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The National Emergency Briefing on Climate & Nature took place at Central Hall Westminster today, presenting a sobering, science-led examination of the UK’s escalating climate and environmental threats.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The National Emergency Briefing on Climate & Nature took place at Central Hall Westminster today, presenting a sobering, science-led examination of the UK’s escalating climate and environmental threats.
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What a great gathering of powerful and wise voices! 💚
It's hugely important to amplify their messages...
It's hugely important to amplify their messages...
The full panel now on stage, taking questions from the audience.
#NEB #NationalEmergencyBriefing @nebriefing.bsky.social
#NEB #NationalEmergencyBriefing @nebriefing.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
What a great gathering of powerful and wise voices! 💚
It's hugely important to amplify their messages...
It's hugely important to amplify their messages...
Strikes, walkouts and protests are again planned for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend at Amazon sites in 30 countries.
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Resisting Black Friday advertising hype
Strikes, walkouts and protests are again planned for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend at Amazon sites in 30 countries.
theecologist.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Strikes, walkouts and protests are again planned for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend at Amazon sites in 30 countries.
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The downfall of a banking climate coalition raises urgent questions about financing the green transition.
Green capital - don't bank on it!
Global banking climate group to stop operations after member exodus.
theecologist.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The downfall of a banking climate coalition raises urgent questions about financing the green transition.
Bulldozers are cutting a corridor of destruction through one of the most intact parts of the rainforest.
A summit at the nadir of credibility?
Global leaders attend meetings under the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, pledging ambition, justice and preservation.
theecologist.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Bulldozers are cutting a corridor of destruction through one of the most intact parts of the rainforest.
Small producers are being edged out by multinational corporations
Argan oil co-operatives in Morocco 'pushed to margins'
Morocco’s women co-operatives lose out as argan oil becomes global cosmetic must-have.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Small producers are being edged out by multinational corporations
Bulldozers are cutting a corridor of destruction through one of the most intact parts of the rainforest.
A summit at the nadir of credibility?
Global leaders attend meetings under the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, pledging ambition, justice and preservation.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Bulldozers are cutting a corridor of destruction through one of the most intact parts of the rainforest.
Barclay’s supposed climate commitments didn’t stop it helping raise nearly $2bn for US coal projects.
The real power brokers
We won’t get real climate action while big polluters are overseeing government departments.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Barclay’s supposed climate commitments didn’t stop it helping raise nearly $2bn for US coal projects.
Can taxes help curb the climate cost of the meat industry?
A meaty budget proposal
How Rachel Reeves could introduce a meat tax in her budget and curb climate emissions and improve public health.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Can taxes help curb the climate cost of the meat industry?
Beef production is responsible for 41 per cent of global deforestation, primarily in the extremely fragile Amazon rainforest region.
A meaty budget proposal
How Rachel Reeves could introduce a meat tax in her budget and curb climate emissions and improve public health.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Beef production is responsible for 41 per cent of global deforestation, primarily in the extremely fragile Amazon rainforest region.
Restoring and rewilding ecosystems could be critical to human survival
'If ecosystems go, we go'
Ecologists call for ecosystem approach to halt nature decline.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Restoring and rewilding ecosystems could be critical to human survival
“No government should have to chose between protecting nature and its people, and protecting itself from arbitrators”
COP30 'must declare an end to ISDS’
British fossil fuel investors claim more than twice as much money as government has paid in climate finance.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“No government should have to chose between protecting nature and its people, and protecting itself from arbitrators”
“How many calling for reform of such a malignant media landscape find their cries falling on deaf ears?”
'We need a media consumers union'
Touch Paper: a media consumers union arrives to fill the breach.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
“How many calling for reform of such a malignant media landscape find their cries falling on deaf ears?”
“How many calling for reform of such a malignant media landscape find their cries falling on deaf ears?”
'We need a media consumers union'
Touch Paper: a media consumers union arrives to fill the breach.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“How many calling for reform of such a malignant media landscape find their cries falling on deaf ears?”
“How many calling for reform of such a malignant media landscape find their cries falling on deaf ears?”
'We need a media consumers union'
Touch Paper: a media consumers union arrives to fill the breach.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“How many calling for reform of such a malignant media landscape find their cries falling on deaf ears?”
'We need a media consumers union'
Touch Paper: a media consumer’s union arrives to fill the breach.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Too right!
There’s more to the interconnectedness and web-of-life than we mere humans can fathom, let’s try and preserve it while we can and before we realise we have damaged our world (and therefore ourselves) beyond repair.
There’s more to the interconnectedness and web-of-life than we mere humans can fathom, let’s try and preserve it while we can and before we realise we have damaged our world (and therefore ourselves) beyond repair.
Time to bring the lives of animals into the heart of our climate decisions
'Animals matter as we plan our world'
Why animal welfare belongs in planning permission decisions.
theecologist.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Too right!
There’s more to the interconnectedness and web-of-life than we mere humans can fathom, let’s try and preserve it while we can and before we realise we have damaged our world (and therefore ourselves) beyond repair.
There’s more to the interconnectedness and web-of-life than we mere humans can fathom, let’s try and preserve it while we can and before we realise we have damaged our world (and therefore ourselves) beyond repair.
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Bottom line or top?
The world’s largest banks carry more than $1.6 trillion in credit exposures to coal, oil and gas production and fossil-fuel power.
A trillion dollar climate risk
New research shows fossil fuel exposures of the world’s 60 biggest banks.
theecologist.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Bottom line or top?
The mispricing of fossil fuel loans keeps financing flowing into the industry.
A trillion dollar climate risk
New research shows fossil fuel exposures of the world’s 60 biggest banks.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The mispricing of fossil fuel loans keeps financing flowing into the industry.
The figures are mindblowing: a hyperscale data centre today could require the same amount of electricity as a town of 50,000 people, and require a similar amount of water.
Hyperscale data centres will 'turbocharge emissions'
Planned obsolescence: why fast-tracking data centres through the planning system is a disaster in waiting.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The figures are mindblowing: a hyperscale data centre today could require the same amount of electricity as a town of 50,000 people, and require a similar amount of water.
The Brazilian government is talking sustainability - but devastating the rainforest it claims to protect.
A summit at the nadir of credibility?
Global leaders attend meetings under the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, pledging ambition, justice and preservation.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The Brazilian government is talking sustainability - but devastating the rainforest it claims to protect.
Luxury in the sky for the super-rich spells hell on earth for the rest
Private jet tax should be sky high
Possible is calling on British chancellor Rachel Reeves to start taxing private jets fairly in the upcoming budget, a move which could raise up to £2.7bn in tax revenue.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Luxury in the sky for the super-rich spells hell on earth for the rest
The 'liquid gold' argan oil industry is now dominated by international companies.
Argan oil co-operatives in Morocco 'pushed to margins'
Morocco’s women co-operatives lose out as argan oil becomes global cosmetic must-have.
theecologist.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The 'liquid gold' argan oil industry is now dominated by international companies.
The world’s largest banks carry more than $1.6 trillion in credit exposures to coal, oil and gas production and fossil-fuel power.
A trillion dollar climate risk
New research shows fossil fuel exposures of the world’s 60 biggest banks.
theecologist.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The world’s largest banks carry more than $1.6 trillion in credit exposures to coal, oil and gas production and fossil-fuel power.
"Bringing family farming and agroecology to the forefront at COP30 shows that another production model is both possible and necessary.”
COP30 shines spotlight on sociobioeconomy
This year's UN climate talks will feature traditional food sourced from family farming for the first time.
theecologist.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Bringing family farming and agroecology to the forefront at COP30 shows that another production model is both possible and necessary.”