Philippe Le Billon

Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia

[Centre for Climate Justice @CCJ_UBC]

New Report with @cpluscp and @3rdworldnetwork: Exporting Extinction: How the International Financial System Constrains Biodiverse Futures!

Read it here: https://t.co/kIUaYetzI8

[Philippe Le Billon @plebillon]

What can the WTO Fisheries Subsidies agreement achieve through its Article 5.1? https://t.co/jYbaOE6uoZ

[Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement @TylerPrize]

"@DrRashidSumaila was awarded the 2023 @TylerPrize jointly with @UBCOceans professor Dr. Daniel Pauly, for their research & efforts to ban fishing on the high seas...
(Dr. Sumaila) is concerned about the impacts of deep sea mining."
https://t.co/iQub5LVaJV @SeaAroundUs @ubcSPPGA

[Chris Arsenault @chrisarsenaul]

Latest study on China's distant water fishing fleet and its impacts in South America with Isabella Montecalvo @plebillon & @milkorockmar https://t.co/rYFG9jCZHw

[Philippe Le Billon @plebillon]

New paper on Chinese fleets and the geopolitics of high seas fishing https://t.co/RZk5xE20dN

[Philippe Le Billon @plebillon]

@NathanJBennett Warmest congrats!

[Oceana @oceana]

READ: Foreign ownership of fishing vessels, ex. Spanish & Chinese, to West African nations is linked to a higher likelihood of committing illegal fishing and other infractions, says @Oceana-supported study: https://t.co/VxiQjbLuFf

@dyhiapadilla @plebillon @FrontMarineSci #IUU

[Rashid Sumaila @DrRashidSumaila]

The World Can’t Keep Fishing Like This: The world can't keep fishing like this: "Strong rules in a W.T.O. agreement could eliminate harmful subsidies while tackling the use of forced labor on fishing vessels": https://t.co/pC1B8zU2XP

[Philippe Le Billon @plebillon]

To fight illegal fishing in the Galapagos, Ecuador turns to Canadian satellite and sensing technology | CBC News https://t.co/b24y5Xkp7Q

[Philippe Le Billon @plebillon]

Sand Mining: Stopping the grind of unregulated supply chains... new review article https://t.co/JILilOZHHz

[IUU Risk Intelligence @IUURisk]

New IUU research journal article - Belhabib, D., & Le Billon, P. (2022) Fish crimes in the global oceans. Science Advances, 8(12), eabj1927. (Open Access)
A very comprehensive piece of research by my ex-UBC colleague @dyhiapadilla and @plebillon
https://t.co/J7o4TEJm1x

[Lee Harris @leee_harris]

“What emboldened Putin was not only petroleum flows, but the herd behavior in financial markets,” @70sBachchan writes.

Brilliant review of new book by @rupert_russell + work by @yaneerbaryam, @cullenhendrix.

https://t.co/AVoIDl9OPB

[Too Big To Ignore @TBTInetwork]

🆕 TBTI book!

Blue Justice: Small-Scale Fisheries in a Sustainable Ocean Economy

Edited by S. Jentoft, R. Chuenpagdee, A. Bugeja Said & M. Isaacs

#BlueJustice #SocialJustice #SmallScaleFisheries #SSFGuidelines #BlueEconomy #Governance #IYAFA2022

➡️ https://t.co/kZgcsjeFmc

[Alexandra Gillies @acgillies]

My take on why the Shell, BP and Exxon exits from Russian oil should prompt the industry to abandon its affairs with kleptocrats, in @ForeignPolicy today.

https://t.co/h3FPcrBUjB

[Environmental Justice Foundation @ejfoundation]

Flags of convenience make it much more difficult to catch those responsible for illegal fishing, and the human rights abuses and environmental destruction it often involves.

It's time for reform. Read our report: https://t.co/rKHynn1kIy

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Harmful fisheries subsidies undermine benefits that sustainably managed wild fisheries provide, argues a new #LetterToScience: "World Trade Organization members have a...opportunity [in November]...to reach an agreement that eliminates [these] subsidies." https://t.co/2GPQ7ji2Kb

[Oceana @oceana]

#BREAKING: New Oceana-supported study of illegal fishing's root causes finds that enforcement disproportionately criminalizes #smallscalefishers while letting industrial fishers off the hook.
By @dyhiapadilla @plebillon @NathanJBennett in @NatureHumBehav

[Philippe Le Billon @plebillon]

Global supply agreement could address collapsing oil markets and climate concerns : https://t.co/tuolgCsg3y