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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦

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Author of Hidden Politics in the UN SDGs & Associate Professor @ Moo U in Guelph - critical thoughts on commodities, sustainability & CSR + check out www.theicsdp.org and https://adamsneyd.com

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · Jun 23

A call to action from me: we can and must independently assess the sustainability impasse, reinvent the SDGs, and create better metrics of progress m.youtube.com/watch?v=KwJr...

Adam Sneyd on Rethinking Sustainable Development: The ICSDP Initiative

YouTube video by David Peck Live

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · 1h

Need calm? Jump into Chip Wickham’s beautiful universe music.apple.com/ca/album/the...

The Eternal Now by Chip Wickham on Apple Music

Album · 2025 · 9 Songs

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Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 4h

From Canada Strong (p. 13):

"A Mark Carney-led government will:

Safeguard our economy and our values and protect Canada from attempts to buy up our businesses,....,critical minerals and other resources by strengthening the Investment in Canada Act"

Leaving aside that it is the responsibility...

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · 8h

At the groupof78.org conference we challenged the #SDGs #GlobalGoals groupthink and articulated our aim to build something better: a more clearly-defined, less contradictory agenda with robust metrics www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIY...

Beyond Agenda 2030

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 2d

“When crops are burned for fuel, new land can be needed to grow new crops for food or fuel. This can lead to indirect land clearance and deforestation. Staggeringly, biofuels globally therefore today emit 16% more CO₂ emissions than the fossil fuels they replace.”

From: https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/crop30-why-burning-food-for-land-hungry-biofuels-is-fueling-the-climate-crisis

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · 2d

The group78.org conference was fantastic! David Peck, Ruby Dagher and I enjoyed talking about theicsdp.org, the experience, and the great facility @cepi-cips.bsky.social.

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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 10d

Vous êtes-vous inscrit à la conférence de vendredi ?

➡️Panel 3 – Au-delà de l’Agenda 2030
Avec @adamsneyd.bsky.social et Ruby Dagher, modéré par David Peck.

Inscrivez-vous dès aujourd'hui ! >>> bit.ly/3IsIpzU

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · 16d

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Reportage France - Éco-score textile: le coût environnemental des vêtements arrive sur les étiquettes en France

En France, un éco-score textile entre en vigueur ce mercredi 1er octobre dans les enseignes de prêt-à-porter. L'objectif : informer le consommateur sur le coût environnemental du t-shirt, de la veste…

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · 16d

Check out this initiative led by Ruby Dagher and some recent @uottawa.ca master's grads on rethinking development www.youtube.com/channel/UCcD...

Adev World

ADEV - Reimagining our understanding of development ADEV aims to take on the world, challenge development-related discourses, and change policy directions. Our mission is to extend spaces for discuss...

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · 18d

I’ll be speaking about why we need a truly independent, fundamental rethink of the ill-defined and contradictory SDG framework on 10 October www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · 18d

It’s great to see that the UN has put together a strong team for the 2027 Global Sustainable Development Report - with the theicsdp.org we continue to push for a deeper longer term rethink of the SDGs and how progress is conceptualized & measured sdgs.un.org/gsdr2027#ind...

Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) 2027 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs

BackgroundThe Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) originated in “The Future We Want,” the outcome of the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, when Member States were laying the groun...

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · 28d

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Face aux coupes de Javier Milei, les Argentins dans la rue pour défendre de l'université publique

Les Argentins dans la rue pour défendre l’université publique face à la tronçonneuse de Javier Milei. Alors que le budget de l’enseignement supérieur est au plus bas depuis 20 ans, le président argent...

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tickets to the virtual event are only $25CAD & support a good cause.... www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

Annual Policy Conference - In Person

The topic of our annual policy conference this year is “Redefining development in the new world disorder: Harnessing AI and innovative finance to reach the Sustainable Development Goals.”Our conferenc...

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Aug 11

Edited by Frank Stilwell, the latest issue of Journal of Australian Political Economy celebrates 50 years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney as a discipline. More events later in the year!

50 YEARS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN AUSTRALIA: A NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The first full program of courses in political economy at an Australian university began in 1975. It was in the product of a long struggle by a dissident student-staff movement at the University of Sy...

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · Aug 6

This is the kind of opportunity that can give grad students focusing on sustainable development their start - APPLY! group78.org/chief-report...

Chief Reporteur Wanted: Report Writer for Group of 78 Conference – Group of 78 – Le Groupe des 78

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · Aug 1

Join us online or in-person for the Group of 78's 2025 Conference on "Redefining Development in the New World Disorder," featuring José Antonio Ocampo and @drodrik.bsky.social Friday 10 October group78.org/programs/ann...

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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · Jul 26

"For Mustafa, the descent into hunger began slowly, then suddenly became unavoidable...These past few weeks had been the worst...On the days he and his brother cannot find food, the children eat a tablespoon of salt and fill their bellies with water."

unbelievably cruel

www.ft.com/content/e5d7...

‘There is nothing to buy’: Gaza’s descent into mass starvation

Israel’s offensive and aid curbs tip enclave of 2.1mn Palestinians into famine

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · Jul 24

great compositions + the silkiest tone + A&M magic = legend #RIPChuck

Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · Jul 24

TURN UP THE VOLUME - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-OK...

Give It All You Got

YouTube video by Chuck Mangione - Topic

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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · Jul 22

We also show why a bad deal is worse than no deal:
1. Trump can change it at will.
2. Will accelerate outflow of capital.
3. Disarms Canada's ability to retaliate.
4. Hits strategic sectors worst.
5. Sabotages a global response to Trump.
6. Forgoes pressure growing inside U.S. /4

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · Jul 21

Stop the agrochemical disaster…https://rfi.my/BrON

Argentine: une étude s'alarme de la nocivité pour la santé des pesticides et de leur «effet cocktail»

Alors que l’usage croissant des intrants chimiques en agriculture est de plus en plus critiqué – en témoigne le débat en France autour de la loi Duplomb, dont la pétition a atteint le million de signa...

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · Jul 18

Humbled for the shout out but the real OMG story here is you starting up at KCL!!! Way to go, Gloria - you are making waves in a good way

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Gloria Novović @glorianovovic.bsky.social · Jul 18

Get yourself a mentor like @adamsneyd.bsky.social who will advocate for your PhD app, serve on your committee, then cite you over and over in his (fantastic!) book years later 🥰

I read it amidst my transition to @schoolforgovt.bsky.social from @lsegender.bsky.social, SO grateful for my “village” 🙏

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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · Jul 18

Look forward to participating in this webinar next Friday! It's so important to have this conversation and call out what is not being discussed at UNFSS+4

IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · Jul 17

📣Announcing our webinar: Naming the Elephants in the Room - addressing corporate & geopolitical power in #foodsystems governance.

📅25 July | 12:00 UTC

With @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social, @ksjomo.bsky.social & Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSIPM).

www.ipes-food.org/naming-the-e...

NAMING THE ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM | Webinar

Join us for a webinar that will explore how corporate capture and geopolitical power shape food policies and global food governance - with IPES-Food and CSIPM. Register Now.

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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · Jul 11

Canada should not bargain away ANYTHING. Time to find other trade partners who share our values.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Trump threatening 35% tariffs on Canadian goods across the board | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to slap a 35 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods as the two countries have been engaged in negotiations to reach some sort of trade agreement.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · Jul 9

New from me, on the disconnect between Mark Carney’s nationalist rhetoric and what his actual policies will deliver: Deeper Canadian integration with an increasingly authoritarian and fascist US.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Opinion: The U.S. is not our friend any more. Has anyone told Mark Carney?

Why is the Prime Minister still trying to negotiate a trade and security agreement with a capricious authoritarian?

www.theglobeandmail.com

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