigation Network charts the impact of a decade of climate cases.
Read it here 👉 climatelitigationnetwork.org/TenYearsClim...
Experts have said deforestation and environmental degradation contributed to the floods and landslides, which have killed over 600 people in the country.
#Indonesia #floods
Nothing more than a complete ban on PFAS chemicals is enough to prevent their countless negative health impacts. Although such a ban is being discussed in the EU, the UK is having no such conversations.
More about PFAS and what we're doing about them here: brnw.ch/21wY2eD 4/4
🧪Toxic PFAS chemicals were under the microscope on BBC's Panorama.
The half hour documentary shone a light on how these 'forever chemicals' truly are everywhere, including expert interviews with academics and scientists. 🧵
Full ep here: brnw.ch/21wY2eE
📢Nike adverts have been banned for greenwashing📢
❗A ruling from the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) agreed with complaints against sportswear giant Nike, saying its claim of using 'sustainable materials' in plastic polyester tennis garments was misleading. 🧵
www.cityam.com/nike-and-sup...
This landmark ruling sets a precedent for all communities who demand systemic change to our food systems, and protects everyone's fundamental rights.
Today’s win is for all of us.
The Court ruled in favour of the claimants, recognising the ongoing moral harm caused by toxic emissions and water pollution. Authorities must also pay compensation for the prolonged distress, including health risks.
📢Good news in the fight against toxic chemicals📢
The manufacturer of Tefal Teflon pans is being sued by NGOs for claiming in ads that its pans containing PFAS are 'safe'.
But we know that can't be true - PFAS chemicals have been shown to be detrimental to our health and to the environment.
🚨 We're deeply alarmed by the EU Commission's decision to stand by controversial changes of its transparency rules, in violation of EU law & binding court decisions. 1/3
🧡 BREAKING: Historic win 🧡
The High Court of Justice of Galicia has ruled for the first time that authorities failing to properly address water pollution from industrial livestock are violating people's fundamental rights – and should be held accountable 🧵
📢The EU has confirmed that access to the Court in environmental matters is a fundamental right📢
In a decision delivered yesterday, the EU Commission referred the Polish gov to the EU's Court of Justice, for there being too many barriers to Polish citizens' environmental 'access to justice'.
☠️The OECD definition of what constitutes PFAS, or ‘forever chemicals’, has been carefully established based on decades of peer-reviewed science.
But the chemicals industry wants it to change and possibly be narrowed, meaning some of these dangerous chemicals will escape proper definition. 1/3
Climate litigation is growing around the world, as more and more people recognise the power of the law as a force for climate justice and accountability.
LSE and Grantham Institute’s new report highlights this trend, underscoring the importance of ClientEarth’s work.
www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
World leaders have renewed calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining at the 2025 U.N. Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Nice, France, as the U.S. moves to mine the deep sea in international waters under its own controversial authority.
❓ Is accountability for polluters in court becoming a reality?
ClientEarth's CEO Laura Clarke and Bill Hare argue the case in @sustainableviews.bsky.social:
www.sustainableviews.com/science-and-...
WE💚FORESTS. Within a decade, the EU deforestation law (#EUDR) could protect over 8 million hectares of forests worldwide from EU consumption. That's almost the size of Austria.
We need this law now. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, time to end EU's complicity in the destruction of the world's forests.
❗Més de 20 mantes (𝑀𝑜𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟) han encallat aquesta primavera a la costa del Mediterrani espanyol.
👉 Si en trobes una, recorda què has de fer:
✅📞 Telefona al 112
🚫 No intentis retornar-la a la mar i evita-li molèsties.
❗The sea bass we buy in the UK is negatively impacting food security in Senegal❗A new investigation by @desmog.com and @theguardian.com has uncovered how consumers buying fish in the UK are playing a role in food insecurity and unemployment in Senegal.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1/5
📢 A court has linked long-term PFAS exposure to a death for the first time 📢
This week, Vicenza Court in Italy confirmed a link between the death of wastewater treatment worker Pasqualino Zenere from renal pelvic cancer & prolonged exposure to PFAS in his job pfascentral.org/news/auto-tr... 1/3
Good news 🌟 Spain has announced new Marine Protected Areas at #UNOC.
But read why paper commitments alone aren't enough 👇
And learn more about why we're asking countries to #TurnTheTide on ocean protection www.clientearth.org/campaigns/cl...
⚠️The EU has a systemic problem with destructive bottom trawling in MPAs. We're working to make sure they fix it.
We've already challenged France, Spain & Germany.
Now we're going straight to the @ec.europa.eu, with @oceanaeurope.bsky.social, @seasatrisk.bsky.social & Danmarks Naturfredningsforening
