Belfast Climate Commission

There is something jarring in the presentation of two main news stories in the North today as unrelated things: A) A worship of intensification of production & extraction at the investment conference & the implicit values of this outlook B) An extinction of life at Lough Neagh

Official now! I'm pleased to work as a postdoc at the Centre for Futures of Sustainability @fos_uhh! From next January, my four-year project will investigate peace and security implications of the global movement to criminalise 'ecocide'. Really excited for my life in Hamburg!!!!

I’m happy to share that ⁦⁦@Centre_SECA⁩ & ⁦@daera_ni⁩ will co-host #publicConsultation event on #NI #CarbonBudgets Join us in ⁦@QUBelfast⁩ on 22nd Sept for our event on #ClimateAction ⁦⁦@QUBEngagement⁩ ⁦@HAPPatQUB⁩ eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-consu…

This summer has been brilliant for researching some of the biodiversity at @NTmountstewart. Our focus is on the ghost ponds and pollinator strips in field margins, both buzzing with life! 🐝🦋🐞🐸

Copernicus Sentinel imagery of Lough Neagh taken last week. I don't think it's supposed to look like this?

My #EarthsCorr column from the weekend and another HUGE issue facing NI governance - should one council be allowed to make decisions that will impact every council area - and why are DfI sitting on their hands on major fossil fuel projects? belfastlive.co.uk/news/northern-…

#OpenBotanic is back! Join us on Sunday 24 September to enjoy art, greening, cycling, health, music, games & more! It has been wonderful for our team to work with Sandy Row, Donegall Pass, Holyland, @friendsoffield and @AnakaCollective @ForwardSouthPB @QUBEngagement @QUBarch

Lough Neagh today. The polution smells, looks and feels as if it has come from another planet.

#ClimateConversationsNI 🗨️Join us in person/or online & be part of discussion on NI’s first 3 carbon budgets & 2030 & 2040 targets 💁Next event is Tues 5 Sep Belfast City Hall @2PM 💻Register at: eventbrite.com/cc/public-cons… @ExecOfficeNI @belfastcc @BelfastClimate @NI_LGA @nidirect

More lazy reporting from Richard Wright - neglecting to point out that reason for agriculture in Ireland being ‘in firing line’ to achieve Net Zero targets is … because it’s the largest source of GHG emissions!!! And it’s Carbon (not Cross) Border Adjustment Mechanism by the way

Some positive news "Montana state court decided Monday in favor of young people who alleged the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful environment” by promoting the use of fossil fuels". washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Here we are back to basics again. Not naming the sources that cause toxic blue-green algae : Unregulated industrial farming and human sewage belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environme…

Just over 2 weeks to go until our hybrid workshop at @MyBCU! With fantastic talks by @ProfJohnBarry, @Prof_FSultana, @CamiloArdilaAr & more! Details & registration 👇. Please share widely! 🌏✊🌊 justfutures23.eventbrite.co.uk #ClimateJustice #ClimateEmergncy @PolStudiesAssoc #ecology

Whats the future ownership of Lough Neagh, given unfolding ecocide? I trust neither state ownership or continuing with "the Earl of Extraction" Lord Shaftesbury. The rights of nature ie the Lough is given a legal right to own itself must be an option bbc.com/news/uk-northe…

“It’s a polycrisis…a crisis of climate, a crisis of biodiversity and a crisis of pollution.” Séamus Diskin with Jamie Murphy from Treasure Leitrim and conservationist Neil Folkes talk about the need to build grassroots resistance. #CommunitiesNotShareholders #ClimateCampIreland

Attending #ClimateCampIreland in Co Leitrim.Session on data centres organised by @PBresnihan was packed. great selection of campaigns against their expansion & frightening projections of their consumption of electricity, water & limited job creation potential #datacolonisation

Second proud supervisor moment, as Jaeim Park submitted her revised PhD thesis today after passing her viva examination in July, 'Caring democracy in a degrowth world: An ecofeminist-republican analysis', with thanks to Examiners Prof Joan Tronto & @ClaraFischer14

Proud supervisor moment. Congratulations to @calum_mcgeown for successfully defending his PhD thesis, 'Revolutionary Green Republicanism: Anti-Capitalist Politics for the Planetary Crisis'...many thanks to Examiners Derek Wall @Anothergreen, @SusanMcManus10 & Chair, @AshMc8914

Just back from brilliant talk by Prof Michael Cronin @tcddublin hosted my @GlorNaMona and part of @FeileBelfast - entitled ‘An Ghaeilge agus Éiceolaíocht | Irish Language & Ecology’ Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam & recovery of language inextricably linked to healing nature

Proud to annouce Solastalgia EP 11 - part two of our conversation with Andy and Geraint, unlikely friends and accidental activists opposing plans to expand an oil facility at Cloghan Point on the Antrim coast. podbay.fm/p/queens-unive… @CloghanNo