Today is #WorldFisheriesDay! A day to highlight and share our gratitude with all the incredible sustainable fisheries and small-scale fishers around the world, working and living in reciprocity with our oceans, lakes, and rivers. Today we celebrate you all! (1/4)
The health of our planet’s oceans is essential to the balance that sustains all life on Earth. A widespread adoption of sustainable practices can have far reaching benefits for people and the planet (2/4)
Those who are able can begin choosing this future now by choosing to eat less and source locally produced, sustainable seafood wherever possible. (3/4)
Countries like USA, Canada and EU are being greedy.
They’re prioritising hypothetical future profits from Marine Genetics Resources over protecting the oceans. This is undermining all the progress made on the Treaty text on Marine Protected Areas
The EU's High Ambition Coalition is failing to deliver on their commitments to protect the oceans and finalise a Treaty at this round of talks - now how will they get it done this year?
@VSinkevicius where have you been the last 2 weeks?!
"Climate justice should not be a privilege. It's a fundamental human right." - Sylvia Wu, legal coordinator at Greenpeace Taiwan [1/11]
“My name is Sylvia Wu. As a legal professional, I aspire to use my legal knowledge to bring about positive changes.
In February of 2021, we filed the first climate litigation in Taiwan, Greenpeace East Asia and others v. Ministry of Economic Affairs. [2/11]
I worked closely with the individual plaintiffs, local NGOs, and our project team to urge the government to be more ambitious in climate change law amendments and to challenge the rigid judicial system. [3/11]
🚨In the midst of wars and global crises, European governments are driving us deeper into fossil fuel addiction by cutting fuel taxes to lower prices at the petrol pump.
📝Social & climate support payments for low-income households
🚨Introduce measures to reduce oil consumption
💶Tax companies profiting from rising oil prices
🌎Invest revenue from taxes to boost rail & public transport