👚👗CORK SWAP SHOP👕🎽
Final share of this event happening in my office in #Cork tomorrow!
Bring along any good quality clothes you are happy to share and receive some other pre-loved items in return ♻️
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1641441046470217729
@alan_caulfield @codohertynews We are currently trying to ban this kind of nonsense packaging in negotiations on packaging regulations! Watch this space:
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/waste-and-recycling/packaging-waste_en
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1641424508555804673
The European Parliament just voted on a groundbreaking Pay Transparency deal!
Led by the Greens' @Kira_MPH, companies will be obliged to disclose salary information to employees and expose gender pay gaps.
It's also the first time non-binary people are recognised in EU law 🤩
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1641379951134793730
created abroad for children of same sex parents by the new right wing Italian Government. Members of the LGBTI Intergroup of the EP and the @greensefa stand in solidarity with Mr. Sala and LGBTI families in Italy and across the world ✊️ (2/2)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1641144626919637013
🏳️🌈 Families of all shapes and sizes are valid!!
Today in the European Parliament we met with the Mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala 🇮🇹
👪 His city has been forced to stop its practice of transcribing birth certificates (1/2)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1641144623534833673
Sitting in the plenary room now listening to how the peace process in Ireland is held at the heart of the EU, itself a peace project.
Great turnout from MEPs from across the continent.
RT @EP_President: Peace and reconciliation.
This is what the Good Friday Agreement 25 years ago was all about.
Values which we must still protect today. https://n.respublicae.eu/i/broadcasts/1OyKAVdQwggGb
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1641066195339169794
This week we vote to improve restrictions on Ozone Depleting Substances.
At the time the hole in the ozone layer was found, I was in Antarctica sitting right underneath it 🌍
Governments need to find the same strength to fight climate change as they did back then for ozone.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1641023229866156032
@irish_organic @GreensEFA @greenparty_ie It's a good question! One of the criteria of the Biodiversity Strategy is to put in place 10% of seas as 'strictly protected' areas by 2030. These should not allow significant commercial activity. It's important this is put in place in new legislation
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1640720072665714689
90% of Ireland’s protected marine environments are polluted with plastic, mostly from fishing nets and clothing.
This will continue as long as we fail to tackle plastics at their source and at production.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1640699303692836867
@JohnReynol64448 @GreensEFA @greenparty_ie Hi Jack thanks for the comment. We’ve started legislating for the most significant protection of Irish seas in the history of the State, covering 30% of the sea by 2030. In Europe I’m negotiating the largest reform of EU fisheries rules in a decade 🎣
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1640658421035794432
Campaigners brought some shark fins, which are often cut from live animals, into the European Parliament today.
We are calling for an end to the shark fin trade, which EU industrial fishing fleets fuel to the tune of thousands of tonnes every year.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1640392730047070209
@sofaseglerin @GreensEFA @greenparty_ie @StopFinningEU @ARTEde One of the many reasons we need strong enforcement of a Global Ocean Treaty!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1640313435828133888
Over 1 million people, including 9,000 from Ireland, have supported the campaign to end the trade in shark fins. Join the campaign here:
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1640282806835134464
The EU recently banned the barbaric practice of shark finning - where fins are cut off live sharks
However the EU fishing industry still hunts thousands of tonnes of shark for export to Asia.
I'm joining calls this afternoon in the Parliament to clamp down on the shark trade.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1640282804243034112
RT @ShaunaReports: About time there was something done about our throwaway culture @GraceOSllvn
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/apple-samsung-more-tech-giants-29528024
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1639577222104088576
A priority for us in negotiations will be making sure that you can't just say "we're offsetting emissions" in order to call a product "eco".
This is a cop-out for big manufacturers to continue business as usual.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1638865483611926528
The EU is finally taking on fake Greenwashing! 🥬
Over 50% of the claims that products are "eco-friendly" or "sustainable" are false or misleading 🤥
We are going to clamp down on these and build a market for truly sustainable products.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1638865480659394560
@microsquid Fully agree 🙌 Not too long ago, reuse was the norm, time to bring it back!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1638855385191792640
The EU 🇪🇺 is proposing a Right to Repair!
We will be fighting now ensure that the legislation makes repairing devices cheap 💰, easy and sustainable 🍃
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1638528420484194308
In the 1980s, I took part in a dangerous sea rescue where unfortunately two people did not survive. I spoke about this recently in the European Parliament.
Saving lives at sea is not a crime - it is a duty.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1638216398555185153
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