“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars/

"On one weekend in Tokyo, hundreds of visitors flocked to a zine fair showcasing a wide range of handmade magazines in different sizes and formats — some incorporating abstract designs, photography or personal monologues."

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/06/01/books/japan-zines-kyoto-shimbun/

Following the @EUCommission Tech Sovereignty and Open Source Strategy (and Mastodon’s direct mention within it!) announced this week…

Our team is proud to have signed and contributed to the drafting of the European Social Stack Open Declaration alongside our peers in the #SocialWeb and #Fediverse: @anewsocial, @eurosky.social, @newsmast, Save Social, and @swf.

We are a movement, and stronger together.

Read the declaration, add your signature, and share: https://european.social/

I'm by far not active enough to call myself a climate "activist", but I do dump all #climate #news that I see in a Discord server. From the last week, excluding the news about Wopke Hoekstra (Shell, KLM, Qatar) whom I wouldn't trust yet;

The daily Dutch XR protest on highway A12 has had success: our parliament will discuss a motion to reduce fossil subsidies next week. Protests will now pause
https://nos.nl/l/2493008
Italian climate researcher Gianluca Grimalda does not want to travel by plane. Now his German employer IfW balks about that
https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/opmerkelijk/artikel/5411397/klimaatwetenschapper-weigert-te-vliegen-baan-duitsland
Dutch water quality should increase quickly, otherwise regulations will have to halt discharges and water works immediately, and we have the same crisis as with nitrogen
https://www.gelderlander.nl/tiel/waterschappen-slaan-alarm-waterkwaliteit-moet-snel-omhoog-anders-dreigt-nieuwe-crisis-zoals-met-stikstof~a31a4951/
The IMF promotes their own tweets on X to call banks for more sustainable financing
https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/10/02/emerging-economies-need-much-more-private-financing-for-climate-transition
https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/08/24/fossil-fuel-subsidies-surged-to-record-7-trillion
An interview with Mohammed Chahim, the PvdA politician who wrote the new CBAM European climate law
https://decorrespondent.nl/14846/het-is-deze-europarlementarier-mooi-gelukt-met-deze-wet-wordt-de-co2-uitstoot-in-europa-flink-teruggedrongen/6e5bf4a8-1355-0818-3b0c-20eb73276bc7

"More than 60,000 protesters gathered in the Swiss capital #Bern on Saturday demanding tougher policies to combat #ClimateChange, organisers said, less than a month ahead of a national election.

Such large protests are rare in #Switzerland and show growing public frustration with the pace of policy-making to combat #GlobalWarming despite ample evidence of its impact."

https://emeatribune.com/tens-of-thousands-demand-climate-action-in-swiss-capital/