Grace O'Sullivan MEP @GraceOSllvn@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Climate & social justice activist 🌍. Ecologist 🌱. Surfer 🏄🏼♀️. Mother.
Green MEP for Ireland South 🇪🇺. @greenparty_ie spokesperson on the marine.
Joined Apr 2022
🇵🇸 The entire city of Nablus has been under siege for days. Palestinians have no exit from a city about the size of Cork
Journalists killed, doctors targeted, NGOs shut
Ireland and the EU must show there are consequences for countries who consistently violate international law
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1582336601409347585
Countries who have not caused the climate crisis are those who bear the brunt 🌍
Our priority at the COP27 this year is ensuring those communities are supported
Inspirational @lizwathuti came today with the message that justice must be at the centre of climate negotiations
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1582048671579140096
RT @IrishRainforest: "The EU is committed to tackling both climate and biodiversity crises.
Planting massive, single-species plantations for industrial clear-culling helps neither."
Excellent letter from @GraceOSllvn in yesterday's @IrishTimes.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1581605546603343873
Tuesday is World #Menopause Day, and I'm proud to see the #TalkAboutMenopause campaign kicking off this year.
In 2017 I shared my thoughts on my own experience of menopause - check it out here ⬇️
https://graceosullivan.ie/menopause/
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1581577059528495104
🌊A topic close to my heart.
Ireland has recently undertaken the most important overhaul of maritime legislation in the State's history 🇨🇮
With @WWFEU on 25th Oct we will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our efforts
Register for the webinar here: https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-spatial-planning-in-the-north-sea-and-north-east-atlantic-regions-tickets-414036794197
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⚠️ONE BILLION crabs, or 90 percent of their population, have disappeared in the last 2 years off the coast of Alaska.
An eerie warning of climate-driven ecosystem collapse in the Pacific.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1581159351095468033
The broad majestic Shannon, the ancient Boyne, the lovely Lee, the Three Sisters Nore, Barrow and Suir
Almost 50% of our rivers are polluted, and getting worse
A new River Management Plan is in the works. But it is time to end the streams of fertiliser in our beautiful waters
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1580936098360229889
What a historic week to look back on 🇮🇪
I can’t believe we’re going to the World Cup!!! #COYGIG #FIFAWWC
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1580819633627893761
So happy to return to my alma mater @StAngelasWC in Waterford today for @JA_Irl
Here I am in 6th year back in 1980 - do you recognise me? 😅
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1580584787747950592
🇮🇪 Ireland has plenty of goals and aims for biodiversity, but so far enforcement and implementation is lacking.
📢Well Clare, Cork, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Offally, Sligo, Westmeath and Wicklow are all getting a Biodiversity Officer, with another 15 posts to come!
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1580493474537033734
I'm back in the Seanad!
(Albeit from the Viewing Gallery 😅)
Wonderful to see @paulinegalway motion on breastfeeding proposed in the Seanad today, and to catch up with many of my old colleagues.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1580233827141550086
📢 The Greens in the European Parliament have just elected a new co-President.
@TerryReintke has been a strong voice of reason throughout Brexit and a friend of Ireland.
Look forward to working with her on issues like Rule of Law and environment!
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1580129525748228096
@antonprcr Moitas grazas Antón!
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1579503289410146305
Fortunately in the EU we are looking ahead to a carbon-free future.
💰an end to subsidies for fossil fuel companies
💨massive investment in renewables
🍃restoration and protection of nature
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1579438110005661698
Two terrifying headlines from our neighbours today.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1579437235631718401
Side-by-side Environment and Fisheries Committees this afternoon. What's on the agenda?
♨️Methane emissions
⚫️Carbon border adjustment mechanism
🏢Corporate Due Diligence
🌿Greenwashing
💸Covid19 fund fraud in fishing sector
🐟Protecting vulnerable ecosystems
🎣Baltic Sea quotas
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1579392540100689921
RT @greenparty_ie: "The protection of our ocean is not just a kind gesture to the very place where life began, but an urgent necessity if we are to protect biodiversity."
A powerful speech on ocean protection from @GraceOSllvn this week. Her resolution on strengthening ocean protection passed.✊🌊
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1578807960033116161
RT @KOSullivanIT: A good week for marine in Ireland, notably the Irish Sea…and for the North Atlantic @europarl_en @GraceOSllvn
https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2022/10/07/irish-sea-needs-better-protection-from-environmental-threats-says-new-alliance-of-conservationists/
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1578437395476672512
@dmacthomais @GreensEFA @greenparty_ie @noonan_malcolm @VSinkevicius @OceanaEurope ™
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1577986702223843329
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Climate & social justice activist 🌍. Ecologist 🌱. Surfer 🏄🏼♀️. Mother.
Green MEP for Ireland South 🇪🇺. @greenparty_ie spokesperson on the marine.
Joined Apr 2022
