๐ฅ โ๏ธ #๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ญ: ๐๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ in historic case against TotalEnergies, today & tomorrow, ๐ซ๐ท ๐งโโ๏ธ French court holds landmark hearing that could redefine corporate climate accountability.
๐ ๐งต Live reporting from Paris Judicial Court โฌ๏ธ
NEW INVESTIGATION: Who pays the price of the โgreenโ transition?
Our latest report warns that nickel linked to deforestation, river pollution & attacks on land defenders in the Philippines may be entering EV supply chains โ incl. Tesla, VW, Mercedes-Benz, BMW & Audi.
https://gwitness.org/4oZGkLm
European conservatives pushed it through with the far right for the first time ever in the history of the EU. Parties that donโt really believe in the EU, and some not even in human-made climate change.
๐ฅ๐ Imagine the #CSDDD would have actually big corporations to cut emissions and make them contribute to fighting the climate crisis. Instead, it got scrapped thanks largely to pressure from the US and Qatar, and the influential oil & gas lobby.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
The Mossad and Austrian intelligence seem to have hidden one of the Assad regimeโs torturers in Austria www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/w...
๐จBREAKING: 2 BILLION tonnes of emissions are at stake when the EU decides on climate laws this week.
Lobbying by big polluters like Shell, TotalEnergies + Exxon is trying to gut the laws.
The EU must not let them dodge accountability.
https://gwitness.org/47hFYJ3
๐ @globalwitness.orgโs @beatebeller.bsky.social added: financial institutions โmust not remain exempt from accountability for their impact on people and planet.โ
โThe European Parliament must now show leadership by rolling back these damaging proposals and put people and the planet over corporate interestsโ @beatebeller.bsky.social
For more info on the EU's planned rights rollback and poll results see: amn.st/eupublicopin...
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A major new poll by Ipsos, commissioned by Global Witness and Amnesty International surveyed citizens across 10 EU countries and the message is clear:
๐ข Europeans want strong climate action and corporate accountability.
Read our analysis: https://gwitness.org/42iPUAn
www.politico.eu/article/wild...
What it should say: Wildfires push EU to accelerate its anti-deforestation rules
๐ In Honduras, a father and son stood up to illegal logging and paid the ultimate price.
Their brutal deaths are a chilling reminder of the dangers faced by land and environmental defenders around the world.
๐ This must end.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The brutal murders of Juan Bautista Silva and Juan Antonio Hernรกndez highlight ongoing violence against defenders in Honduras. My colleague Laura Furones at @globalwitness.org explains why the country has the highest per capita killings of environmental defenders.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Our latest @globalwitness.org investigation covered in @elpais.com
elpais.com/america-colo...
Pollutionย : lโONG Global Witness dรฉnonce les rejets toxiques de Veolia dans une zone humide de Colombie
- the landfill receives waste from the region's oil refineries
- water leaching from it into wetlands found to contain 25x "safe" levels of mercury
- people living nearby report health conditions including children "born without parts of the brain and skull"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The French corporationโs actions risk causing serious health impacts including birth defects among local community, as EU plans to weaken law that would hold companies accountable for environmental damage. #CSDDD
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French multinational Veolia alleged to be at the heart of a pollution scandal in Columbia, impacting workers their communities and the environment.Based on research of @globalwitness.org www.theguardian.com/global-devel... Company denies
For info on trade unions and Columbia justiceforcolombia.org
Von der Leyenโs attack on her own sustainability agenda is disgraceful.
www.politico.eu/article/most...
Civil society and trade union protests outside the EU Commission today as we await the Omnibus. This proposal is a push for deregulation, particularly impacting the Green Deal. Recent leaks suggest the CSDDD may let companies escape responsibility for global human rights and environmental abuses.
The tests identified the most extreme bias on TikTok, where 78% of the political content that was algorithmically recommended to its test accounts was supportive of the AfD party. On X, Global Witness found that 64% of such recommended political content was supportive of the AfD.
Our Global Witness investigation of TikTok and X โFor Youโ feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of elections on Sunday.
techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...
Breaking: This is Caesar, the Syrian who smuggled thousnds of photos of people Assad killed under torture. He was the head of the Forensic Evidence Department in Military Police in Damascus, and whom the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act named after.
Big crowd of civil society and trade unions outside the European Commission to protest against corporate capture and deregulation. The looming Omnibus threatens to water down some hard-fought laws on corporate accountability and reporting. Proper public consultations or impact assessments? Absent!
As the EU threatens to cut back on the European Green Deal and commitments for big business, European companies continue to cause damage overseas. The European law on due diligence for large companies is in danger of being watered down further. #CSDDD
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