🚲 Happy #WorldBicycleDay!
Today, we celebrate the bicycle, a sustainable, affordable, and reliable way to travel that helps cities achieve #GreenCityAccord goals:
✅ Cleaner air
✅ Less noise
✅ Greater biodiversity
Every ride makes a difference! 🌍
👉Learn more: https://t.co/pTBdNiU2mK
#GreenCities #SustainableMobility
Why temperature records are being not only broken but smashed
https://t.co/jG0QMeNGd2
Europe is warming at a rate of 0.56 degrees Celsius per decade—which is more than double the global average- report says. #ActNow#ActOnClimate#LocalAction#ClimateJustice
Shifting from flow-based rhetoric to stock-based structural resolution.
My policy proposal for "Survival Redesign" has been submitted directly to @UNEP on @WeDontHaveTime . Read the full specifications here:
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https://t.co/6omU3Mtfgh
When any major leader or head of government appears on the international stage, people should also look at their local actions — especially on human rights, political freedom, and freedom of speech. Global image and local reality do not always tell the same story. #localaction
🇮🇳 In many countries like #India, governments invest huge efforts and resources into managing public image, while questions remain about whether the same level of effort is directed toward the welfare of ordinary people. Social media influence can sometimes create an environment where leaders are portrayed beyond criticism, and people gradually lose the courage to speak openly.
A healthy democracy also depends on accountability. It is important that leaders face questions — including difficult ones — not only from international media but also from journalists in their own countries. Too often, we see press conferences where sensitive local issues are avoided or left unchallenged.
🇳🇴 That is why moments such as the recent questioning by @HelleLyngSvends about local #humanrights issues attracted attention. International visits should not only be about diplomacy and image; they can also be opportunities for meaningful questions and public accountability. #peace #justice
#KeepQuesting!!! Human rights, freedom and truth deserve a voice! 📢
Primeminister of India, Narendra Modi, would not take my question, I was not expecting him to.
Norway has the number one spot on the World Press Freedom Index, India is at 157th, competing with Palestine, Emirates & Cuba.
It is our job to question the powers we cooperate with.
In the #Char areas of #Bangladesh, #ClimateChange is intensifying floods and strong river currents, accelerating river erosion & washing away homes & croplands.
This is increasing climate displacement, poverty, food insecurity, health risks, and loss of biodiversity.
#RiverErosion
#Bangladesh
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateMigration
I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine.
We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave.
It was a wonderful kind of day.