This weeks #ClimateCrisis news:
#Chile 🇨🇱 declares a state of #Emergency as devastating #wildfires currently sweep the center of the country.
Here's a short🧵 putting this in context & asking what comes next...
🌍🚨 Alarming Report 🚨🌍
New @ALLIEDalliance data uncovers the hidden iceberg of non-lethal attacks against #Indigenous, land and environmental #defenders in #Colombia and the #Philippines.
📑 Download the report: https://t.co/iuvBryi06z
#DefendTheDefenders
Shameful podcast by @BBCNews and @kewgardens which aims to address colonialism in Botany but ends of legitimising it with claims of 'the British and other empires wanted to end Brazil's monopoly over rubber' without ever mentioning that the rubber seeds brought to Kew were +
There is no climate justice without human rights✊
Globally, those on the frontlines of the climate crisis face violence and repression as the world warms, and the natural disasters intensify. Join us for this panel at @COP27P. With opening remarks by @MarinaSilva and @EdMarkey
It includes a case study on how the vilification of environmental activism by the government enabled the criminalisation of activists fighting deforestation in #Brazil. During #COP26, we've seen the govt continue these tactics targeting defenders like @walela15 and @ENGAJAMUNDO.
People demanding environmental and #climatejustice worldwide have faced restrictions, criminalisation and violence. Our latest report describes multiple cases of persecution and attacks in the Americas, which continues to be the most dangerous region for these defenders.👇👇
As the #climate crisis intensifies, so does the crackdown on environmental activism. Our new report for #COP26 looks at 3 worrying trends:
❌Bans & restrictions on protests
❌Judicial harassment & legal persecution
❌Use of violence & vilification
https://t.co/cMyfBG5QMF
@COP26@walela15 discursou na abertura da #COP26 na manhã desta segunda-feira: "Precisamos tomar outro caminho com mudanças corajosas e globais. Não é 2030 ou 2050, é agora!", disse a jovem indígena do povo Suruí, de Rondônia, que faz parte do @ENGAJAMUNDO e é conselheira do WWF-Brasil
🚨 Enquanto o mundo queima ou está debaixo d'água, Bolsonaro acelera o ponto de não-retorno da Amazônia. Conheça Rodrigo Pacheco, o homem que pode decidir salvar a floresta ou deixá-la ser destruída.
@rpsenador, de que lado você está?
#AmazoniaOuBolsonaro
A favela venceu! Rebeca Andrade entra pra história como primeira medalhista da final geral individual de ginástica. O baile de favela no topo do mundo com uma prata inédita! 🥈🤸🏾♀️ #OlimpiadasTokio2020
Cultivaram por décadas essas crises 100% ambientais, frutos de um culto lobotomizado a empreiteiras, guerra à vegetação nativa e gestão anticientífica de rios e território.
Agora vão culpar o Ibama por exigir uma vazão mínima que mantém o rio vivo para peixes, lagoas e florestas
BREAKING: A federal court in Brazil has just admitted a lawsuit brought by youth climate activists against the govt. challenging the 2020 downgraded NDC. The court asserted its jurisdiction over the matter, rejecting the government's claim of exclusive international jurisdiction.
🇧🇷 Early 2021 in #Brazil:
➡️At least two human rights defenders and two journalists were killed
➡️Government resorted to dictatorship-era National Security Law to intimidate critics
➡️Protesters have demanded justice for victims of Jacarezinho massacre
https://t.co/dayDVXidOc
Alerta! O presidente da Câmara, @ArthurLira_ , quer votar a pior proposta sobre Licenciamento Ambiental da história! De conteúdo radical, o #PL3729 pode multiplicar tragédias, como Mariana e Brumadinho (MG). #LicenciamentoFica!