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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING🚨: @Equinor has resubmitted its application to open the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK - Rosebank.

In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project.

Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 1h

Sounds very obstructive.

Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 4h

This book finally got published today - free for download here cssn.org/news-researc...

A monumental effort documenting climate obstruction across sectors, countries & governance levels, by 110 @cssn.org scholars

I was chuffed to contribute to one of the chapters (thread)

Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 1h

Quite. 1.5 was just a consensual figure to act as a benchmark to encourage cuts in GHGs. But, like Net Zero, the discipline of going hard for carbon negative policy implementation - however much needed - was too much like system change for all too many people who may well have known better.

Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 2h

If nature's carbon sinks are failing already, and planetary feedbacks are underway, then 1.5C never was a 'safe level' of climate change

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 1h

Investment can migrate, and capital can flow. Trump is engaged in a plan for sinking the US economy, as well as undermining public sector spending which sustains society. Little wonder he acts to destroy democracy so a return from his era will be hard, esp if the Republican Party still exists.

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 2h

These charts are shocking, frightening and entirely predictable on account of Trump's tariff policies, slow growth / high unemployment fiscal policies and assault on the rule of law that has always been the bedrock reason to invest in the US.

Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 1h

Is this a tipping point for carbon sinks? If so, subsequent years cd show large increases in atmospheric CO2.

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 4h

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 1h

Yes. And allowing States to run their own self certification of allegedly sustainable biofuels is a bad joke at the expense of environment and agriculture. Renewable source electricity with lighter batteries might be a sustainable future for aviation, many decades away.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5h

Teens who won a lawsuit requiring Hawaiʻi to eliminate carbon emissions from the state’s transportation system in the next 20 years rightly call out sustainable aviation fuel as bullshit.

Teens Who Sued Hawai‘i Say Climate Plan For Aviation Doesn’t Fly

Interisland flights are Hawaiʻi’s biggest transportation carbon producer, making up more than half of all emissions related to civilian travel in the state.

www.civilbeat.org

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

We interrupt your doomscrolling to bring you something that feels like a rarity these days: Good news about the environment.

On @revealnews.org latest “More To The Story,” @billmckibben.bsky.social explains why harnessing the sun is our best chance to rein in the effects of climate change.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 5h

So that's THREE Reform councillors suspended/quit from Northumberland this month, over breaches of council rules.

These included councillors on the audit and standards committee AND the licensing and regulatory committee, where rules are pretty significant.

Ah, governance is hard!

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 9h

Another Reform UK Councillor has quit. Patrick Lambert has left after being suspended.

Two Northumberland Reform councillors suspended

Councillors Nicole Brooke and Patrick Lambert have the whip suspended pending a party investigation.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 10h

This is the quiet, but slowly getting louder horror story taking place across the northern hemisphere

Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 21h

Netherlands Scientific Climate Council warns: under pressure from climate change, forests and soils are now taking up less CO2 from the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.
www.wkr.nl/adviezen/ove...

Graph showing diminishing uptake of CO2 by global forests, from around 9Gt/year in the beginning of this century to around 2 Gt/year now

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 5h

I think the intent was to convey that adaptation policies wd b cheaper than failing to mitigate/adapt. As you say, 4°C as an adaptation context is a dream with a nightmare attached.

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · 8h

I was delighted to be part of this programme just released today on the #ClimateCrisis hosted by @briancoxtalks.bsky.social with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, @kathrynbrown.bsky.social and Myles Allen

The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 8h

NEW EPISODE: Will we survive climate change?

Join our expert panellists as they answer your questions about curbing rising global temperatures and what life could be like in a warmer world.

Listen on your favourite podcast platform: www.lnk.to/AQOSClimateBB

Panel of speakers with the title ‘Can We Survive Climate Change?’ from BBC Studios and The Francis Crick Institute.

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 5h

The Govt is not leading on many topics, certainly in the wrong direction on planning, infrastructure and ecological matters.

Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 7h

"People in the UK are already experiencing the impacts of a changing climate, and we owe it to them to prepare, and also to help them prepare. Adaptation in the UK is not keeping up with the increase in climate risk. The impacts on the UK are getting worse and (the government) needs more ambition”

Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050

The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement.

www.bbc.com

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Richard Miller @miller-klein.bsky.social · 7h

An important story. The UK built environment is not prepared for the climate changes we expect. To adapt, we will need to change the way we design and construct new buildings and upgrade the existing. We know how to do this, we choose not to 1/2 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told

Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate

www.theguardian.com

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Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social · 6h

Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050

The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement.

www.bbc.com

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 5h

From Hazel Dawe, two articles on Women and Cycling:

Hazel has done two articles on cycling which may be of interest:

westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/transpo...

&

westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/why-...

The gender gap in cycling – what is holding women back?

Despite improvement in infrastructure, safety concerns and design flaws still deter women from cycling in cities such as Oxford

westenglandbylines.co.uk

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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 20h

A different Scotland is possible. Be part of building it 👇
members.greens.scot/join

Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 22h

The system isn't broken, it's rigged. It's time for real change.

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 20h

Zack Polanski and Chlöe Swarbrick, co-leader of Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, discuss the similarities and differences of striving for fairer societies on opposite sides of the planet. Tonight on this week's episode of Bold Politics.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22h

The planet has reached its first catastrophic climate tipping point.

160 scientists from 23 countries warn that unless global heating is cut to 1.2°C as fast as possible, warm-water coral reefs will vanish “at any meaningful scale.”

The science is clear: We need to act now.

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Patrick Harvie MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 20h

The whole point of human rights law is that the Government can be held to account when they breach people's rights.

If the Home Secretary doesn't like it, that's why she needs to hear it.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 21h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 1d

Air quality monitoring agency concludes that clean transport initiatives in Paris – including 1,500 km of new bikeways, conversion of on-street car parking to gardens, and lower speed limits on the Périphérique highway – saved France €61 billion over 10 years in reduced health care costs.

Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social · 1d

61 milliards d’euros, c’est ce que nous avons économisé grâce à nos actions contre la pollution de l’air !

AirParif conclue dans sa dernière étude que nos actions en matière de lutte contre la pollution de l’air ont permis d’économiser 61 milliards d’euros.

Photo à Paris avec une femme en vélo et en fond Notre-Dame et la forêt urbaine de l'Hotel de Ville et le texte : 61 milliards d'euros, c'est ce que nous avons économisé grâce à nos actions contre la pollution de l'air.

Fond vert avec le texte : AirParif conclue dans sa dernière étude que nos actions en matière de lutte contre la pollution de l'air ont permis d'économiser 61 milliards d'euros.

Soit des bénéfices dix fois supérieurs aux investissements engagés depuis dix ans.

Visuel sur fond vert avec le texte : Lutter contre la pollution de l'air c'est aussi agir pour une meilleure santé de toutes et tous : baisse de moitié des décès prématurés entre 2010 et 2019 et des maladies chroniques.

Notre combat pour améliorer la qualité de l'air, au cœur de notre ambition municipale, doit se poursuivre et s'amplifier !

C'est ce que nous faisons à Paris.

Baisse de la vitesse sur le périphérique, 1500km de pistes cyclables, plus de 155 000 nouveaux arbres, sortie des énergies fossiles, réduction de la place de la voiture, en dix ans, nos actions ont permis de réduire la pollution de 40% !

Et on continue !

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

Join us in being cheerful!

Let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

"You need to be unapologetic, someone who gets the modern media environment and social media, and is a competent speaker - all of which Polanski is."

Why Zack Polanski is one of the only UK politicians with a reason to be cheerful right now

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...

Zack Polanski: Can the Green Party leader ‘rebalance the scales’ of UK politics? | The News Agents

In little more than a month of leadership, Zack Polanski has grown the party’s membership and become a powerful figure on the left-wing of UK politics. Can he, and the Green Party, take this further…

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 22h

Help @bylinetimes.bsky.social step things up a level. We’re raising £20k to build a new special investigations team led by Nafeez Ahmed
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#NoStoneUnturned – Byline Times Shop

#NoStoneUnturned Help Byline Times go where others dare to tread. We’re raising £20k to build a new special investigations team led by Nafeez Ahmed. Byline Times is asking for your support to advance ...

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 19h

Oh dear. So the Labour position is really 'we will decide your rights on a case by case basis with no guiding values, precedents or constraints'. Who voted for this?

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 21h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 23h

Ok. Green Party membership at 110,000 in England and Wales, Scottish Greens at c8000, and the Daily Mail saying Conservative Party membership is below 120,000. Those who pray should pray, and those who don't might want to consider it just now...