From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Apr 1 02:44:21 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 03:44:21 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] More than 1.6 billion animals are currently locked up, awaiting death in these wire prisons. Message-ID: Factory farming is killing the planet, our health, and our commitment to humane animal treatment. Ban it now! Sign Now The footage captured by activists from inside factory farms is horrifying. Chickens with their beaks chopped off to reduce pecking, gagging to death on their own blood. Cows bellowing out to be reunited with their young offspring ? but they never will be. This is just a normal day at any of the 25,000 factory farms currently operating in the U.S. Yet remarkably, even as much as these poor animals are suffering, they're not the only ones. Factory farming exists to put bottomless loads of cash in the pockets of just a few corporate millionaires. In the meanwhile, it's a form of torture for the animals and employees there alike ? all while making consumers and the planet sick. COVID-19 outbreaks are racing through meat plants, where staff were already struggling with PTSD and depression. Families at the dinner table have been ingesting animals pumped full of antibiotics and unnatural growth hormones. Meanwhile, our climate is straining under the huge impact of factory farms' greenhouse gas emissions. Luckily, U.S. Senators Corey Booker and Elizabeth Warren have teamed up to push legislation that would finally ban large-scale factory farming across the country over the next 20 years. This would be a huge win for all of us. The facts are clear: factory farming is a horrific practice that's making us sick ? animals, workers, consumers, and Mother Earth all included. It needs to end, now. Urge the U.S. Congress to pass this crucial legislation to ban factory farming! Thank you for all that you do, Miranda The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. None of us are safe from the dangers and insidious cruelty of the American factory farming industry. Sign the petition to finally ban it! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Care2 Petitions Sent: Friday, April 01, 2022 1:20 AM Subject: More than 1.6 billion animals are currently locked up, awaiting death in these wire prisons. They -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Apr 1 02:46:08 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 03:46:08 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] [cenn] Funded by GEF, CENN Hosted Online Workshop on LDN Oriented Sustainable Pasture Management Message-ID: <25F34DF656B34862AFC122D227AB9FDD@lewpostnew> ?????? ???????? ?????? ????? ??????????? ????????? ???????? (LDN) ????????????? ?????????? ??????? ?????? Online workshop on LDN Oriented Sustainable Pasture Management 2022 ???? 10 ?????, CENN-??, ????????? ??????? ?????? ?????? (GEF) ???? ????????????? ???????? - ?????? ??????????? ?????????? ???????? (LDN) ???????? ???????? ??????? ????????????? ?????????? ????????? ?? ??????? ??????? ????? ????????? ??????? ?????? ???????? ?????? - ????? ??????????? ?????????? ???????? (LDN) ????????????? ?????????? ??????? ??????. ????????? ???????? ??? ??????? ?????????: (1) ?????????? ??????? ??????? ???????? ????????? ?? ?????????, (2) LDN-?? ?????????? ?????????? ????????, ???????? ?? ???????????????? ??????? ?? ?????????? ????????. ????????? ???????????? ??? ??????? ?????, ?????????? ??????? ???????????? ????????. ???????? ???????????? ???????? ??? ?? ????? 40-??? ????????? ????? ???????????. ??????? "????? ??????????? ?????????? ???????? (LDN-??) ???????? ???????? ??????? ????????????? ?????????? ????????? ?? ??????? ??????? ????" ???????????? ??????????? ??????? ??????? ?? ?????? ?????????? ??????????? ???? ?? ?????????????? ????????? ?????????????? ?????? (GEF) ????. ??????? ??????????? ?????? ????????? ?? ?????? ?????????? ??????????? (FAO Georgia). ????????????? ???????????? ????????? ???????? ?????????????? ?????? (REC Caucasus). ???????? ?????????? CENN. On March 10, 2022, CENN hosted an online workshop on LDN Oriented Sustainable Pasture Management within the project ?Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality Targets of Georgia through Restoration and Sustainable Management of Degraded Pasturelands? funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The following issues were discussed through the workshop: (1) Key aspects and systems of sustainable pasture management, (2) Use of LDN for pasture restoration, management and monitoring at national and local levels; The speaker at the workshop was Nicholas Sharpe, international pasture field expert. The online seminar was interactive and was attended by approximately 40 participants. The Project ?Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality Targets of Georgia through Restoration and Sustainable Management of Degraded Pasturelands? is initiated by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia and is financed by Global Environment Facility (GEF). The project is implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). An executive organization is the Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus (REC Caucasus). Project partner CENN. 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Message-ID: <91783374F07E47DFA6D862A0796E2731@lewpostnew> There's still time... ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? A majestic and essential breeding ground for elephants is about to be sold off to international investors and destroyed, but a nearby Maasai community is trying to come to the rescue -- we can help them win! These indigenous leaders already run a wildly successful conservancy and if they can show they have the resources to acquire the land and remove the fencing that threatens migrating herds, the sellers say they have a deal. But investors are already calling with big offers, so they need to move fast -- that's where we come in! Just 200 dollars will allow the community to grow the conservancy by a whole acre of essential land! Together we can help create the longest wildlife corridor in East Africa. Are you in? If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately. Donate $3 now Donate another amount We don't have any time to lose. The land could be swept into an international investor agreement any day, and then all hopes of preserving this wildlife corridor would be lost. And the more money we raise, the more land the Maasai can clear and maintain! Giving them the power to expand the survival of thousands of species! For decades, private landowners have put up fences throughout Maasai Mara, where wildlife need to be able to roam free in order to survive. Wildebeests, giraffes and other creatures then get trapped in the wire, dying slow, painful deaths. Nashulai Maasai Conservancy changed that by uniting 6,000 acres where humans and animals now live side-by-side, reviving ancient practices and allowing all to flourish.They?ve been recognized by the UN for restoring the threatened ecosystem, all while reducing poverty among their community by training and paying young people to patrol and protect the land. In just five years, the Nashulai Maasai Conservancy has turned once abandoned land into a thriving home to 5,000 wildebeests and zebras, 100 giraffes, and five families of elephants, including 10 babies born in recent months! And by creating jobs patrolling the area, they?ve found a groundbreaking way to protect their livelihoods and their land. If we can raise enough, the local community can move quickly to join the conservancy, tear down the fences, and develop local capacity to protect and regenerate this expanded wildlife corridor. And we can keep up our campaigning to protect wild places worldwide. Can you chip in to make it happen? If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately. Donate $3 now Donate another amount Time and time again, SumOfUs has stood with indigenous communities across the globe. From joining forces with communities in Brazil to fight back against the destruction of the Amazon to standing with activists in Southeast Asia beating back the palm oil industry, when indigenous communities ask for our help, we spring into action. Let?s do it again. Thanks for all that you do, Allison, Emma, and the SumOfUs team -------------------------------------------------------------------- More information: Wildlife Conservation. Nashulai Maasai Conservancy. SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. From: Allison Johnson, SumOfUs Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2022 10:32 PM Subject: Let's create the longest wildlife corridor in East Africa! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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READ OUR LATEST BLOG - Nuclear Risks of the Ukraine Conflict There is a concrete action that the US can take to deter and condemn Russia?s nuclear violence on Ukraine: Sanction the Russian nuclear industry. If the US does not directly and forcefully sanction Russia for these acts, we risk allowing this war to establish a new international norm, making nuclear power plants legitimate military targets. Read more on why we MUST call on the Biden Administration, Congress, and the Department of Energy to sanction the Russian nuclear industry. READ THE BLOG Thank you for all you do! The NIRS Team Diane D?Arrigo Denise Jakobsberg Tim Judson Ann McCann Hannah Smay Donate Connect with us: Facebook Twitter Instagram Nuclear Information and Resource Service 6930 Carroll Avenue Suite 340 | Takoma Park, Maryland 20912 3012706477 | nirs at nirs.org | nirs.org Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your web browser From: Nuclear Information & Resource Service Sent: Friday, April 01, 2022 12:23 AM Subject: NEW BLOG: Nuclear Risks of the Ukraine Conflict -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Apr 2 01:23:59 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2022 02:23:59 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Insuring climate chaos Message-ID: <5A67B5945D814C76AA21D8F189D80562@lewpostnew> Munich Re is the insurance villain you probably never heard of. However, it is now one of the last of its peers insuring and investing in disastrous new oil and gas projects. They haven't even ruled out support for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) ? a project that will soon rip through Uganda and Tanzania and cause unprecedented damage to local livelihoods and the environment. All across Europe, insurance companies are ruling out the ugliest fossil fuel projects. Just last week, Hannover Re joined companies like AXA, Swiss Re, Zurich, Aviva and SCOR to change their policy and rule out new oil and gas underwriting projects. But Munich Re, who amassed historic profits last year, is refusing to budge, choosing instead to pursue cash ahead of the planet. Next month, the giant company is holding its annual shareholders' meeting, a crucial event for the direction of the company. It?s time to escalate the pressure on Munich Re and make it follow its peers. Let's make Munich Re?s shareholders feel the heat by exposing their choice to ignore the climate crisis and continue supporting oil and gas expansion. Vladimir, tell Munich Re to stop supporting new oil and gas projects, starting with the East African Crude Oil Pipeline! Ironically, scientists at Munich Re started studying the possible effects of climate change nearly five decades ago, in 1973, and were some of the first in the industry to warn of the catastrophic damage it would cause to our planet. Amazingly, the company has done very little to tackle fossil fuels in its portfolios ever since. Munich Re can?t say it didn?t know. And being one of the only European reinsurers left refusing to act on its oil and gas business, is actually putting at risk its ability to do its job credibly, ie. manage risk. In less than a month, at the Annual General Meeting, Munich Re CEO Joachim Wenning has a unique opportunity to follow his peers and do the only sensible thing he can do: stop insuring climate destruction! Let?s push him to make the right decision and #InsureOurFuture. Tell Munich Re to stop being a climate pariah: publish a world-leading oil and gas policy and make a clear commitment not to re/insure EACOP. All over the world, SumOfUs members and their partners are ramping up the pressure on the world's biggest insurance companies to hold them accountable for their complicity in climate chaos. A few months ago, your mobilisation pushed the insurer AXA - who is a self-proclaimed climate leader in the insurance industry ? to publish a new policy restricting new fossil fuel projects, including oil sands, Arctic drilling, shale and fracking - a historic milestone. Recently, under the pressure, Swiss Re did the same, publishing an even greener policy!?? People?s mobilization has already led to five of the world?s largest (re)insurers and 15 commercial banks renouncing their involvement in EACOP, edging this controversial pipeline and its associated oil fields towards failure. Together, we can make Munich Re join this movement and do the right thing. Munich Re: don?t be a laggard, publish a world-leading policy that immediately excludes insuring or investing in any new oil and gas projects globally, including a clear and specific commitment to not insure EACOP. Sign the Petition Thanks for all that you do, Leyla, Charles and the team at SumOfUs More information: Activists urge Munich Re and Lloyd?s to stop insuring EACOP Pipeline Reinsurance News. 29 March 2022. Hannover Re becomes 5th re/insurer to opt out of East African Crude Oil Pipeline Insure Our Future . 28 March 2022. Why Stop EACOP STOPEACOP. 30 March 2022. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we?re not afraid to stand up to them when they don?t. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 Chip in $3 From: Leyla Larbi, SumOfUs Sent: Friday, April 01, 2022 10:24 AM Subject: Insuring climate chaos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Apr 2 01:26:18 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2022 02:26:18 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] [cenn] Supported by European Union, CENN Calls for Journalists to Join Media Tour Message-ID: CENN, ???????????? ???????????, ?????????????????? ???????? ???????? ????? ????? ???????????? ????????? CENN, With the Support of the European Union, Announces a Competition for Journalists to Participate in a Media Tour CENN, ???????????? ???? ???????????? ???????? ?????????? ??????????? ??????????? ??????????? (SEED)? ?????????, ?????????????? ?????????????????? ???????? ???????? ????? ????? ???????????? ?????????. ????? ????????? ??????????? ?????????? ????????? ????????? ??????????? ???????? ????????? ????????? ??????????? ?? ???????????? ???????? ?? ?????? ?????????? ?? ???????? ????? ????????? ?????? ????. ????? ????????? ???????? ??????????? ??????????, ???????????? ?????????, ???? ????????????, ??????????, ???????? ?? ???????? ????? ???? ??????? ???????????? ?????? ?? ??????????? ????? ???????????. ???????????? ???????????? ?????????????? ??????? ????????: o I ??????: 600 ? ??????? ??????? o II ??????: 400 ? ??????? ??????? o III ??????: 200 ? ??????? ??????? ??????????????? ????????????? ???? ??????? ????????????? ????????? 10 ??????? ??????? ??????. ????????? ???????????????, ?????? ????? ??????. ????? ???? ??????? ???????????? ???? ???????????? ????????? ???????? ?EU4Youth: ????????? ??????????? ??????????? ??????????? (SEED) ?????? ?????????? ?????????, ??????? ??????????? CENN-?? ????, ???????? ??????????????? KRDF (??????????) ?? Green Lane NGO (???????) ?????. ???????? ??????? ???????????? ?? ???????? ????????? ????????????? ?????????? ??????????? ???????????, ????????? ??????????? ?? ?????? ??????????? ???????????? ???? ????-???????? ?????????? ?? ????????????? ?????????? ??????????. CENN, within the framework of the EU-supported project ?Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Development (SEED)?, announces a competition for interested journalists to participate in a media tour. During the tour, participants will meet the winners and funded social and green entrepreneurs of the Caucasus Social Innovation Grant Competition and visit the Gori Innovation Knowledge Hub. Based on the site visits during the tour, participants should create journalistic material in the form of articles, photo stories, blogs or vlogs and publish it on a media platform. The winning journalists will be awarded the following prizes: o I place: 600? ZOOMMER voucher o II place: 400? ZOOMMER voucher o III place: 200? ZOOMMER voucher Interested journalists should fill out the registration application by April 10 at the following link. For more information, see the media package. The media tour is being organized within the EU-funded regional project ?EU4Youth: Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Development (SEED) for Green Growth?, which is implemented by CENN in partnership with KRDF in Georgia and Green Lane NGO in Armenia. The project empowers disadvantaged youth in Georgia and Armenia to successfully transition from education to work through developing their Social Entrepreneurship and Green Innovation skills. CENN is a member of the: This information was sent by info at cenn.org Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe | Editorial Policy | Privacy Policy. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of CENN, unless otherwise stated. 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The general objective is to prepare middle managers with comprehensive and specific knowledge and practical skills, who, as specialists, are able to take responsibility and make strategic decisions to formulate and implement environmental management and environmental policy at international level, considering the climate change and the European Green Deal. ??????: https://leworld.org/tpost/mrgb81jfo1-environmental-governance-and-adaptation From: Timur Idrisov Sent: Friday, April 01, 2022 1:44 PM Subject: Master of Science (MSc) in Environmental Governance and Adaptation to Climate Change -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Apr 2 23:56:45 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2022 00:56:45 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] We need stories of hope right now Message-ID: Hi, In just four weeks, a quarter of Ukraine?s whole population has been displaced. Almost 4 million people fled the war and searched for safety in different European countries. [1] Alongside the horror, there are stories of hope and humanity, as people like us are stepping up to help refugees. You?ve probably seen the picture that shows a line of baby strollers left at the train station in Poland, awaiting Ukrainian mothers that might need them. [2] Or you may have read the story of two neighbours from Spain who drove over 6000 km to evacuate refugees from Ukraine. [3] In such difficult times it?s stories like these, of hope and humanity, that show us change is possible. And we know that among our amazing community there are many of us supporting people on the move in various ways. That?s why we?d like to hear your story! If you or your close ones have hosted or helped people fleeing war, and are willing to share your story with us, let us know: I want to share my story! The WeMove Europe staff will be looking through the stories on Monday. If you?ve given us your consent, we will be sharing your story with the community and beyond, sowing seeds of hope and inspiration. Can?t wait to read your story, Aleksandra (Warsaw) and the whole WeMove Europe team PS: Know someone who has been helping people on the move and who may want to share their story? Forward them this email! References: [1] https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine [2] https://www.insider.com/photographer-called-viral-photo-of-strollers-in-poland-surreal-2022-3 [3] https://eprimefeed.com/latest-news/from-lugo-to-medyka-two-neighbors-from-galicia-travel-6000-kilometers-to-bring-ukrainian-refugees-to-spain/28263/ WeMove Europe is a community of people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home, no matter where we were born, where we live or who we love. In the name of a brighter future for people and the planet, we come together to sign petitions, send letters and protest on the streets to make our voices heard. Our power comes from each other. 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sun Apr 3 00:04:40 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2022 01:04:40 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] NEW BLOG: Why Sanctions on Russian Nuclear WON'T Hurt the U.S. Message-ID: <73A26DE0976342F4BF7C6346E88410CA@lewpostnew> Keep Up the Pressure on the White House to Expand U.S. Sanctions to Include Rosatom ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? NIRS has joined our counterparts in Ukraine in calling for sanctions on Russia?s nuclear industry. Doing so should not depend on there being no impact on the U.S. economy, but in the case of sanctioning Russia?s nuclear industry, that is not even an issue. Banning Russian uranium would have no meaningful impact on U.S. consumers or keeping the lights on. READ OUR LATEST BLOG - Impacts of Sanctions on Russian Uranium to the U.S. Nuclear Industry So why did the nuclear industry make the bad PR move of lobbying for an exemption from the Russia sanctions?even as Russian forces attacked and occupied Ukrainian nuclear sites? The usual answer: greed and opportunism. Read more on why the U.S. MUST sanction Rosatom and the Russian uranium industry. READ THE BLOG Thank you for all you do! The NIRS Team Diane D?Arrigo Denise Jakobsberg Tim Judson Ann McCann Hannah Smay Donate Connect with us: Facebook Twitter Instagram Nuclear Information and Resource Service 6930 Carroll Avenue Suite 340 | Takoma Park, Maryland 20912 3012706477 | nirs at nirs.org | nirs.org Having trouble viewing this email? 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These include rare and endangered species like polar bears, tigers, wolves, black leopards, and giraffes. Staff at multiple nature reserves and zoos in the country, especially in the cities of Mariupol, Odessa, and Kyiv, are terrified their animals will die ? and indeed, some have already begun to perish. Despite everything, staff and volunteers have been fighting to provide for these captive zoo creatures. But these heroic efforts can only achieve so much in the midst of a war. Receiving shipments of the food they require is nearly impossible right now. Additionally, many utilities have been bombed out of commission, thrusting zoos into darkness and cold. That's not to mention the stress and fear the creatures endure when hearing explosions going off all around them. At the Park XII Months Zoo near Kyiv, officials say a number of animals there have already died due to cold and hunger. There is only one person responsible for whether or not these helpless, captive animals live or die: Putin. He must end this brutal, senseless bombardment ? and if he will not do it, his advisors must. Sign the petition to save animals! Demand that Putin and his military advisors end this campaign of terror in Ukraine! Thank you, Miranda Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Animals don't know what is happening when it comes to war. All they know is that they're cold, scared, and starving. Sign the petition. Sign Now -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Miranda B., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2022 7:04 PM Subject: Putin's war is killing captive animals in zoos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Apr 4 19:13:38 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 20:13:38 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] The bodies of hundreds of innocent Ukrainian citizens have been discovered in Bucha Message-ID: <0D39E8ABBFAA405B9FD1771FFC9FCE15@evol.sp.ru> Russia is committing ruthless war crimes against innocent civilians. There Is Evidence That Ukrainian Citizens Are Being Shot Indiscriminately and Even Executed. Charge Russia With War Crimes! Sign Now There is now evidence that Ukrainian civilians are being shot, some execution style, and the stories are horrifying. Hundreds of bodies were found in the suburb of Bucha, Ukraine as Russian forces withdrew from around Kyiv. First hand accounts tell of Russian soldiers shooting "everyone they saw" from tanks and windows of stolen homes. Some bodies with point-blank gunshot wounds had their hands tied in a clear sign of execution-style killings. A coroner in Bucha had to arrange for a mass grave to be dug. "It was horror." The effects of war are always horrific, but it's clear that Russia is committing ruthless war crimes against innocent civilians. Though challenging, war crimes cases can be brought before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Russia needs to pay for its crimes. The point is to end the violence as soon as possible, not to punish people who did not choose for this to happen. All this is happening because Russian President (and tyrant) Vladimir Putin thought he could get away with anything, with few consequences. Sign the petition to demand Russia be charged with war crimes for its senseless killings of Ukrainian civilians! Thank you, Lauren Care2 Petitions Team P.S. In the Ukrainian town of Bucha, there is evidence that hundreds of civilians were killed, some even execution style. Sign to charge Russia with war crimes. 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Apr 5 02:49:15 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 03:49:15 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Cobalt Message-ID: <669665D418BC4794A0585F088FB881D7@evol.sp.ru> Children are killed mining minerals for batteries ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 15 year old Joseph* was mining for cobalt in a tunnel barely wider than his body when it collapsed and buried him alive. Too many children are working in deadly conditions like this, just to produce batteries for our smartphones, laptops, and electric cars. But we can help put an end to it. 15 families whose children were killed or severely injured in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including Joseph?s, are now taking Apple, Tesla, and three other tech giants to court. It?s the first ever case that would hold these companies responsible for letting children die mining cobalt just to keep their profits piling up. A major brief is due in weeks, and the families? legal team urgently needs the funds to keep the case moving. If the families win, it could end child cobalt mining ? and send a massive signal to billion dollar companies that they?re responsible for how their products are made. Can you chip in now to keep the lawsuit going? If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately. Donate $3 now Donate another amount The DRC has the world?s largest deposits of cobalt, an essential element for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used by billion-dollar giants like Apple and Tesla. Demand has skyrocketed, and mining companies in DRC are using more and more children to meet it, paying just a dollar or two a day. Thousands of children have died and countless are injured every day. The lawsuit claims that five tech giants ? Apple, Alphabet (Google), Dell, Microsoft, and Tesla ? that dominate the DRC supply chain for cobalt should be held to account for these crimes. But the companies have denied any responsibility for what happens in the mines ? all while claiming to have ?strict policies? against child labor in all aspects of their supply chain! Last year, a judge appointed by former President Trump dismissed the case, agreeing with the tech giants that they are ?mere purchasers? of cobalt, but the families aren?t giving up. They?ve filed an appeal and are planning to see the case through. The tech giants have spared no cost in trying to shirk responsibility and get the case thrown out. But if we help these 15 families win, it will force the biggest tech giants to cut their ties with deadly mines and finally bring about change to the cobalt industry in DRC ? and show corporate giants that they?re responsible for their supply chains. Vladimir, can you give just a small amount to help save countless more children from deadly cobalt mines? If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately. Donate $3 now Donate another amount * The name of the child miner has been changed to avoid retaliation against his family. Thanks for all that you do, Allison and the SumOfUs team -------------------------------------------------------------------- More information: Multinational companies are liable for human rights abuses within their supply chains. International Rights Advocates. Are children ?dying like dogs? in effort to build better batteries? Deseret News. 23 May 2021. Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths. The Guardian. 16 December 2019. SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. From: Allison Johnson, SumOfUs Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2022 6:29 PM Subject: Cobalt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Apr 5 02:51:58 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 03:51:58 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Radical Party: newsletter 3 April 2022 Message-ID: # 163, 27 March 2022- edited by Angelica Russomando and Ilaria Saltarelli Appeal of the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational Transparty EU should initiate the process of accession of Ukraine in the EU Invasion in Ukraine: Guterres appeals for an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire The UN Secretary-General has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Ukraine so that "serious political negotiations" can progress towards a peace agreement, based on the principles of the UN Charter. Read more 'Difficult months ahead' in Ukraine as deaths rise, along with global shortages At least 1,100 civilians have been killed in a month of fighting in Ukraine and the conflict "shows no signs of abating". Read more Extraordinary meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, 28 March 2022 Since 24 February 2022, some 3.8 million people, mainly women and children, have arrived in the European Union after fleeing the war in Ukraine.Ministers took stock of the means of material and financial support deployed, both in terms of their level and flexibility. Read more Progress and challenges seen in implementing human rights judgments, says annual report Human rights have improved in a number of countries thanks to moves by governments to implement judgments from the European Court of Human Rights, but serious challenges remain, according to the latest annual report from the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers. Read more DPRK: Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on the launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) The EU strongly condemns the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile by the DPRK on 24 March. This constitutes a violation of several UN Security Council resolutions and a serious threat to international and regional peace and security. Read more Detention centres in Libya remain sites of violations and abuses Many of Libya's migrant detention centres remain sites of appalling and systematic abuse, which may amount to crimes against humanity. Read more JOIN US Messaggio inviato con MailUp? sei registrato sul nostro sito e hai dato il consenso a ricevere comunicazioni email da parte nostra. Partito Radicale Via di Torre Argentina 76 00186 Roma (RM) Italia. info at partitoradicale.org - www.partitoradicale.it tel.06689791 From: Radical Party Sent: Monday, April 04, 2022 12:56 PM Subject: newsletter 3 April 2022 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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At that point, the babies are torn away ? and then the mama is forcibly re-impregnated and thrust back back into her cruel, inescapable coffin of a cage. The average sow is forced to breed offspring for slaughter five to seven different times before the industry is done with her. While locked in these enclosures, the mamas watch helplessly as their excrement piles up around their legs, unable to move or turn around. They can barely even stand up or sit down. Of all the pigs raised for pork in the U.S., 95% come from factory farms, where these types of torturous Medieval enclosures aren't the exception ? they're the rule. Numerous companies, including Smithfield Foods, have tried to fool consumers by pledging to phase out the use of gestation crates. But now, over five years after their initial promise, nothing has changed. Smithfield Foods, Inc. is the largest producer of pork both in the U.S. and also in the world, murdering nearly 30 million pigs every single year. It's time for them to realize we're watching, and that we demand they follow through on their promises. Sign the petition telling giant factory farming corporation Smithfield Foods, Inc. to finally end its use of all gestation crates! Sign the petition. Thank you for all that you do, Miranda The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. The traumatic cruelty of gestation crates can't be overstated. It's time for Smithfield Foods to fulfil its promise and remove all gestation crates from its facilities now. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Care2 Petitions Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2022 1:19 AM Subject: These mama animals are locked in metal coffins until they give birth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Apr 5 23:17:49 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 00:17:49 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?Update_-_companies_profiting_from_Russian_?= =?utf-8?b?4oCYYmxvb2Qgb2ls4oCZ?= Message-ID: Global WitnessWe investigate. View email in browser -------------------------------------------------------------- Ukrainians have asked the world to stop buying fossil fuels from Russia - and some fossil fuel companies were quick to make public statements pledging to stop trading in Russian fossil fuels. For example, early in March the CEO of French energy giant TotalEnergies, stated that his company wasn?t ?taking any more oil from Russia since the beginning of the crisis?. But our recent investigations show this simply was not the case. Recently, we identified a tanker chartered by TotalEnergies transporting oil from the Russian port of Novorossiysk to Southampton in the UK, as reported by Sky News. We also found that just two hours after Total?s CEO made that statement, two ships chartered by his company picked up Russian oil from ports in St Petersburg, and shipped over 1.4 million barrels to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, as Le Monde reported. TotalEnergies has now finally pledged to phase out purchases of Russian oil and petroleum products by the end of the year. But this comes after a month of atrocious war crimes against civilians in Ukraine, and huge public pressure. Other companies have been eager to flaunt their ?anti-war? credentials and say they have stopped doing business with the Russian fossil fuel industry. But we calculated that big energy companies like BP, Shell and Exxon have paid an estimated $100 billion to Russia since the 2014 Crimea invasion. Just one company, BP, paid a staggering $79 billion, by our calculations. Read more on our investigation in CNN. Support for the Ukrainian people and business dealings with the Russian fossil fuel industry are incompatible. We?re keeping up the pressure and making it clear to these companies ? there is no longer anywhere for them to hide. Stay tuned, Louis Wilson @LouisJWilsonUK Find the facts. Expose the story. Change the system We need your support to continue our work. DONATE NOW CONTACT US Follow Global Witness -------------------------------------------------------------------- Global Witness, The Green House, 244-254 Cambridge Heath Rd, London E2 9DA From: Global Witness Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2022 3:35 PM Subject: Update - companies profiting from Russian ?blood oil? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Apr 5 23:19:35 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 00:19:35 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] 200 dead animals each hour... killed by the government Message-ID: Turtles, foxes, bears, and more are being persecuted and hunted down. More Than 1 Million Animals Were Slaughtered by the U.S. Government Last Year. Stop the Killing Now! Sign Now Last year, U.S. Wildlife Services killed a jaw-dropping 1.75 million animals. That is the equivalent of 200 animals killed per hour. Dozens of species, including important native wildlife, have felt the harrowing effects of this blood-soaked program. From gray wolves to foxes, black bears to bobcats, alligators to armadillos, and more ? animals around the country are being terrorized and slaughtered. Staff are supposedly pursuing this literal killing spree as a way to maintain some sense of "balance" between agricultural profits and local ecosystems. But culls are not only cruel; they're also ineffective. Nearly 65,000 coyotes have been slaughtered, some of them chased down and shot by people in helicopters. Imagine how terrifying that must have been. Even pet dogs have been the victims of such violence, by accidentally wandering into traps or eating poisons laid out. We need the U.S. federal government to fund vital programs such as healthcare and food assistance. So why is it spending money on campaigns to slaughter animals instead? Sign the petition to tell Wildlife Services to end the cruelty and curb the killing! Thank you, Miranda Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Authorities are killing off doves, owls, turtles, and many other beloved species through a misguided culling program. Sign the petition. Sign Now -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Miranda B., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2022 7:01 PM Subject: 200 dead animals each hour... killed by the government -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Apr 6 15:15:54 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 16:15:54 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] The ugly truth about what happens to animals on America's farms is being hidden from us Message-ID: <5429356843B841838A7E60A8A2C1BC9E@evol.sp.ru> The suffering is unimaginable. Agony, Torture, and Fear Are "Normal Farming Operations" in the U.S. Tell Congress to Take Action! Sign Now While every state has laws to protect animals, farm animals are often left out of the picture. Most anti-cruelty laws exclude "normal" practices in the farm industry -- no matter how painful for the animals -- so the industry can continue making money. And federally, there's not a single law on the books that protects "animals when they're on a farm." This means that horrific practices, like burning off calves' horns without pain relief or slowly cooking live pigs to death, are completely legal! Although the best way to change these literally torturous practices would be to expose them to the public, "ag-gag" laws make that difficult. Typically, ag-gag laws make it a crime to do things like secretly film factory farms or slaughterhouses. In the agricultural industry, a rich and politically influential colossus, this leaves thousands of animals in terrifying danger across the US. Currently, ag-gag laws are totally legal in 6 states. What we really need to make legal is exposing unnecessary cruelty. And the tides are turning -- recent cases in states like Iowa and Pennsylvania are putting the power back in the hands of animal protectors, not the exploiters. Sign the petition to urge Congress to pass legislation banning ag-gag laws so we can expose animal cruelty on farms! Thank you, Lauren Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Animal farming in the U.S. is characterized by torture, pain, and suffering, and laws that make it illegal to expose such cruelty are commonplace. Sign the petition. Sign Now -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Apr 6 15:21:07 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 16:21:07 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Our costs rise. They get richer Message-ID: <7DBE5943EE7E4DC5A060D03C00CBC27F@evol.sp.ru> Hi, We all want to live in a world where any farmer can grow the food we need. But corporations like Carlsberg and Heineken are snatching up the rights to dozens of common crops. They are creating a world where giant corporations set all the rules. [1] Vladimir, we never win anything alone. We win by building coalitions that decision-makers can?t ignore. It?s up to us to bring together everyone impacted by the power grab. With spring here and more sunshine on the way, we are presented with a chance. April and May are big times for beer lovers as major beer festivals happen in Europe. So we?ve built a plan with a group of local brewers to flood restaurants, pubs and major festivals with customised beer mats. Every time they pick up their drink they can?t avoid looking down. We?ll make unique codes that they can scan with their phones, giving everyone the information and a chance to take action with us. This will add even more voices to the call to keep our seeds free. We have some money to get started but small things add up fast. We?ll need ?11,350. But, if everyone reading this email gave us ?3 we could cover the costs and get moving this week! So, can we count on you to help the fight to free our seeds, and save the future of our food? Yes - count me in for ?3 Yes - count me in for ?5 Yes - count me in for ?15 Yes - I'll give another amount For years, we?ve been fighting to make sure anyone can grow and sell seeds, fruits and vegetables. And in May 2020 we won. The European Patent Office (EPO) officially accepted that conventionally bred plants are not patentable. [2] But corporations found ways to undo this win. They found legal loopholes and to this day continue to register patents on our seeds. [3] If they succeed, they could decide what farmers produce, what retailers sell and how much we all have to pay for it. Together, we?ve been pushing back. Already more than 165,000 of us have signed the petition, emailed our MEPs, and even protested outside the Patent Office in Munich. However, we need to go bigger if we?re going to win. The issue goes way beyond beer, but beer-lovers are just the kind of allies we need to make. The more diverse our coalition, the harder it will be for decision-makers to ignore us. To do that we need to get moving with creative tactics just like this. But the resources to do these actions comes from every one of us chipping in what we can. We?ve costed it out and need ?11,350. With that money we could: 1.. Design custom beer mats which creatively tell the story and carry links to our campaign online. 2.. Secure the printing of 25,000 beer mats that will be used to flood beer festivals, restaurants, and bars in key locations. 3.. Deliver the customised beer mats to our partner breweries and key festival venues across Europe. 4.. Capture photos and videos that show the reaction of beer-lovers after seeing the beer mats, discovering that giant corporations are snatching away the rights to our crops and beer. We will then be able to spread the reaction far and wide online to build even more buzz around the issue with people who did not attend the festivals. To win, we need the European Patent Office to close all loopholes that allow companies to get exclusive rights to our seeds. But we can?t do this alone. We need to unite everyone who cares about this fight. So, how about it, will you chip in to help get this idea up and running? Yes - count me in for ?3 Yes - count me in for ?5 Yes - count me in for ?15 Yes - I'll give another amount Thanks for being part of this, Thomas (Brussels), Giulio (Rome), David (London) and the WeMove Europe team References: [1] https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/nopatents-conference?utm_source=civimail-44512&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20220405_EN [2] https://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/communications/2020/20200514.html https://www.sdhsprogram.org/european-patent-office-plants-animals-obtained-classical-breeding-not-patentable/ [3] https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/sites/default/files/news/No%20patents%20on%20seeds%20-%20Overview%202018-2019_1.pdf WeMove Europe is a community of people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home, no matter where we were born, where we live or who we love. In the name of a brighter future for people and the planet, we come together to sign petitions, send letters and protest on the streets to make our voices heard. Our power comes from each other. And it's thanks to small monthly donations, fivers and tenners, that we can keep going. Vladimir, please help keep WeMove Europe strong by chipping in. DONATE! From: Tom - WeMove Europe Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2022 3:30 PM Subject: Our costs rise. They get richer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Apr 6 15:25:01 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 16:25:01 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Announcing: #NoWar2022 Conference: Resistance & Regeneration (July 8-10) Message-ID: <12408BCFD76840FC883948B16B8D51BB@evol.sp.ru> We're excited to announce #NoWar2022: Resistance & Regeneration, World BEYOND War's virtual global conference this July 8-10! Registration is now open. Click here to purchase tickets. As we resist the institution of war worldwide, from crippling sanctions and military occupations to the network of military bases that encircle the globe, how can we simultaneously ?regenerate,? building the alternative world that we want to see based on nonviolence and a culture of peace? Hosted virtually through the Zoom Events platform, #NoWar2022 will highlight unique stories of change-making, both big and small, around the world, that challenge the structural causes of war & militarism while, at the same time, concretely creating an alternative system based on a just and sustainable peace. #NoWar2022 will illustrate inspirational examples of social change activism that, as described by political theorist Adrian Kreutz, ?bring about this other world by means of planting the seeds of the society of the future in the soil of today?s. ? [S]ocial structures enacted in the here-and-now, in the small confines of our organisations, institutions and rituals mirror the wider social structures we can expect to see in the post-revolutionary future.? Register for #NoWar2022! Through 3 days of online panels, workshops, and discussion sessions from July 8-10, we will explore this unique theme of both "resistance" and "regeneration": a.. How to shut down a military base and convert the site for peaceful means b.. How to demilitarize the police and implement alternative community-centered policing models c.. How to challenge mainstream media bias and promote a new narrative through peace journalism d.. How to demilitarize education and promote peace education curricula e.. How to divest from weapons and fossil fuels and push forward a reinvestment strategy that prioritizes community needs f.. And much more! Additionally, interactive discussion sessions will offer a glimpse into what?s possible by exploring different alternative models and what?s needed for the just transition to a green & peaceful future, including public banking, solidarity cities, and unarmed, nonviolent peacekeeping. #NoWar2022 is also being organized in partnership with the Save Sinjajevina campaign in Montenegro, which aims to block a NATO military training ground & preserve the Balkans? biggest mountain grassland. Save Sinjajevina representatives will Zoom in to the virtual conference to provide a workshop about their campaign, and there will be opportunities to support the in-person actions happening in Montenegro throughout the week of the conference. #NoWar2022 participants will leave both inspired by what is possible and equipped with the tools to reimagine a just and peaceful future in their own communities and worldwide. Register to join the global World BEYOND War network for #NoWar2022 this July 8-10! Early-bird prices are now available, so reserve your spot today! Register Endorse Sponsor Buy Ad See you at #NoWar2022 this July 8-10! Greta Zarro Organizing Director World BEYOND War greta at worldbeyondwar.org From: Greta, World BEYOND War Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2022 4:00 PM Subject: Announcing: #NoWar2022 Conference: Resistance & Regeneration (July 8-10) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Apr 7 19:32:18 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 20:32:18 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Drop it. Now Message-ID: <66EC3EC90E574ACE8E45D23CAD44B8DD@lewpostnew> ?Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness." It seems that the UN Secretary-General's warning didn't make it to Loyd's of London this week. While most European insurers are starting to drop the worst wrecking fossil fuel projects, Lloyd?s execs are still set on plowing millions into insuring the Trans Mountain pipeline. With more than 85 spills since it started, that have leaked hundreds of thousands of liters of black crude oil across pristine Canadian landscapes, this ruinous mega-oil highway is poisoning Indigenous lands. As one of the largest backers of the project, it?s vital to get Lloyd?s to end this insurance recklessness! In a few weeks, Lloyd's is holding its Annual General Meeting. Climate activists from around the world are already mobilizing to disrupt the usual celebrations of profitability and bonuses. While mobilisations in Canada will focus on frontline defense, Indigenous communities are calling on allies all over the world to specifically target Lloyd?s of London. Let?s show the power of our international solidarity and increase the pressure on Lloyd?s like never before: Vladimir, email blast Lloyd?s execs ahead of the AGM to demand they rule out insuring the toxic Trans Mountain pipeline The Trans Mountain pipeline and its expansion have been fiercely opposed for years by people globally and more than 120 First Nations and Tribes comprising the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion. This spring, traditional owners on the frontline of Trans Mountain are leading mobilisations to resist the building of the pipeline. To support their efforts, alongside our partners at Coal Action Network, we?re taking mass action to disrupt business as usual ahead of Lloyd?s AGM. Lloyd?s CEO, John Neal, can no longer ignore the international call to drop the toxic Trans Mountain Pipeline. Let?s show him that we won?t give up until Lloyd?s rules out this dreadful project. Write to the CEOs of Lloyd?s top syndicates to demand they rule out insuring the toxic Trans Mountain pipeline, now! SumOfUs has forced financial institutions to pull out of dangerous pipelines before. When over 360,000 members like you called on major banks to pull the plug on the Dakota Access pipeline during the heart of the Standing Rock protests, the largest bank in Norway decided to pull funding the day after we brought your names to their headquarters. Last year, mass mobilization driven by a coalition of NGOs and activists successfully convinced 15 of Lloyd?s syndicates to rule out insuring the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline! Momentum is building. Insurance companies are waking up to the reality that the breakdown of the climate means not only the destruction of their business models, but the beginning of a global humanitarian and environmental crisis. Together we can make Lloyd?s feel the heat and get them to end this ?moral and economic madness? once for all. Write to Lloyd?s execs and get them to do the right thing for people and the planet! SEND YOUR EMAIL Thanks for all that you do, Leyla, Charles and the team at SumOfUs More information: At least 150K litres of crude oil spilled at a Trans Mountain facility last year. CTV News. 12 April 2021. Stop TMX Website StopTMX. 15th Insurer Rules out Coverage for the Trans Mountain Pipeline Insure Our Future. 4 August 2021. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we?re not afraid to stand up to them when they don?t. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 Chip in $3 From: Leyla Larbi, SumOfUs Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2022 10:11 AM Subject: Drop it. 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Read our latest blog on how renewable energy is best investment we can make in a peaceful future. The war in Ukraine and its consequences show us, more than ever, that the status quo of relying on nuclear and fossil fuels is untenable. It is positively clear that we must invest in a secure, reliable, resilient, decentralized, democratic, and 100% clean and renewable energy system. Learn why clean and renewable energy is essential to peace and security. READ THE BLOG Thank you for all you do! The NIRS Team Diane D?Arrigo Denise Jakobsberg Tim Judson Ann McCann Hannah Smay Donate Connect with us: Facebook Twitter Instagram Nuclear Information and Resource Service 6930 Carroll Avenue Suite 340 | Takoma Park, Maryland 20912 3012706477 | nirs at nirs.org | nirs.org Having trouble viewing this email? 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We will reimburse each treating veterinarian up to 250 Euros per animal for emergency care and lifesaving surgery as needed, medication for animals with acute and chronic illnesses and finally the required rabies vaccinations, microchips and medical exams needed for safe passage of dogs, cats, horses or other pet animals through the EU. If you would like to be part of this lifesaving work for animals and people alike fleeing the devastating crisis in Ukraine, you have a special 5x match opportunity right now. For a very limited time, Petco Love is MATCHING donations up to $300,000 to help animals in need in Ukraine and across the globe. That means when you donate $100 to the Animal Rescue Fund, Petco Love will give $500 to support Ukraine relief efforts. I'll Help Animals Vets for Ukrainian Pets is an important part of our lifesaving work across Europe to help those impacted by the war in Ukraine. 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By planting different types of crops, taking care of the soil and planting more trees, family farmers grow healthier food while living in harmony with nature. But they need our help. The EU was going to announce a new law that would protect their way of growing food that doesn?t destroy nature. [1] But the agri-giant lobby fought hard to stop it, using the war in Ukraine as an excuse. With wheat and corn less available, they argued for a U-turn on the new law. All to protect their billions in profits and get their hands on the land this law wants to protect, like forests and wetlands. [2] This law has now been put on hold. And unless the EU Commission sees a public outcry about this, the chances this law makes it back on the agenda are lower with each passing day. [3] This is another corporate lobby scandal unfolding before our eyes. If we act now, as one, we can make sure the Commission hears our side of the story. If you think we should protect nature, add your name now and speak up with us! Protect nature, not profits! Agri-giants want to get their hands on land that would otherwise be set aside for farming in harmony with nature. But this is not how they work. They want to use this land to produce more food for more profits, using industrial methods, artificial fertilisers and chemical pesticides. Risking our health, and causing a death sentence for forests, bees and birds. [4] The most outrageous part is that they will use that protected land to grow food to feed animals. They are drumming up fear about food shortages to justify land grabbing for food that is not even going to land on our plates! [5] We want to change Europe for the better. Often we come together to demand a new direction. But sometimes we also need to speak up to stop corporations from taking us off our path. Right now, we need to be heard so that this new law stays on the agenda. When we come together we are many, and we can drown out the corporate fearmongering. Thousands of people standing up together could help tip the scales and put an end to the kind of food production that is destroying our planet. Yes, count me in! Thank you for standing with us, David (London), Rachel (Amsterdam), Olga (Bologna) and the entire WeMove team References: [1] The Restore Nature Law is a package of rules to protect fallow areas of land and make sure farmers are restoring nature on parts of their farms by, for example, planting trees, hedges, and fallows on their fields as well as pesticide and fertiliser reduction targets. https://ec.europa.eu/environment/strategy/biodiversity-strategy-2030/eu-nature-restoration-targets_en [2] https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-russia-war-eu-food-farmer-green-deal-corn-fertilizer/ [3] The European Commission was expected to present a proposal for a new EU law for nature restoration law on the 23rd of March. But under pressure from vested interests, the law has now been delayed with no new publication date in sight. https://www.restorenature.eu/en [4] https://presse.inserm.fr/publication-de-lexpertise-collective-inserm-pesticides-et-effets-sur-la-sante-nouvelles-donnees/43303 [5] The meat that will result from these animals is mainly meant for export and will not feed the poorest in Europe or the rest of the world. https://foodwatch.org/fileadmin/-INT/climate_agriculture/220321_we_need_food_not_feed_foodwatch__002_.pdf https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-lawmakers-call-on-commission-to-end-meat-promotion-amid-ukraine-crisis/ WeMove Europe is an independent and values-based organisation that seeks to build people power to transform Europe in the name of our community, future generations and the planet. WeMove Europe is funded by donations from our community across Europe. Can you chip in with a few euros a month and help make sure we can move fast to win the campaigns that matter to all of us? Donate Follow on Twitter | Like on Facebook | Subscribe on Youtube WeMove Europe SCE mbH | Planufer 91 Berlin | www.wemove.eu | Privacy policy From: David - WeMove Europe Sent: Friday, April 08, 2022 8:36 PM Subject: Using the war to get their way -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Apr 11 15:02:18 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:02:18 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] here is the latest news from the High-level Climate Champions! Message-ID: <1D06B0EF6A5E4D72B0987F4CF31378CD@evol.sp.ru> UN Global Climate Action 11 April 2022 High Level Climate Champions Newsletter The Science on Mitigation of Climate Change The more we use our proven low-carbon solutions to cut emissions within the 2020s, the greater our chances of limiting warming to 1.5?C. The more we delay action, burn fossil fuels and destroy nature, the more brutal climate change will become. That is the underlying message in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?s report on mitigation of climate change, released this week. It finds that the world has already used about four-fifths of the carbon budget that would give us a 50% chance of staying within 1.5?C, and makes clear that there is no more room for new fossil fuel developments. The use of unabated fossil fuels from existing and planned infrastructure alone would blow us past that temperature threshold, it warns. We can find hope in the fact that low-carbon solutions such as renewable energy, batteries and energy efficiency work, and they are growing exponentially as their costs fall. But we need to act quickly if we want to capitalize on their potential, by mobilizing more businesses, investors, cities, regions and national governments in the race to a resilient zero-emissions future. The cost of solar energy and lithium-ion batteries each tumbled by 85% between 2010 and 2019, while the cost of wind energy fell by 55%, according to the IPCC. Solar energy deployment grew more than 10-fold over that period, and electric vehicles more than 100-fold. Digital technologies such as sensors, the Internet of Things, robotics and artificial intelligence can increasingly support wider sustainable development, boosting energy efficiency and rural access to clean energy. Work is already underway to drive transformations across the hardest-to-abate sectors. The UN-backed Race to Zero campaign?s 2030 Breakthroughs sets out pathways for halving emissions within this decade in over 30 major sectors, articulating what key actors must do and by when. For example, the aviation sector needs to boost the share of sustainable aviation fuel to 10% by 2030 in order to reach 100% by 2050; the steel sector needs to have 20 operational zero-carbon commercial-scale facilities by 2030 in order to have fully net zero steel by 2050; and the amount of deployed green hydrogen needs to reach 25 GW prices below US$2/kg by 2026 in order to reach 500-800 million tonnes by 2050. In addition, Glasgow Breakthrough Agenda launched by the UK COP26 presidency creates a framework for countries and businesses to join up and strengthen their actions every year to make clean solutions the most affordable, accessible and attractive option in every sector by 2030. The International Renewable Energy Agency?s new World Energy Transitions Outlook: 1.5?C states that progress by 2030 depends on political will, well-targeted investments, and a mix of technologies, with policies to put them in place and optimize their economic and social impact. Similarly, the International Energy Agency?s roadmap for net zero emissions by 2050 made clear that the transition requires a massive deployment of all available clean energy technologies within the 2020s. The Race to Zero looks forward to working with the UN?s newly assembled expert group on net-zero commitments from business, investors, cities and regions. This will bring added scrutiny to the field, building on the High-Level Champions? work of monitoring the credibility of Race to Zero commitments and annually assembling a group of experts to peer review the campaign?s criteria. Globalizing Locally-Led Adaptation People around the world are coming up with locally-tailored ways to help communities adapt to the impacts of climate change and thrive in spite of worsening droughts, floods, diseases, heat, cold, storms and other changes. The challenge of the 2020s is to bridge the need to support and finance this on-the-ground with the need to build resilience at a global scale ? urgently. There is no global solution to resilience, unlike renewables may be to mitigating energy emissions. Resilience varies according to local conditions, cultures, ecosystems, industries and impacts. One community may need early warning systems, another to diversify its crops, another to restore its mangroves. Perhaps as a result, climate adaptation work has failed to draw as much finance and attention as emission reduction projects. To change this, we need to pool locally-led solutions into global coalitions that share single messages ? for example on regenerative agriculture or mangrove restoration ? without losing sight of how to apply these solutions locally, worldwide. The UN-backed Race to Resilience is already working to foster collaboration and amplify those overarching messages, and the Resilience Hub at COP26 gave a new platform to share experiences on impacts of climate change and climate losses. We plan to continue those conversations on a similar platform at COP27. Before we get to Sharm El-Sheikh, the High-Level Champions will convene meetings over the year to shore up resilience work within the 2020s. Through this kind of economy-wide collaboration, we will begin to globalise locally-led climate adaptation ? without ever losing the local focus. The global resilience community also has an opportunity to influence political decisions on climate action by feeding into the global stocktake process under the Paris Agreement. This is where global coalitions with single messages are likely to have more impact than lots of similar but diverse inputs. The UN Climate Change secretariat have started collecting input to the stocktake from national governments, civil society, cities, regions, the private sector and others, which will culminate in a synthesis and decision on next steps in late 2023. MENACW 2022 Galvanizes Regional Momentum for COP27 The first-ever Middle East and North Africa Climate Week (MENACW) was held in Dubai, UAE last month. The first in-person regional climate week since Covid-19, the event drew around 4,000 participants to more than 200 sessions, and approximately 500 speakers from 147 countries. Conversations brought together ministers and other national government representatives with leading experts from businesses, cities, regions, civil society, youth and academic experts. The event brought regional momentum for a successful COP27. The High-Level Champions worked during the week to enhance collaboration between national governments and non-Party stakeholders and launched the Work Programme of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action for 2022, outlining the objectives and strategic approach for 2022. The Champions also hosted two Marrakech Partnership deep-dive workshops. The Implementation Lab brought together participants spanning from national governments to youth to talk about how recycled water can play a critical role in supporting climate resilience and ensuring water and food security in the MENA region. The Regionalization Workshop provided an opportunity for the Champions to explore how to regionalize the five-year plan for the improved Marrakech Partnership for enhancing ambition and the 2022 work programme. The event convened in-depth discussions on how to scale up climate action in the MENA region through the mobilization of non-Party stakeholders; regionalization; systems transformation; collaboration with national governments; tracking progress and credibility; and resilience. The High-Level Champions also participated in a global stocktake event, taking forward their COP26 mandate to support the effective participation of non-Party stakeholders in the process and their commitment to make it a success. They expressed the importance of converging messages, inclusiveness, regional balance and highlighting forward-looking opportunities for ambitious action. For more from Dubai, watch the Champions, Nigel Topping and Mahmoud Mohieldin, talk about the work programme, and a final wrap up of the week. The Champions will take forward the outcomes and lessons learned in Dubai towards the upcoming Regional Climate Weeks to further regionalize the Marrakech Partnership and support stakeholders in countries where they need it most. Watch this space for more on how to engage! In Case You Missed It a.. The Race to Zero?s second annual criteria consultation is underway, with over 150 independent experts across eight working groups having gathered to discuss the Race to Zero criteria, leadership principles, interpretation guide and lexicon. Before we open up for a four-week public, written feedback consultation, we are holding a webinar on 22 April to hear the recommendations. a.. The UN Secretary-General has assembled a team of experts to develop stronger standards for net-zero commitments from the private sector, cities and regions. a.. While the power sector is increasingly moving to renewables, other major energy-using sectors remain highly reliant on fossil fuels, including transport, according to IRENA?s World Energy Transitions Outlook: 1.5?C Pathway. A holistic global policy framework is needed to orchestrate a just transition that strengthens the international flow of finance, capacity and technologies. a.. 99% of the population breathes polluted air that exceeds internationally approved limits, with negative health impacts kicking in at much lower levels than previously thought, according to the World Health Organization. Fossil fuels are responsible for most of the harmful emissions that are linked to acute and chronic sickness, it said. a.. The world?s 60 largest private banks financed fossil fuels with US$4.6 trillion between 2016 and 2021, including US$742 billion last year, according to the Banking On Climate Chaos report endorsed by over 500 organizations. a.. The vast potential of groundwater can no longer be overlooked, and there is an urgent need to manage it sustainably by developing adequate and effective groundwater management and governance policies, according to the UN World Water Development Report published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water. a.. The World Meteorological Organization is leading efforts to ensure that every person in the world is protected by early warning systems within five years, and will present an action plan at COP27. a.. African nations are showing the way on dealing with e-waste. According to the Global E-waste Monitor 2020, 13 countries in Africa had an e-waste policy, legislation or regulation in place. Their efforts can be a lesson to other nations around the world. a.. Fisheries and aquaculture are already under pressure from climate change, underscoring the need for companies in the sector to incorporate science-based emission reduction targets, according to a UN Global Compact report looking at best practices in the area. a.. Many countries are still failing to realize the potential of including food systems in their climate strategies, according to the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. This work needs to take an equitable and inclusive approach and ensure a just transition for people working in the sector. a.. Wind and solar energy were the fastest growing sources of electricity in 2021, reaching a record 10% of the global power, according to Ember. All clean electricity now accounts for 38% of supply. However, rebounding demand growth led to a record rise in coal power and emissions, too. For more news from around the Race to Resilience and Race to Zero community, check out climatechampions.unfccc.int. Mark Your Calendars a.. 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CENN, ???????? ???????????? ?????????????? ????????? ???????????. ????? ????????? ??????? ?????? ????????? ??????? ????????? ?? ??????????? ??????????? ?????????? ???? ???????????? ?????????? ???????, ????????? ??????????? ??????????? ???? ?? ???? ?????????? ?????? ???? ??????? ??????? ?? ?????? ??????????????? ????????????? ????????????????? ??????? ??????????. With the support of CENN and Austrian Development Cooperation, hiking guide preparatory certification training was held for Kakheti Regional Women's Council. The aim of the training was to enhance local women's empowerment and their ability to generate income through sustainable and multifunctional use of forest and non-timber forest products. Participants were informed about the concept of ecotourism, hiking as a type of ecotourism, profession of hiking guide and its equipment, a possible location for the hiking tour, and the use of route navigation tools. Also, the training discussed the risks of hiking, risk management and food safety. Training was held within the framework of the ?Sustainable Forest Management for Rural Development? project, led by Georgian Ecotourism Association. The training was attended by women and community members from different villages of Kakheti, including: Jokolo, Omalo, Akhalsopeli, Kisiskhevi, Argokhi, Shalauri, Pshaveli. Kakheti Women's Council is planning a series of events supporting local women as part of the initiative. The events include trainings, seminars and study tours on promoting green entrepreneurship, the importance of formal registration, improving digital skills for local entrepreneurs, a forum supporting women entrepreneurs and etc. The Women's Councils were established under the "Sustainable Forest Management for Rural Development" project implemented by CENN, with financial support from the Austrian Development Cooperation. 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Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria and Vietnam were among those who voted against. Read more Intervention by the NATO Secretary-General after the NATO Foreign Ministers' Meetings We have just finished a substantive meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers. We agreed that we must further strengthen and sustain our support for Ukraine. So that Ukraine prevails in the face of Russia's invasion. Read more Ukraine?s President calls on Security Council to act for peace, or ?dissolve? itself In an impassioned speech to the Security Council, Volodymyr Zelensky described in stark detail what he said was the deliberate massacre of civilians in Bucha by Russian forces, setting out an existential choice for its members about the entire future of the world's security architecture, founded in 1945. Read more Ukraine: Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on Russian atrocities committed in Bucha and other Ukrainian cities The European Union condemns in the strongest terms the reported atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces in several occupied Ukrainian towns, which have now been liberated. Read more EU-China Summit: Restoring peace and stability in Ukraine is a shared responsibility The European Union and China held their 23rd bilateral Summit via videoconference on 1 April 2022. President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, held the Summit meeting with China's Prime Minister Li Keqiang, followed by exchanges with China's President Xi Jinping. Read more Ukraine: ?17 billion of EU funds to help refugees The Council adopted on 4 April legislative amendments allowing member states to redirect resources from cohesion policy funds and the European Fund for Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) to assist refugees fleeing Russian military aggression against Ukraine. Read more Commitment will be key to successful truce in Yemen Commitment will be key to the success of the two-month truce in Yemen. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed in more than seven years of fighting between Yemeni forces, backed by a Saudi coalition, and Houthi rebels. Read more UN climate report: It's 'now or never' to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees A new UN report on climate change released on Monday, which shows that harmful carbon emissions from 2010 to 2019 have never been so high in human history, is proof that the world is on a "fast track" to disaster. Read more JOIN US Messaggio inviato con MailUp? sei registrato sul nostro sito e hai dato il consenso a ricevere comunicazioni email da parte nostra. Partito Radicale Via di Torre Argentina 76 00186 Roma (RM) Italia. info at partitoradicale.org - www.partitoradicale.it tel.06689791 From: Radical Party Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:47 PM Subject: newsletter 10 April 2022 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 01:06:28 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 02:06:28 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] URGENT: The COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai has left people stranded without food or medicine Message-ID: <11A3DA3A065E496288F5EBF50820333B@evol.sp.ru> The residents of Shanghai need help! URGENT: Shanghai's Residents Are Locked In Their Apartments Without Access to Food or Medical Care. Demand Aid! Sign Now Shanghai's 25 million residents have been under a citywide lockdown since early April; people are unable to leave their homes, no matter what, even for food or non-covid medical care. While a strict lockdown can help limit rising COVID-19 rates, the Shanghai government has admitted there have been difficulties in delivering supplies. Videos circulating on social media show Shanghai residents desperately screaming from their apartments for food. If the government is enforcing a strict lockdown, they MUST be able to meet the demand for food and medical care! Already, there are reports of deaths, postponed vital procedures, and a lack of access to lifesaving medicine. Locking people down to protect them from COVID-19 is futile if residents have no food to eat or medicine to keep them healthy! While much of China has been accustomed to similar lockdowns throughout the pandemic, Shanghai is in a unique position. Due to its economic importance as China's largest city, Shanghai has typically isolated individual buildings rather than implementing city-wide lockdowns. Now that caseloads are reaching a record high, the city is attempting a rollout of China's stricter methods -- while remaining shockingly underprepared. Shanghai city officials aren't meeting the needs of their residents, and the consequences are heartbreaking. Sign the petition to tell the Shanghai government to deliver sufficient food and medicine! Thank you, Lauren Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Officials in Shanghai locked down the city in an attempt to stop the spread of COVID-19, but have failed to provide food or medicine to people. Sign the petition. Sign Now -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Lauren W., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 8:22 PM Subject: URGENT: The COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai has left people stranded without food or medicine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 01:09:48 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 02:09:48 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Our forests are burning Message-ID: <2C17A1F57C424AC7B33E71A5407F9435@evol.sp.ru> Exposed! The biomass industry is burning trees, a new investigation reveals. They?re lying to us that they only burn leftover wood. Send the investigation to your MEP and energy minister now. They have the power to stop funding the burning of our forests. Share it now! Right now, the biomass industry is burning trees in Europe and we risk losing our precious forests. The European Union currently funds the biomass industry to burn wood for energy, but they?ve been told the industry uses leftover or dead wood - the wood that falls off trees, or bark, sawdust and wood residues. Not live trees. Using satellite images, a new shocking investigation from ?Forest Defender Alliance? on forest logging exposes these industry lies. [1] It comes at a perfect time. Our representatives in the European Parliament (MEPs) and energy minister will soon decide the fate of our forests. [2] Let?s stop them from funding the burning of forests. As we cut Russian oil and gas, this becomes even more pressing: we?ll look to alternative energy sources and the biomass industry could start burning even more trees. [3] If we can get this report on the tables and in their inboxes in time, we have a chance to get them on our side. Share the investigation and reveal the industry?s lies to your MEP and energy minister now. Tweet at MEPs and energy ministers now! Share this Facebook Post Email MEPs and energy ministers now! You can read the report here. With this investigation in our hands, we can shed light on how the biomass industry is destroying our forests to burn them. We must speak up so that politicians don?t fall for industry lies. Through 50 pages of satellite images and photographic evidence, here are the most important findings we want MEPs and our energy minister to see: 1.. Massive power plants from Spain to Sweden, from France to Finland are burning trees. 2.. The investigation analysed wood used in multiple energy facilities across Europe. The images show evidence of wood sourced directly from forests being burnt for energy. 3.. Because burning trees counts as ?green energy? the industry receives billions in EU subsidies. [4] INSERT Image from your country with a frame please. Our forests should be allowed to restore and to grow old. Take 1 minute to join this action and share this report with your MEP and energy minister today. Tweet at MEPs and energy ministers now! Share this Facebook Post Email MEPs and energy ministers now! Thanks to our campaign you, and close to 300,000 people who have signed the petition. Now it?s time to make our representatives aware. Share the investigation now. With thanks, David (London), Virginia (Madrid), Mika (Bordeaux) and the entire WeMove team PS: If we want to have an economy that prevents the climate crisis, the last thing we should do with wood is burn it. But half of the wood logged in the EU?s forests is burned right away. This is even worse for the climate than burning fossil fuels. [5] Share the investigation with your representatives now. References: [1] Link to the report: Biomass Facility in Europe 2022. [2] The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) will vote in May- but politicians are making up their mind right now. The influential Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) will vote in approximately June this year. Our heads of states and energy ministers also work on the policy. [3] The EU already plans on burning more forests for energy: ?In its latest proposal on key climate policies, the EU has also modelled an increase of 50% of forest wood for fuel on today?s use until 2050. This directly undermines the EU?s climate and biodiversity goals and targets.? Biomass Facility in Europe 2022 , page 3. [4] Use of forest biomass has increased steeply in recent years - tripling since the 1990s - thanks to annual renewable energy subsidies that are today worth around ?17 billion. [5] ?The amount of carbon dioxide released per unit of electricity produced by woody biomass is typically 50% greater than coal?. Prof. William Moomaw, Tufts University IPCC author for 19 years on five reports. Read it here: http://www.perspectivesecologiques.com/telechargements/SOSFSUD%20Myth%20of%20Carbon%20Neutrality%20of%20Biomass%20Pr%20William%20Moomaw%20Tufts%20University.pdf WeMove Europe is an independent and values-based organisation that seeks to build people power to transform Europe in the name of our community, future generations and the planet. WeMove Europe is funded by donations from our community across Europe. Can you chip in with a few euros a month and help make sure we can move fast to win the campaigns that matter to all of us? Donate Follow on Twitter | Like on Facebook | Subscribe on Youtube WeMove Europe SCE mbH | Planufer 91 Berlin | www.wemove.eu | Privacy policy From: David - WeMove Europe Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 6:55 PM Subject: Our forests are burning -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The movement is already spreading, with Shake Shack, Kickstarter, Toshiba, Iceland, Japan, and more embracing 4-day workweek. That's why the California legislature is currently considering a bill that would create a 32-hour workweek for large companies in the state. If California, the fifth-largest economy in the world, were to adopt this groundbreaking policy, it could change workers' lives for the better. It could also set an important precedent for other states to follow! The pandemic taught us that we don't have to keep doing things the same way they've been done for decades. As U.S. Congressman Mark Takano has stated, "After a nearly two-year-long pandemic that forced millions of people to explore remote work options, it's safe to say that we can't ? and shouldn't ? simply go back to normal, because normal wasn't working." Workers, families, and companies alike all benefit from a 4-day workweek. It should be a no-brainer. Sign the petition to tell the California legislature that a shortened workweek would benefit everyone! Lawmakers must pass AB2932, the 32-hour workweek bill! Thank you, Miranda Care2 Petitions Team P.S. There are many profitable benefits of valuing employees and not just trying to wring more hours out of them. Sign the petition! Sign Now -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Miranda B., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 11:18 AM Subject: Working longer hours doesn't mean getting more done. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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UNCCD?s evidence-based flagship Global Land Outlook 2 (GLO2) report, five years in development with 21 partner organizations, and with over 1,000 references, is the most comprehensive consolidation of information on the topic ever assembled. It offers an overview of unprecedented breadth that includes new analyses of various future land scenarios and the potential contributions of land restoration investments to climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, poverty reduction, human health and other key sustainable development goals. Report embargo: Wednesday, 27 April 2022 09:00 US EDT / 13:00 GMT / 14:00 UK Summer Time / 15:00 CEST (check local time here) GLO2 is being released shortly before the UNCCD?s 15th session of the Conference of Parties opens in Abidjan, C?te d'Ivoire (COP15, 9-20 May, www.unccd.int/cop15). The first GLO edition in 2017 underscored the wide-ranging drivers, risks, and impacts of persistent land degradation, which have intensified considerably in the last five years ? increasingly evident in the deterioration of human health and stable livelihoods. The new report sets out the rationale, enabling conditions, and diverse pathways by which countries and communities can design and implement a customized land restoration agenda. Advance access to the GLO2 report and a summary for decision makers, will be available next week. Advance embargoed interviews with report authors and officials are also available. A high-level virtual launch will be followed by a press conference Wednesday, 27 April 2022 The press conference will begin 27 April 2022 at 09:00 US EDT / 13:00 GMT / 14:00 UK Summer Time / 15:00 CEST (check local time here) To register for the press conference, and to receive the advance embargoed media materials, please email the following to GLO2Launch at unccd.int a.. Media organization b.. First Name c.. Last Name d.. Position e.. Email f.. Telephone g.. City h.. Country A formal launch of GLO2 will take place Tuesday, 10 May 2022, during the high-level segment of the UNCCD?s 15th Conference of Parties (COP15, 9-20 May), Abidjan, C?te d'Ivoire. COP15 programme, registration and other media information: https://www.unccd.int/cop15 About the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) The UNCCD, established in 1994, is the only legally binding framework set up to address desertification and the effects of drought. There are 197 Parties to the Convention, including 196 country Parties and the European Union. The Convention aims to mitigate the impact of land degradation by uniting governments, scientists, policymakers, the private sector and communities around a shared vision to restore and manage the world?s land, and to ensure the sustainability of the planet and the prosperity of future generations. Copyright ? 2017* United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification*, All rights reserved. For more information on the Press Release, contact Wagaki Wischnewski Public Information and Media Officer From: UNCCD Secretariat Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 7:06 PM Subject: UN to Publish Comprehensive Global Land Outlook 2 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Apr 14 03:11:33 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 04:11:33 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?The_Observatory_on_Social_Media=E2=80=99s_?= =?utf-8?q?Toolkit_to_Combat_Misinformation?= Message-ID: <2E187D1E2FA7442E8328BC5BC16324C5@evol.sp.ru> The Observatory on Social Media?s Toolkit to Combat Misinformation We Hold These Truths... Share your thoughts on We Hold These Truths. View this email in the Hub The Observatory on Social Media?s Toolkit to Combat Misinformation Learn More Indiana University?s Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe) is a research center which studies the role of media and technology in society. OSoMe unites data scientists and journalists to investigate how information and misinformation spread online. It also provides students, journalists and citizens with resources, data, and training to identify and counter attempts to intentionally manipulate public opinion. Check out some of the tools that OSoMe has created to combat online misinformation: a.. Hoaxy: Hoaxy works to visualize the spread of information on Twitter. Users can search on Twitter and visualize results from the past week, or users can visualize the spread of claims collected by Hoaxy. Hoaxy visualizes temporal trends, which plot the cumulative number of Twitter shares over time and diffusion networks, which display how claims spread from person to person. Using the visualizations, a user can understand how information, and in turn, misinformation is spread on Twitter. b.. Botometer: Botomoeter checks the activity of a Twitter account through a machine learning algorithm and gives it a score, based on how likely the account is to be a bot. A low score indicates that the account is likely to be human, while a high score indicates that the account is likely a bot. c.. Fakey: Fakey is a game that works to teach media literacy and analyze how people interact with misinformation. The game shows a simulated news feed with different articles, some of which come from legitimate news sources, and others that come from sites with typically misleading information, clickbait headlines, conspiracy theories, and other types of misinformation. d.. BotSlayer: BotSlayer is "an application that tracks and detects potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter." BotSlayer is an application that a user downloads on their computer, and allows users to explore tweets and accounts associated with suspicious campaigns on Twitter. The tool works in tandem with Hoaxy, as once you explore tweets that are potentially spreading misinformation, you can visualize the data using Hoaxy. e.. EchoDemo: EchoDemo allows users to visualize how echo chambers emerge from social media. The tool works as a simulation that demonstrates how two mechanisms of social media, influence and friending/unfriending can lead to polarized social networks. f.. Bot Electioneering Volume: The Bot Electioneering Volume (BEV) tool "visualizes the activity of likely bots on Twitter around the 2018 US midterm election." The tool allows uses to explore the activity of bots on a daily basis, and how their activity worked to influence online discourse about the election. The tool also shows the topics targeted by likely bots. g.. Trends: The Trends tool analyzes the volume of tweets with a given hashtag, URL, or keyword over a given period of time. This tool allows users to search for a term and a date, and then the tool visualizes the number of tweets about the hashtag, URL, or keyword during a certain period of time. h.. Networks: The Network tool creates an interactive network to show how information spreads across Twitter. Users can search the OSoMe archive using a single hashtag or a list of hashtags over a specific period of time, and the tool will visualize the data into an information network. i.. CoVaxxy: The CoVaxxy tool works to visualize the relationship between COVID-19 vaccine adoption and online (mis)information. The user can compare maps and graphs between online discussions and vaccine adoption, allowing them to understand how the differences between misinformation spread about vaccination rates and actual vaccination rates. Check out more from OSoMe on Twitter HERE -------------------------------------------------- Authored by Lianna Brown Join us at We Hold These Truths is a nonpartisan effort of the McCain Institute. It does not support or oppose any political party or candidate. Want to change how you receive these emails? From: Paul Fagan Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:26 PM Subject: The Observatory on Social Media?s Toolkit to Combat Misinformation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Apr 14 03:15:47 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 04:15:47 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Bees rely on weedy yards to survive. Message-ID: Pledge to help save the bees by going no-mow for May! Towns in This State Are Doing the Sweetest Thing to Save the Bees. Pledge to Participate in No Mow May! Sign Now What if you had a way to help save your local bee populations and do less work at the same time? Meet No Mow May: the amazing campaign that started in the town of Appleton, Wisconsin and is now sweeping the nation! Conversations about climate change and wildlife extinction can be daunting and paralyzing, but projects like No Mow May can help us all have a real impact. Grass lawns, such as those surrounding residential homes, are devastating to the planet: they use massive amounts of water, occupy vital space, and usually involve mowing down ? i.e. destroying ? native plants and weeds that help sustain bees and other pollinators. That's where No Mow May comes in! It started in one Wisconsin community when residents decided not to mow their yards, thereby allowing weeds to flower and create a feast for precious bees. And right now, bees really need our help. Bee populations have faced epic declines over the past decades because of human-caused habitat loss, pesticide use, and a warming climate. In fact, nearly one in four native bee species is at increasing risk of extinction! Researchers found that unmowed lawns boasted five times the number of bees and three times the number of bee species, compared with nearby parks that had been mowed. That's an incredible boon for these much-needed pollinators! What is especially wonderful about this environmental action is that it actually requires less work, not more. If you are a homeowner, simply choose to keep your mower stored away for the month of May, and know that you are playing a vital role in helping bee populations survive and thrive. Sign the petition to pledge that you will help protect bees by not mowing your lawn in the month of May! Thank you, Miranda Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Chopping down weeds is destroying a vital source of nectar for bees ? threatening their already vulnerable population. Sign the pledge! Sign Now -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Miranda B., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 7:02 PM Subject: Bees rely on weedy yards to survive. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Apr 14 03:22:08 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 04:22:08 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Brazil's Indigenous people need your help NOW! Message-ID: SumOfUs has joined forces with the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib) to stop bill PL 191/2020. If it passes this bill will open up Indigenous lands to industrial-scale mining ? destroying pristine rainforest and devastating Indigenous communities. Tomorrow, Brazil?s Congress will vote on the bill, and with multi-million dollar corporations like Vale, Anglo American and BlackRock backing this terrible law, there's a chance it could pass. But we can stop this horror. More than 7,000 Indigenous people are in Brasilia right now fighting for their rights - and they?re asking for OUR help. Let?s make it clear to these greedy companies that people come before profit: Yes, I'll tweet!According to Apib, the biggest threats posed by the bill are: a.. It suppresses Indigenous peoples' exclusive right of possession over the lands they traditionally occupy; b.. It opens up Indigenous lands to industrial-scale mining as well as destructive infrastructure projects like hydroelectric dams, ports and roads; c.. It aggravates social conflicts and challenges like illicit trafficking, alcoholism, gender violence and social disintegration; d.. It suppresses the right of free, prior and informed consultation of the Indigenous Peoples and communities affected by large projects, a right guaranteed by ILO Convention 169; e.. It encourages incursions onto Indigenous lands, which leads to the illegal exploitation of natural resources and damage to cultural sites as well as intensifying attacks and threats to Indigenous communities, and the criminalization of leaders. Multi-million dollar companies like Vale, Anglo American, Belo Sun, Minsur Group, Potassio do Brasil and financiers like Capital Group, Bradesco, BlackRock and Vanguard, are doing EVERYTHING they can to make sure the Federal government approves laws that will enrich their executives, regardless of the terrible consequences for Indigenous peoples and the environment. This global community is being asked for help. Please act now: Yes, I'll tweet!PS- If you don't have Twitter, you can also put the pressure on by signing this petition! While our brothers and sisters are risking their lives to protect the rainforests and their own lives, we, members of SumOfUs, can help them win this fight. Envie seu tweet! Thanks for all that you do, Flora, Vanessa, Vicky and the whole team at SumOfUs Brazil Congress fast-tracks ?death package? bill to mine on Indigenous lands MONGABAY, March 15, 2022 Bolsonaro suffers setback on bill to mine indigenous lands Reuters, March 9, 2022 Mining Threatens Isolated Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon Eon Science, 25 January 2022 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we?re not afraid to stand up to them when they don?t. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 Chip in $3 From: Flora Rebello Arduini, SumOfUs Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 7:17 PM Subject: Brazil's Indigenous people need your help NOW! SumOfUs has joined forces with the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib) to stop Bill 191/2020. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 22:47:43 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 23:47:43 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] War Abolition 101 begins April 18th Message-ID: <39C59B9458B049F1B4F02C928A130D87@lewpostnew> -------------------------------------------------------- We all need to know how to make peace. War Abolition 101 begins April 18th. Please sign up, and please forward this to friends, schools, teachers, students, and all potential peacemakers. 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World BEYOND War | 513 E Main St #1484 | Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA World BEYOND War | 450, 4-2 Donald Street | Winnipeg, MB R3L 0K5 Canada From: World BEYOND War Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2022 8:01 PM Subject: War Abolition 101 begins April 18th -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 22:54:08 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 23:54:08 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Russian oil Message-ID: <96A2DC9BE0B04DAA9D13A688BA0CA740@lewpostnew> Global Witness We?re keeping up the pressure on the companies enabling this deadly trade View email in browser -------------------------------------------------------------- Western leaders have condemned Putin?s troops' war crimes and pledged to assist Ukraine ? yet the fossil fuels funding this war continue to flow from Russia, despite Ukrainians? cry to stop Russian oil trade. Thanks to your support Vladimir, we?ve been keeping up the pressure on the companies enabling this deadly trade. Our investigation showed that more than 360 ships discharged a staggering quantity of fossil fuels loaded from Russian ports between February and March 2022. Every one of these vessels were insured by western insurance associations. These companies have no excuse for continuing to underwrite an industry that fuels war as well as the destruction of our shared planet. Oleg Ustenko, Chief Economic Advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, called on these insurers to stop covering tankers carrying Russian fossil fuels. Read our investigation in Bloomberg Commodity traders ?a little-known, small group of western companies that dominate the world?s supply of natural resources including oil?were also doing their bit. According to data seen by Global Witness, several traders have continued to lift large volumes of Russian fossil fuels since the invasion. In fact, three of the world?s largest commodity traders?Vitol, Trafigura and Glencore?transported more oil from Russian ports than they had done in the same period over at least the last three years, our analysis reveals. They all also have stakes in Russian state-owned oil companies. Read our investigation in the Financial Times The enablers of Russia?s trade in fossil fuels are propping up a regime that murders innocent civilians. These companies now have a choice. Exclude Russian fossil fuels from their business or remain complicit in Putin?s war crimes. Onwards, The Global Witness Team Find the facts. Expose the story. Change the system We need your support to continue our work. 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Greta, Andreas & friends joined many t View in Browser EVERYBODY?S TALKING ABOUT ECOCIDE LAW At the end of a week of global awareness-raising (and the end of a long day) this was snapped in Stockholm? Greta, Andreas & friends joined many taking action across Europe and beyond to raise awareness of the need to criminalise ecocide. Read more about the multi-level mobilisation and ecocide events HERE. 21st March Iceland: Last month, an Ecocide resolution was submitted to Parliament calling for support for an international crime of ecocide as well as national ecocide legislation, with cross party support from Pirate Party, Liberal reformation, Social Democrats and Left Greens. Read More 28th March Stockholm+50 Youth Task Force: The official first draft of the Global youth position paper for the UN Stockholm+50 meeting (June 2022) is now published, compiled by the S+50 Youth Task Force. This paper contains 34 policies that the Task Force has put together following global consultations, and the first demand is for ecocide law. Read More 5th April Spain: The Congress of Deputies has given the green light to a Popular Legislative Initiative assigning legal status to the Mar Menor, Europe?s largest saltwater lagoon. The vote triggers the process to pass a law granting the lagoon its own rights, making it the first European ecosystem to be protected in this way. This legislative move could pave the way towards a complementary protective criminal law i.e. a crime of ecocide. Read More 8th April EU: EU European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has publicly declared that ?recognition of ecocide as an international crime is crucial for tackling environmental offences.? The Committee believes ecocide should be addressed directly in the substance of the revised EU Directive on improving protection of the environment through criminal law. Read More UPCOMING EVENTS: Apr 19, (9am Santiago) WEBINAR in Spanish Sinergia intergeneracional por la integridad ecol?gica ?. 22nd April, (9-10am London) WEBINAR The green room for earth day: ecocide as an international crime 18th May, (2-3pm Vienna) WEBINAR Criminalising ecocide: a new deterrent to crimes that affect the environment TELL US ABOUT THE PARTICULAR ECOCIDE YOU ARE FACING Are you standing up to protect your land or community from severe, or the threat of severe and widespread or long-term harm to ecosystems? We?d love to help make your story visible, in your voice. Write us a piece of up to 700 words about why you believe what you?re facing could be a case of ecocide and what?s going on with your campaign? and send to guestblog at stopecocide.earth along with any images that will help tell the story. SUPPORT THIS CRUCIAL WORK ?to protect life on Earth. It?s what ecocide law can make possible. It?s the enforceable guardrail to ensure best practice and catalyse positive change? not to mention a powerful and much-needed enabling condition for implementing global environmental agreements. Want to join the conversation? We have teams or associate groups in over 20 countries and interest-based networks too - faith, youth, business, lawyers, farmers? Get in touch! 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This Taxidermy Collection Featured Hundreds of Stuffed Endangered Species. Demand an Investigation! Sign Now Investigators in Spain recently discovered the corpses of more than 1,000 presumably poached animals ? all stuffed and turned into taxidermied decorations or trophies. The gruesome collection featured the bodies of many endangered species, including elephants, rhinos, Bengal tigers, lions, leopards, cheetahs, polar bears, and more. Some of the animals belonged to species that are already considered extinct in the wild. Authorities reported that the taxidermied wildlife were supposedly "worth" more than $31 million ? but the only "worth" they should have is just living their lives! The dead animals' stuffed forms were sitting in two warehouses that authorities had been watching. The man who owns the warehouses was already under suspicion for potential smuggling and other crimes. While he has not yet been arrested, that doesn't mean this is over yet. This man and all his connections must be investigated. It's gut-wrenching to know that more animals could be in danger in the future if his criminal network is allowed to continue operating. Urge Spanish authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the entire criminal ring involved in the taxidermying of these 1,090 animals. Sign the petition to stand up for endangered species now! Thank you, Miranda Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Wild animals don't exist to become dead decorative pieces for us. Sign the petition. Sign Now ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Miranda B., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2022 11:18 AM Subject: Elephants, tigers, polar bears, and more... dead and stuffed. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The lawsuit started when eight Malian citizens spoke out in 2021, revealing they had been trafficked as children to the Cote D'Ivoire to work on cocoa plantations. Legal documents describe the workers being constantly bitten by insects, wounded from machete accidents, and some working for years without being paid. But this issue is unfortunately nothing new. In fact, in 2001, under pressure from Congress, Hershey, Mars, Nestl?? USA, and five other chocolate companies signed a deal to eradicate child labor from their supply chains by 2005. Then, the corporations missed that deadline ? as well as multiple other deadlines in 2008, 2010, and 2020. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, a majority of the 1.56 million child laborers in C??te d'Ivoire and Ghana produce nearly 60% of the world's cocoa each year. These children must swing machetes, carry heavy loads, and spray pesticides. The root of this problem lies in poverty, so the solution is simple: pay farmers more for their cocoa. Hersey's, Mars, and Nestl?? can afford to pay workers more for their back-breaking, dangerous labor. It is up to us to put pressure on these companies and tell them: we will not buy chocolate made by child slaves! Sign to demand these companies end the inhumane use of child labor now! Thank you, Miranda Care2 Petitions Team P.S. This Easter season, it is more important than ever that we demand these highly profitable companies stop relying on child slavery to make their chocolate. Sign the petition. Sign Now ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Miranda B., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2022 11:19 AM Subject: Tell Hersey's, Nestle, and Mars: no child labor for our chocolate bunnies! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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After a SumOfUs shareholder resolution forced Apple to publish its first-ever human rights policy, the US stock regulator made a new rule -- anyone who wants to bring this kind of resolution will need to hold thousands of shares...and companies are setting VERY early deadlines to buy them! They're trying to silence everyone but the richest shareholders. But Vladimir, we can beat them at their own game. We already bought shares in Apple, Google, Facebook, and Bayer Monsanto. Now if 5000 people reading this email chip in the cost of a coffee, SumOfUs can buy enough shares in Nestl? to have our say at its AGM, ratcheting up the pressure over their stealing water from communities worldwide?and helping choke the ocean with disposable plastic. For the next 24 hours, we will use everything you give to generate matching donations from big funders, doubling your impact -- can you join in to buy a piece of Nestl?? If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately. Donate $3 now Donate another amount Shareholder advocacy used to be straightforward -- a SumOfUs member with stocks would just sign a letter, get a letter from their broker, and our community could file a co-resolution to be debated at Annual General Meetings. And we had incredible success, not only with Apple's human rights policy. A strong shareholder proposal pushed TD Bank, one of the world's biggest funders of fossil fuels, to commit to net-zero by 2050. Pepsi committed to sustainably-sourced palm oil. And more! But now the US stock authority is rigging the rules to favour big-dollar shareholders, adding time-consuming and arduous rules: increasing the minimum number of shares, increasing how long you have to hold the shares, and requiring that co-filers like SumOfUs provide a list of times they can meet with the corporation to discuss their resolution. It's a lot to ask. But the good news is it means our strategy is working. And there's a simple solution: bring our community together to buy stocks in some of the biggest corporations to keep achieving real-world change. We started with Apple, and bought Google and Facebook stock too. Now it's time for Nestl? to see what we can do. Can you help finally hold this corporate giant to account for its planet destroying practices? (Remember, your donation will be used to get matching donations!) If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately. Donate $3 now Donate another amount Thanks for all that you do, Danny and the SumOfUs team SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. From: Danny Auron, SumOfUs Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2022 12:36 PM Subject: Nestl? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Read more EU develops strategic reserves for chemical, biological and radionuclear emergencies To improve the EU's preparedness and response to public health risks such as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats, the Commission is building up strategic reserves for response capacities through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism. Read more EU Council: Adoption of the fifth package of sanctions against Russia in view of the military aggression against Ukraine The agreed package includes a number of measures to increase pressure on the Russian government and economy and to limit the Kremlin's resources for aggression. Read more "Stand Up For Ukraine": ?9.1 billion pledged to support internally displaced people in Ukraine and refugees The campaign has raised ?9.1 billion for people fleeing the Russian invasion and staying in Ukraine or heading to other countries, with ?1 billion of this coming from the European Commission. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development announced an additional loan of ?1 billion to cover the needs of people displaced by the invasion. Read more EP: Resolution on human rights violations in Russia, North Korea and Guatemala Parliament condemns the Russian regime's continued internal repression, which has worsened in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It demands that the Russian authorities stop harassing, intimidating and attacking anti-war protesters, independent civil society organisations and human rights defenders. Read more UN: war in Ukraine could increase shocks for developing countries The consequences of the war in Ukraine could dramatically worsen the economic outlook for developing countries already struggling with debt financing related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more Sub-Saharan Africa under threat from multiple humanitarian crises The number of hungry people in the Sahel and West Africa has quadrupled in the last three years, currently reaching 41 million. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said the figure rose to 43 million when the Central African Republic was included in the food insecurity estimate. Read more JOIN US Messaggio inviato con MailUp? sei registrato sul nostro sito e hai dato il consenso a ricevere comunicazioni email da parte nostra. Partito Radicale Via di Torre Argentina 76 00186 Roma (RM) Italia. info at partitoradicale.org - www.partitoradicale.it tel.06689791 From: Radical Party Sent: Monday, April 18, 2022 2:19 AM Subject: newsletter 17 April 2022 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The European Union has enacted a number of helpful bans, including a recent restriction on all seal products in the market, with an exemption for seals hunted by Indigenous peoples. Crucially, First Nations and other native communities have tribal sovereignty, giving them the right to continue seal hunts. Any hunting ban must include an Indigenous exemption. These communities are historically much more invested in responsible and respectful wildlife practices, whereas white westerners have a long history of simply bludgeoning wild animals into extinction for sport and profit. Canada's commercial seal hunt has dramatically dropped -- by about 90% ??? since the European trade bans were established. The tides are turning, and it is time the Canadian government ends this practice in its entirety for good. Sign the petition now if you agree! Thank you, Lauren Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Hundreds of thousands of seals will be brutally murdered this year, in a tradition that the majority of Canadians oppose. Sign the petition, end the commercial seal hunt. Sign Now -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Lauren W., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Monday, April 18, 2022 11:16 AM Subject: Seals will be shot or bludgeoned with spiked clubs by the hundreds of thousands -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Apr 19 19:35:56 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 20:35:56 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Join Us! Message-ID: <36A22B01789D400DB224702066F4132D@evol.sp.ru> It?s spring. Flowers are blooming and birds are cooing. But for the execs and shareholders of the world's most polluting financial companies, it?s time to hold their Annual General Meetings - where they celebrate profits and approve all the bonuses they reaped from funding fossil fuels and exploiting our people and planet. What big finance doesn't want you to know is that AGMs are also a time for demanding corporate change. And this year, activists all around the world are taking mass action to disrupt business as usual at these crucial meetings. Over the years, any progress or breakthrough at these companies has been won thanks to people power's relentless actions and presence at AGMs. They have helped hold each company accountable for their climate destruction and urged them to change tracks. Vladimir, to meet the urgency of the climate crisis, we need to unite together and take action to increase the pressure like never before. We?re starting by holding our own online People?s Rally, uniting a new cohort of activists to escalate the pressure during the coming AGM season. Will you join this People's AGM to unite, empower and plan our battle against big finance? Join us with #DefundClimateChaos on April 21st at 6:00 PM BST (7pm CEST) for the virtual People?s AGM, to join communities on the frontlines of climate breakdown and take action against biggest funders and insurers of fossil fuel projects! Through our protests, petitions and online actions, we've seen companies change internal policies and shareholders pass progressive resolutions at AGMs. AGMs are definitely important strategic days in the corporate calendar, a bit like their ?birthday party.? So that?s why we surely won?t be giving them a break on this day. Surprise, surprise, here we are. It's 2022, and we can?t take greenwashing anymore. Fed up with fine words, we want concrete action, now. Together with partners at #DefundClimateChaos coalition and Indigenous Land Defenders, we are excited to be supporting an online rally where activists like you, Vladimir, can come together to learn, share and strategize. There will be stories from frontline communities, updates from campaigns from across Europe, breakout spaces to take online action to have our targets hear our demands and opportunities to organize together for coming AGMs and actions ? online and offline. This People?s AGM will be our powerful moment to come together and build the momentum to make real change this spring and end fossil fuel finance for good. You can also register here if you want to join the People AGM on 21st April at 6pm BST (7pm CEST) and loop yourself in directly with the #DefundClimateChaos movement to hear more about their upcoming AGM actions and trainings. Register Thanks for all that you do, Leyla, Charles and the Team at SumOfUs People AGM Website Defund Climate Chaos, 31 March, 2022 People?s AGM Insure Our Future, 4 April 2022 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we?re not afraid to stand up to them when they don?t. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 Chip in $3 From: Leyla Larbi, SumOfUs Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 10:13 AM Subject: Join Us! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Apr 19 19:41:48 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 20:41:48 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?Carlsberg_just_won=E2=80=99t_quit?= Message-ID: <409F2CD945F945C9A584967D8D8EFBF8@evol.sp.ru> Hi, We all want to live in a world where any farmer can grow the food we need. But corporations like Carlsberg and Heineken are snatching up the rights to dozens of common crops. They are creating a world where giant corporations set all the rules. [1] Vladimir, we never win anything alone. We win by building coalitions that decision-makers can?t ignore. It?s up to us to bring together everyone impacted by the power grab. With spring here and more sunshine on the way, we are presented with a chance. April and May are big times for beer lovers as major beer festivals happen in Europe. So we?ve built a plan with a group of local brewers to flood restaurants, pubs and major festivals with customised beer mats. Every time they pick up their drink they can?t avoid looking down. We?ll make unique codes that they can scan with their phones, giving everyone the information and a chance to take action with us. This will add even more voices to the call to keep our seeds free. We have some money to get started but small things add up fast. We?ll need ?11,350. But, if everyone reading this email gave us ?3 we could cover the costs and get moving this week! So, can we count on you to help the fight to free our seeds, and save the future of our food? Yes - count me in for ?3 Yes - count me in for ?5 Yes - count me in for ?15 Yes - I'll give another amount For years, we?ve been fighting to make sure anyone can grow and sell seeds, fruits and vegetables. And in May 2020 we won. The European Patent Office (EPO) officially accepted that conventionally bred plants are not patentable. [2] But corporations found ways to undo this win. They found legal loopholes and to this day continue to register patents on our seeds. [3] If they succeed, they could decide what farmers produce, what retailers sell and how much we all have to pay for it. Together, we?ve been pushing back. Already more than 165,000 of us have signed the petition, emailed our MEPs, and even protested outside the Patent Office in Munich. However, we need to go bigger if we?re going to win. The issue goes way beyond beer, but beer-lovers are just the kind of allies we need to make. The more diverse our coalition, the harder it will be for decision-makers to ignore us. To do that we need to get moving with creative tactics just like this. But the resources to do these actions comes from every one of us chipping in what we can. We?ve costed it out and need ?11,350. With that money we could: 1.. Design custom beer mats which creatively tell the story and carry links to our campaign online. 2.. Secure the printing of 25,000 beer mats that will be used to flood beer festivals, restaurants, and bars in key locations. 3.. Deliver the customised beer mats to our partner breweries and key festival venues across Europe. 4.. Capture photos and videos that show the reaction of beer-lovers after seeing the beer mats, discovering that giant corporations are snatching away the rights to our crops and beer. We will then be able to spread the reaction far and wide online to build even more buzz around the issue with people who did not attend the festivals. To win, we need the European Patent Office to close all loopholes that allow companies to get exclusive rights to our seeds. But we can?t do this alone. We need to unite everyone who cares about this fight. So, how about it, will you chip in to help get this idea up and running? Yes - count me in for ?3 Yes - count me in for ?5 Yes - count me in for ?15 Yes - I'll give another amount Thanks for being part of this, Thomas (Brussels), Giulio (Rome), David (London) and the WeMove Europe team References: [1] https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/nopatents-conference [2] https://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/communications/2020/20200514.html https://www.sdhsprogram.org/european-patent-office-plants-animals-obtained-classical-breeding-not-patentable/ [3] https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/sites/default/files/news/No%20patents%20on%20seeds%20-%20Overview%202018-2019_1.pdf WeMove Europe is a community of people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home, no matter where we were born, where we live or who we love. In the name of a brighter future for people and the planet, we come together to sign petitions, send letters and protest on the streets to make our voices heard. Our power comes from each other. And it's thanks to small monthly donations, fivers and tenners, that we can keep going. please help keep WeMove Europe strong by chipping in. DONATE! WeMove Europe SCE mbH | Planufer 91 Berlin | www.wemove.eu From: Tom - WeMove Europe Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 7:24 PM Subject: Carlsberg just won?t quit Free the seeds from giant corporations. Our plan to get more people involved! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Apr 19 19:47:56 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 20:47:56 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?it=E2=80=99s_going_unseen?= Message-ID: <358E2D40612E417190B37A770008AE95@evol.sp.ru> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? We wanted to make sure you didn't miss the email below. Since we sent it thousands of people have been stepping up to secure the support that is needed. So, we wanted to make sure you didn't miss out on a chance to get involved too! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. In one moment, the lives and landscapes of the country changed. But the full cost of war is not felt in a moment, it ripples throughout one's life. Sleepless nights huddled together in the basement. Air raid sirens punchering the air at unknown intervals. Tearful goodbyes with grandparents unable to make the journey. It?s a suffering that stays. People all over the world stepped up. Opening their homes or chipping in for blankets and food. But, there?s an area of support flying under the radar. Our partners at Polish Migration Forum have seen it first hand. Those left with mental scars have no care in sight. They're trying their best - funding a few psychologists and running a local helpline. But, they?re spread too thin and exhausting their resources. So, Vladimir, we had an idea. Small actions, taken by each of us in this community, add up to a big impact. If we come together, chipping in ?3 or ?5 each, we could raise the ?13,000 needed to increase the amount of psychologists they can count on! Better yet, we can raise the funds to do this and start planning more actions that support people fleeing war. So, how about it, will you chip in and help provide support to those carrying the scars of war? Yes - I?ll chip in ?3 Yes - I?ll chip in ?5 Yes - I?ll chip in ?10 This is a suffering that can?t be captured on television screens. So it?s going unnoticed and unfunded. But, we?re a community that doesn?t stand by. We partner up and take action on the biggest issues of the day - issues that would otherwise get sidelined. And it?s been working. Already 93,410 of us signed the petition calling for the EU to protect all people fleeing the war. Then, for the first time in history, EU leaders decided to invoke a special law protecting people fleeing war! [1] It shows - when people come together, we can help more than any of us could alone. But this is just the beginning and we can only afford to stay in the fight because of people like you, individuals who each give a little to keep us going. Whether it?s fleeing war or climate breakdown, we will need to be equipped to take actions that truly make a difference in people?s lives. From confronting decision makers with a wave of opposition to providing frontline care through psychologists with our partners. If thousands of us chip in just a little now, it will add up to a big difference. We could get moving on: 1.. Providing trained psychologists to assist refugees in Poland, giving the Polish Migration Forum the resources to cover all the costs of a psychologist working full-time for five months. That?s 100 extra people per month we?d be able to help! 2.. Running a helpline over the phone, as the psychologists will not be able to visit every emergency accommodation centre. This way we can help more children and adults across Poland/Europe carrying the scars of war. 3.. Putting the building blocks in place for more actions like this, by establishing a campaign fund that enables us and our partners to move fast. This is how we will meet new needs as they emerge and challenge future political decisions taken by the EU. We know what we need to provide. That?s ensuring this kind of care does not fly under the radar any longer. And we have a plan to get there. Working with local partners to get trained support up and running? But to pull this off we all need to get behind the idea. So, I?m asking you if you?ll join the thousands of us committed to helping those fleeing war start to heal? Yes - I?ll chip in ?3 Yes - I?ll chip in ?5 Yes - I?ll chip in ?10 I'll surprise you Thanks of being part of this, Thomas (Brussels), Olga (Bologna) and the WeMove Europe team References: [1] The invoking of the Temporary Protection Directive means Ukrainian citizens and non-EU citizens who benefited from international or national protection in Ukraine will quickly get residence permits in EU countries. But, unless national governments decide otherwise, there are still some people who will be left behind - e.g.foreign students and temporary workers. Add your name to the demand to ensure ALL people fleeing war are protected! WeMove Europe is a community of people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home, no matter where we were born, where we live or who we love. In the name of a brighter future for people and the planet, we come together to sign petitions, send letters and protest on the streets to make our voices heard. Our power comes from each other. And it's thanks to small monthly donations, fivers and tenners, that we can keep going. Vladimir, please help keep WeMove Europe strong by chipping in. DONATE! WeMove Europe SCE mbH | Planufer 91 Berlin | www.wemove.eu From: Tom - WeMove Europe Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 7:45 PM Subject: Vladimir, it?s going unseen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Apr 20 02:50:12 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 03:50:12 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?Should_countries_around_the_world_help_Tai?= =?utf-8?q?wan_deter_China=E2=80=99s_military_threats=3F?= Message-ID: Should countries around the world help Taiwan deter China?s military threats?We Hold These Truths... Share your thoughts on We Hold These Truths. View this email in the Hub Taiwan Releases War Survival Handbook for Civilians as Threat of Invasion by China Looms Should countries around the world help Taiwan deter China?s military threats? Take the Poll What?s the story? a.. Taiwan?s defense ministry this week released its first-ever wartime survival handbook for civilians to use in the event that another country, such as the People?s Republic of China, attempts a military invasion in an effort to topple the country?s democratic government. The Taiwanese Ministry of National Defense explained in a tweet: ?Plan ahead in all affairs and you shall be successful,? said Confucius. The new guide sample from our mobilization agency provides a solid ground for our local governments to instruct citizens on what to do when emergencies including disasters and military assaults come. a.. The survival handbook is modeled after similar guides that the governments of Japan, Sweden, and Poland have prepared for their civilians to use in the event of a military attack, and also includes information about how to survive natural disasters. Reuters reported that planning for the handbook began before Russia invaded Ukraine, which caused Taiwan to raise its military alertness level even as its government hasn?t reported signs of an imminent invasion by China. b.. The release of the survival guide comes as China ratchets up pressure on Taiwan to compel the island nation?s unification with the mainland?s communist government, which in recent years extinguished the previously autonomous and democratic government of Hong Kong. What?s in the handbook? a.. The 28-page handbook includes QR code links to several websites and apps for both Android and iOS devices. It?s modeled after handbooks that the governments of Japan and Sweden have prepared for their civilians to use in the event of a military attack. b.. Links take readers to apps and sites that notify people about available emergency medical services; military announcements, including mobilization into the army reserve; weather and power outages; and ways to contact different emergency services, including the ministry of the interior police service. c.. The handbook describes how civilians should differentiate between different types of alarms or air raid sirens and how to respond when they go off; how to safely enter evacuation facilities; and recommends supplies to include in emergency medical and evacuation kits. d.. Officials plan to make additional updates to the guide with locally-focused information such as the sites of shelters, hospitals, and medical facilities, in addition to shops where civilians can obtain supplies. Why is Taiwan concerned about a foreign military invasion? a.. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, including General Secretary Xi Jinping, have made China?s reunification with Taiwan a priority in what they see as an ?unshakeable commitment? to China?s ascent into a position of global leadership. It has undertaken a substantial military buildup aimed at improving its ability to launch a successful invasion of Taiwan. b.. The CCP regards the self-governing democracy of Taiwan (also known as the Republic of China or ROC) as a rogue province and has threatened to compel a reunion by military force across the 110-mile-wide Taiwan Strait if the ROC pursues formal independence. c.. Beyond the rhetorical posturing, China has recently stepped up its campaign of military intimidation against Taiwan by repeatedly flying its military aircraft into Taiwan?s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in a bid to tire Taiwan?s military, which responds to the incursions by scrambling aircraft to intercept and tracking them with surface-to-air missile batteries. d.. In October 2021, the People?s Republic of China launched a record number of flights that violated Taiwan?s ADIZ over the course of four days. Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine there continue to be regular incursions by China into Taiwan?s ADIZ, the most recent of which involved six Chinese aircraft on Friday, April 15th. RELATED READING a.. China Criticizes U.S. for Inviting Taiwan to Democracy Summit (11/26/21) b.. U.S. Condemns China?s ?Provocative? & ?Destabilizing? Military Activity Near Taiwan (10/5/21) c.. Senate's China Competition Bill Aims to Bolster US Support for Taiwan - Are You in Favor? (6/7/21) d.. Blinken Warns China Using Military Force Against Taiwan Would Be ?Serious Mistake? (4/12/21) e.. Pompeo Lifts Limitations on US Diplomatic Contacts With Taiwan - Are You in Favor? f.. (1/16/21) -------------------------------------------------- ? Eric Revell (Photo Credit: iStock.com / fotoVoyager) Join us at We Hold These Truths is a nonpartisan effort of the McCain Institute. It does not support or oppose any political party or candidate. From: Paul Fagan Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 10:01 PM Subject: Should countries around the world help Taiwan deter China?s military threats? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Also, you can follow discussion via Livestreaming via YouTube Research Center of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Office. Chernobyl 2022: How did this happen, and how should nuclear safety approaches change? Russia's war against Ukraine has shattered the nuclear safety control system: existing international institutions and mechanisms appear to have been ineffective, and new ones have yet to emerge. Nuclear power plants, which store large amounts of highly hazardous spent nuclear fuel (SNF), became not only a target but also provided military footholds for the Russian army for the first time in history. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant (ChNPP) has again found itself at the epicentre of events that could result in a new radiation disaster on a scale greater than 1986 and Fukushima. Russian troops deactivated the radiation monitoring systems at the captured stations, cut the power to the ChNPP several times, and carried out active movements and military operations in the exclusion zone, including in the heavily polluted red forest. As a result of ongoing shelling, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warning system for the state of nuclear materials at the seized nuclear power plants has been disabled. Politicians and the general public, on the other hand, draw opposing conclusions from the current situation. While some leaders proclaim the need for new nuclear power plants, many members of civil society around the world believe that the situation in nuclear energy, which has worsened as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, demonstrates new risks and the need to scale back existing projects. What is happening at Ukraine's nuclear power plants during the war? How do the existing institutions for monitoring the safety of nuclear facilities function and should they be reformed? How can and should approaches to regional security change? In the face of new radiation challenges and threats, how should politicians and civil society in Belarus, Ukraine, and other countries act? These and other questions will be discussed at the expert webinar jointly convened by the Research Centre of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Office (OST Research Centre), the Oxford Belarus Observatory (OBO) and GLOBSEC think tank in cooperation with NGO Ecohome (Belarus). Moderator: Alena Kudzko, Vice President of GLOBSEC & Director, GLOBSEC Policy Institute Speakers: Tatyana Novikova, Campaigner, specialist in Sustainability. Belarusian anti-nuclear campaign, Ecohome. David Marples, Distinguished Professor of History, University of Alberta Olexi Pasyuk, Deputy director in the environmental civil society organisation ?Ecoaction? Dr Egl? Rindzevi?i?t?, Kingston University, London -- ???????? ??? ??? ? ??????????, ? ?????????? ???????????, ?????? ??????, ?????? ecohome.ngo -- P.S. ?????? ???? ?????? ? ??? ????? ?????????? ??????. ??????????, ??? ?????? ????????? ? ???, ??? ??? ????????????? ?????????? ?????? ???????? ??????. ?????? ???????????, ?????? ???????????? -- ?? ???????? ??? ?????????, ????????? ????????? ?? ?????? "seu-international". From: Marina D Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 4:22 PM Subject: Discussion Chernobyl 2022: How did this happen, and how should nuclear safety approaches change? - April 21 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Now, for the first time in five years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has granted six permits to bring the dismembered parts of hunted African elephants into the country -- and it plans to approve more in the coming months. An increase in hunting permits will only encourage wealthy Americans to continue traveling to African countries to slaughter innocent, endangered animals. Sign the petition to demand the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reject all future trophy hunting permits! As more trophies are approved, wealthy Americans will continue to spend their money on lavish trips to African countries to murder these innocent creatures. Sign the petition to urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to ban all future elephant trophy permits! Thank you, Kelsey Care2 Petitions Team P.S. This decision could lead to more trophies being brought into the United States from countries that still allow elephant hunting. Sign the petition. Sign Now ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Kelsey B., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 11:21 AM Subject: U.S. to allow more elephant body parts as trophies into the country -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Apr 21 17:56:39 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:56:39 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Russian soldiers are reportedly raping Ukrainian civilians Message-ID: Using sexual assault as a weapon is a war crime. Sexual Assault is a War Crime. The ICC Must Investigate Russian Soldiers Who Are Allegedly Committing it. Sign Now War is brutal for all involved: the images coming out of Ukraine make that abundantly clear. But women are often some of the unseen victims of war, experiencing predatory behavior from invading soldiers -- from street harassment to violent sexual assault. And new reports coming from Ukraine suggest that these atrocities are on the rise, with Russian soldiers as perpetrators and Ukrainian civilians as victims. We must put a stop to this patriarchal violence! Sign now to demand that the International Criminal Court investigate these instances of sexual violence and charge the perpetrators with war crimes! There are many ripple effects of the violence of war, and right now, Ukranian officials are witnessing an increase in reports of sexual violence involving Russian soldiers. Rape is a war crime, plain and simple. And Russia is no stranger to war crimes -- images from on the ground have shown civilians killed execution style, with their hands tied behind their back and bullets indicating close-range gunshots. Reports of sexual assault in Ukraine are just another example of the way Putin's deranged invasion plans have wreaked havoc on the eastern European country. Sign the petition now to put pressure on the ICC! Russian soldiers should be investigated for war crimes NOW and the perpetrators must be charged! Thank you, Kelsey Care2 Petitions Team P.S. If rape is a war crime, it should be treated as such. Investigating these claims should be a priority at the International Criminal Court, and as every moment passes that the ICC doesn't investigate it, more civilians are at risk. Sign Now ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Kelsey B., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2022 11:18 AM Subject: Russian soldiers are reportedly raping Ukrainian civilians -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Both nations violate treaties at will, including the United Nations Charter, Kellogg Briand Pact and other laws against war. While most of the world upholds disarmament and anti-weapons treaties, the United States and Russia refuse to support and openly defy major treaties. There is a problem in world leadership. Russia?s horrific invasion of Ukraine ? as well as the previous years of U.S./Russian struggle over Ukraine, including U.S.-backed regime change in 2014, Russia's annexation of Crimea, and the mutual arming of conflict in Donbas -- highlight this problem in global leadership. Russia and the United States stand as rogue regimes outside the Landmines Treaty, the Arms Trade Treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions (prohibiting their use, production and transfer), and many other treaties. Russia stands accused of using cluster bombs in Ukraine today, while U.S.-made cluster munitions have been used by Saudi Arabia near civilian areas in Yemen. The United States and Russia are the top two dealers of weaponry to the rest of the world, together accounting for a majority of weapons sold and shipped. Meanwhile most places experiencing wars manufacture no weapons at all. Weapons are imported to most of the world from a very few places. Neither the United States nor Russia supports the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Neither complies with the disarmament requirement of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and the United States actually keeps nuclear weapons in five other nations and considers putting them into more, while Russia has talked of putting nuclear weapons in Belarus and recently seemed to threaten their use over the war in Ukraine. The United States and Russia are the top two users of the veto power at the UN Security Council, each frequently shutting down democracy with a single vote. There are about 200 other governments on Earth, and they shouldn't stand for this. We appeal to the world's non-imperial governments to democratize the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, and the International Criminal Court -- and to impose the rule of law by super-majority consensus on the planet's rogue states. Click here to add your name. After signing the petition, please use the tools on the next webpage to share it with your friends. This work is only possible with your financial support. Please chip in $3 now. -- The RootsAction.org Team Background: >> United Nations: "Status of Ratification" >> Human Rights Watch: "Hague Invasion Act Becomes Law" >> Progressive Hub: "Militarization of Other Nations" >> Human Rights Watch: "Saudis Using U.S. Cluster Munitions" >> FAIR: "NBC Off By 18 Years on U.S.'s Last Use of Cluster Bombs" >> FAIR: "Calling Russia?s Attack ?Unprovoked? Lets US Off the Hook" -------------------------------------------------------------- Read more about militarism and foreign policy at Progressive Hub. -------------------------------------------------------------- From: RootsAction Team Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 7:07 PM Subject: Ask the rest of the world to lead by reining in Russia & the United States -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Apr 21 18:25:40 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:25:40 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Victory: Munich Re Message-ID: <54574678E7DC446CAC171C5292C11882@lewpostnew> People power works! Relentless mobilisation from activists like you, Vladimir, and communities on the frontlines has just made Munich Re rule out insuring the disastrous East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). This month, more than 29,000 SumOfUs members had called on the reinsurer's CEO, ??Joachim Wenning, to do the right thing for the planet and end its ties with the disastrous pipeline -- his decision to listen to our calls is a powerful reminder of the real magic of people?s mobilization. However, Munich Re still does not have a comprehensive and global oil and gas policy. This means other toxic projects similar to EACOP ? but less infamous ? could still go ahead. Let?s strike while the iron is hot! In the lead up to their Annual General Meeting, let?s put ??Joachim Wenning under the spotlight to get him to go the whole hog and rule out all new oil and gas projects globally: Email Munich Re?s CEO and demand he publish a world-leading oil and gas policy to make sure fossil fuels stay in the ground where they belong. We are enormously grateful to the tens of thousands of SumOfUS members who forced Munich Re, alongside other frontline groups, to pull out of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline last week. Momentum is clearly building. Insurance companies are waking up to the reality that the breakdown of the climate means not only the destruction of their business models, but the beginning of a global humanitarian and environmental crisis. Just last week, Allianz, one of the world's largest oil and gas insurers, followed Munich Re and decided to rule out the EACOP pipeline too! But the movement can?t stop with one project. It is imperative that Munich Re listen to the science and publish a world-leading oil and gas policy so that all new oil and gas projects, not just EACOP, are abandoned - only that way can we ensure a 1.5 ?C limit in the temperature rise. This decision could easily be made at their AGM on 28 April 2022. The problem is, the initiative is facing a lot of backlash and opponents and fossil fuel lobbies are doing their best to block the policy. Vladimir, let?s show Munich Re's CEO that people?s power can't be ignored: Email Munich Re?s CEO and call on him to publish a world leading policy that immediately excludes insuring or investing in any new oil and gas projects globally in line with a 1.5C limit. SEND YOUR EMAIL Thanks for all that you do, Leyla, Charles and the team at SumOfUs More information: Munich Re will not provide cover for EACOP pipeline Reinsurance New. 6 April 2022 World?s largest reinsurer will not provide EACOP cover Energy Voice. 6 April 2022 Munich Re commits to not insure EACOP Insure Our Future. 6 April 2022 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we?re not afraid to stand up to them when they don?t. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 Chip in $3 From: Leyla Larbi, SumOfUs Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2022 10:12 AM Subject: Victory: Munich Re -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Apr 22 18:20:56 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:20:56 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Samuel Alexander - The Rebellion Hypothesis Message-ID: <9C37E6CEED4B4484B9EA9C89C913FAB9@lewpostnew> The Rebellion Hypothesis: Extinction Rebellion and Civil Disobedience (Part VII of Eco Civilisation) - Resilience For the Earth, VP -- ~ We act in peace, with ferocious love of these lands in our hearts. We act on behalf of life. ~ Extinction Rebellion (Kyiv) From: Victor Postnikov Sent: Friday, April 22, 2022 5:51 PM Subject: Samuel Alexander - The Rebellion Hypothesis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Apr 23 02:21:55 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 03:21:55 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?Today_I=E2=80=99m_hopeful?= Message-ID: Check out the International People?s platform for Climate Justice Hi, Today, I?m hopeful. I know that might sound strange, but hear me out. The last climate report from the United Nations confirmed what we already know: we?re in a real climate crisis and the only way to keep the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees is to move from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources. [1] It might sound like a long shot with the odds stacked against us - but it?s not. It's not because I believe in the power of the people. I?ve seen the power of people everywhere. In those who keep choosing to act despite the anxiety, the grief, the difficulties brought about by the crises we?re facing. The communities all over the world rising up and leading the way with courage, compassion, creativity, and solutions to the climate crisis. That?s why I?m hopeful. And I believe today?s a good time for us to hear their stories. Read the stories >> Here are a few which inspire me. I hope they inspire you too. Saving Akbelen Forest People in ?kizk?y, Turkey, have been protecting their homes, their forest, and their last olive grove against the expansion of a nearby coal mine. Over the years, coal mining has already taken many homes and forests in the region. The pollution has even poisoned the land and animals, and the company cut off the water supply. Yet the people of ?kizk?y resist. Since July 2021, they?ve maintained watch camps among the trees. They have come face to face with one of the biggest forest fires in the history of Turkey, police intervention, and countless legal battles. ??kizk?y means so much to me because it?s where I spent the best years of my childhood, my grandmother would give me simple chores? When I look back, those are the most precious memories? I want to keep my grandparents? memories alive. ?We are not going to give up this time. We will not give up until the very end.? - Esra I?ik, ?kizk?y Environment Committee Spokesperson Read Saving Akbelen Forest Makana women fighting extractive industries and climate change In Ecuador, women are not only fighting for climate justice by challenging the fossil fuel industry - but they?re also challenging the entire, extractive capitalist model and the patriarchy which is a part of that. ?I wanted to make women see that we are able to stand up to fight, to make our voices heard. My motive was also to leave a legacy to my daughters. ?In 2017 we discovered mining companies polluting our territory ? our Aguarico river. The Aguarico is a source of life for us. Our gardens are on its banks. Our children bathe in it. As moms, as women, we go out to wash out clothes. We are fighting against the mining companies, against loggers. Against the invaders, hunting and fishing. ?We want to prove, to the state, that our territory is not empty. It has a lot of life for us.? - Alexandra Narv?ez, Cof?n de Sinangoe Community, Guard and coordinator of the Chamico Women?s Association. Watch the Makana series The climate crisis affects all of us, and the people living through the worst impacts are on the frontlines of social and economic injustice. The coming years may continue to be scary and heartbreaking, but the antidote to fear is hope. The United Nations climate reports might make you feel like our chances of stopping the climate crisis are shrinking. But we?re well on our way and we can?t stop now. There?s simply too much at stake. The good news is that we have the solutions already. We can't let our future be dictated by greed, despair, or the fossil fuel industry. Our stories will serve as testaments to how we overcome this crisis courageously together. Onwards, Jenny and the 350.org team P.S. Stories enable us to share our collective knowledge, skills, and experiences with others to inform, guide and inspire them, so that we can contribute in some way to enlighten and enrich their lives. Will you help us reach more people by sharing the IPCJ stories with your friends? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference: [1] IPCC: Nations vet solutions to climate crisis PO Box 843004, Boston, MA 02284-3004 350.org is a global movement that fights for a just and equitable world by stopping the fossil fuel industry from continuing to destroy our climate. From: Jenny Tuazon - 350.org Sent: Friday, April 22, 2022 3:05 AM Subject: Today I?m hopeful -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Apr 23 02:26:18 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 03:26:18 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Launching Our New Video Series: Solving Plastic Message-ID: Happy Earth Day! For years Earth Day has served as a launchpad for environmental initiatives: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Sadly, many of the ?solutions? to the plastic crisis that capture the attention of major media outlets don?t address the root cause of the issue ? that we simply make too much plastic. So how can we pick out the good solutions from the bad? Today, we?re kicking off our new storytelling series, Solving Plastic. This explainer video marks the first in a series we?ll be sharing with you wherein we spotlight viable, simpler, and efficient solutions that drive us away from plastic pollution and promotes real systems change. Know of a solution you'd like us to profile? Drop it in the video comments! Use the buttons below to share the video on Facebook and Twitter! or forward this email to a friend. Thanks for watching and stay tuned for more in the Plastic Solutions series. Wishing you a happy Earth Day! Sage Lenier Communications Manager The Story of Stuff Project runs on donations from people like you. Please make a one-time contribution, or better yet, sustain our work by signing up to be a monthly donor. Any amount makes a difference! The Story of Stuff Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donations to The Story of Stuff Project are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law in the United States. visit storyofstuff.org From: Sage Lenier, The Story of Stuff Project Sent: Friday, April 22, 2022 9:48 PM Subject: Launching Our New Video Series: Solving Plastic Happy Earth Day! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Apr 23 13:33:30 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 14:33:30 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?SumOfUs_buys_Nestl=C3=A9=3F?= Message-ID: We've been so successful using shareholder action to get companies to change their bad behaviour...that they're trying to shut the whole program down! After a SumOfUs shareholder resolution forced Apple to publish its first-ever human rights policy, the US stock regulator made a new rule -- anyone who wants to bring this kind of resolution will need to hold thousands of shares...and companies are setting VERY early deadlines to buy them! They're trying to silence everyone but the richest shareholders. But we can beat them at their own game. We already bought shares in Apple, Google, Facebook, and Bayer Monsanto. Now if 5000 people reading this email chip in the cost of a coffee, SumOfUs can buy enough shares in Nestl? to have our say at its AGM, ratcheting up the pressure over their stealing water from communities worldwide?and helping choke the ocean with disposable plastic. For the next 24 hours, we will use everything you give to generate matching donations from big funders, doubling your impact -- can you join in to buy a piece of Nestl?? If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately. Donate $3 now Donate another amount Shareholder advocacy used to be straightforward -- a SumOfUs member with stocks would just sign a letter, get a letter from their broker, and our community could file a co-resolution to be debated at Annual General Meetings. And we had incredible success, not only with Apple's human rights policy. A strong shareholder proposal pushed TD Bank, one of the world's biggest funders of fossil fuels, to commit to net-zero by 2050. Pepsi committed to sustainably-sourced palm oil. And more! But now the US stock authority is rigging the rules to favour big-dollar shareholders, adding time-consuming and arduous rules: increasing the minimum number of shares, increasing how long you have to hold the shares, and requiring that co-filers like SumOfUs provide a list of times they can meet with the corporation to discuss their resolution. It's a lot to ask. But the good news is it means our strategy is working. And there's a simple solution: bring our community together to buy stocks in some of the biggest corporations to keep achieving real-world change. We started with Apple, and bought Google and Facebook stock too. Now it's time for Nestl? to see what we can do. Can you help finally hold this corporate giant to account for its planet destroying practices? (Remember, your donation will be used to get matching donations!) If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately. Donate $3 now Donate another amount Thanks for all that you do, Danny and the SumOfUs team SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. From: Danny Auron, SumOfUs Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2022 12:25 PM Subject: SumOfUs buys Nestl?? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Apr 23 22:09:11 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 23:09:11 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Supporter update: The latest news Message-ID: <3FBA44C49C674E7A9D0C2F04B7A7EBC3@lewpostnew> The Humane Society of the United StatesNews and updates from the HSUS. Undercover investigation exposes the horrors of animal testing?and more than 80 dogs who need our help Our undercover investigator worked on studies involving more than 6,000 animals?including 250 dogs, 500 primates, 62 ?minipigs? and more than 5,100 mice and rats?at Inotiv, a contract testing laboratory in Indiana. Inotiv has laboratories and breeding facilities in multiple states, including Colorado, Maryland, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia. What we saw was heartbreaking. Two months into war, HSI's animal relief effort expands We?re supporting in-country efforts through grants to animal organizations based in Ukraine and a pioneering partnership with the Romanian Red Cross, whose convoys into Ukraine are carrying pet food and other supplies HSI has provided. Arizona bans the sale and production of eggs from caged chickens In an important and encouraging advance for the protection of farm animals, Arizona has moved to ban cruel cages for egg-laying hens and ensure that all eggs produced and/or sold in the state are cage-free. Undercover investigation reveals why hippos desperately need federal protections Habitat loss due to human activity, climate change and drought threaten hippos? survival, and these threats are further exacerbated by poaching and the ivory trade. Rescue through a video camera lens An HSUS video producer reflects on his experience during a cat rescue: "Not only was it was my first time shooting video footage in my new role at the HSUS, but I also felt aches of empathy and compassion for the animals and person who lived in the house we were heading to." Registration is open The time is right?Taking Action for Animals will again be an in-person event for the first time since 2018 and registration is now open! Humane Voices podcast Don't miss the latest episode of the Humane Society of the United States' official podcast, Humane Voices. Photos by the HSUS; Charlotte Br?cker/For HSI; Hang Le/HSI; The HSUS; Meredith Lee/The HSUS; Pete Marovich/For the HSUS; Meredith Lee/The HSUS View in browser Donate today to stand up for animals who need you. ? 2022 The Humane Society of the United States 1255 23rd Street, NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20037 donorcare at humanesociety.org | 202-452-1100 Privacy Policy From: Kitty Block, Humane Society of the United States Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2022 8:51 PM Subject: Supporter update: The latest news -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sun Apr 24 19:31:20 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 20:31:20 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Tree massacre Message-ID: <017D0E015D0941E89C8AEC30EFCDAEE8@evol.sp.ru> --> Majestic forests around the world are being destroyed to produce ever more beef, palm oil, cocoa, timber, and paper. Now legislators in the US are considering new laws to stop forest-killing products from entering their country -- this could transform global supply chains and help save our forests! But with US elections looming we don?t have much time ? we need to deliver massive public pressure to lawmakers fast! Add your name to protect our precious forests: Dear friends, All over the world, ancient forests that sustain life on Earth are being destroyed to produce beef, palm oil, cocoa, timber, and paper for ever-hungry consumer markets like the US.Now we have a HUGE chance to fight back!Legislators in the US are considering powerful new laws to keep forest-killing products out of the country. This could be a game-changer ? the US is home to many of the world?s biggest companies, and these laws could transform global supply chains and help protect these precious forests, and the people and animals who call them home.But first we have to get the laws passed, and fast. Elections are looming, so let's show US lawmakers that citizens across the world want them to act. Let's reach 1 million global voices, and Avaaz will team up with partners to deliver a massive call to stop the forest massacre that threatens us all! Majestic forests around the world are being destroyed to produce ever more beef, palm oil, cocoa, timber, and paper. Now legislators in the US are considering new laws to stop forest-killing products from entering their country -- this could transform global supply chains and help save our forests! But with US elections looming we don?t have much time ? we need to deliver massive public pressure to lawmakers fast! Add your name to protect our precious forests: SIGN THE PETITION Dear friends, All over the world, ancient forests that sustain life on Earth are being destroyed to produce beef, palm oil, cocoa, timber, and paper for ever-hungry consumer markets like the US. Now we have a HUGE chance to fight back! Legislators in the US are considering powerful new laws to keep forest-killing products out of the country. This could be a game-changer ? the US is home to many of the world?s biggest companies, and these laws could transform global supply chains and help protect these precious forests, and the people and animals who call them home. But first we have to get the laws passed, and fast. Elections are looming, so let's show US lawmakers that citizens across the world want them to act. Let's reach 1 million global voices, and Avaaz will team up with partners to deliver a massive call to stop the forest massacre that threatens us all! Add your name: Stop The Forest Massacre! Giant American companies like McDonald's and Walmart have been exposed for allegedly selling beef linked to the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Up to half of all packaged products in supermarkets contain palm oil, whose production is wrecking the habitats of orangutans and pygmy elephants. US supermarkets are a forest destruction crime scene ? everything from coffee, chocolate, paper and cosmetics can be tainted by deforestation! These new laws would help stop companies from importing products linked to deforestation, cutting off a massive driver of forest destruction! With US companies forced to comply with the new laws, the impact will be felt all over the world. With US Congressional elections in November, and our forests facing massive threats, this year could really make a difference. So let's get these laws passed now! For the trees, the jaguars, the songbirds, the gorillas, and the millions of people who live in the world's forests -- and for every time you've ever looked up at a tree in wonder -- add your name now. Add your name: Stop The Forest Massacre! We know this works. Two years ago, hundreds of thousands of Avaazers helped drive the biggest response to an environmental consultation in history, flooding the European Union with messages demanding a ban on forest-killing products. Now the EU is preparing a bill on this crucial issue! Let's come together again to protect Earth?s forests before it?s too late. With hope, Laura, Bert, Spyro, Risalat, Anneke, Mike, Aloys and the whole Avaaz team More Information: Briefing: How U.S. imports of agricultural commodities contribute to deforestation and why it matters (EIA) US Forest Act 2021 Walmart selling beef from firm linked to Amazon deforestation (The Guardian) McDonald?s Linked to Amazon Deforestation in New Report (Bloomberg) Avaaz is a 70-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Apr 25 19:17:11 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:17:11 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Radical Party: newsletter 24 April 2022 Message-ID: # 166, 24 April 2022- edited by Angelica Russomando and Ilaria Saltarelli Appeal of the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational Transparty EU should initiate the process of accession of Ukraine in the EU Guterres calls for meetings with Russian and Ukrainian Presidents In an effort to end the war in Ukraine, Secretary-General Ant?nio Guterres has written separate letters to the leaders of Russia and Ukraine requesting meetings with them in their respective capitals. Read more Ukraine: EU countries to receive additional EUR 3.5 billion pre-financing for reception of refugees In order to facilitate the reception of refugees from Ukraine following the Russian aggression, the Council adopted today a legislative act allowing Member States to receive this year a total of an additional EUR 3.5 billion depending on the number of refugees hosted from this country. Read more Ukraine: Security Council urged to "put aside" divisions and end "senseless war As five million people have already fled Ukraine and seven million more are internally displaced, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has urged the Security Council to "put aside" its divisions and find a way to end the "horrible and senseless war", now in its eighth week. Read more How well are states protecting children from sexual exploitation and abuse during the refugee crisis? With Europe facing the second major refugee crisis in less than a decade, the Council of Europe?s Lanzarote Committee has published ten compliance reports evaluating legislation, services and other measures in place for the protection of children affected by the refugee crisis from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse in 41 state Parties to the Lanzarote Convention. Read more More dialogue is needed to normalise relations between Kosovo and Serbia The head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) told the Security Council that Pristina and Belgrade must engage more actively in dialogue facilitated by the European Union. Read more Iraq: EU Council extends advisory mission on security sector reform until 2024 The Council adopted on 13 April a decision extending the EU Advisory Mission in Support of Security Sector Reform in Iraq (EUAM Iraq) until 30 April 2024. Read more UNHCR 'strongly' opposes UK-Rwanda offshore migration processing agreement An agreement reportedly made by the UK to send some migrants to Rwanda is contrary to the responsibility of states to care for those in need of protection. Read more Worsening drought in the Horn of Africa puts up to 20 million people at risk The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that 20 million people could go hungry this year as delayed rains worsen extreme drought in the Horn of Africa region amid a humanitarian aid deficit. Read more JOIN US Messaggio inviato con MailUp? sei registrato sul nostro sito e hai dato il consenso a ricevere comunicazioni email da parte nostra. Partito Radicale Via di Torre Argentina 76 00186 Roma (RM) Italia. info at partitoradicale.org - www.partitoradicale.it tel.06689791 From: Radical Party Sent: Monday, April 25, 2022 1:42 PM Subject: newsletter 24 April 2022 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Apr 25 20:01:04 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 21:01:04 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Our Earth, our fight! Message-ID: <1227F04402C34ED782D311AA96DCC2BF@evol.sp.ru> Let us honour and invest in our planet. We are sending love your way filled with all the positive energy from our planet. April has been an eventful month for the climate movement. On 22nd April, Earth Day reminded us about how people all around the planet are working so hard to protect and heal our home. This edition is filled with solutions work and people-powered moments that encourage you to take part in protecting our environment. I mean, how else can we really honour our home than to continuously heed the calls from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and focus on protecting our communities. On this topic, our newly launched International People?s Platform for Climate Justice is worth a look: it?s filled with stories of courageous activists fighting to keep fossil fuels in the ground and build the future we want. With love, Christine In Case You Missed It Introducing Canada?s Ministry of Just Transition The 350 Canada team really has a way of putting out bold and creative campaigns to tackle the climate emergency in their region. This campaign - Ministry of Just Transition is the vision of what a just transition would look like if the politicians really moved away from fossil fuels and shifted to a 100% renewable energy economy while protecting and serving the communities. *Yes*, it is all satire but the message behind it all is strong and bold, and we hope the politicians will see this as the nudge for a just transition. WATCH Olive is Life Say it with us ?Olive is Life?! On April 17th, thousands of people came together in Milas, Turkey, to defend the olive trees against coal mining. A new mining regulation in the country leaves olive groves vulnerable to being destroyed and replaced by something as dirty as coal mines. However, a new report details that it is possible to establish a local economy based on olives without being confined to coal. The people of Milas want to protect their home and future, and they have been working towards that goal based on long term organising in the region. This is another win for people power. WATCH ONE TO WATCH Paty Islam-Parsons believes that at the moment, the people who are actually facing reality and telling the truth are the people on the ground. As one of the bold youth with Fridays for Future International, her message regarding the latest IPCC reports is that we need people who make the decisions to listen. We are in a state of emergency, and we need to act now. WATCH SKILL UP YOUR ACTIVISM Educate yourself! Regarding the headlines and reports about the future of our planet in the last month was hard to take, and sometimes it's hard to know where to get started making a difference, but here are some ideas to get you started: a.. Step 1: skill up on climate science; b.. Step 2: talk to your family and friends about it; c.. Step 3: campaign for change! These online courses come in the form of interactive and multimedia activities, all to take you one step closer to becoming an expert. Get started here: USE YOUR POWER Earth Month Spotlight The month of April is significantly important as it honours Earth Day on 22 April. We know the importance of investing in mother Earth and keeping her safe and green. At 350.org, we kicked off the month and honoured our many driven, vibrant campaigners from various parts of the globe. We got a chance to see and hear how they are building the movement against the dirtiest of them all - the fossil fuel industry. Now, we will highlight one from Africa - Christian, whose work is focused on stopping oil development in the Virunga National Park (Democratic Republic of Congo). Virunga is in fact Africa's oldest park and home to a wealth of biodiversity including a quarter of the world?s mountain gorillas. Solidarity across oceans A union of climate activists was witnessed across oceans as 350 Pacific and Pacific Conference of Churches completed a hybrid training in Suva, Fiji. The 3-day Solar Scholars Training was led online by the Institute of Climate and Sustainable Cities in the Philippines. The collaboration brought with it innovative and skilful training that gave the Pacific community an opportunity to learn the basics of solar-powered electricity and how to assemble basic solar panel systems. One thing the climate movement embraces is solutions work. With these kinds of skills and tools, these warriors will empower their communities, and utilise all learnings in the event of disaster situations. Now, isn't that how you light the way towards a liveable future? Image: 350 Pacific team and members of the Pacific Conference of Churches, outside the Solar Panel Installation site in Fiji Quote of the Month -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wait, before you go, can you take two minutes to leave us feedback on our newsletter? Click Here Donate View this email online Fossil Free News is a global newsletter published once a month, with climate organizing stories from campaigns working for a just and equitable world, free from fossil fuels. For more updates, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram If you have feedback, write to us at ffdigest at 350.org You're receiving this email because you signed up to receive updates from 350.org. 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It called "The green line between us" and features: Allyson Castillo, Amnesty International, Chile Sanjiv Kumar Nathan, INSEDA, India Ilyess El Kortbi, Children and Youth International (YOUNGO) / Fridays For Future Ukraine Tabea Tiesler, P4F, Germany Maurus Pfalzgraf, Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Switzerland Please support sharing on: Twitter Facebook Youtube All other materials and suggested materials can be found in our comms pack. Please also use our cool GIF. Have a lovely week! -- ??#StopWar in Ukraine NOW ?? Tatiana Shauro Communications Coordinator Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe Find us online at www.caneurope.org and on Twitter at @CANEurope Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe is Europe's leading NGO coalition fighting dangerous climate change. With over 170 member organisations active in 38 European countries, representing over 1.500 NGOs and more than 47 million citizens, CAN Europe promotes sustainable climate, energy and development policies throughout Europe. On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 at 13:17, Tatiana Shauro wrote: Dear colleagues, Today we launched a "Negotiate with me" video, where many of you were taking part. Please do share and post everywhere you can! The video on Youtube is here You can retweet here Share on Facebook here Please see the sample tweets and visuals in the comms pack and also below: 1) ? New #weCANconnect video ? Can capitalism be green? ? Did we make progress on cutting emissions? Activists and experts from @OpenShkola, @AllianceSud, @Act4Solidarity, @uk_protect, @YEEnetwork and @Diffleaders trying to answer tough, timely questions. https://youtu.be/-mb-e7u7QsI 2) ?? At #COP26 rich countries did not deliver their fair share in emissions reduction. ??EU must address the racial, financial and technical injustice towards developing countries This is what climate justice will look like ? ? New #weCANconnect video? https://youtu.be/-mb-e7u7QsI 3) GIF for social media Thank you! -- ??#StopWar in Ukraine ?? Tatiana Shauro Communications Coordinator Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe Find us online at www.caneurope.org and on Twitter at @CANEurope Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe is Europe's leading NGO coalition fighting dangerous climate change. With over 170 member organisations active in 38 European countries, representing over 1.500 NGOs and more than 47 million citizens, CAN Europe promotes sustainable climate, energy and development policies throughout Europe. On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 22:25, Tatiana Shauro wrote: Dear Friends! Thank you again for being a part of this beautiful project! We are super excited to announce that our special #weCANconnect video project will be launched next week In frames of #SparkAChange project we brought together youth climate activists and climate experts at COP26 to discover diversity of experiences and fears within the climate movement. Participants with a variety of backgrounds, gender, age and experience played 3 games with each other that show their vulnerability and delve deeper in their differences and similarities. We are now releasing the result of those connections through the #weCANconnect experimental video project, aiming to show diversity of opinions and backgrounds. To discover who is standing next to us during the fight for climate justice. ? Please see the full comms pack HERE ? Full videos (with and no subs) - will be launched on the CAN Europe Youtube channel according to the timeline below: 22nd February - 1.5 Degrees of Separation 1st of March - Negotiate With Me 8th of March - The Green Line Between Us ? Please feel free to use a special srt. document to translate the subtitles. ? We also prepared some extra visual materials. ? And on Monday the 21st of February we will launch this BLOG on European Year of Youth. Please feel free to use these videos in any way possible! They are meant to spread the word that we are not alone ? Use it, share it -) Don't hesitate to reach out to me for any questions! -- Tatiana Shauro Communications Coordinator Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe Find us online at www.caneurope.org and on Twitter at @CANEurope Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe is Europe's leading NGO coalition fighting dangerous climate change. With over 170 member organisations active in 38 European countries, representing over 1.500 NGOs and more than 47 million citizens, CAN Europe promotes sustainable climate, energy and development policies throughout Europe. -- All the best, Tatiana Shauro WhatsApp: +79296458435 Skype: samaparodia From: ??????? ????? 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Commissioner Thierry Breton Thanks for all that you do, Olivia, Flora and the team at SumOfUs More information: New EU power to fine big tech billions in crackdown on hate speech, disinformation and harmful content Sky News, 23 April, 2022 EU institutions reach agreement on Digital Services Act Euractiv, 23 April, 2022. EU agrees rules to force big tech to rein in illegal content or face huge fines Guardian, 23 April, 2022. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we?re not afraid to stand up to them when they don?t. 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Apr 28 02:25:32 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 03:25:32 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Chronic land degradation: UN offers stark warnings and practical remedies in Global Land Outlook 2 Message-ID: Chronic land degradation: UN offers stark warnings and practical remedies in Global Land Outlook 2 View this email in your browser Chronic land degradation: UN offers stark warnings and practical remedies in Global Land Outlook 2 French: https://www.unccd.int/sites/default/files/2022-04/French.pdf Spanish: https://www.unccd.int/sites/default/files/2022-04/Spanish.pdf Russian: https://www.unccd.int/sites/default/files/2022-04/Russian_0.pdf Chinese:https://www.unccd.int/sites/default/files/2022-04/Chinese.pdf Arabic: https://www.unccd.int/news-stories/press-releases/chronic-land-degradation-un-offers-stark-warnings-and-practical Bonn, 27/04/2022 - Up to 40 % of the planet?s land is degraded, directly affects half of humanity, threatens roughly half of global GDP (US$44 trillion) If business as usual continued through 2050, report projects additional degradation of an area almost the size of South America Nations? current pledge to restore 1 billion degraded hectares by 2030 requires $US 1.6 trillion this decade ? a fraction of annual $700 billion in fossil fuel and agricultural subsidies As food prices soar amid rapid climate and other planetary changes, ?crisis footing? needed to conserve, restore and use land sustainably Most comprehensive report on topic ever released shortly before UNCCD?s COP15 in Africa The way land resources ? soil, water and biodiversity ? are currently mismanaged and misused threatens the health and continued survival of many species on Earth, including our own, warns a stark new report from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). It also points decision makers to hundreds of practical ways to effect local, national and regional land and ecosystem restoration. UNCCD?s evidence-based flagship Global Land Outlook 2 (GLO2) report, five years in development with 21 partner organizations, and with over 1,000 references, is the most comprehensive consolidation of information on the topic ever assembled. It offers an overview of unprecedented breadth and projects the planetary consequences of three scenarios through 2050: business as usual, restoration of 50 million square km of land, and restoration measures augmented by the conservation of natural areas important for specific ecosystem functions. It also assesses the potential contributions of land restoration investments to climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, poverty reduction, human health and other key sustainable development goals. Warns the report: ?At no other point in modern history has humanity faced such an array of familiar and unfamiliar risks and hazards, interacting in a hyper-connected and rapidly changing world. We cannot afford to underestimate the scale and impact of these existential threats.? ?Conserving, restoring, and using our land resources sustainably is a global imperative, one that requires action on a crisis footing?Business as usual is not a viable pathway for our continued survival and prosperity.? GLO2 offers hundreds of examples from around the world that demonstrate the potential of land restoration. It is being released before the UNCCD?s 15th session of the Conference of Parties to be held in Abidjan, C?te d'Ivoire (COP15, 9-20 May). Says Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary of the UNCCD: ?Modern agriculture has altered the face of the planet more than any other human activity. We need to urgently rethink our global food systems, which are responsible for 80% of deforestation, 70% of freshwater use, and the single greatest cause of terrestrial biodiversity loss.? ?Investing in large-scale land restoration is a powerful, cost-effective tool to combat desertification, soil erosion, and loss of agricultural production. As a finite resource and our most valuable natural asset, we cannot afford to continue taking land for granted.? Future scenarios The report predicts the outcomes by 2050 and risks involved under three scenarios: Baseline: Business as usual, continuing current trends in land and natural resource degradation, while demands for food, feed, fiber, and bioenergy continue to rise. Land management practices and climate change continue to cause widespread soil erosion, declining fertility and growth in yields, and the further loss of natural areas due to expanding agriculture. By 2050: a.. 16 million square kilometers show continued land degradation (the size of South America) b.. A persistent, long-term decline in vegetative productivity is observed for 12-14% of agricultural, pasture and grazing land, and natural areas ? with sub-Saharan Africa worst affected. c.. An additional 69 gigatonnes of carbon is emitted from 2015 to 2050 due to land use change and soil degradation This represents 17% of current annual greenhouse gas emissions: soil organic carbon (32 gigatonnes), vegetation (27 gigatonnes), peatland degradation/conversion (10 gigatonnes). Restoration: Assumes the restoration of around 5 billion hectares (50 million square kilometers or 35% of the global land area) using measures such as agroforestry, grazing management, and assisted natural regeneration. (Current international pledges: 10 million square kilometers). By 2050: a.. Crop yields increase by 5-10% in most developing countries compared to the baseline. Improved soil health leads to higher crop yields, with the largest gains in the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America, and subSaharan Africa, limiting food price increases. b.. Soil water holding capacity would increase by 4% in rainfed croplands. c.. Carbon stocks rise by a net 17 gigatonnes between 2015 and 2050 due to gains in soil carbon and reduced emission d.. Biodiversity continues to decline, but not as quickly, with 11% of biodiversity loss averted. Restoration and Protection: This scenario includes the restoration measures, augmented with protection measures of areas important for biodiversity, water regulation, conservation of soil and carbon stocks, and provision of critical ecosystem functions. By 2050: a.. An additional 4 million square kilometers of natural areas (the size of India and Pakistan); largest gains expected in South and Southeast Asia and Latin America. Protections would prevent land degradation by logging, burning, draining, or conversion. b.. About a third of the biodiversity loss projected in the baseline would be prevented c.. An additional 83 gigatonnes of carbon are stored compared to the baseline. Avoided emission and increased carbon storage would be equivalent to more than seven years of total current global emissions. See below for additional scenario projections and information Other key points in the report include: a.. $US 44 trillion ? roughly half the world?s annual economic output ? is being put at risk by the loss of finite natural capital and nature?s services, which underpin human and environmental health by regulating climate, water, disease, pests, waste and air pollution, while providing numerous other benefits such as recreation and cultural benefits. b.. The economic returns of restoring land and reducing degradation, greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss could be as high as $US 125-140 trillion every year - up to 50% more than the $93 trillion global GDP in 2021 c.. Repurposing in the next decade just $US 1.6 trillion of the annual $700 billion in perverse subsidies given to the fossil fuel and agricultural industries would enable governments to meet current pledges to restore by 2030 some 1 billion degraded hectares ? an area the size of the USA or China ? including 250 million hectares of farmland d.. Restoring land, soils, forests and other ecosystems would contribute more than one-third of the cost-effective climate change mitigation needed to limit global warming to 1.5?C while supporting biodiversity conservation, poverty reduction, human health and other key sustainable development goals e.. Many traditional and modern regenerative food production practices can enable agriculture to pivot from being the primary cause of degradation to the principal catalyst for land and soil restoration f.. Poor rural communities, smallholder farmers, women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, and other at-risk groups are disproportionately affected by desertification, land degradation, and drought. At the same time, traditional and local knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, proven land stewards, represent a vast store of human and social capital that must be respected and can be used to protect and restore natural capital g.. Immediate financial support is needed to fund conservation and restoration in those developing countries with a greater share of the global distribution of intact, biodiverse, and carbon-rich ecosystems h.. Restoration projects and programs tend to have long-term multiplier effects that strengthen rural economies and contribute to wider regional development. They generate jobs that cannot be outsourced, and investments stimulate demand that benefits local economies and communities i.. Bringing together national action plans currently siloed under the UNCCD, Convention on Biological Diversity, and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change represents an immediate opportunity to align targets and commitments to implement land restoration, realize multiple benefits, and maximize returns on investment j.. Land and resource rights, secured through enforceable laws and trusted institutions, can transform underperforming land assets into sustainable development opportunities, helping maintain equitable and cohesive societies k.. Inclusive and responsible land governance, including tenure security, is an effective way to balance trade-offs and harness synergies that optimize restoration outcomes l.. Grasslands and savannas are productive, biodiverse ecosystems that match forests both in their global extent and their need for protection and restoration. Equally important are wetlands, which are in long-term decline averaging losses at three times the rate of global forest loss in recent decades. Sustaining their capacity to absorb and store carbon is key to a climate-resilient future m.. Intensive monocultures and the destruction of forests and other ecosystems for food and commodity production generate the bulk of carbon emissions associated with land use change n.. If current land degradation trends continue, food supply disruptions, forced migration, rapid biodiversity loss and species extinctions will increase, accompanied by a higher risk of zoonotic diseases like COVID-19, declining human health, and land resource conflicts GLO2 offers hundreds of good practice snapshots from around the world that illustrate context-specific measures to combat environmental degradation, restore land health, and improve living conditions. Many regenerative agriculture practices have the potential to increase crop yields and improve their nutritional quality while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and drawing down carbon from the atmosphere, it says. Examples include rewilding ? reducing the human footprint to allow natural ecological processes to re-establish themselves ? in the Greater C?a Valley in northern Portugal and the Iber? wetlands in Argentina; drought preparedness and risk reduction through national programmes in Mexico, the USA, and Brazil; sand and dust storm source mitigation in Iraq, China, and Kuwait; and gender-responsive land restoration in Mali, Nicauragua, and Jordan. There are also cases of integrated flood and drought strategies as well as forest landscape restoration using high-value crops. Good practices can involve terrace and contour farming, conserving and restoring watersheds, and rainwater harvesting and storage. In addition to their economic benefits, these measures improve water retention and availability, prevent soil erosion and landslides, reduce flood risk, sequester carbon, and protect biodiversity habitat. Africa?s Great Green Wall, meanwhile, which aims to restore the continent?s degraded landscapes, exemplifies ?a regional restoration initiative that embraces an integrated approach with the promise of transforming the lives of millions of people,? says the report. ?The case studies from around the world showcased in GLO2 make clear that land restoration can be implemented in almost all settings and at many spatial scales, suggesting that every country can design and implement a tailored land restoration agenda to meet their development needs,? says Mr. Thiaw. Many of the cases, he adds, underscore the value of education, training, and capacity building, not just for local communities, but also for government officials, land managers, and development planners. Linking local engagement to national policies and budgets will help ensure a responsive and well-aligned restoration agenda that delivers tangible outcomes for people, nature, and the climate. Preventing, halting, and reversing the degradation of ecosystems worldwide is the focus of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), which calls for a broad and balanced response, addressing all ecosystems and their connectivity to reestablish a healthy landscape mosaic. These efforts are closely aligned with SDG target 15.3, which calls on countries to strive to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) by 2030. ?Hope remains as the decade of restoration has begun,? says Mr. Thiaw. ?Now is the time to harness political will, innovation, and collective action to restore our land and soil for short-term recovery and long-term regeneration to ensure a more stable and resilient future.? By the numbers, GLO2: a.. 50%: Proportion of humanity affected by land degradation b.. $US 7-30: benefits returned for every dollar invested in restoring degraded land c.. Four: planetary boundaries (used to define a ?safe operating space for humanity?) already exceeded: climate change, biodiversity loss, land use change, and geochemical cycles, breaches directly linked to human-induced desertification, land degradation, and drought d.. 40%+: global land area occupied by agriculture e.. 15%: proportion of the $US 700 billion paid out in commercial subsidies each year that positively impact natural capital, biodiversity, long-term job stability, or livelihoods f.. 70%+: Tropical forest cleared for agriculture between 2013 and 2019 in violation of national laws or regulations g.. 1%: Farms that control more than 70% of the world?s agricultural land h.. 80%: Farms smaller than two hectares, representing 12% of total farmland i.. 50%: Reduction of degraded land by 2040 pledged by G20 leaders in November 2020 j.. 115+: countries that had made quantitative, area-based commitments by the end of 2021, collectively a pledge to restore 1 billion hectares of farms, forests, and pastures k.. 100+: Countries with plans for Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) by 2030: ?frameworks for action? by local and national authorities, civil society, and the private sector l.. 130: Countries that reaffirmed in the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use (Nov. 2021) their respective individual and collective commitments under the three Rio Conventions ? on Desertification (UNCCD), Biological Diversity (CBD), and Climate Change (UNFCCC), supported by unprecedented corporate and donor pledges. It also includes commitments to facilitate trade and development policies that avoid deforestation and land degradation, especially regarding internationally-traded agricultural commodities, such as beef, soy, palm oil, and timber. Land degradation: The persistent or long-term loss of land-based natural capital. It gives rise to poverty, hunger, and environmental pollution, while making communities more vulnerable to disease and disasters like drought, floods, or wildfires. This is especially true in the drylands that cover more than 45% of the Earth?s land surface, home to one in three people. Land restoration: A continuum of sustainable land and water management practices that can be applied to conserve or ?rewild? natural areas, ?up-scale? nature-positive food production in rural landscapes, and ?green? urban areas, infrastructure, and supply chains. Regenerative land use practices employed to boost soil health or recharge groundwater also enhance our ability to cope with drought, floods, wildfires, and sand and dust storms. Comments ?The second edition of the Global Land Outlook is a must-read for the biodiversity community. The future of biodiversity is precarious. We have already degraded nearly 40 % and altered 70 % of the land. We cannot afford to have another ?lost decade? for nature and need to act now for a future of life in harmony with nature. The GLO2 shows pathways, enablers and knowledge that we should apply to effectively implement the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.? Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary, UN Convention on Biological Diversity ?Land is the operative link between biodiversity loss and climate change, and therefore must be the primary focus of any meaningful intervention to tackle these intertwined crises. Restoring degraded land and soil provides fertile ground on which to take immediate and concerted action.? Andrea Meza Murillo, Deputy Executive Secretary, UNCCD ?As a global community we can no longer rely on incremental reforms within traditional planning and development frameworks to address the profound development and sustainability challenges we are facing in coming decades. A rapid transformation in land use and management practices that place people and nature at the center of our planning is needed, prioritizing job creation and building vital skill sets while giving voice to women and youth who have been traditionally marginalized from decision making.? Nichole Barger, report steering committee member, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, USA ?Just as COVID-19 vaccines were developed, tested, and rolled out at unprecedented speed and scale, so too must land restoration and other nature-based solutions be undertaken to prevent further environmental decline and ensure a healthy and prosperous future. We can reduce the risk of zoonotic disease transmission, increase food and water security, and improve human health and livelihoods by managing, expanding, and connecting protected and natural areas, improving soil, crop, and livestock health in food systems, and creating green and blue spaces in and around cities.? Barron Orr, Lead Scientist, UNCCD ?Restoring long term health and productivity in food landscapes is a top priority to ensure future sustainability. Much as an investor uses financial capital to generate profits, regenerating a forest or improving soil health provides returns in the form of a future supply of timber or food.? Louise Baker, Director, Global Mechanism, UNCCD ?Indigenous Peoples and local communities are proven land stewards. The recognition of their rights and their involvement in the long-term management of their lands and of protected areas will be vital to success.? Miriam Medel, Chief, External Relations, Policy and Advocacy, UNCCD ?By designing an innovative, customized land restoration agenda that suits their needs, capacities, and circumstances, countries and communities can recover lost natural resources and better prepare for climate change and other looming threats.? Johns Muleso Kharika, Chief, Science, Technology and Innovation, UNCCD GLO2: Baseline Scenario projections By 2050: a.. 16 million square kilometers show continued land degradation (the size of South America) b.. A persistent, long-term decline in vegetative productivity is observed for 12-14% of agricultural, pasture and grazing land, and natural areas ? with sub-Saharan Africa worst affected. c.. An additional 69 gigatonnes of carbon is emitted from 2015 to 2050 due to land use change and soil degradation This represents 17% of current annual greenhouse gas emissions: soil organic carbon (32 gigatonnes), vegetation (27 gigatonnes), peatland degradation/conversion (10 gigatonnes). d.. A slowing in the growth of agricultural yields While agricultural yields are still projected to rise in all regions, land degradation will curb increases, especially in the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. The loss of soil organic carbon and the soil?s ability to hold water and nutrients, such as phosphorus or nitrogen, will be primarily responsible for this slowing, while the associated risks of drought and water scarcity are expected to increase. e.. The demand for food, expected to rise by 45% between 2015 and 2050, will have to be met by further intensification and expansion of agricultural land, resulting in the further loss of 3 million square kilometers of natural areas (the size of India), mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. f.. Other contemporary scenario analyses explicitly consider factors such as environmental governance, land distribution, and access to resources. g.. Restoration Scenario projections The restoration scenario assumes that land restoration is done on a massive scale ? across a potential 50 million square kilometers (5 billion hectares) with measures such as: a.. Conservation agriculture (low- or no-till farming) b.. Agroforestry and silvopasture (combining trees with crops, livestock, or both) c.. Improved grazing management and grassland rehabilitation d.. Forest plantations e.. Assisted natural regeneration f.. Cross-slope barriers to prevent soil erosion The restoration scenario envisions these measures applied to roughly 16 million square kilometers of cropland, 22 million of grazing land, and 14 million of natural areas. Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are estimated to have the largest areas with the potential for land restoration. Compared to the baseline scenario, restoration means by 2050: a.. Crop yields increase by 5-10% in most developing countries compared to the baseline Improved soil health leads to higher crop yields, with the largest gains in the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America, and subSaharan Africa, limiting food price increases. b.. Soil water holding capacity would increase by 4% in rainfed croplands. c.. Carbon stocks rise by a net 17 gigatonnes between 2015 and 2050 due to gains in soil carbon and reduced emissions. This is the balance of a net increase in soil organic carbon, increased carbon in agroforestry, and a continued loss of vegetation carbon due to land conversion. It does not account for the potential carbon storage gains above ground from forest restoration. Soil carbon stocks would be 55 gigatonnes larger in 2050 compared to the baseline, with the largest gains in Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America, while the biggest losses would be avoided in sub-Saharan Africa. d.. Slowed biodiversity decline and loss of natural areas. Globally, the extent of natural areas continues to decline due to the expansion of agricultural and urban areas, except in Latin America where natural areas are projected to increase by 3%. Biodiversity would continue to decline, but not as quickly, with 11% of biodiversity loss averted. Restoration and Protection Scenario projections This scenario includes the restoration measures, augmented with protection measures expanded to cover close to half of the Earth?s land surface by 2050 ? a threefold increase on the current coverage. These protected areas are important for biodiversity, water regulation, conservation of soil and carbon stocks, and provision of critical ecosystem functions. However, significantly increasing the extent of protected land would limit the expansion of agriculture. Under this constraint, current yields would have to be 9% higher by 2050 than in the baseline scenario to meet expected demand. Nonetheless, food prices are projected to increase, particularly in South and Southeast Asia, where a scarcity of agricultural land is already impacting food security. Under this scenario, most of the new protected areas would have to be in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. When compared to the baseline, the restoration and protection scenario means by 2050: a.. An additional 4 million square kilometers of natural areas (the size of India and Pakistan). With the largest gains expected in South and Southeast Asia and Latin America, protected areas would prevent land degradation by logging, burning, draining, or conversion. b.. While biodiversity would continue to decline, about a third of the loss projected in the baseline would be prevented under restoration and protection measures. c.. An additional 83 gigatonnes are stored compared to the baseline. Avoided emission and increased carbon storage would be equivalent to more than seven years of total current global emissions. Additional resources: The global potential for land restoration: Scenarios for the Global Land Outlook 2 https://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/the-global-potential-for-land-restoration-scenarios-for-the-global-landoutlook-2 Restoration Commitments and Scenarios Goals and Commitments for the Restoration Decade: A global overview of countries? restoration commitments under the Rio Conventions and other pledges https://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/goals-and-commitments-for-the-restoration-decade Notes to editors An interactive media launch will be webcast from the UNCCD Secretariat in Bonn, Germany, on Wednesday April 27, at 9 am US EDT / 3 p.m. CEST (check local time here). 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Send a tweet ZARA has a new boss - Marta Ortega. She?s the daughter of ZARA?s founder, and she?ll be desperate to protect the family firm. Ortega knows that there is growing public outrage over the horrific abuses being suffered by Uyghurs at the hands of the government of China ? and that by using Uyghur forced labour, ZARA is risking its reputation. We have to remind her that her family?s name is associated with a company that is complicit in genocide. If she wants to protect ZARA?s reputation, she needs to act fast. Let's take over Twitter to call on ZARA and its new CEO, Marta Ortega, to stop using Uyghur forced labor. Send a tweet Over 180,000 signatures and a sustained campaign against ZARA might have already paid off. ZARA, concerned about its image, may have pushed out the previous CEO, Pablo Isla, to give the impression that it wants a fresh start. Now we need to make that a reality! So today, let?s keep up the pressure. Let?s flood ZARA's Twitter account and make Marta Ortega trend on Twitter so that the brand stops using Uyghur forced labour. We know public pressure works - HUGO BOSS cut ties with a supplier using Uyghur forced labor because thousands of SumOfUs members flooded BOSS? twitter feed. Now let?s force ZARA to do the same! Send a tweet Thanks for all that you do, Vicky, Ibrahim and the team at SumOfUs ps - if you don't have social media, you can send an email to Marta Ortega and other ZARA executives. 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Apr 29 17:54:43 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 18:54:43 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] What is a world federation? Youth-led webinar on May 13 Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------- Join the Young World Federalists & World BEYOND War Youth Network for a free webinar on "Abolishing War through a World Federation" on Friday, May 13 at 7pm GMT! (Use this time zone converter to find the webinar time in your time zone.) Wars have existed during the last millennia in one scale or another, but does that mean that they will always exist? "Perpetual peace", Kant's essay, is an example of an exercise of imagination of the prerequisites needed in order to achieve a world without wars, but it has not been the first nor the last one, and such efforts have not been restrained to the theory. Indeed, a whole movement has been developed around world federalism, as it offers relevant and coherent proposals to achieve a state of perpetual peace. Young World Federalists is one of the organizations within the umbrella of the World Federalist Movement, and some of their members will be offering us their perspective on how to effectively abolish war through a World Federation. In dialogue with the Young World Federalists, members of World BEYOND War's Youth Network will also weigh in on the role of youth in the war abolition movement. What: Webinar: Abolishing War through a World Federation When: Friday, May 13 at 12:00pm Pacific Daylight Time / 3:00pm Eastern Daylight Time / 7:00pm GMT How to join: Register here for the Zoom link! The webinar will feature the following youth leaders from the Young World Federalists & WBW Youth Network: Luca Alfieri is currently a PhD student in economics and a junior research fellow in economic modelling at the University of Tartu, Estonia as well as a visiting researcher at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Austria. He obtained a bachelor?s degree in Development Economics in 2007 at the University of Parma, a master?s degree in Local Development at the University of Parma, Italy in 2009 and a second master?s degree in Macroeconomics and European policies at Strasbourg University, France in 2012. In 2016 he was accepted at the Advanced Studies Program of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany and he obtained the Certificate of International Economic Policy Research of the Kiel Institute in May 2017. He was a visiting researcher at the Bank of Estonia from October 2020 to February 2021. Luca Alfieri is involved in different national and European projects. His PhD topic concerns macroeconomic applications using Big Data and machine learning methods. Moreover, he is interested in international trade, monetary economics and Asian economics. He is a member of the Union of European Federalists since 2009 and an advisor at Young World Federalists since 2020. Anniela Carracedo is a Member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War, a member of the World BEYOND War Youth Network and its External Relations Chair, and liaison between the Board and the Youth Network. Anni was born in Venezuela in 2001, at the beginning of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the Western Hemisphere. Despite this difficult situation, Anni was fortunate to grow up surrounded by inspiring people and organizations aimed at solving complex problems, helping their communities get stronger, and building a culture of peace. Her family is actively involved in the Centro Comunitario de Caracas (Caracas Community Center), a safe place for community groups to join forces and promote the spread of initiatives that empower and bring citizens together. Throughout her 5 years of high school, Anni participated in the ?Model of United Nations?, attending more than 20 conferences, the majority of which aimed at stimulating the functioning of the UN committees for Peace, Human Rights, and related humanitarian issues. Thanks to the experience gained and her hard-working spirit, in 2019 Anniela was elected as General Secretary of the ninth edition of the Model of United Nations in her high school (SRMUN 2019). In 2018, Anni joined Interact Club Valencia, a Rotary International youth program, where she served as club secretary until she became a Rotary Youth Exchange Student in 2019-2020, representing Venezuela in Mississippi, USA. Anni served as District Interact Representative in 2020-21, and became a Rotarian in the same year. She got nominated honorary member of the Rotary Club of Bay St Louis, which also chose her as Rotarian of the Year. Looking forward, in 2021-22, Anni will be serving as Executive Chair of Rotary Interactive Quarantine, Alumni member of Rotary International?s inaugural Interact Advisory Council 2021-22, as well as Chair of the District 6840 Interact Committee. Jorge Romanillos is a 21-year-old born in Guadalajara, a little city from Spain. He studies a bachelor?s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics held in four universities between Barcelona and Madrid, and he is currently on an Erasmus in Paris. The reason why he decided to pursue such studies is that he wanted to be able to give global answers to solve our common global problems and achieve great shared opportunities. With this idea in mind, he has been part of many associations, such as the Scouts and Extinction Rebellion, and he is active in political organizations such as Young European Federalists, where he is the president of a regional section in Spain, and Young World Federalists, where he is part of the Board of Directors since November 2021 and where he serves as Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee. Next year he will be an intern with an MEP at the European Parliament. RSVP to join us on May 13 to talk about the role of youth in anti-war activism and how a world federation can be one tool in our toolbox towards abolishing war! See you then! Greta Zarro Organizing Director World BEYOND War greta at worldbeyondwar.org -------------------------------------------------------- World BEYOND War is a global network of volunteers, chapters, and affiliated organizations advocating for the abolition of the institution of war. Donate to support our people-powered movement for peace. 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In the first three weeks of Putin?s war, over 500 children were recorded crossing into Romania all by themselves. Alone and vulnerable, they join thousands of unaccompanied kids already in Europe ? traumatised by war, now living in squalid camps or on the streets, and easy prey for traffickers. Grassroots teams have been working round the clock to reunite child refugees with family members in Europe. Now their workload has surged overnight and they urgently need our help. If we all chip in, we can supercharge these heroic teams ? providing more children with legal and emotional support to get them out of danger, across borders and back with their families. They?ve already helped 1,800 children ? just think how many more we could help. Everything raised will go to these dedicated teams: If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately: Chip in $3 Chip in another amount Nearly 17 child migrants vanish each day from Europe?s streets, many have disappeared into a criminal world of violence and exploitation. The danger they face is unfathomable. Alone, frightened and often penniless, many don?t realise they have a legal right to travel to sanctuary, or know how to track down dispersed relatives. It?s critical these children get love, care and expert help as soon as humanly possible. But refugee support groups were operating on a shoestring even before Putin invaded Ukraine. They urgently need more money. Vladimir, tonight children with no hope left will sleep alone on Europe?s streets. But with your help, dedicated teams can get these children food, shelter and reunite them with those who love them most. 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From: Alexander Fyodorov Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2022 2:54 PM Subject: Transparency -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Apr 30 18:44:22 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 19:44:22 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] How Do We Solve Plastic? Message-ID: <436026C25CF3407EADC0717E94FA2E91@lewpostnew> We are so excited to bring you this look into viable, simpler, and effective solutions that drive us away from plastic pollution, and towards real systems change. Plastic is a problem. By now, we all know it, and we?re all talking about it. It seems like there?s a new headline everyday about something that will magically solve the problem, like giant vacuum cleaners that suck plastic off the ocean floor, or bacteria that can digest it; PSAs urge us to join beach clean-ups and buy goods made from old water bottles. Of course, none of the above addresses the real problem: we just make too much plastic. You may have already seen the first two videos of a new series that we launched on Earth Day: Solving Plastic. We are so excited to bring you this look into viable, simpler, and effective solutions that drive us away from plastic pollution, and towards real systems change. Will you help us expand this series, so we can continue telling the story of solutions that really work? Our Earth Day launch was just the beginning. We?ll continue to bring you innovations that redesign the throwaway culture that created the plastic crisis in the first place, significantly reduce the amount of plastic we produce overall, and establish a re-use economy that benefits all of us. So how did we figure out what makes for a ?real solution?? Over the past year, our team has developed our rigorous Solutions criteria, and brought together expert advisors to vet those criteria. In order to qualify as a real solution, it must: 1.. go to the heart of the plastic problem by reducing how much plastic we make in the first place; 2.. benefit people AND the planet, ensuring that the rights of those most impacted by plastic pollution are prioritized; 3.. be scalable and accessible, meaning most people can participate because they're cheaper and more widely available than the polluting alternative. Real solutions benefit everyone, regardless of where they live, or how much money they have. The truth is, solutions that make the cut already exist in plain sight. It?s time to direct our enthusiasm for solving the plastic problem towards them. It?s going to take all of us to imagine a more sustainable and equitable future ? but we can get there, together. Will you help us get there by supporting Solving Plastic today? From all of us, thank you for being a part of the solution. In gratitude, Sage & the Story of Stuff team The Story of Stuff Project runs on donations from people like you. Please make a one-time contribution, or better yet, sustain our work by signing up to be a monthly donor. Any amount makes a difference! The Story of Stuff Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donations to The Story of Stuff Project are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law in the United States. visit storyofstuff.org | From: Sage Lenier, The Story of Stuff Project Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2022 11:00 AM Subject: How Do We Solve Plastic? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Apr 30 18:47:48 2022 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 19:47:48 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Vladimir, Lucy the suffering elephant needs your help right now Message-ID: <26BA3D3AADA145E8A95C5A77FCC4A2BD@lewpostnew> If this zoo truly cared about its aging elephant, it would accept expert help. Cher, the Beloved Artist and Co-founder of Free the Wild, Has Offered to Help Lucy the Elephant! Sign Now Last year, Cher's organization Free the Wild helped rescue Kaavan, a solitary and suffering elephant in Pakistan. Now, they've set their sights on helping Lucy. Lucy is a 45-year-old Asian elephant housed in inhumane conditions at the Edmonton Valley Zoo in frigid Alberta, Canada ? even being left in the freezing snow. Lucy's situation is urgent. She suffers from numerous health conditions, has difficulty walking around, and is withdrawn and depressed. Over the past several years, her condition has deteriorated significantly. Captive elephants, including those trapped at zoos, have an average lifespan of 45 years (Lucy's current age) ? meaning she is running out of time. For over a decade, the Edmonton Valley Zoo has claimed that transporting Lucy to a sanctuary could put her life at risk due to an undiagnosed breathing problem. But it simultaneously refuses to allow outside elephant experts ? professionals who are not biased or associated with the zoo ? to examine her. It's even previously turned down world-renowned specialists who have offered to come visit and assess Lucy for free, at no cost to the zoo or city! Luckily, Cher is determined to keep trying for Lucy's sake. She has now sent a personal letter to the mayor of Edmonton as well as the zoo, offering to bring in an international expert to ascertain both what Lucy's condition is and how Free the Wild can help. To prove it cares about Lucy, the Edmonton Valley Zoo MUST agree to work with Cher and Free the Wild. It should immediately allow this specialist in to see Lucy. Sign the petition to help this voiceless captive animal! Thank you, Miranda Care2 Petitions Team P.S. If this zoo cares about its animals so much, why is it resisting free offers that would help one of its aging elephants? Sign the petition now. 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