Ed O'Keefe

Director at Synergy @SynergyGlobalCo, navigating the complexities of responsible business and social performance.

[Ed O'Keefe @EdO_Keefe]

Another of our short courses completed last week! #CommunityRelations Practice: Managing Community Impacts from @WitsUniversity and @SynergyGlobalCo - great to have practitioners back together again

📷Zinhle Madlala

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@EmilyKerr36 Absolutely- incredible how it has transformed in such a short time. Not just the infrastructure but more fundamentally how people travel and use public spaces etc. Shows what is possible

[Ed O'Keefe @EdO_Keefe]

@EmilyKerr36 Thanks Emily for great 🧵 After years of cycling in Oxford, using hire bikes in London & regular work trips to Paris I’d never cycled there - until today tx to your nudge! Amazing infrastructure, easy to hire + bonus pleasure of Champs-Élysées. Plus my first e-bike experience!

[Oxford Parent-Infant Project @Oxpip]

Daisy & her Dad, Ed, are running the Leeds Half Marathon to raise vital funds for OXPIP 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️
Read about why and how to donate here: https://t.co/A92JHvYmTn

[UNDP Business and Human Rights @BizHRAsia_UNDP]

🚨 Exciting news in the world of #bizhumanrights! #CSDDD

Want to dive deeper into #HRDD? Our #HRDD Training Facilitation Guide is available in 8 languages:

English | Japanese | Mongolian | Nepali | Spanish | Russian | Portuguese | Thai

🔗 Download here: https://t.co/mJWHV7pOfw

[Alastair McIntosh @alastairmci]

Excellent from Faye Macleod, Skye: “Community-owned wind turbines inject 34 times the return per megawatt to their communities than externally-owned, large scale commercial wind turbine developments deliver to communities they are developing projects in.” https://t.co/fKyX9YQRkj

[High Country News @highcountrynews]

Cleaning up the west could be as lucrative as wrecking it. https://t.co/uGGCVdCoqS

[Climate Home News @ClimateHome]

Uncertainty on renewable retraining frightens South Africa’s coal communities

https://t.co/l5nGqP7VYg

[Climate Home News @ClimateHome]

📣 Mind the (green skills) gap: Our investigation with @OxCIEJ explores the challenges of a South African #RenewablesRevolution: https://t.co/OSJaYRTqGq

📷 In video 1 of 2, @AshrafRSA hears from local coal worker Nelly Sigudla on the hardships this energy shift could bring.

[Ed O'Keefe @EdO_Keefe]

Mining in South Africa looks to solar, AI and chickens to go green https://t.co/MgbAQ4wIKG via @News24_Business

[Ed O'Keefe @EdO_Keefe]

Do Solar Farms Lower Property Values? A New Study Has Some Answers https://t.co/T9LXf89QbS

[Ed O'Keefe @EdO_Keefe]

Controversial Alberta coal mine could soon get green energy makeover https://t.co/0CPAOzqdNp

[Mary Lawlor @MaryLawlorhrds]

I am now presenting my report on 25 years of achievements by Human Rights Defenders to the @UN_HRC, highlighting how, through imagination & perseverance, HRDs continue to succeed against intimidating odds.

📑 The full report is available here: https://t.co/4OP1JHmaKQ

#HRC52

[African Arguments @africaarguments]

Cobalt Red, a new book on the Congo, recycles stereotypes of Africa as a wasteland in need of saving in all its promo. It’s been rapturously received in the West. https://t.co/dKgj8DA3l0

[Rachel Adams-Heard @racheladhe]

In Trust, a new podcast from Bloomberg and iHeartMedia, is out today.

This story starts with Osage headrights -- shares in the Osage Nation's mineral estate -- but it goes far beyond that.

https://t.co/wjNav5ldYl

[Josh Gabbatiss @Josh_Gabbatiss]

I've returned to my parents' home in West Oxfordshire this Christmas to find people angry and worried about the future of the village.

Why? Because they say "Europe's biggest solar farm" is about to be built on their doorstep.

🌞a festive thread🌞

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[Pancho Lewis @pancho_lewis]

Why do local communities support plans for the new mine in Cumbria? My take - based on preliminary analysis - is below.

Tldr, deindustrialisation drives a sense of societal decline. In this context, new fossil extraction projects gain appeal.../1

https://t.co/Kx634HLbPd

[Initiative 4Social Performance in Renewable Energy @InspireExcelle3]

TOGETHER WE CAN DO SO MUCH
Thank you to all implementation partners this year! Masechaba Mabilu (Forethought Africe), Mischa Minne (MM), Yumnaa Firfirey (Towards Uhuru), Fowzia Davids (Bloem &Co), Alison McCallum (Social Resonance), Ashleigh D (Meraki)...

[World Benchmarking Alliance @SDGBenchmarks]

We have assessed 127 companies from the food and agricultural products, ICT manufacturing and automotive manufacturing sectors on their #humanrights performance. Read the results and insights from out 2022 Corporate Human Rights Benchmark here: https://t.co/dOBVsoABQU #CHRB2022

[Ed O'Keefe @EdO_Keefe]

All-female African mine carves out sustainable future https://t.co/8a3gf9a2z9 #Zimbaqua