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Angela Francis

@angelaisfranc.bsky.social

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Director of Policy Solutions WWF UK, into economics, trade, innovation and environment policy, opinions my own. Bit of my heart always in Germany, Derbyshire, Scotland, Canada, East of England, Trinidad, Jamaica and on a rugby pitch. Now in London.

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · Nov 3

I did TEDxLondonWomen a while back and it got picked up by TEDtalks and now has over 1.7million views. Coolest thing that ever happened to me! Especially good that I was talking about action on climate and nature dealing with populism and that keeps getting more relevant www.ted.com/talks/angela...

How to get everyone to care about a green economy

How do you get the environment to the top of everyone's priority list? You can't, says climate advocate Angela Francis -- but you can get them to care about improving their lives. In this pragmatic ta...

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 22h

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 4d

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We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 22h

Great analysis of national politics'struggle to cope with global problems by @davidheniguk.bsky.social here. Sovereignty and nativism are massive distraction from what nations should be doing to shape and direct markets for the benefit of citizens...choice balanced with control.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously a lot of politicians and media are struggling to cope with a modern trade war when they still think governments created globalisation and can now undo that.

And we'll have continued turbulence until there's a better understanding of today's world. ecipe.org/blog/alterna...

Finding an Alternative to Populist Trade Policies

Even before the chaos of Trump’s second term, bringing back factory jobs and talking about tariffs were the predominant trade policy discussions in many countries. While these clearly have some sign

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 1d

Market response to mini-budget was not "you can't spend" but "you have to spend well". Borrowing for tax cuts is not a path to growth, but borrowing to kickstart investment in net zero and nature positive infrastructure - warm homes, natural flood management, less polluted roads - lowers costs

Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent description of the box the Chancellor has put herself in. More focus on productivity is good way out. Smart use of public banks, windfall taxes and regulation on those profiting from dirty industries of yesterday and support to those investing in growing green businesses and jobs we need.

Ben Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 5d

I've written about the UK's productivity problem for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. Come for the comparison of the UK economy to a hedgehog, stay for the comparison of Rachel Reeves to a Dickens character.

observer.co.uk/news/busines...

In Britain’s ‘hedgehog economy’, growth is wild, spiky – ...

The spines on the OBR’s charts are a signal to the chancellor to pull all the levers to improve our growth prospects

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 4d

Regularising windfall taxes on oil and gas is not only necessary to fund the transition to a safer greener economy, it would also make the transition easier because each price spike wouldn't keep create major financial incentive to keep us all dependent on polluting and precarious fossil fuels

Jan Fichtner @janfichtner.bsky.social · 4d

📢 must-read new paper! 👇

Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 4d

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 8d

Biofuel is a small but growing part of global soybean use. Here in the US, a number of recent policy moves (higher blending mandates, tax credits, curbs on foreign biofuel imports and feedstocks) are likely to result in MORE THAN HALF of all US soybean oil being burned as biofuel next year.

Biofuel demand to soak up more than half of US soyoil production next year, USDA says

U.S. biofuel makers will consume more than half of all soybean oil produced in the United States next year as a recent flurry of federal policy moves has transformed the sector, including higher blending mandates and curbs on foreign biofuel imports and feedstocks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 10d

Really interesting by @hannecl.bsky.social and Jon Stone. It was always the case that the 'Singapore on Thames' lot were totally out of touch with the views of them majority of Brits. We are in fact quite European in our attitudes on regulation www.politico.eu/article/uk-w...

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 10d

WSJ: "President Trump is considering providing $10 billion or more in aid to U.S. farmers as the agriculture sector warns of economic fallout from his far-reaching tariffs, according to people familiar with the discussions."

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Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 10d

“a third of greenhouse gas emissions come from the global food system and taming the climate crisis is impossible without changing how the world eats. Food production is also the biggest cause of the destruction of wildlife and forests and the pollution of water.”

Change your diet.

Camille Perrin @perrincam.bsky.social · 10d

Thinking of European Commission staff behind the Farm to Fork Strategy when they'll read the new #EATLancet report.... They had it all right, and it's a real shame the EU's blueprint for healthy, fair and environmentally friendly #FoodSystems was derailed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

www.theguardian.com

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 16d

Worrying this is not receiving more coverage as British voters rightly reject politicians linked with Putin's Russia.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16d

ARE

YOU

PAYING

ATTENTION

YET?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 28d

Our speakers will address key disinformation points—as well as emphasising the evidence showing that emergency action will make ordinary people better off, which @angelaisfranc.bsky.social speaks really powerfully on.
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How to get everyone to care about a green economy | Angela Francis

YouTube video by TED

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 28d

Good! And now Starmer and all party leaders who have condemned those stoking violence and division should call on Badenoch and Farage do the same. Whatever they do,condem or not, it will be electoral damaging for them

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 28d

EXC - Keir Starmer condemns far right racism and violence at yesterday's march

Says there will be "no surrender" of British flag to those who promote hate

Our story here - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Britain will ‘never surrender flag’ to far-right protesters, Starmer says

PM condemns attacks against police, racist intimidation of minorities and use of flag to instil fear

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 29d

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · Sep 12

Ian Dunt on how Labour can (and must) defeat Reform - competence and values. And in particular the need to start taking a stand on the latter...

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How would those values be articulated? How can a progressive message be delivered in a way that convinces voters? There is an implicit admission of defeat in Starmer and Morgan McSweeney's approach. The refusal to fight for values suggests that the British public is fundamentally and instinctively reactionary and that this cannot be solved through political communication. I believe the first proposition is false but that even if it wasn't the second is criminally negligent. If you can't convince voters of your ideas you've no business in party politics and should really fuck off out of it.

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you Ed

Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · Sep 13

As a hardly-ever-online person, I found this VF explainer of right on right factions extremely helpful. And, whilst not wanting anyone to be killed by anyone, the change in response now the identity and motivations of the shooter are becoming clearer is telling
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James Baggaley @jimbaggaley.bsky.social · Sep 9

Big John, England and why an ordinary, decent patriotism matters.

My piece for the @newstatesman.com.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Speak for England, Big John

In the face of racist attacks, the food influencer represents a form of patriotism that is modest and decent.

www.newstatesman.com

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · Sep 13

Exactly, and even accepting points about leaders needing to make decisions when there is no simple 'right answer", the trade off presented to Starmer is made more stark by those conflating industrial strategy with industry support. Good businesses need tough customers. bsky.app/profile/step...

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Sep 12

👇 Keir Starmer doesn’t like it when the departments bring him their disputes to adjudicate, but in a modern state, loads of disputes don’t have a “right“ answer, they just have a trade off that the prime minister has to rule on.

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · Sep 12

A perfect illustration of the trade offs involved in government. Do ministers want to keep down drug prices to help the NHS budget or to raise them to attract and retain Big Pharma which plays a central role in the industrial strategy? on.ft.com/4gkaC8P

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · Sep 7

For those not willing to go on X to find out what is going on in UK govt - and why should you have to automatic cross posting to multiple platforms should be the norm - new junior minister and PUS post announced here too www.gov.uk/government/n...

Ministerial appointments: September 2025

The King has been pleased to approve the following appointments.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · Sep 7

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred

I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

We escaped war and torture but now we feel unsafe in Britain

Special report: Amid protests and rising aggression towards asylum seekers across the country, we spoke to those being targeted

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · Sep 2

Econ 101 (and it's true, too): At some point in time, real estate and other markets in 🇪🇺 and elsewhere will expect heavy climate shocks. 👇

Anticipation is a very powerful market force, and despair is bad for growth. Best to use the time now: renew and electrify.

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Aug 28

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds

- Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic impacts

#climatecrisis #AMOC
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

www.theguardian.com

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · Aug 29

Article's comparison of Zelensky career as a comedian to the antics of Melei or Johnson is nonsense - buffonary is not comedy! There is a good piece to be written about politicains who treat government as a joke being a symptom of rising cynicism and a red light for democracy, but this isn't it

Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · Aug 29

It's not the size of the sector that make this big news today, it's the effect of food prices and shortages across the economy and the challenge farmers everywhere have to move to more diverse and resilient production whilst staying in business. That should worry us.