@WarOnWant@Jeremy_Hunt The amendment to delete the word 'convention' has thankfully been rejected - but not before getting widespread support from across the EU and many other wealthy countries
Shameless!
The UK govt is trying to DELETE all mentions of a "convention" in today's vote on a #UNTaxConvention.
Tell @Rishi_Sunak & @Jeremy_Hunt to stop defending a tax system that lets corporations dodge $1 trillion in tax every year &support democratising global tax.👇 #2C
🚨Tomorrow, countries at the UN will vote on a process to democratise global tax rules. #UNTaxConvention#2C
Call on the UK government to vote YES to fixing our broken tax system that lets corporations shift over $1 trillion into tax havens every year.
https://t.co/cjB2hJHE67
Over $1 trillion is moved into tax havens each year — robbing the world of funding for healthcare, education & climate action.
That's why we need to change our deeply unjust global tax system, designed to benefit wealthy corporations & countries. Act now.
https://t.co/PIvSxUINW5
Enough!
It is just horror after horror after horror.
Remember these precious and beautiful lives. They are human beings with names and faces. And they are being indiscriminately slaughtered.
What unconscionable inhumanity. We need a ceasefire, now.
We can't let the fossil fuel industry continue to wreck the planet, and we won’t pay them to stop!
@grahamstuart, it’s time for the UK to exit the ECT!
https://t.co/5xA0khtGfu
The ECT is a secretive trade agreement that allows corporations to sue governments over policies that affect their profits.
Companies can sue for billions — even if those policy decisions are necessary to tackle climate breakdown — in secretive tribunals.
🚨TODAY - National March for Palestine 🇵🇸
Where: Victoria Embankment, London
When: Saturday 28 October, 12PM
Last week was the biggest march for Palestine in UK history. Let's make this one even bigger! Join us as we march again for Palestine demanding a #CeasefireNOW
Israel has cut off all communications in Gaza and is savagely bombarding its people. Please join us tomorrow. We must stand with Palestine and call for an immediate #CeasefireNoW
Just hearing that Ireland 🇮🇪 plans on supporting the proposal for a coordinated exit from the climate-wrecking Energy Charter Treaty! #ExitECT 💥💥💥Happy Monday everybody!!!
🎉🎉 "..the Commission is proposing that the EU, its Member States and Euratom withdraw from the unmodernised Energy Charter Treaty in a coordinated and orderly manner" - did you catch that @EamonRyan ? #ExitECT https://t.co/ll10oYN02H
BREAKING: The UK’s public advisory body on climate change, @theCCCuk calls on UK govt to exit the #EnergyCharterTreaty (ECT) as it "represents risk to both a timely climate transition and to the taxpayer."
🧵The ECT allows fossil fuel investors to hold our planet to ransom. 1/5
📹Mining giant @Glencore is trying to sue the Colombian people for opposing its destructive mining operations in La Guajira.
Our International Trade Justice Campaigner, Ahmed Hafezi, is in Colombia alongside our partners and allies. 1/7
The threats of ISDS claims can have devastating impacts, even if they never make it to a tribunal, and by staying in the ECT the Irish government is ignoring the ECT's incompatibility with our climate commitments.
Tell them it’s time to #ExitECT https://t.co/6zRVJZYuJl
🧵I tweeted earlier that Ireland is facing its first ever ISDS claim under the Energy Charter Treaty – that wasn’t accurate, apologies. Ireland is being *threatened* with its first ever ISDS claim, so the claim itself hasn’t been brought - yet...
This is ‘regulatory chill’ or the ‘chilling effect’ of ISDS (the provisions at the heart of the ECT), whereby companies use ISDS to block, or even reverse legislation they don't like.
It’s something that a recent IPCC report warned that the ECT can do. https://t.co/7Cpl2ItFsB