Belfast Climate Commission

Part of the @PCANcities project, bringing together the evidence base and local organisations to ensure a just energy transition to a climate resilient Belfast

[Seán Fearon @Sean_Fearon]

There is something jarring in the presentation of two main news stories in the North today as unrelated things:

A) A worship of intensification of production & extraction at the investment conference & the implicit values of this outlook

B) An extinction of life at Lough Neagh

[Juneseo Hwang @JuneseoH]

Official now! I'm pleased to work as a postdoc at the Centre for Futures of Sustainability @fos_uhh! From next January, my four-year project will investigate peace and security implications of the global movement to criminalise 'ecocide'. Really excited for my life in Hamburg!!!!

[Amanda Slevin @DrAmandaSlevin]

I’m happy to share that ⁦⁦@Centre_SECA⁩ & ⁦@daera_ni⁩ will co-host #publicConsultation event on #NI #CarbonBudgets

Join us in ⁦@QUBelfast⁩ on 22nd Sept for our event on #ClimateAction

⁦⁦@QUBEngagement⁩ ⁦@HAPPatQUB⁩ https://t.co/fl33TH5jNn

[Peter Donaghy @peterdonaghy]

Copernicus Sentinel imagery of Lough Neagh taken last week. I don't think it's supposed to look like this?

[Shauna Corr 🌍 @ShaunaReports]

My #EarthsCorr column from the weekend and another HUGE issue facing NI governance - should one council be allowed to make decisions that will impact every council area - and why are DfI sitting on their hands on major fossil fuel projects?
https://t.co/wPOxIwlEXt

[Agustina Martire @agusmartire]

#OpenBotanic is back! Join us on Sunday 24 September to enjoy art, greening, cycling, health, music, games & more!
It has been wonderful for our team to work with Sandy Row, Donegall Pass, Holyland, @friendsoffield and @AnakaCollective

@ForwardSouthPB
@QUBEngagement
@QUBarch

[James Orr @JamesAOrr]

Lough Neagh today.
The polution smells, looks and feels as if it has come from another planet.

[DAERA @daera_ni]

#ClimateConversationsNI
🗨️Join us in person/or online & be part of discussion on NI’s first 3 carbon budgets & 2030 & 2040 targets
💁Next event is Tues 5 Sep Belfast City Hall @2PM
💻Register at: https://t.co/3hH5KqpeSL
@ExecOfficeNI @belfastcc @BelfastClimate
@NI_LGA @nidirect

[John Barry @ProfJohnBarry]

More lazy reporting from Richard Wright - neglecting to point out that reason for agriculture in Ireland being ‘in firing line’ to achieve Net Zero targets is … because it’s the largest source of GHG emissions!!! And it’s Carbon (not Cross) Border Adjustment Mechanism by the way

[John Barry @ProfJohnBarry]

Some positive news
"Montana state court decided Monday in favor of young people who alleged the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful environment” by promoting the use of fossil fuels".

https://t.co/g2SNbqqN0Z

[James Orr @JamesAOrr]

Here we are back to basics again. Not naming the sources that cause toxic blue-green algae :
Unregulated industrial farming and human sewage

https://t.co/iT6D3PlzKs

[PSA Environment @PSAEnvironment]

Just over 2 weeks to go until our hybrid workshop at @MyBCU! With fantastic talks by @ProfJohnBarry, @Prof_FSultana, @CamiloArdilaAr & more! Details & registration 👇. Please share widely! 🌏✊🌊 https://t.co/zuFsD5rA77 #ClimateJustice #ClimateEmergncy @PolStudiesAssoc #ecology

[James Orr @JamesAOrr]

Whats the future ownership of Lough Neagh, given unfolding ecocide?

I trust neither state ownership or continuing with "the Earl of Extraction" Lord Shaftesbury.

The rights of nature ie the Lough is given a legal right to own itself must be an option

https://t.co/0Q2I64RAoe

[Slí Eile @sli_eile_]

“It’s a polycrisis…a crisis of climate, a crisis of biodiversity and a crisis of pollution.” Séamus Diskin with Jamie Murphy from Treasure Leitrim and conservationist Neil Folkes talk about the need to build grassroots resistance.
#CommunitiesNotShareholders #ClimateCampIreland

[John Barry @ProfJohnBarry]

Attending #ClimateCampIreland in Co Leitrim.Session on data centres organised by @PBresnihan was packed. great selection of campaigns against their expansion & frightening projections of their consumption of electricity, water & limited job creation potential #datacolonisation

[John Barry @ProfJohnBarry]

Second proud supervisor moment, as Jaeim Park submitted her revised PhD thesis today after passing her viva examination in July, 'Caring democracy in a degrowth world: An ecofeminist-republican analysis', with thanks to Examiners Prof Joan Tronto & @ClaraFischer14

[John Barry @ProfJohnBarry]

Proud supervisor moment. Congratulations to @calum_mcgeown for successfully defending his PhD thesis, 'Revolutionary Green Republicanism: Anti-Capitalist Politics for the Planetary Crisis'...many thanks to Examiners Derek Wall @Anothergreen, @SusanMcManus10 & Chair, @AshMc8914

[John Barry @ProfJohnBarry]

Just back from brilliant talk by Prof Michael Cronin @tcddublin hosted my @GlorNaMona and part of @FeileBelfast - entitled ‘An Ghaeilge agus Éiceolaíocht | Irish Language & Ecology’

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam & recovery of language inextricably linked to healing nature

[Save Our Lagan 🍃💚🍃 @SaveOurLagan]

Proud to annouce Solastalgia EP 11 - part two of our conversation with Andy and Geraint, unlikely friends and accidental activists opposing plans to expand an oil facility at Cloghan Point on the Antrim coast.
https://t.co/AtbO1QXZ6U
@CloghanNo