What are the global commons?
Watch our new video to understand why we must safeguard, restore and govern these vital Earth systems – and understand your role in protecting our only home. 👇
Learn more about our work: globalcommonsalliance.org
🆕 Major summits including UNFCCC #ClimateWeek3 & the First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels take place this month.
These events show momentum for climate action continues, even as progress from some countries appears to be going backwards: globalcommonsalliance.org/news/no-time...
Seaweed aquaculture is booming, driven by demands for sustainable food and industry – but rising disease prevalence in seaweed is a threat. This review explores the challenges and shares sustainable approaches to disease management.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New episode of the #WeDontHaveTime Podcast! 🎙️🌍
Understand the "how-to" First Conference on the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta with @nicknuttall.bsky.social, @wedonthavetime.bsky.social, @kuminaidoo.bsky.social & Amiera Sawas.
🎧 Full episode: app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/bd90a2...
🎯 How ambitious are today’s climate targets?
It depends on the lens: fairness, cost, feasibility, and more. WRI Climate compares major emitters’ targets across 5 approaches.
Explore the update: bit.ly/4jMU6yK
#NDCs #ClimateAction
Everything feels big at the moment, doesn’t it?
With each bi-weekly newsletter we write, the world feels ever more fractured.
Find out how we're finding opportunities for hope and progress in our latest newsletter: globalcommonsalliance.org/news/everyth...
Three days of hope & collective action at the iconic Grand Palais in #Paris! 🇫🇷✨
Join history-makers and innovators for #ChangeNOW2026, from March 30–April 2. 🤝
Check out the program & register to watch on @wedonthavetime.bsky.social 👇
www.wedonthavetime.org/events/chang...
@changenow.bsky.social
Can we finally phase out fossil fuels? 🧐
Join @nicknuttall.bsky.social & more at @changenow.bsky.social 2026 for a conversation on shaping the roadmap to a fossil-free future ahead of the Santa Marta Conference in April.
Watch it on @wedonthavetime.bsky.social: wedonthavetime.org/events/chang...
Number of countries in critical food insecurity could almost triple to 24 if global temps increase by 2C
"The result could be massive instability, state collapse, and forced migration. That is the national security threat the UK defence chiefs have warned about"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🎉 Member spotlight: Find out about Accountability Accelerator, and why being part of the Global Commons Alliance helps accelerate a just world, on a safe planet.
Read more on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Nearly 1 in 3 people globally is impacted by climate change–fueled extreme heat, reducing the time people can spend outdoors safely. And the effects are felt disproportionately. By @jonathan-watts.bsky.social for @theguardian.com:
As geopolitical tensions continue the fragility of our fossil fuel-dependent world becomes increasingly apparent. Conflicts remind us that true security lies in clean energy and the safeguarding of our global commons.
Read more in our latest newsletter: globalcommonsalliance.org/news/navigat...
📢 History is being written this month, and our collective action could determine whether climate justice becomes reality.
Join a call today to find out what you can do to support the UN resolution to turn the historic Advisory Opinion ruling into concrete action: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Middle East war strengthens case for renewables, say clean energy experts
- Oil and gas price shocks triggered by conflict reignite discussion about building defences to volatile fuel costs
Story by @kenzabryan.ft.com and @attractamooney.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/001a...
Nature loss could cost twice as much as the financial crash - leaked report
ITV reveals some of the warnings the government chose not to publish:
Intelligence chiefs project that nature loss could lead to annual "GDP being 12% lower than it would have been otherwise by 2030"
Conceptual model of key actors, systems, and drivers of the three major threats to population health.
The three major global threats to population health are non-communicable diseases (#NCDs), infectious disease outbreaks, and environmental degradation.
A Lancet Commission provides a set of priority recommendations to address these threats.
Read now 👉 spkl.io/63328AvBwk
California Governor Gavin Newsom emphasized the urgency of collaborating in the face of increasingly unstable US leadership, stating: “Growth and security depend on democratic values, credibility, and climate action.”
Read more in our latest newsletter: globalcommonsalliance.org/news/securit...
"Shame on you." 🔥
At #MSC2026, @sddecleve.bsky.social was clear: walking away from renewables, just as they become affordable, is a dead end.
With #AMOC threatening Europe the hardest, this is our crisis. Innovate, don't hesitate.
Watch more: www.wedonthavetime.org/events/munic...
#climateaction
“This journey is about listening to landscapes, to people, & to the realities of a changing Arctic & allowing that process to shape the work.”
Next month Tom Bailey from Mechanimal sets off on a ultra slow performance journey across Arctic Norway, Finland & Sweden >> tinyurl.com/ud4hsw3y
🎉 Momentum continues for the evolving Global Commons Alliance, with five new members joining as members in the last month including @mongabay.com
🔗 Learn more about our new members, and about joining the Alliance: globalcommonsalliance.org/the-alliance/
Australia’s biodiversity is under pressure. 🇦🇺🌿
Land clearing, fragmentation, climate change & offshore extraction are reshaping ecosystems on land and at sea.
That's why Mongabay is launching the Australia Biodiversity Special Reporting Project.
Send your pitches:
www.jotform.com/260274347580...
How can we truly measure progress in a world facing polycrisis?
@unu-cpr.bsky.social experts argue it is time to move beyond GDP and adopt metrics that capture human well-being and planetary health 🌍📊
Read more: go.unu.edu/bQGgC
To go fast, go alone, but to go far, go together.
Listen to this bonus episode of Nature Insight, recorded live at #IPBES12, where we discussed the value of collaboration with UN Biodiversity ES Astrid Schomaker and Jim White from Nature Positive.
https://natureinsight.podbean.com/
Ahead of this week’s Munich Security Conference, the forum’s annual report published on Monday warns the world has entered “a period of wrecking-ball politics” and that the US-led international order is “now under destruction”.
Read our latest newsletter: globalcommonsalliance.org/news/wreckin...
‘Point-of-no-return’: Lock-in of a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, warn scientists
- Continued global heating could set an irreversible course by triggering tipping points, but the public and politicians are largely unaware
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🆕 Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @oregonstate.edu, @iiasa.ac.at & PIK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Today we celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🎉
Join us in celebrating the inspiring women in science from around the world who we are honoured to have as members and partners of the Global Commons Alliance. 👇
A new study from Earth Commission scientists warns that rising air pollution in South Asia could trigger severe drought, threatening nearly 2 billion people.
Aerosols harm health & disrupt rainfall. Reducing them both cleans the air & protects water security.
🔗 earthcommission.org/aerosol-boun...
Climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, economic instability and conflict are deeply connected and fossil fuel dependence sits at the centre of all four.
#Climate change is a security risk.
Disinformation is a security risk.
And social media is where both battles are being fought. 🤳
Join us at #MSC2026 to talk climate, security, #democracy & Europe's digital future.
It's time to #StrengthenTheRope: w-munich.confetti.events
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