Ryan Brightwell

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Human rights and research at BankTrack, comms at Save Our Bank. I'm a migrant from England living in the Netherlands. He/him.

So if I understand it right - people entering the UK "illegally" will now be denied asylum under the new Bill. But there are no practical routes for asylum seekers to enter the UK legally. So we've just made it illegal to seek asylum.

How is that remotely excusable?

Adani is using stocks in Adani Green and Adani Ports as collateral for a credit line for the Carmichael coal mine.

A powerful example of a failure of ring-fencing, and a good argument for avoiding financing "green" parts of terrible companies.

See the research note from the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (not sure if they are on Mastadon!)
https://anthropocenefii.org/afii-carmichael#8ade6073-183f-49fe-af4e-95232332d949

Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute

Empower fixed income markets to drive the global climate transition at speed and scale.

Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute

Shocking heavy-handed police tactics here in the Netherlands. Activists were taken from their homes at 7am, in some cases arrested in front of their kids, all because of their involvement in a peaceful blockade against fossil fuel subsidies planned in The Hague on Saturday.

More reason to join the solidarity demonstration!

https://extinctionrebellion.nl/police-arrest-at-least-six-dutch-nonviolent-climate-activists-at-home-for-incitement/

Police arrest at least six Dutch nonviolent climate activists at home for incitement · Extinction Rebellion Nederland

Arrests follow announcement by lawyer that activists would report for questioning if requested Today, Thursday, Jan. 26 around 7 a.m., police arrested at least six nonviolent climate activists for incitement*, including XR rebels Jelle de Graaf and Tessel Hofstede. Police entered the home of a seventh climate activist, actor and XR rebel Sieger Sloot. After […]

Extinction Rebellion Nederland

🗞️ We have a new blog up on the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre on why the results of our bank benchmark show that European due diligence legislation must cover financial services.

Written by my colleague Giulia Barbos and published as part of BHRRC's "Towards Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence" blog series #CSDDD #BizHumanRights

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/blog/in-the-balance-why-european-due-diligence-legislation-must-cover-financial-services/

In the balance: Why European due diligence legislation must cover financial services - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

@NadiaBernaz I have pretty mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, Twitter clearly now opperates on Musk's whims, and I don't really want to be a part of that. And perhaps if enough people get themselves suspended for trivial reasons, that could be an effective protest?

On the other, although I was never massively into Twitter, I have just lost an audience of a few hundred people that I'd build up over many years, including some valued contacts.

So, I got suspended on Twitter today, after these three tweets.

It took Twitter about 20 minutes after I posted - quite efficient work from Twitter HQ!

I tweeted this in a spirit of exploration and amazement rather than anything else, and obviously getting banned was a predictable consequence in hindsight. But I don't think that posting a link to a flight tracker website constitutes doxxing, or anything of the kind.

As #COP15 kicks off, here's a useful explainer on the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures - #TNFD - and why it's a long way from being up to the task of addressing the crisis of Nature.

The TNDF fails to put communities and Indigenous peoples affected by nature loss in the driving seat, and only treats damage to nature as a problem when it affects business profitability. A pretty big fail for an initiative backed by the likes of the UNDP and WWF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=057rF2slGfA

The TNFD: What it is, who's behind it and why it's a major greenwashing risk

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@NadiaBernaz Super happy to be doing it! We are on the way, from Nijmegen and the Hague respectively 😀

Fifa is running a #SaveThePlanet campaign during a World Cup for which it chose QatarEnergy as Official Partner. 🤡

BankTrack's study on the emissions behind QatarEnergy's expansion plans, and the banks supporting them, is in the Guardian today:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/08/qatar-gas-output-increase-catastrophic-global-heating-report

Qatar’s gas output increase could cause catastrophic global heating, report says

If Qatar exploits all its reserves it will add 50bn metric tons of CO2 to atmosphere, more than entire annual emissions of whole world

The Guardian
EU CSDDD negotiations turning into a vvvveeerrrryyyy slow-mo car crash.
Call me a cynic but it's almost like the status quo of corporate impunity suits European governments well enough?
https://euobserver.com/opinion/156491
How Berlin and Paris sold-out the EU corporate due diligence law

Germany even tried to mobilise support to turn the due diligence process, designed to prevent human rights violations, into a shield to protect companies from being taken to court. Thankfully this did not gain much traction.

EUobserver