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/

Not everyone lives in the same climate, even people that live in the same city. Some people live much hotter lives, and it's mainly connected to how poor they are.

So spare a moment for those living the "hot life"

I write about this on The Climate Brink
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/spare-a-thought-for-those-living

Just saw that Schmincke now has vegan, water-soluble oil colors: https://www.schmincke-normablue.de/en :)
I haven't testet them yet, so I don't how they compare to other oil colors though.

#Vegan #OilColor #Schmincke #NormaBlue

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