Alex Volkers

Resource governance researcher 🌍

[George Soros @georgesoros]

A critical mode of thinking is at the core of building and maintaining an open society. Our social institutions are imperfect and ought to hold themselves to accountability and improvement. That is the idea of an open society.

[Alex Volkers @acevolkers]

This is devastating... Illegal mining on Brazil indigenous land up 500% in decade https://t.co/uAltQO0T95

[Alex Volkers @acevolkers]

@canimmigrant NOBODY at the helm of @EquinoxGoldCorp should be up for an award considering their track record... least of all someone who is presiding over the "social responsibility" of their environmental and social crimes in Aurizona, Brazil right now.

https://t.co/K82Kok1499

[Alex Volkers @acevolkers]

Please do all you can to help evacuate people at risk in Afghanistan - before it is too late. @nus_ghani #EvacuateNow #OurResponsibility

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

As I head into my Chevron-orchestrated "trial" today after 643 days of house arrest, please never forget what this case is really about.

Chevron caused a mass industrial poisoning of the Amazon. 6 courts and 29 judges found it guilty.

[Rob Hopkins @robintransition]

A taste of the future. Cereals growing between agroforestry alleys on Dartington estate. Better get used to it...

[Deep Sea Conservation Coalition @DeepSeaConserve]

Victor Pickering, an activist from Fiji currently on board the Rainbow Warrior, held a banner reading: “Our Pacific, not yours to destroy!”, building on this inspiring Pacific Blue Line statement: https://t.co/Lo4iVRBFMJ @GreenpeaceNZ #DeepTrouble #DefendTheDeep

[Alex Volkers @acevolkers]

"The good news: The creation of protected marine areas would help keep down this carbon, while improving both fisheries and marine life, according to a new study."

[Alex Volkers @acevolkers]

"A quarter of the CO₂ pollution we emit every year washes into the ocean, and some falls to the floor as sediment, where it stays safely away from the atmosphere for millenniums." -Eric Roston, the Climate Report newsletter @climate

[Alex Volkers @acevolkers]

"Except when industrial fishing trawlers run over 1.3% of the ocean floor every year, releasing as much as 20% of the atmospheric CO₂ that the oceans absorb annually."

[Lakota People's Law Project @lakotalaw]

“The reintroduction of the condor is one component of this effort to reconstruct the diverse environmental conditions that once existed in our region.-Yurok Tribe Chairman Joseph L. James
https://t.co/8F2ASALT5Q

[Alex Volkers @acevolkers]

It's not often that I feel the urge to applaud car manufacturers and Google 🙃🤷‍♀️

BMW, Volvo and Google vow to exclude use of ocean-mined metals https://t.co/ugYZb8E8Xf via @financialtimes

[Alex Volkers @acevolkers]

@GeorgeMonbiot @tim_newson_

[Alex Volkers @acevolkers]

Let’s put the spotlight on 🌎

https://t.co/nq45kU5dv3

[Earth Hour Official @earthhour]

🕣See our planet in a new light🕤
Share this video to take part in the #EarthHour Virtual Spotlight! 2020 taught us the importance of distance, but the issues facing our planet can only be solved if we unite💡Small actions make a big difference💪Take the first step & RT 🌍

[Alex Volkers @acevolkers]

Hear hear

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

I would love you to watch this, because I suspect this might be the most important issue of all.

[Deep Sea Conservation Coalition @DeepSeaConserve]

A new report published in @nytimes found that trawling for fish may unleash as much carbon as air travel. It also found that strategically conserving specific #marine areas would help sequester large amounts of carbon and safeguard #biodiversity. https://t.co/itV3nUpu4U

[Alex Volkers @acevolkers]

@elinorcleghorn @EmF1nn @maddyprice @wnbooks @micaelaalcaino SO AMAZING!!!!! Congratulations and well done. Can't wait to read xx

[Alex Volkers @acevolkers]

@ClimateHuman Check out @tpcollingsworth he's holding Cargill Nestlé Apple Dell Tesla and others to account

[Alex Volkers @acevolkers]

@ReedAlbergotti Great piece