As part of her #R4Today guest edit, musician and UN environment ambassador @EllieGoulding spoke to Roxy Music artist @brianeno, who founded the music charity EarthPercent in 2021, which raises money from the music industry for environmental causes.
Excited to head back to @FixingFutureBCN, to meet the innovators behind 25 world-changing projects, to hear from 100 climate justice activists, to hang with old friends in BCN and hopefully to meet you. Come join - workshops/talks/Future Fair + collective joy & possibility
📣Up to 500 people will gather at Fixing the Future to take action.
25 projects that are currently changing the world, will be presented this year.
Discover them on October 12, 13 & 14 and be part of the change 🗓️
.@IMPForum President/Reservoir Managing Director & Global Strategic Liaison Annette Barrett announces the Global Music Entrepreneurial and Creative Industry Summit Songwriting Camp will donate 50% of publishing revenues to @earthpercentorg 🌍💙
Read more: https://t.co/09UnBitNLI
Help us getting our @sxsw PanelPicker proposal selected!
Our ED Cathy Runciman is part of proposed panel "The Superpowers of Music Festivals as Change Makers”.
Help us getting it selected by casting your vote below (voting closes August 20)
https://t.co/lSVAletfcZ
Amazon is a perfect #enshittification parable - platforms subsidize end users until they're locked in, then make life good for business customers at users' expense, until *they're* locked in, then claw back all the value they can, leaving just enough to keep the lock-in going.
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Reparations for global climate justice?
In this new paper we quantify the compensation that over-emitting countries may owe to the rest of the world for the appropriation of atmospheric commons. Out today in Nature Sustainability, with the brilliant @AndrewLFanning. 🧵
Nigerian climate activist @Ken_Henshaw slams Shell's neocolonial exploitation and demands reparations for decades of pollution.
"They have simply made the Niger Delta an ecological time bomb."
Head to The Climate Content Summit at @BarbicanCentre at the Barbican for a packed programme of talks and workshops on how the TV industry can harness the awesome power of TV to help save the planet.
Grab tickets here: https://t.co/3VbH334hCE
A month ago we launched #EarthPercentxEarthDay 2023 - we've now raised over £52k and counting!
THANK YOU to all the incredible artists and fans who helped us.
Continue supporting the campaign here: https://t.co/cxNgvaXobP
Two exciting job opportunities
Join the team and help us embark on a year-long discovery phase to explore new grant-making initiatives.
Project Coordinator: https://t.co/SpY1MzTC1I
Social policy and research analyst: https://t.co/rBvWhNjCTM
A figure for reparations was arrived at by 738 economists to cover cost of future damages from climate change: "For the period 2025-2050, the median estimate of economic damages was $99 trillion, of which $70 trillion can be attributed to fossil fuel emissions" @insideclimate
Who should pay for the trillions of dollars in climate damages the world will face? A new study argues that fossil fuel companies should pay their share.
https://t.co/dxrYJTI8mF
Hosting our climate justice event in collaboration with @nesta_uk and the speakers are 🤯
Learning so much, and so grateful to bring music industry folks into these spaces!