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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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

Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 2h

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 · 5h

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 · 5h

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 · 2h

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

Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 4h

"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 · 4h

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 · 3h

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 · 2h

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 · 17h

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

Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 19h

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 · 17h

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 · 19h

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 · 17h

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 · 18h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 19h

Join us in being cheerful!

Let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 22h

"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 · 20h

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 · 16h

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 · 18h

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 · 20h

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...

Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 20h

We are going to the Lye Valley one on Saturday.

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 21h

Useful.

Climate Crisis Advisory Group @climatecrisisag.bsky.social · 23h

Waste produces nearly 20% of human-driven methane – but it’s one of the easiest to fix.
By cutting food waste, madating universal collection, and monitoring landfill gas, we can slash emissions fast while making cities cleaner and healthier.
More in our latest report - www.ccag.earth/reports/meth...

Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 21h

Never learned to drive, never driven a car, never paid for car parking or petrol, never paid car insurance, never paid for driving lessons, never looked back. Cycling since 1964; walking from an early age...

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 1d

Going car free is by far the most impactful thing people can do.
What are you doing to help people with this goal?

bsky.app/profile/wric...

WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · 2d

🚲🥗🚗 Small choices matter, but big change happens when systems support them.

WRI Climate ranked 19 climate-friendly behaviors to show which ones cut the most emissions and why policies & businesses must make them accessible.

See the list 👉 bit.ly/4q0pWvC

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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 23h

Planned obsolescence: why fast-tracking data centres through the planning system is a disaster in waiting.

theecologist.org/2025/oct/14/...

Hyperscale data centres will 'turbocharge emissions'

Planned obsolescence: why fast-tracking data centres through the planning system is a disaster in waiting.

theecologist.org

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 21h

Another MP to target for removal in the next General Election. If they don't support the right to protest, they must go.

Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 5d

MP defends government plans to restrict repeated protests.

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Craigie 🇵🇸 🚩☮️🔻Proudly Un-British @craigsmive.bsky.social · 23h

www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

If MI5 are worried about threats to democracy, they should start with Morgan McSweeney

Never mind Russia, China, and Iran. We have a real enemy within that hijacked a general election and tried to kill the free press: McSweeney.

www.thecanary.co

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Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 23h

We must stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with the victims and survivors of the horrific terror attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester.

Prejudice, hatred, and violence against Jewish people has no place in Britain.

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