From vision to impact: 50 years of IEEP - IEEP AISBL This year, IEEP turns 50! To celebrate this formidable milestone, throughout 2026, we will retrace our long history, highlight key moments in EU policymaking, and showcase our influence and impact on some of the most critical events, with the support of current and past friends, colleagues, and supporters. In this first blog, Honorary Fellow Nigel Haigh and our Executive Director, Antoine Oger, talk about the origin of IEEP and reflect on the challenges to come.

To celebrate 5️⃣0️⃣ years of impacts, we will retrace IEEP's long history, highlighting key moments

In this first blog, Honorary Fellow Nigel Haigh and our ED @antoine-oger.bsky.social talk about the origins of IEEP and reflect on the challenges to come ⬇️

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Durabilité et Transition Face aux défis environnementaux et sociaux auxquels nous sommes confrontés, l’ULiège lance un MOOC gratuit pour aider chacun et chacune à comprendre les enjeux de la transition.

ULiège opens its ‘Sustainability & Transition’ MOOC to the public. This free course involves over 50 experts and covers Earth systems, root causes, and solutions. Registration is open now; the course starts on 9 Feb 2026. @universitedeliege.bsky.social 👇

In French updates, ex minister Duplomb resurrects its pesticides liberalisation bill which was killed by the supreme court. A doctored version will be added to the big farm lobby pleading bill of the new gov, alonside wolf killing, water theft, and other goodies.

Martin Dermine of Pan Europe: “We show that 85% of the apples have multiple residues, and we don’t know if they are safe for consumption or not".
If the same apples were sold as processed baby food, 93% of the samples would be banned.

Official confirmation of German participation in European troop deployment to Greenland. First Bundeswehr soldiers to arrive tomorrow. 🇪🇺 / NATO solidarity in action.

The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Trump didn’t seek congressional OK before attacking Venezuela. We spoke with Sarah Burns @rittigers.bsky.social, who has spent years studying how presidents and Congress divide up the power to launch military action, and wrote a book on “The Politics of War Powers”.

Francis Hallé, botaniste et infatigable défenseur des arbres, est mort à l’âge de 87 ans Le dendrologue, spécialiste des forêts tropicales et de l’architecture des arbres, avait réussi, grâce à ses talents de pédagogue et à ses dons de dessinateur, à capter l’attention et la sympathie du ...

Francis Hallé n'était pas seulement un immense chercheur en biologie végétale et un défenseur acharné des forêts et des arbres.
C'était aussi un être humain d'une grande gentillesse et d'une grande humilité. Il savait écouter, partager et se mettre au service d'autrui.
www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

I've added 2025 to this ridiculous chart

La doctrine Monroe en action pour acter définitivement la fin du monde que nous avons connu. Le chaos est devant nous

Putting greenhouse gas emissions numbers into context can be hard. The numbers are large, unfamiliar, and not intuitive.

That's why Project Drawdown and a team at the University of San Francisco collaborated to create a new web tool -- Carbon in Context.

www.carbonincontext.com

Just 74 intensive-care beds remain in Gaza The health-care system is shattered and no one is rebuilding it

Putting the health-care system back together will take years. The WHO puts the cost at $7bn-8bn. In the meantime Gazans continue to suffer

"Addressing the ecological crisis is not apolitical, in the sense that steps towards sustainable and ecologically desirable
futures will inevitably disrupt existing power structures and confront vested interests"

Great to see this understanding finally seeping into the ecology research community

Farming exceptionalism: try doing this if you're protesting against a genocide or climate inaction!

The UK has been warmer than the historical 'norm' for many weeks now.
And greenhouse gas emissions, thus also CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere, keep rising... bsky.app/profile/keel...

istheukhotrightnow.com

Montage de produits de notre boutique en ligne Bird on the wire avec pour thème Secret Santa à moins de 10€. On y voit notamment, des coupelles en forme de chat, des vases canette de soda, une jolie tasse avec des nuages ou encore des cache-pots en terracotta avec de gros yeux.

Avec ma femme, on gère depuis 19 ans une petite boutique en ligne de cadeaux, Bird on the wire 🩵
Ce Noël est, pour la première fois, très compliqué pour nous...
On aurait vraiment besoin de soutien, ne serait-ce qu'un petit partage pour nous faire découvrir.
Merci pour votre aide !
botw.fr/shop/fr/

At #EUAgriFoodDays, MEP Elsi Katainen reflects on the post-2027 CAP proposal and what it means for farm subsidies, and flags the upcoming review of the #UTP Directive (Unfair Trading Practices) as a key priority to ensure farmers get fair and remunerative prices from the market.

Which country is most similar to Britain? Clue: none of the ones its politicians obsess over

If Britons were to look at Spain, they would see a rapidly growing economy with a relaxed attitude to immigration—in both respects a sharp contrast to their own land. Yet the two share similarities

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

Big food's routes to influence at COP30

🚨 Big Agribusiness has come to #COP30 – and it’s not here for #ClimateJustice.

@desmog.com reveals 141 influence routes used by JBS, Nestlé, Bayer & others to greenwash their image, lobby for weak metrics & grab climate finance.

📖 Must-read: www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...

#FoodSystems

In the special collections exhibition at the KU Leuven Library, two 18th-century silk prints: one a graduation thesis and the other a congratulatory poem, both common subjects for silk printing at the time. @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Taxe Zucman : il serait prudent de retenir, dans un premier temps, un taux de 1 %, par Jean Pisani-Ferry Gage d’une meilleure répartition, elle permettrait d’atténuer la sous-taxation des ultrariches et de moderniser le système fiscal, plaide l’économiste Jean Pisani-Ferry.

La taxe Zucman mérite mieux que des invectives. Pour des raisons d’économie politique, alors que la France fait face à un ajustement budgétaire de très grande ampleur. Et parce qu’elle permet d’adapter le système fiscal aux transformations de l’économie. www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

The paradoxes of the protein transition maintain existing animal production and consumption systems - Nature Food Moving away from animal-based protein consumption requires major changes in how food systems operate. This Perspective explores three paradoxes driving the transition and alternative, interconnected approaches to support protein system sustainability.

I agree on the impact of livestock, not only beef, but we don’t have to substitute animal proteins by plant-based proteins. We just have to decrease animal proteins consumption and production as we are globally eating too much proteins as explained in this paper. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Caution is needed when translating the carbon market logic to nature credits - Nature Food Nature Food - Caution is needed when translating the carbon market logic to nature credits

From carbon credits to nature credits: which challenges for the governance of agri-food systemes ? A very clear analysis in five points by @erikmathijs.bsky.social in @natfood.nature.com - www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Tracing sources of funds used to lobby the US government about carbon capture, use, and storage Analysis of U.S. federal lobbying disclosures from 2005 through 2024 identifies the fossil fuel sector as the primary force behind a multipronged $954…

Yep.

"…clear that fossil-fuel companies, and their adjacent organizations, are the primary lobbyists for CCUS subsidies and that these subsidies benefit fossil-fuel companies at the expense of both taxpayers and the future health of our planet"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dans l'histoire de la Ve République, aucun ministre de la Culture n'avait à ce point attaqué la presse, menacé les journalistes, intimidé des rédactions, tenté de faire taire des révélations. La combattre c'est combattre pour la survie même de la presse. Soutien à @thomas-legrand.bsky.social.

Passing by over the city/ by Gregory Fromenteau

Loi Duplomb : la mobilisation a gagné ? YouTube video by TV5MONDE Info

Merci à TV5MONDE de m’avoir invité à donner mon avis sur la loi Duplomb.

Ce que demandent les pétitionnaires, en France, comme en Belgique, c’est un nouveau contrat entre le monde agricole et la société basé sur le dialogue et le respect.

youtube.com/watch?v=VH1u...

Loi Duplomb: le débat français sur l'acétamipride rejoint l'inquiétude des Belges autour des PFAS La loi Duplomb fait des remous en dehors de France. Le Conseil constitutionnel a censuré, jeudi 7 août, la disposition la plus controversée de cette loi agricole, qui prévoyait de réautoriser des pesticides néonicotinoïdes toxiques pour l'environnement et la santé, comme l'acétamipride. Un débat qui a eu des échos en Belgique, où l'acétamipride est utilisée par des producteurs de betteraves à sucre. Interview avec Philippe Baret, agronome et professeur à l'université de Louvain.

Loi Duplomb: le débat français sur l'acétamipride rejoint l'inquiétude des Belges autour des PFAS