⛴️ No more trawling in Greek marine parks
🌞 California runs on sun (for a while)
🌳 Less deforestation in Brazil
🌽 More plant-based eating in Europe
and also
🍁 200 Canadian islands returned to owners
🌪️Wind power growth of 117GW in 54 countries
👩🏽🌾 Caribbeans turning seaweed into fertilizer
🐟 Removed 487 dams reconnecting rivers in Europe
🫱🏻🫲🏼 Wind park in Scotland owned by the people
🏫 Initiative in UK fitting schools with solar
🩵 Big big win! Human right to a safe climate
📣 Voters in EU making climate a priority
🪷 Indian court ALSO rules safe climate as a right
and also
🚲 More biking than car driving in Paris
⛲ USA starting regulation pfas in drinking water
Change the things we cannot accept 🪿
Protest, sue, grow, work together for a better NOW and a viable future. Personal growth and system change go 🫱🏻🫲🏼 in communities - find yours!
🏁 Slovakia un-coaling this year
🧥 Pre-loved fashion becoming more popular
🏝️ Aruba giving rights to nature (and us rights to nature)
🐊 Connecting eco-systems to restore Everglades
and also
🌅Last coal plant in New Engeland converting to solar
👁️ Sheffield (UK) bans all advertising of polluting products
Keep pushing policy 🫱🏻🫲🏼 we can go green faster
& bring everyone along
🪩 while looking fabulous
🪃 First Nations halted gas project
🌱 Germans to eat 75% plant-based
🐙 First ban on octopus farming
🥕 EU ban single-use plastic on vegetables,
your shakes and burgers & hotel soaps
ALL CURRENTLY IN COURT
👗 Fast fashion ads to be banned in France
✋🏼Maori activists suing 7 biggest polluters in NZ
🌳 EU set to make fossil fuel industry pay to fight climate change in low-income countries
Good things in europa-pa-pa
🇪🇺 Some countries hitting 2030 goals early
🇪🇺 Ecocide now punishable
🇪🇺 Nature Restoration Law passed
and also
🗽 NY will create 260.000 green jobs
☕ West Australia bans single-use-no-compost coffee cups
🌺 Hawaii charge tourists 25$ climate fee to fund green projects
🧑🏼💼 4 day work week great success
🌴 Bolivian town protects a million acres of Amazon
🫘 Seed bank in Brazil keeping biodiversity alive
🚮 1 org fished 2 million pounds of trash out of our waters
and also
✈️ Spain banning short flights that have good rail alternative
🌳 Large reforestation in US created 'warming holes' that are stabler and cooler
🕊️ Part of Irish sea now bird sanctuary
Positive Climate News of last week 🦜
🚗 More EVs for not-so-rich in France
⛳ Golf courses become green space in US
🌳Alabama buys 8000 acres to save forest
and also
👗 Fashion police in EU making brands pay for the waste they cause
🛰️ Methane to be mapped from space
🔋 Solar & battery power doubling in US
👷🏻♂️ New building projects must add 10% biodiversity in UK
🌊 EU agreed on tougher standards for marine pollution
🙌🏻 Oil stays in the ground in Norway 🙌🏻
🛠️ Cities start to deconstruct
🍏 Less greenwashing in EU
and also
🇪🇺 Phasing out coal faster with wind energy
🌊Chili first to sign UN Ocean Treaty
🌴Amazon deforestation halved in 2023 (Brazil)
🫧 £100.000 of white goods redistributed instead of wasted
Big or small 🦐 in the courts or at the neighbours 🫱🏻🫲🏼 we can make a difference
🫱🏻🫲🏼 Communities saving Brazil forest together
🎫 Berlin-Paris sleeper train is back
🏞️ Seagrass meadows in Thames
🚝Big rail projects in USA
And also
🍁 Young Canadians demanding a climate plan are going to trial
🚛 Solar truck being tested in Sweden
🦜Bird-watching makes viable eco-tourism in Colombia
🥝Kiwi (bird) back in NZ after 150 years
What change are you working on, protesting for or otherwise supporting? 👁️
Good things too are happening at #COP28
🇨🇴 Colombia joins treaty to end fossil fuels
🛢️ Majority of countries call for end to oil
🇳🇴 Norway to join end to fossil subsidies
👛 Fund for loss/damage to support climate vulnerable
Meanwhile
🐡 Spain to restore biggest wetland
🌳 Ireland to start restoring woodlands
🚣🏼 Aussies in kayaks and on paddle boards blocked biggest coal harbour for 30 hours
Norms are changing 🙌🏻
🌟 Right to Repair law passed in EU
🪡 Clothes factory becomes repair centre
🏞️ Off-road driving no longer makes for cool advertising
🍖 Majority of Europeans are eating less meat
and also
🐋 Blue whales return to the Seychelles
🐊 Borneo floodplains to be restored
🫗New York suing Pepsi over plastic in water
All made possible by PEOPLE working to make a change - join or support today 🫱🏻🫲🏼
Positive Climate News of last week 🦜
🇪🇺 big EU climate case to force rapid emissions cut
🌡️US to install 20 million heat pumps
🇧🇷 no mining thanks to locals and supreme court
🌬️ massive wind farm coming to Wales
🇨🇴 countries looking beyond coal
♻️ new EU anti-greenwashing law
This shows the changes that can be made by courts, policy and alliance 💪🏻 pushed for by boots on the ground 📣 March, write, shout, vote, sue your way into the green revolution & bring everyone 🙌🏻 #PositiveClimateNews
Positive Climate News of last week 🌺
💶 big money for biodiversity
🪶 puffin colonies recovering in Maine
🌞 less and less fossil fueled electricity in EU
🌾 a return to flax linen
🍷France wants minimum flight price policy for all EU
🐦 extinct bird returns in New Zealand (not the dodo)
⛽ California joins Fossil Fuel Treaty
Everything directly done by - or the result of - PEOPLE fighting, working, protesting, voting and holding place for our climate 🪺 #PositiveClimateNews#climatecrisis
Positive Climate News of the week 🩷
🪇 No more deforesting the Amazon by 2030
🌡️Smart meters in UK homes save 1 million tonnes CO2 every year
🇧🇷 Students planting urban oasis
🪸 Seahorses released into seahorse-hotel in Sydney
🐝 Whole bunch of nature in UK protected
🏡 First 10.000 zero-energy-bill houses are being built #PositiveClimateNews#climate#trees#forest#nature
Positive climate news of the week 🩷
🌊 Banks will not invest in deep sea mining - now third of UK banks, who follows?
🪩 Glastonbury shuttle goes electric
🧑🏽⚖️ More rules protecting wild life & high seas
🐳 Blue whales are back in Cali #PositiveClimateNews