Air Pollution cuts life expectancy by 9 years of 40% of Indians, as per a report of US research group.
Also more than 480 million people living in Central, Eastern & Northern India endure high pollution levels.

#environment #nature #airpollution #pollution #MissionforEarth #ME

Chipping away at the integrity of the #Greenbelt 😡15 York Regional councillors voted in favour allowing developers to use the greenbelt farm land for parks. #ourstoprotect #environmentdefenders #ecosystems #farmland Greenbelt Alliance York Region Greenbelt Foundation What’s next?

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Sustainable design aims to create long-term solutions that benefit both society and the environment. 🌳🌎

Designers can reduce waste and emissions by creating products and processes that are recyclable, compostable or reusable. ♻️🚯🌱

Launch at @Guardian of Global Witness report #AtWhatCost on killings of #EnvironmentDefenders highlights 2017 as deadliest year on record with 207 murders, Brazil tops list & agribusiness is biggest driver

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227 Land & #EnvironmentDefenders were killed in 2020 – the highest number of lethal attacks ever recorded, our latest data shows.

These attacks are being driven by the very same industries which are causing the #ClimateCrisis . globalwitness.org/defenders-2021

A new report details how agribusiness—especially soy, sugar, palm oil, and beef production—was the second deadliest sector for people standing up for the environment and their lands. buff.ly/2Yy9hFM @gretalomoran

Over 200 Land & #EnvironmentDefenders - often those on the front lines of the #climatecrisis - were murdered in 2019, according to a new report by Global Witness. More than half of them in #Colombia #Mexico #Honduras & #Guatemala .

Thanks to minister Eamon Ryan for funding support for #environmental defenders. And to AttractaUB ☮️🇺🇦💙💛Access to Justice is my thing for her work on highlighting the need- Ireland to help provide ‘rapid response mechanism’ for ‘environmental defenders’ #EnvironmentalJustice irishtimes.com/news/environme… via The Irish Times

Released today... partners Global Witness' report 'Last Line of Defence' documents the killing of 227 land & #EnvironmentDefenders . Over half of these lethal attacks took place in just 3 countries: #Colombia , #Mexico & #Philippines
Programa Somos Defensores Red TDT Karapatan

Billions of tons of metals are needed for the clean energy transition. But how can we produce these metals without disfiguring our lands, cutting down rainforests and poisoning terrestrial habitats and human communities with vast quantities of toxic waste? There's a better way.

NEW: Last year, 212 Land and #EnvironmentDefenders were murdered whilst defending their homes, their land and the environment against climate-wrecking projects.

2019 was the deadliest year on record.
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One of our Traditional Owners, we have all said no. No to fracking on our country!

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #environmentdefenders #landrights

Bill Browder Geoffrey Robertson Greta Thunberg GetUp!

This must be the start of a new narrative for #Environment Defenders & #AarhusRights
Hopefully this great move by Eamon Ryan has a really positive effect for #Environment al #HumanRights & protection of the #Environment everywhere.Thks also to Kevin O'Sullivan for highlighting this.

Join Global Witness at 4:30PM GMT today (2 November) to pay tribute to those who have lost their lives defending their homes, land and livelihoods. They will live-streaming the event on Twitter or you can contact them and join them in Glasgow! #EnvironmentDefenders - #cop26

Only Government have to protect environment ?
We citizens should also come forward and Plant trees and save Environment with Mission For Earth & Youth Awakening Mission in DharaSewaShivSewa Campaign.
#environmentdefenders #AirPollution

Dan Ilic 👏👏Brilliant Stop Adani 👏👏👏 #climate #activism #environmentdefenders #ClimateActionNow #auspol next please show the amount of money AustralianLiberalPrt Australian Labor spend on coal & gas subsidies & what that’s helping to destroy

We stand with #EnvironmentDefenders who risk their lives everyday to defend the Earth on the front lines. #DefendtheDefenders twitter.com/Global_Witness…

At the global summit on human rights & climate change #ClimateRights4All . human rights and env justice are completely intertwined. #environmentdefenders & #INDIGENOUS peoples on the #forest frontline know this. This feels like a key moment. Forest Peoples Programme Amnesty International Kumi Naidoo

Stop dumping your damn trash in my oceans! #Earth it's all we got. Please.

#EnvironmentDefenders
#ItsNotUranus
#OceanTrash
#PlasticTrash
#FAM46

They are fighting to protect their land, rivers and homes. They are on the frontline of the struggle against climate change. And they are dying in greater numbers than ever before. Stand with #EnvironmentDefenders and share their stories.

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15 York Region Council members supported the private #ROPA7 request against Rec’s of #yorkregion City of Vaughan City of Markham Toronto and Region Conservation Authority & York Fed’n of #Agriculture .

Who do they represent?

yorkregion.com/news-story/104… via @yorkregion

Great initiative of the Swedish Foreign Ministry to call for a high-level event on Environmental Human Rights Defenders!
Re-confirming Swedish commitment to strengthen their protection in line with HRC 40/11 and 40/13.

#EnvironmentDefenders #DemocraticRights #HumanRights

Just spoke to Al Jazeera English about the latest Global Witness #EnvironmentDefenders report out today. 212 environmental & human rights defenders killed in 2019, a grim record. Two of my stories were used as sources in the report. Tune in at 17:30g. Please excuse the quarantine hair.

Much respect to Ethiopia on their #ClimateAction project started last year...they set a Tree-Planting Record With 353 Million Seedlings In Just 12 Hours. BRAVO! More countries need to follow their lead, HUGELY.

#ClimateChange
#EnvironmentDefenders
#FAM46

‘Telling human stories - rehumanising people. It’s what corporates & other powerful actors don’t want us to do” The Guardian jonathanwatts introducing portraits of #EnvironmentDefenders at launch of Global Witness report & exhibition #AtWhatCost

Staggering. Civil Eats on new report about how agribusiness is the second deadliest sector for #EnvironmentDefenders around the world

Won’t you join us in trying to change this; battling the corporate man in favour of the planet? We need you to stand up and be counted. #saveslochywoodlands #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #environmentdefenders #ecocide #ExtinctionRebellion

STEM Tuesday -- Pollinators -- Interview with Author Rebecca Hirsch on WHERE HAVE ALL THE BEES GONE? bit.ly/30WyB7I via The Mixed-Up Files #STEM #bees #pollinators #EnvironmentDefenders