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It took them a while, but a few days ago the UN adopted a resolution backing the ICJ’s advisory opinion stating that countries must prevent harm to the climate system, the vote being 141 for, eight against, 28 abstentions, and 16 states that didn’t vote. The eight against were Belarus, Iran, Israel, Liberia, Russia, Saudi […]

This year’s Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 24, unsurprisingly the earliest date ever, but the far more relevant development when it comes to environmental matters took place the previous day, when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) stated that countries must prevent harm to the climate system. While unanimous, the ruling is only a […]

Yesterday, so on the same day when it once again proved how little it truly cares for either public health or the environment by unilaterally renewing the approval for glyphosate for another ten years, the EU decided to criminalize environmental damage “comparable to ecocide”, though the text itself doesn’t actually include the term and excludes […]

Back when an awfully weak form of the Nature Restoration Law was adopted by the European Parliament, there were some hopes that the trialogue will bring some improvements, but that hardly happened. I mean, getting rid of the result-based approach and asking for “efforts” and “measures which shall aim to achieve” the desired results means […]

Considering how things are going and how hard it is for anything even remotely positive to pass, I fully expected deep-sea mining to be given the green light these days, despite the opposition going beyond environmentalists, scientists and communities that would be directly impacted by it and growing to include financial institutions, corporations and powerful […]