What has shaped Türkiye's approach to climate change?

Our lawyer, Gizem Koç, joined Track Changes podcast to discuss the country's recent climate law changes and the drivers of those changes.

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🎉 Win against greenwashing 🎉

Nestlé is now the second company to commit to change its greenwashing advertising practices around plastic bottles as a result of a complaint we supported, filed by @beuc.eu in 2023 1/4

🥭"Tropical forests can regrow within decades, with species abundance and diversity recovering quickly, but full ecological recovery—especially the return of original species composition—takes much longer."

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PFAS affected communities coming together in resistance ✊

📢 Last month, people living in areas with high levels of #PFAS (forever chemicals) pollution across Europe came together in Brussels to demand action, organised by @eeb.org.

More here: www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

Fossil fuel markets are highly volatile, politicised & conflict-prone. Fossil fuels usually end up traded & exported, not kept for local use.

Renewable energy provides greater independence & sovereignty, less vulnerability to attack & more opportunity on the path to an energy secure future. 2/2

More drilling in North Sea ‘not the answer’ for UK energy security, say former military leaders Government told to focus on transition to mix of wind, solar, tidal and nuclear energy

📢 Former military leaders have told the UK government: more drilling in the north sea would do nothing to improve the UK's energy security

As we know, drilling for more fossil fuels, wherever they may be located, is a bad bet for energy security. 1/2

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Thank you to all who wrote to Ed Miliband and your MPs about this issue. 💚

You made it clear how passionate we all are when it comes to protecting nature.

We will continue to fight for it. 💪3/3

Thankfully, the legal protections for nature have remained largely intact, with the Gov opting instead for guidance regarding the Habitats Regulations & to tweak rather than remove the National Park duty.

We'll continue our parliamentary advocacy with our partners. 2/3

🐝Legal protections for nature have remained largely intact in the UK

The UK Gov has announced next steps for the 'Fingleton Review' - a report that threatened to remove some remaining safeguards protecting nature & people, & would've made it easier for developers to damage or destroy UK nature 1/3

‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters ‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’

‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink,’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’.

EU urged to broadly restrict 'forever chemicals' "Forever chemicals" pose a growing risk to health and the environment and should be broadly banned across the European Union, with some exceptions, EU experts said in findings published on Thursday.

"PFAS pollution is ubiquitous and the health impacts on EU citizens are becoming clearer every day. Our policymakers owe it to people and our ecosystems across Europe to act now and prevent this emerging large-scale public health disaster" - Helene Duguy, ClientEarth lawyer.

Chronic ocean warming drives 20% annual decline in fish biomass - Oceanographic Chronic ocean warming is drives a 20% annual decline in fish biomass across the Northern Hemisphere - startling for global fisheries.

Ocean warming is causing a nearly 20% drop in fish biomass every year.

At the same time, marine heatwaves can temporarily boost some populations, which masks long-term losses and making fisheries management even more complicated.

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Tell Your MP: Clean Water Now Together, we can ensure the Water Reform Bill changes the system, so it benefits people and planet, not polluters and profit.

Years of weak regulation and political inaction have allowed sewage, chemicals, and agricultural runoff to pollute our waterways 🚨

But the UK Parliament will soon decide whether that changes.

Demand a #WaterReformBill that delivers #CleanWaterNow.

Email your MP - it's 2 mins with our template 🌟

We are delighted to welcome Caroline Burkie to ClientEarth as our new Global Head of Philanthropy.

Caroline brings a wealth of experience securing support for global climate and social impact organisations. We are very lucky to have Caroline on board.

📉 Global fertility rates have dropped over 50% in the past 50 years.

What’s driving this decline? Research from Dr. Shanna Swan shows it’s closely linked to the chemicals in plastic. 🚨 ⚠️

#BreakFreeFromPlastic #ThePlasticDetox #UnplasticYourLife

Tell Your MP: Clean Water Now Together, we can ensure the Water Reform Bill changes the system, so it benefits people and planet, not polluters and profit.

As the UK Parliament prepares to debate the #WaterReformBill, we have a rare chance to fix a broken system so it works for people and nature.

Email your MP today, it takes 5 minutes with our template ✍️ act.clientearth.org/page/187464/...

Welsh Water to pay £44.7m after ‘unacceptable’ sewage works failings Proposed package comes after regulator finds ‘serious and unacceptable breaches’ in how company operates

Welsh Water to pay £44.7m after ‘unacceptable’ sewage works failings 🚨

Proposed package comes after regulator finds ‘serious and unacceptable breaches’ in how company operates.

Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst? While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans

This isn’t a future threat - it’s happening now ⚠️

While tailings dams are meant to last forever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans

📢Vanuatu has drafted a United Nations resolution calling for the endorsement of the International Court of Justice’s Climate Advisory Opinion – a pivotal step towards global climate accountability.

Standing with Vanuatu means standing for climate justice – for everyone. #ICJAO #ClimateJustice

4/6 When retirement savings are exposed to these risks, it raises serious questions about fiduciary duty.
Are corporations properly protecting their employees’ long-term financial interests?

3/6 Climate risk is already impacting financial markets.
Flood-damaged property and stranded fossil fuel assets are reducing the value of investment funds today.

2/6 These sectors face growing financial risk – and therefore so do those investments. That risk doesn’t just affect the planet – it affects peoples’ hard-earned retirement savings.

🚨 Only 14% of England’s rivers meet good ecological standards.

But the UK Parliament is about to decide whether that changes.

Demand a Water Reform Bill that stops pollution and delivers #CleanWaterNow.

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How extreme weather is leaving thousands of homes uninsurable In this week’s newsletter: The climate crisis is making insurance unaffordable for many – and it should worry all of us, even if we think we’re safe from floods, wildfires and hurricanes

The climate crisis is making insurance unaffordable for many 🚨

“We’re seeing more frequent, more severe extreme weather events and that inevitably affects claims and affects pricing – it can’t not.” - Felicity Alvey, University of Cambridge @cisl.cam.ac.uk

#climatechange

‘A devastating force’: how recent Mediterranean storms turned to tragedies Atmospheric machine-gun has fired storm after deadly storm at the region this year, leaving a trail of widespread destruction

Extreme weather ⛈️

The role that the climate crisis played in the formation of the recent storms in the Med is still uncertain.

However, early analysis from @climatecentral.org found it made a marine heatwave that supercharged the storms 10 times more likely.

#climatechange

Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows

New research 📚

Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows.

A new legal challenge in the UK is demanding accountability for river pollution linked to intensive poultry farming ⚖️

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#RiverPollution

👉 If we’re serious about tackling plastic pollution and the climate crisis, we must address production - not just recycling.

ClientEarth court action against INEOS' new €3bn plastics project Our lawyers, together with 14other NGOs, have taken action to block petrochemicals giant INEOS’ plastics project in Belgium. And for good this time.

We’re challenging that system in court. Our legal action targets INEOS's €4bn 'Project One' plastics facility in Antwerp - a project that would lock in fossil-fuel based plastic production for decades, pushed by billionaire Jim Ratcliffe.

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‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

In a stunning new book, author Beth Gardiner investigates how recycling was promoted for decades as a full solution, while fossil fuel and petrochemical companies expanded plastic production behind the scenes.

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