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2 Wheeled Wolf @2-wheeled-wolf.bsky.social · 1h

Delivery companies should be forced to employ the riders & ensure the cycles they use are road legal! Until then the delivery companies won't do squat about the illegal use of unregistered electric motorcycles as ebikes.

road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 8h

London council urges food delivery companies to do more to educate riders about e-bike laws and dangerous illegal modifications
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 6h

Which one is more English?

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 6h

The new Baku to Belém Roadmap fails to ensure rich countries deliver on promised climate finance. 😡

But it does send one clear signal: It’s time to tax fossil fuel giants and #MakePollutersPay

#COP30

Baku to Belém Roadmap lacks public finance accountability, but offers signal on polluter taxes - Greenpeace International

The long-awaited release of the Baku to Belém Roadmap to US 1.3 trillion lacks accountability ask of developed countries to deliver promised public finance for climate action.

www.greenpeace.org

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h

🎉 I’ll be appearing live on #TheLastLeg tomorrow night. 10pm on Channel 4.

🎤 Reply below or text The Last Leg on 07956 175 908 with any questions you’d like me to answer on the show!

Live 10pm channel 4. Last leg. Questions for Polanski. Craic with Zack

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 5h

As heatwaves surge, the UNEP-led Cool Coaltion and #COP30 team up to help countries build resilience to extreme heat and advance cooling solutions that cut emissions and save lives.

Let’s make cool moves to #BeatTheHeat: coolcoalition.org/pilot-projec...

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦‍♂️

…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️

Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills

Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’

www.theguardian.com

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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 5h

The UK has recently been hit by its first ISDS case over a climate policy, sued by investors in the quashed Cumbria coal mine.

Win or lose, taxpayers are on the hook for the likely extortionate costs of legal fees, and potentially compensation.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK taxpayers on hook as failed Cumbria coalmine investors sue government

Singapore firm using secretive international legal system to seek compensation for climate concerns blocking plans

www.theguardian.com

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ianternet.bsky.social @ianternet.bsky.social · 2h

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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 5h

It's time the UK and governments around the world leave corporate courts in the past - for good.

Ahead of #COP30 we are calling on the UK to go ISDS free to protect sovereign climate policy! ✊🏽

www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/pressur...

Pressure mounts on UK to join coordinated exit from secretive corporate court system, during COP30 - Global Justice Now

Civil society coalition will hold press conference and side event at COP30 to urge governments to go ‘ISDS free’ to protect sovereign climate policy The UK is being urged by […]

www.globaljustice.org.uk

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Stop Fossil Subsidies @stopfossilsubs.bsky.social · 1d

📣Find here our advocacy toolkit on how to get an ambitious result in Belém:

stopfossilsubsidies.eu/wp-content/u...

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Heinrich Böll Foundation International Environmental Policy @ecologyboell.bsky.social · 1d

🟢 Overuse, pollution & #climate crisis are fuelling a global #water crisis 🥵
💧 New #WaterAtlas 2025 by @boell.de reveals the scale, urgency & politics of global water challenges – and how more equitable, sustainable governance is possible 👉 eu.boell.org/en/WaterAtlas #COP30 @cop30brazil.bsky.social

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 4h

3 weeks ago, we handed in a petition signed by over fifty-five thousand of you, calling on the Government to keep Britain in the European Convention on Human Rights. Following the 75th anniversary, our message is clear - the ECHR is essential for our rights and freedoms, and we must remain in it.

European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 22d

Today we handed in over fifty-five thousand signatures at Downing Street, calling on the government to keep Britain in the European Convention on Human Rights. Leaving it would put us alongside Russia and Belarus. Britain must stand for justice, not isolation.

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ianternet.bsky.social @ianternet.bsky.social · 2h

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Proportional Commons @propvoting.bsky.social · 21h

The Commons is now in recess until 11th November.

Of the 344 divisions held so far this session, 169 would have changed result if seats matched votes. That is, ~49% of the time, opposition MPs represented *more* people but the government won anyway.

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Worthing Climate Action Network @worthingcan.bsky.social · 4h

Will they listen? #COP30
This year is on course to be 2nd or 3rd hottest ever, the UN World Meteorological Organization said. 2023, 2024 and 2025 will be the three hottest on record, demonstrating that the world is now deep into the #climatecrisis
#endfossilfuels

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Triple-whammy of hottest ever years risks ‘irreversible damage’, says UN

Experts say 2023, 2024 and 2025 the three hottest years in 176 years of records, with 1.5C Paris agreement target now ‘virtually impossible’

www.theguardian.com

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 3h

Seventy-five years ago, Britain helped write the European Convention on Human Rights to keep power in check and protect basic freedoms. That legacy is now under threat. Read our piece on why the ECHR still matters and why defending it means defending Britain’s own values.

Seventy-Five Years of the European Convention on Human Rights

We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.

www.europeanmovement.co.uk

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Marine Conservation Society @mcsuk.bsky.social · 3h

Introducing... The League of Unlikely Ocean Heroes! 🦸 Seagrass, mussels, kelp and native oysters filter pollutants, capture carbon and protect habitats. But they’re facing challenges from dredging to climate change.

Help them thrive again by donating today 👉 https://actmcs.org/oyster-hero-bsky

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 3h

From the Congo to the Amazon, Africa’s message to #COP30 is clear:

We are here to lead, not to plead.

We are telling the African story at COP30 — one of justice, courage and hope - Greenpeace Africa

Africa is not at COP30 to plead, but to lead. From forest defenders to youth innovators, the continent carries solutions the world can no longer afford to ignore.

www.greenpeace.org

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 3h

Whenever Reform are in control, their first instinct is to go after the most vulnerable.

If this is what happens when they run a council, just imagine them running the country.

Headline: Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres

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Make Them Pay @makethempay.bsky.social · 8h

📣 The economy must work for the people who keep the country running, not corporations and billionaires.

Ahead of the Budget later this month, we brought this message to the streets of London. Watch our new video from the day thousands marched to say: tax the rich! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyTd...

Polluters, billionaires, oligarchs – it's time to Make Them Pay!

YouTube video by Climate Justice Coalition

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 2h

Did you know the UK gov allows bottom trawling in many UK Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)?

It’s like letting a bulldozer destroy a national park.

Want to protect the UK's local fishermen and precious marine life? Please urge the UK gov to ban all industrial fishing from UK MPAs NOW:

act.gp/43gBtgI

Sign the petition

Emma Reynolds: stop the industrial fishing frenzy

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 2h

🚨BREAKING: Small-scale fishermen across Europe are demanding a ban on bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

If fishermen can see this destructive practice should be banned, why can’t governments?

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ianternet.bsky.social @ianternet.bsky.social · 2h

24,000+ of us are saying NO to the Government’s tax breaks for oil & gas giants 💸 We need thousands more to make them listen. Join me by adding your name today: 38d.gs/djdv

End tax breaks on oil and gas

Sign the petition to stop the giveaway and demand a fair jobs plan needs major people power right now.

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 17h

Roughly 75 percent of the drop in rainfall can be directly linked to deforestation
And a drier Amazon is burning like never before
They have killed the Amazon - one of the lungs of the Earth
www.conservation.org/news/news-sp...

News spotlight: Deforestation linked to dramatic decline in Amazon rainfall | Conservation International

The Amazon rainforest, known for lush green canopies and an abundance of freshwater, is drying out — and deforestation is largely to blame.

www.conservation.org

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Stop Fossil Subsidies @stopfossilsubs.bsky.social · 7h

"Redirecting environmentally damaging subsidies toward sustainable practices can further protect ecosystems, cut input costs, and strengthen food security." (p. 12)

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Stop Fossil Subsidies @stopfossilsubs.bsky.social · 7h

Reference to IPCC: "The IPCC recommended the following policy options can have important long-term
catalytic benefits: [...] (vii) economic instruments, such as phasing in carbon pricing and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies in a way that addresses equity and access" (p. 14)

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 10h

I would be more inclined to listen Mr Lula, if you hadn't just given the go-ahead to exploiting your country's new oil and gas reserves

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The era of fine speeches and good intentions is over. Brazil’s Cop30 will be about action | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faith, says the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

www.theguardian.com

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