Lecturer in Public Policy at @EdinburghUni currently researching corporate power and the UN plastics treaty | now on bluesky using the same handle
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Rob Ralston retweeted
#Live now!
Join this #GENeva #BeatPlasticPollution Dialogue held on the #RoadToBusan #INC5 for a discussion on the importance of the principles of transparency, accountability & justice for a successful #PlasticsTreaty.
▶️ tiny.cc/GEN29Oct24
🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=DpU6evMn…
Rob Ralston retweeted
NEW: In an open letter to @antonioguterres, 130+ organizations are calling out @UNEP Executive Director @andersen_inger for comments that the groups say prejudge the upcoming #PlasticsTreaty negotiations, aligning with positions taken by petrostates and industry.
Rob Ralston retweeted
On the #RoadToBusan, join this #GENeva #BeatPlasticPollution Dialogue sharing how prioritizing principles of accountability, transparency & justice is essential to a successful #PlasticsTreaty towards ending #plasticpollution.
📅 29 October, 14:00 CET
▶️ tiny.cc/GEN29Oct24
Rob Ralston retweeted
🌍 Global leaders are meeting at and around #UNGA and #ClimateWeekNYC to determine the future of the #PlasticsTreaty.
Over 160 organizations are urging them to commit to reducing plastic production in the future #PlasticsTreaty
deeply saddened to hear @Majdiashour has passed away after a short illness
Majdi worked as a medical officer in UNRWA before undertaking a PhD on health systems in the Gaza Strip. He was a deeply committed and gifted researcher and I feel immensely privileged to have known him
will be posting on here less often due to twitter becoming increasingly unusable - same @ on bluesky as I can’t bring myself to use linkedin
Rob Ralston retweeted
Can't say this enough; Elon Musk's menace to democracy is intolerable. He's using the largest & most influential platform in the democratic world to stoke racial conflict and civil breakdown - in his own posts & what X promotes. Democracies can no longer ignore this.
[lecturer of undergrad ‘introduction to the welfare state’ course]: You know what’s SO Brat? Esping Andersen’s worlds of welfare
in the queue at a chaotic Lidl during the first week of the edinburgh fringe and the cashier has accidentally inputted £450 instead of £45 and there’s no manger to fix it
secondhand anxiety is hitting uncut gems levels
me sketching out the lofty aims of a massive research grant: haha fuck yeah!! Yes!!
me having to draft a budget table annex that includes a realistic estimation of costs: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
my partner has encouraged me to upgrade my office chair, so naturally I've become hyper-fixated on a bauhaus design I will never be able to afford
Rob Ralston retweeted
It wasn't just Exxon and Shell tracking climate science decades ago.
I found a 1977 company mag from Marathon Oil predicting the climate crisis could cause 'widespread starvation.'
Marathon is now largest oil refiner in US.
My latest in @guardian
theguardian.com/us-news/arti…
Rob Ralston retweeted
Sentenced to 5 years in prison for attending a Zoom call and planning a nonviolent protest... absolutely nuts
Five @JustStop_Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
- Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
Story by @damiengayle
theguardian.com/environment/…
Adobe: upgrade to the new Acrobat for an exceptional user experience!!
Also Adobe: this program will randomly crash if you dare try to open more than 5 pdfs
Rob Ralston retweeted
"The most fundamental and far-reaching step that must be taken to contain the global plastics crisis is to impose a global cap on plastic production"
theguardian.com/wellness/art…
