Frank Huisingh
@frankhuisingh.bsky.social
Started Fossil Free Football, where we kick polluting sponsors out of football. Here for the takes and the jokes.
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Frank Huisingh
@frankhuisingh.bsky.social
· Nov 13
I started @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social to make sure big polluters can no longer use the most popular activity on this planet to sell their products and protect their reputation. Come follow and join us!
“AFCON shouldn’t let itself be used for the promotion of dirty fossil fuels and adopt a sustainable sponsorship policy.”
AFCON, Total Energies and football’s problematic links to fossil fuel
The energy company’s sponsorship is a reminder of how football feels morally compromised on environmental issues
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
“AFCON shouldn’t let itself be used for the promotion of dirty fossil fuels and adopt a sustainable sponsorship policy.”
Heel normaal land.
December 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Heel normaal land.
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Closing NCAR because it produces "climate alarmism" is like closing the fire department because it produces "fire alarmism"
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A low point
Things will get better....I think
billmckibben.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Closing NCAR because it produces "climate alarmism" is like closing the fire department because it produces "fire alarmism"
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...
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Wow @thetimes.com, that’s impressive
An entire article about “freak heat” in the Dolomites causing mayhem amongst skiers without once mentioning climate change…🤷🏼♀️
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An entire article about “freak heat” in the Dolomites causing mayhem amongst skiers without once mentioning climate change…🤷🏼♀️
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December 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Wow @thetimes.com, that’s impressive
An entire article about “freak heat” in the Dolomites causing mayhem amongst skiers without once mentioning climate change…🤷🏼♀️
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An entire article about “freak heat” in the Dolomites causing mayhem amongst skiers without once mentioning climate change…🤷🏼♀️
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Greens/EFA Co-President @baseickhout.bsky.social on the @ec.europa.eu plan to abandon the phase out combustion engines: "We're not helping the car industry by creating more uncertainty. Their desperate attempt to undermine the future of e-cars is a huge mistake."
➡️ www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/p...
➡️ www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/p...
December 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Greens/EFA Co-President @baseickhout.bsky.social on the @ec.europa.eu plan to abandon the phase out combustion engines: "We're not helping the car industry by creating more uncertainty. Their desperate attempt to undermine the future of e-cars is a huge mistake."
➡️ www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/p...
➡️ www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/p...
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my last story for @atmosmag.bsky.social was a fun one: what if the power of sports was used to propel climate action?
I spoke to former NFL, MLS, and rugby players; organizers and researchers; and went to a soccer game for a team whose mission is climate justice 🌏
more: atmos.earth/climate-solu...
I spoke to former NFL, MLS, and rugby players; organizers and researchers; and went to a soccer game for a team whose mission is climate justice 🌏
more: atmos.earth/climate-solu...
How Sports Teams Are Turning Fans Into Eco Allies | Atmos
Sporting events are one of the most trusted and effective advertising channels. Why not use them to move public opinion on climate change?
atmos.earth
December 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
my last story for @atmosmag.bsky.social was a fun one: what if the power of sports was used to propel climate action?
I spoke to former NFL, MLS, and rugby players; organizers and researchers; and went to a soccer game for a team whose mission is climate justice 🌏
more: atmos.earth/climate-solu...
I spoke to former NFL, MLS, and rugby players; organizers and researchers; and went to a soccer game for a team whose mission is climate justice 🌏
more: atmos.earth/climate-solu...
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Tbh it is utterly dissapointing.
Electric transport is the low-hanging fruit in cutting down our co2 emmissions. If we do not even keep ourselves to the easy solutions, what to expect of the remaining challenges?🤔
Electric transport is the low-hanging fruit in cutting down our co2 emmissions. If we do not even keep ourselves to the easy solutions, what to expect of the remaining challenges?🤔
December 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Tbh it is utterly dissapointing.
Electric transport is the low-hanging fruit in cutting down our co2 emmissions. If we do not even keep ourselves to the easy solutions, what to expect of the remaining challenges?🤔
Electric transport is the low-hanging fruit in cutting down our co2 emmissions. If we do not even keep ourselves to the easy solutions, what to expect of the remaining challenges?🤔
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Hard to see positive points in this lobby-wish list turned into legislative proposal. Weakening of the 2035 and all intermediate targets, not even ambitious targets for corporate fleets. Clear signal that this this Commission isn’t here for the future, it’s to defend the status quo.
Commission takes action for clean and competitive automotive sector
The Commission today presented the Automotive Package to support the sector\'s efforts in the transition to clean mobility.
ec.europa.eu
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Hard to see positive points in this lobby-wish list turned into legislative proposal. Weakening of the 2035 and all intermediate targets, not even ambitious targets for corporate fleets. Clear signal that this this Commission isn’t here for the future, it’s to defend the status quo.
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🎊 WIN! Ook pensioenfonds PME breekt met vervuilende vermogensbeheerder BlackRock – dankzij de druk van onze beweging.
✍️ Nu is het tijd dat ABP gaat breken met BlackRock. Al 5.000 mensen hebben onze oproep getekend. Teken jij ook? www.breekmetblackrock.nl
✍️ Nu is het tijd dat ABP gaat breken met BlackRock. Al 5.000 mensen hebben onze oproep getekend. Teken jij ook? www.breekmetblackrock.nl
December 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🎊 WIN! Ook pensioenfonds PME breekt met vervuilende vermogensbeheerder BlackRock – dankzij de druk van onze beweging.
✍️ Nu is het tijd dat ABP gaat breken met BlackRock. Al 5.000 mensen hebben onze oproep getekend. Teken jij ook? www.breekmetblackrock.nl
✍️ Nu is het tijd dat ABP gaat breken met BlackRock. Al 5.000 mensen hebben onze oproep getekend. Teken jij ook? www.breekmetblackrock.nl
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Ook pensioenfonds PME haalt miljarden weg bij vermogensbeheerder BlackRock
Ook pensioenfonds PME haalt miljarden weg bij vermogensbeheerder BlackRock
Na een jaar actievoeren door FossielVrij hebben twee grote pensioenfondsen voor miljarden aan beleggingen weggehaald bij de Amerikaanse vermogensbeheerder BlackRock.
www.trouw.nl
December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Ook pensioenfonds PME haalt miljarden weg bij vermogensbeheerder BlackRock
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And Houston 2026 has a new sponsor - Aramco.
How the Saudi state oil company is helping the Texan city close its World Cup funding gap.
Story for Idrettspolitikk.
idrettspolitikk.no/2025/12/12/v...
How the Saudi state oil company is helping the Texan city close its World Cup funding gap.
Story for Idrettspolitikk.
idrettspolitikk.no/2025/12/12/v...
VM-by i USA redder økonomien med penger fra Saudi-Arabia - Idrettspolitikk
Washington DC (Idrettspolitikk.no og Josimar): Like før trekningen til VM i 2026 i Washington DC inngikk Houston, en av elleve amerikanske vertsbyer i turneringen, en sponsoravtale med det saudiarabis...
idrettspolitikk.no
December 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
And Houston 2026 has a new sponsor - Aramco.
How the Saudi state oil company is helping the Texan city close its World Cup funding gap.
Story for Idrettspolitikk.
idrettspolitikk.no/2025/12/12/v...
How the Saudi state oil company is helping the Texan city close its World Cup funding gap.
Story for Idrettspolitikk.
idrettspolitikk.no/2025/12/12/v...
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POV: Big Oil explains the weather they caused.
December 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
POV: Big Oil explains the weather they caused.
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World Cup of Greed
Front page of today's Daily Mirror. Story with Andy Lines.
👉 www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Front page of today's Daily Mirror. Story with Andy Lines.
👉 www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
December 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
World Cup of Greed
Front page of today's Daily Mirror. Story with Andy Lines.
👉 www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Front page of today's Daily Mirror. Story with Andy Lines.
👉 www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
“Yes, we need sun and windpower to take a bite out of the climate crisis. But we also need it to take a bite out of the authoritarianism crisis.”
@billmckibben.bsky.social
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@billmckibben.bsky.social
billmckibben.substack.com/p/pirates-of...
Pirates of the Anthropocene
"I assume we're going to keep the oil."
billmckibben.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
“Yes, we need sun and windpower to take a bite out of the climate crisis. But we also need it to take a bite out of the authoritarianism crisis.”
@billmckibben.bsky.social
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@billmckibben.bsky.social
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NEWS:
Official complaint received by FIFA Ethics Committee, alleges “repeated breaches” of FIFA’s duty of political neutrality by Gianni Infantino, all in relation to President Trump. It also requests investigation into internal process behind Trump’s Peace Prize
www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
Official complaint received by FIFA Ethics Committee, alleges “repeated breaches” of FIFA’s duty of political neutrality by Gianni Infantino, all in relation to President Trump. It also requests investigation into internal process behind Trump’s Peace Prize
www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
Gianni Infantino accused of breaching FIFA’s ethics codes in relation to President Trump comments
Advocacy group FairSquare has also requested an investigation into President Trump being awarded the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize last Friday.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
NEWS:
Official complaint received by FIFA Ethics Committee, alleges “repeated breaches” of FIFA’s duty of political neutrality by Gianni Infantino, all in relation to President Trump. It also requests investigation into internal process behind Trump’s Peace Prize
www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
Official complaint received by FIFA Ethics Committee, alleges “repeated breaches” of FIFA’s duty of political neutrality by Gianni Infantino, all in relation to President Trump. It also requests investigation into internal process behind Trump’s Peace Prize
www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
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Each year, human ingenuity cures some of the world’s most deadly diseases. 🧪
Yet when science tells us to stop polluting the planet, we continue to promote the industries responsible. 🤔
'We can', a new pamphlet by the Ministry for the Climate Emergency. 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
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Yet when science tells us to stop polluting the planet, we continue to promote the industries responsible. 🤔
'We can', a new pamphlet by the Ministry for the Climate Emergency. 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Each year, human ingenuity cures some of the world’s most deadly diseases. 🧪
Yet when science tells us to stop polluting the planet, we continue to promote the industries responsible. 🤔
'We can', a new pamphlet by the Ministry for the Climate Emergency. 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
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Yet when science tells us to stop polluting the planet, we continue to promote the industries responsible. 🤔
'We can', a new pamphlet by the Ministry for the Climate Emergency. 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
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🔴 ‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws
U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans.
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans.
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws
A public relations firm for major U.S. polluters worked to dismantle EU laws that require large corporations to make plans for cutting emissions. The PR company Teneo undertook its work on behalf of t...
www.desmog.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🔴 ‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws
U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans.
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans.
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
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While Fossil Free Football realises that Mr Infantino is preoccupied with his own prize-giving ceremony, it is sure that his Qatari private jet will be on hand to collect the Football Climate Impact Prize he so richly deserves! 👨✈️
Congratulations, Mr President! 👑
Congratulations, Mr President! 👑
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
While Fossil Free Football realises that Mr Infantino is preoccupied with his own prize-giving ceremony, it is sure that his Qatari private jet will be on hand to collect the Football Climate Impact Prize he so richly deserves! 👨✈️
Congratulations, Mr President! 👑
Congratulations, Mr President! 👑
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Infantino has handed it the 2034 World Cup, platformed its pro-oil advertising and routinely stood in support of its leaders and their Trump administration allies 🤝
Inside Man: How FIFA Guided the World Cup to Saudi Arabia (Published 2023)
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Infantino has handed it the 2034 World Cup, platformed its pro-oil advertising and routinely stood in support of its leaders and their Trump administration allies 🤝
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His impact is typified by his championing of Saudi Arabia. Internationally isolated after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, its FIFA facilitated football takeover has helped it rebuild soft power and re-normalise its 'brand' 💪
It has put this leverage to use in blocking international climate action ❌
It has put this leverage to use in blocking international climate action ❌
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
His impact is typified by his championing of Saudi Arabia. Internationally isolated after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, its FIFA facilitated football takeover has helped it rebuild soft power and re-normalise its 'brand' 💪
It has put this leverage to use in blocking international climate action ❌
It has put this leverage to use in blocking international climate action ❌
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The FIFA President once held up a “green card for the planet” and promised to halve its emissions by 2030 🌍
But years of cosying up to Putin, the rulers of Qatar, MBS and President Trump have ensured the world’s favourite sport is a plaything for oil funded authoritarians 🛢️
But years of cosying up to Putin, the rulers of Qatar, MBS and President Trump have ensured the world’s favourite sport is a plaything for oil funded authoritarians 🛢️
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The FIFA President once held up a “green card for the planet” and promised to halve its emissions by 2030 🌍
But years of cosying up to Putin, the rulers of Qatar, MBS and President Trump have ensured the world’s favourite sport is a plaything for oil funded authoritarians 🛢️
But years of cosying up to Putin, the rulers of Qatar, MBS and President Trump have ensured the world’s favourite sport is a plaything for oil funded authoritarians 🛢️
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Infantino is also overseeing the most polluting World Cup in history 😬
It will require more air travel than ever, as attendees fly across an entire continent to more matches, in more host cities, than any previous edition ✈
It will require more air travel than ever, as attendees fly across an entire continent to more matches, in more host cities, than any previous edition ✈
FIFA World Cup 2026 in United States, Canada and Mexico the 'most polluting ever', claims report
Next year's Fifa World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico is set to be
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Infantino is also overseeing the most polluting World Cup in history 😬
It will require more air travel than ever, as attendees fly across an entire continent to more matches, in more host cities, than any previous edition ✈
It will require more air travel than ever, as attendees fly across an entire continent to more matches, in more host cities, than any previous edition ✈
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His crowning achievement is the sale of the world’s biggest platform, the FIFA World Cup, to the world’s biggest polluter, Saudi state oil company Aramco 😳
Despite player backlash, Aramco will be promoting fossil fuels to billions next summer! 📺
Despite player backlash, Aramco will be promoting fossil fuels to billions next summer! 📺
Women footballers urge Fifa to end Saudi sponsorship deal with Aramco
More than 100 professional women's footballers sign an open letter urging Fifa to end a sponsorship deal with Saudi oil giant Aramco.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
His crowning achievement is the sale of the world’s biggest platform, the FIFA World Cup, to the world’s biggest polluter, Saudi state oil company Aramco 😳
Despite player backlash, Aramco will be promoting fossil fuels to billions next summer! 📺
Despite player backlash, Aramco will be promoting fossil fuels to billions next summer! 📺
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins Inaugural "Football Climate Impact Prize" 🏆
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins Inaugural "Football Climate Impact Prize" 🏆
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵