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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 15h

Ooooooooh! 👀

Interesting. #Norwich #GreenParty

Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 16h

Seriously super news that Cllr Cate Oliver has defected to @norwichgreenparty.bsky.social & @greenparty.org.uk

Cate is a long standing and respected local former Labour councillor

Spectacular #GreenSurge has started - a long way to go yet.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 16h

Seriously super news that Cllr Cate Oliver has defected to @norwichgreenparty.bsky.social & @greenparty.org.uk

Cate is a long standing and respected local former Labour councillor

Spectacular #GreenSurge has started - a long way to go yet.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

join.greenparty.org.uk

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John A Gordon @alexagee77.bsky.social · 15h

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 16h

Seriously super news that Cllr Cate Oliver has defected to @norwichgreenparty.bsky.social & @greenparty.org.uk

Cate is a long standing and respected local former Labour councillor

Spectacular #GreenSurge has started - a long way to go yet.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 Legal win 🚨

Ministers can’t duck environmental duties after this win

Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas

#ClimateJustice Read my op Ed scrapcc.org/IS-EDP-OPED

Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Burning green hydrogen in gas power plants turns green electrons dirty, wastes heat, adds air pollution

✅ We need real decarbonisation — not hydrogen hype.
#Hydrogen

More on LinkedIn 👉 scrapcc.org/CO-F-LI

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 17h

#ClimateMatters

@raymodraco.bsky.social @drandrewboswell.bsky.social

FYI @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social

VoteClimate.uk @voteclimateuk.bsky.social · 22h

🚨 We've breached our first climate tipping point. A final, stark warning after the world smashed through 1.5C in 2024.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

😶 The news was met with radio silence from Keir Starmer.

✅ Tell Labour to put climate first to win your vote: VoteClimate.uk/register

The world has reached its first climate tipping point

Milestone signals stark new reality for the planet – and raises the alarm about impending catastrophes

www.independent.co.uk

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Burning green hydrogen in gas power plants turns green electrons dirty, wastes heat, adds air pollution

✅ We need real decarbonisation — not hydrogen hype.
#Hydrogen

More on LinkedIn 👉 scrapcc.org/CO-F-LI

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@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 16h

Seriously super news that Cllr Cate Oliver has defected to @norwichgreenparty.bsky.social & @greenparty.org.uk

Cate is a long standing and respected local former Labour councillor

Spectacular #GreenSurge has started - a long way to go yet.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 1d

Do you get nuance?

Nobody is saying all hydrogen is bad. Co-firing green hydrogen with gas is, for reasons explained, wasteful.

The hydrogen ladder principle is quite helpful for some nuance even if one doesn't endorse all detail. Hydrogen Ladder Version 5.0
www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrog...

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 1d

With Caroline Lucas at the Conduit Club, talking about how to save democracy - by making action climate popular. By starting with where people are: not in abstractions, but in collaborative agency. On climate impacts and in cost of living - which are >the same fight<.
#Safer

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HyNot @hynotnw.bsky.social · 1d

New analysis by @influencemap.bsky.social has found that #BigOil majors have systematically lobbied the government to adopt a costly and emissions intensive energy policy agenda dependent on #CarbonCaptureAndStorage and the continued reliance on fossil fuels.

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The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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HyNot @hynotnw.bsky.social · 1d

Advocacy in favour of #CCS predominantly comes from #BigOil majors including #BP, #Shell and #HyNet partner #Eni, along with the #CarbonCaptureAndStorageAssociation which disproportionately represents the fossil fuel industry and has consistently engaged with the government since 2008.

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Burning green hydrogen in gas power plants turns green electrons dirty, wastes heat, adds air pollution

✅ We need real decarbonisation — not hydrogen hype.
#Hydrogen

More on LinkedIn 👉 scrapcc.org/CO-F-LI

#hydrogen #energytransition #ccs #climatepolicy #netzero #renewables… | Andrew Boswell

Hydrogen Co-firing - how UK policy turns green electrons into dirty electrons The Guardian yesterday reported on “Energy firms complete UK first hydrogen-blending trial on power grid” (13 October 20...

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Burning green hydrogen in gas power plants turns green electrons dirty, wastes heat, adds air pollution

✅ We need real decarbonisation — not hydrogen hype.
#Hydrogen

More on LinkedIn 👉 scrapcc.org/CO-F-LI

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 Landmark win 🚨 : Govt forced to review Industrial Strategy after Scrap Carbon Capture legal challenge #EnvironmentAct.

First time a policy was re-taken for failing the Environmental Principles duty. No more “light-touch” assessments.

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
@dalevince.com
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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 2d

✅ "Politics can be honest, fair and hopeful again" @zackpolanski.bsky.social

🎊 Fantastic @greenparty.org.uk is now over 100,000 members

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Help keep this building 👉 join.greenparty.org.uk

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 1d

Short comment on 'carbon trading' climateuncensored.com/what-role-fo...

Paris 1.5°C needs >20% cuts in global emissions every year - starting now!
For Paris 2°C, it’s ~8%.
Which country/company/institution can exceed these rates?
Only those that do have any real “emission space” for carbon trading.

What role for carbon trading? - Climate Uncensored

I was recently contacted by a senior civil servant who asked me to provide a short comment on the concept of emissions trading schemes in general, and on the

climateuncensored.com

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Burning green hydrogen in gas power plants turns green electrons dirty, wastes heat, adds air pollution

✅ We need real decarbonisation — not hydrogen hype.
#Hydrogen

More on LinkedIn 👉 scrapcc.org/CO-F-LI

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Cllr Jon Molyneux @jonmolyneux.bsky.social · 2d

✍️ Latest @glasgowtimes.bsky.social column.

Zack Polanski took the fight to Reform on national telly this week. They were well and truly rattled.

We can turn a Green surge into radical change in Glasgow. Join us.

👉 greens.scot/join

📰 www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2553369...

Glasgow Times column

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/25533696.a-green-surge-happening-can-turn-radical-change/

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rosebone.bsky.social @rosebone.bsky.social · 3d

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 3d

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 2d

✅ "Politics can be honest, fair and hopeful again" @zackpolanski.bsky.social

🎊 Fantastic @greenparty.org.uk is now over 100,000 members

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Help keep this building 👉 join.greenparty.org.uk

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Jess Short @shorttics.bsky.social · 3d

I’m a few days late but seeing @zackpolanski.bsky.social on this week’s Question Time gave me more hope for politics and people in the UK. So much so that I’m now a member of the Green Party! (This is also the first time I’ve become a member for a political party!) it’s safe to say I’ve been swayed!

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 4d

Great news.....

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @carbonbrief.org

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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