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The official account of @theclimatereality.bsky.social in the UK. Act like your world depends on it.

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The Met Office has announced that 2025 has been the sunniest year in the UK since records began in 1910.

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2025 becomes the sunniest year on record for the UK
Sunshine amounts across the UK in 2025 have beaten the previous record set in 2003. Sarah Keith-Lucas looks at reasons behind this record-breaking weather.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out - says Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados

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This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley
The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out, says the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
On 27th Nov, 10 of the UK’s leading experts briefed an invite-only audience of around 1,250 politicians & leaders from business, culture, faith with the latest implications for health, food, national security & the economy of the climate emergency

Sign a letter to Keir Starmer

www.nebriefing.org
National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Brilliant news 👇😀
BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels.

🧵
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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NEW 🚨: Two of the biggest climate villains of our time have teamed up to pull off what could be a £1.3 billion tax dodge.

Shell and Equinor are forming a new joint venture, Adura, which will be the new owner of the Rosebank oil field 👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/disr...
Disrupt the deal: Shell and Equinor's £1.3 billion tax grab
Two of the biggest climate villains of our time have teamed up to pull off what could be a £1.3 billion tax dodge. Demand Rachel Reeves intervene, investigate this deal, and plug this massive hole in ...
actionnetwork.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨

It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…

–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more

Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast

www.carbonbrief.org/...
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Delegates at COP30 made minimal headway on timetable for replacing oil and gas or on firm commitments to reducing carbon emissions

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30’s watered-down agreements will do little for an ecosystem at tipping point
Delegates made minimal headway on timetable for replacing oil and gas or on firm commitments to reducing carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
After another divisive climate summit at COP30, the gulf between oil-producing countries (in particular in the Middle East) and the rest of the world has never been wider

theconversation.com/cop30-five-r...
Cop30: five reasons the UN climate conference failed to deliver on its ‘people’s summit’ promise
Deals were agreed but with crucial elements missing.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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NEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém

Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3isyGpX

#COP30
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Cop30 moved forward the fight against the climate crisis and the damage it is already causing to lives and livelihoods. But the measures delivered are steps, rather than the leaps needed

Read 7 key takeaways from Cop30 👇

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The Amazon insisted on being heard’: seven key takeaways from Cop30
After talks come close to collapse, the deal represents steps, rather than leaps, forward on tackling climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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”Countries are failing their legal duties, says Erika Lennon, at the Center for International Environmental Law”

From: Cop30 live: Deal agreed at Cop after long negotiations www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30 live: Fury, confusion and gratitude as climate deal reached in Belem
After a series of all-night meetings and fears the summit could collapse, an agreement has been gavelled through at Cop30
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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It’s very hard to see what the opposition is to a roadmap beyond ‘we just want to burn lots more fossil fuels’. It’s just a promise to discuss a roadmap and it’s for a ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels, not a full phase out.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30: dozens of countries threaten to block resolution unless it contains roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out
Exclusive: The Guardian understands Brazil had been planning to drop a roadmap to a transition away from fossil fuels amid opposition from petro states
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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The climate crisis is a crisis mostly of the fossil fuel industry's own making – and one they do not want to fix nor be held accountable for

The presence and involvement of oil, gas and coal lobbyists at the #COP30 UN climate summit is like tobacco lobbyists at a lung cancer summit: unacceptable
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned

Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)

What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts

www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
There’s no Planet B. This is our only home — let’s protect it like our lives depend on it. Because they do. #ActOnClimate
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This is frankly ridiculous:

More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém, significantly outnumbering every single country’s delegation apart from the host Brazil

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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A first-of-its-kind nuclear power station is to be built on Anglesey, bringing up to 3,000 jobs & billions of pounds of investment.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the UK's first three small modular reactors
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The world is still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as countries have not made sufficiently strong climate pledges, while emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high, two major reports have found

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, potentially threatening the health of more than 2 billion people as well as critical ecosystems

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people – report
Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for combating the climate crisis while China is surging ahead in producing and using clean energy equipment, the president of the UN climate talks has said

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief
Brazil’s André Corrêa do Lago says countries should follow China’s lead on clean energy as conference begins
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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BREAKING 🚨: @zackpolanski.bsky.social has joined 250+ organisations calling on Keir Starmer to reject the controversial Rosebank oil field.

Rosebank is a defining test of this government’s credibility on climate change. They must reject this disaster project.
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
US President Donald Trump has been criticised by world leaders for his stance on climate change, ahead of the global COP30 summit - being called a liar by the leaders of Colombia and Chile for his rejection of climate science.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
COP30: Starmer warns 'consensus is gone' on fighting climate change
World leaders address COP30 climate summit in Belém and take aim at Trump record on climate change.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A new @climateanalytics.org study shows how to limit the overshoot of 1.5°C to the lowest possible level and return warming back well below 1.5°C by 2100 by looking at the highest possible ambition that could be undertaken by countries, starting in 2025

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Rescuing 1.5°C: new evidence on the highest possible ambition to…
This study shows that, even after years of insufficient action, the world can still return to well below 1.5°C of warming this century if countries pursue the “highest possible ambition” in climate ac...
climateanalytics.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM