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Campaign against Climate Change
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Based in the UK, we bring people together to push for urgent action to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate, as linked to other social justice issues. We have an active trade union group.
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Campaign against Climate Change trade union group @cacctu.bsky.social · 46m
To address the climate crisis and fuel poverty, let's start taking home energy efficiency seriously as national infrastructure and doing it at scale, with proper workforce planning, quality assurance and decent secure jobs for those doing the work.
Piecemeal schemes aren't working.
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Climate Jobs: Building a workforce for the climate emergency
Climate Jobs: Building a workforce for the climate emergency provides a detailed and in-depth update of the One Million Climate Jobs report, demonstrating that there are many more than a million good,...
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Campaign against Climate Change trade union group @cacctu.bsky.social · 51m
The National Audit Office found the root causes of this home insulation disaster included poor workforce skills and subcontracting, and a system trying to do everything at arms length from government with little oversight.
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Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds
Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp
www.theguardian.com
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 22h
Also remarkable in the 2010s - the insistence that it was the combined total of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent which was the only relevant measurement.
Arctic sea ice volume remaining at the end of summer having shrunk by two thirds in three decades? Nothing to Worry our Pretty Heads About.
Graph showing Arctic sea ice volume falling over recent decades - September measurements falling from around 30,000 cubic km to around 25,000. April measurements falling from around 15,000 cubic km to around 5,000.
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 23h
We've got at great line up of speakers for this meeting next week. This includes Leon Sealey-Huggins @prosocial.bsky.social from @waronwant.bsky.social talking about international campaigning for action on just transition at COP30.
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Campaign against Climate Change trade union group @cacctu.bsky.social · 23h
Tuesday 21st October - hear from trade unionists and experts from four continents on why the climate crisis is an international working class issue, ahead of COP30 next month in Brazil.
Sign up: actionnetwork.org/events/clima...
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War on Want @waronwant.bsky.social · 1d
More than 45 charities, campaigners and trade unions have signed our open letter urging UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband to back an ambitious outcome on just transition at the UN Climate Summit #COP30.
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Henry Adams @henryadamsuk.bsky.social · 2d
Please sign @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax
Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 4d
Well yes this is all very good that someone's taking it seriously but could our actual Prime Minister also do his job and go to COP30?
Email action here:
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Prince William to attend Cop30 UN climate summit in Brazil
Prince of Wales’s decision welcomed as a means of drawing attention to the event and galvanising talks
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 4d
Prediction from @transportenvironment.org earlier this year that shipping climate targets which allow biofuels like palm oil could see nearly a third of global shipping running on biofuels by 2030 - fuelling deforestation.
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 4d
The global shipping industry could create massive demand for crop biofuels and this is... not a good thing.
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 5d
Soon the IMO will meet to vote on their new Net Zero Framework.

Biofuels cannot be included: they only drive deforestation and land theft.

Join us at 9am on 20th October outside IMO headquarters to call for real climate solutions, including demand reduction.

actionnetwork.org/events/tell-...
Image of a large container ship. There is a cartoon bottle of palm oil in a circle with a line struck through it in one corner. Text below reads 'Join us to tell the IMO: No biofuels in shipping!' The biofuelwatch logo is in the bottom left corner.
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 4d
The past five years have seen 3 of the 5 worst harvests ever recorded in England, due to extreme rainfall in the preceding winters in 2020 and 2024, and drought this year.

"This is what farming with climate change looks like."

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'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record
New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall
www.businessgreen.com
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 6d
📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇
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...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 7d
FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
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No Airport Expansion @noairportexp.bsky.social · 7d
Who's going to tell the aviation industry?

Claims we can expand aviation massively and still avoid climate breakdown are based on carbon offsetting.* Which as people have been pointing out for decades, doesn't work.

*CORSIA, the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 7d
In news that will surprise pretty much no one working on climate change, carbon offsets have deep-seated systemic problems and are not effective at cutting overall emissions.
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
www.theguardian.com
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 7d
In news that will surprise pretty much no one working on climate change, carbon offsets have deep-seated systemic problems and are not effective at cutting overall emissions.
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
www.theguardian.com
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Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) @gcdcj.bsky.social · 7d
DCJ members and allies are on the ground in Manila where the FRLD board meeting is taking place and the Fund’s Resource Mobilization Strategy will be decided. We demand rich countries #FillTheFund adequately and NOW! @canclimateaction.bsky.social @fillthefund.bsky.social @aausa.bsky.social
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 7d
The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) was a big win for the Global South at climate negotiations.

But promised funding would cover just 1% of the damages of a major disaster like the 2022 Pakistan floods.

And less than 2% of the profits of one single oil company (Shell).
#FillTheFund
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Fill The Fund @fillthefund.bsky.social · 7d
$1.2 TRILLION for military budget, only $348M for Loss & Damage? This is the theft of climate justice. Loss & Damage exists because of decades of inaction by the richest govts.

We fought for the FRLD. We won’t let it be an empty promise. Global North #PayUp & #FillTheFund now!
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Campaign against Climate Change trade union group @cacctu.bsky.social · 7d
Very excited about this on 21 October!
Why the climate crisis is an international working class issue: building global solidarity
Speakers inc:
Sabrina Fernandes, Brazilian political economist and ecosocialist
Suraya Jawoodeen, Africa Coordinator, TUED

Sign up: actionnetwork.org/events/clima...
Online meeting Tuesday 21 October 7pm Why the climate crisis is an international working class issue: building global solidarity Trade union year of climate action Hear from international speakers ahead of COP30
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 7d
As the article says, it's ludicrous that Starmer might stay away from this crucial summit for fear of Reform UK.
E-action here:
MP letter action: call on Starmer to show up for the climate
COP30, the annual UN climate change summit, is taking place in November in Belem, Brazil. As the climate crisis escalates, this is probably the most significant climate summit since Paris ten years ag...
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 8d
If Keir Starmer doesn't go to COP30, he will be letting Trump and Farage set the agenda on climate change.
Take action here: actionnetwork.org/letters/mp-l...
Starmer can help shape the future of the world at Cop30. He can’t let fear of Farage stop him | Michael Jacobs
The battle inside No 10 about whether the PM should attend an absolutely crucial climate summit in Brazil is ludicrous. He must assert himself – and go, says economist Michael Jacobs
www.theguardian.com
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 8d
If Keir Starmer doesn't go to COP30, he will be letting Trump and Farage set the agenda on climate change.
Take action here: actionnetwork.org/letters/mp-l...
Starmer can help shape the future of the world at Cop30. He can’t let fear of Farage stop him | Michael Jacobs
The battle inside No 10 about whether the PM should attend an absolutely crucial climate summit in Brazil is ludicrous. He must assert himself – and go, says economist Michael Jacobs
www.theguardian.com
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 11d
Perhaps this is what happens when you concentrate on fossil fuels in a fascist state that abolishes all basic safety rules.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11d
A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 11d
Reportedly, Starmer's aides told him not to attend COP30 because Reform UK might criticise him (seriously!)

Tell your MP to join those who have already urged the PM to show leadership and attend the crucial climate summit.

"The world is watching – and history will remember who showed up."
MP letter action: call on Starmer to show up for the climate
COP30, the annual UN climate change summit, is taking place in November in Belem, Brazil. As the climate crisis escalates, this is probably the most significant climate summit since Paris ten years ag...
actionnetwork.org
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 11d
Looking for just one Conservative MP willing to say 'this is a mistake' and demand that at the very least Badenoch comes forward with a vaguely credible alternative plan.
a man in a suit is standing in a living room holding a coat .
ALT: a man in a suit is standing in a living room holding a coat .
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 11d
Over 120 MPs back open letter calling on Kemi Badenoch to rethink her 'reckless' pledge to repeal the Climate Change Act. www.businessgreen.com/news/4519900...
'We urge you to think again': Over 100 MPs call on Tories to rethink 'reckless' push to scrap UK Climate Change Act
Coalition of 124 Labour, Lib Dem, Green, and SNP Parliamentarians warn ditching climate legislation would be catastrophic for the UK's economy and standing on the world stage
www.businessgreen.com
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 11d
Action here for people to write to their MPs asking them to urge Starmer to show up for the climate, and attend COP30.
MP letter action: call on Starmer to show up for the climate
COP30, the annual UN climate change summit, is taking place in November in Belem, Brazil. As the climate crisis escalates, this is probably the most significant climate summit since Paris ten years ag...
actionnetwork.org