In a turbulent and volatile moment for climate action, it’s understandable to feel anxious by lack of progress. However, in our research a different story is unfolding: just transitions are being built in real places, by real communities and delivering practical benefits in everyday lives. 1/3

Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @ember-energy.org Read here: buff.ly/XtaYP1D

🌟 You'll hear from experts @robfordmancs.bsky.social, @beccam-c.bsky.social (@ippr.org) and Roisín Cavanagh (@friends-earth.bsky.social). 💥 Plus, JUST's own @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social, @matpaterson.bsky.social and @luciemidd.bsky.social will present our latest research on climate and volatility.

An argument I see a lot from American car guys on IG and Tiktok is "well, US consumers aren't buying EVs, so it's important to continue making new petrol cars." To which I say fellas, that's ... not an accident.

🌍 Proud to have sponsored and presented at the Center for Environmental Justice Global Conference 2026! 🌱 Our roundtable focused on how solidarity, care and collective action can sustain hope within EJ movements, while our sponsorship provided support for unwaged and global majority participants.

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a really important story. If Europe makes Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) with products of beef farming linked with tropical deforestation, then we're only decarbonising on paper and getting nowhere.

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

The Tony Blair Institute should at this stage be regarded as a hostile entity working to directly harm British sovereignty.

🗳️ WEBINAR | Local elections 2026: Implications for just climate action In this decisive moment we're bringing together a superb expert panel spanning research, policy and NGOs to unpack what the results signal for climate action in the UK. Not to be missed! 👉 Register now: bit.ly/48Dst7Q

🌟 Our panellists include @robfordmancs.bsky.social, @beccam-c.bsky.social (@ippr.org) and Roisín Cavanagh (@friends-earth.bsky.social). 🌟 You'll also hear from our own @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social and @luciemidd.bsky.social presenting JUST's work on climate and volatility.

Air conditioning already accounts for about 15% of global electricity demand. And that’s set to triple by 2050. We spend a lot of time talking about clean power. Much less talking about the fact that cooling itself is becoming a major climate and business problem. #ClimateChange #PassiveCooling

Presenting the reopening the Strait of Hormuz as a victory is like the Greeks failing to take Troy but celebrating the safe return of their wooden horse

Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.

They tried to make this man an MP while he's being paid €10k a month by Hungary.

Last Friday we had a really engaging joint workshop between the environmental politics research groups at Sheffield University & Manchester University. The purpose was to present work in progress - lots of overlapping themes on climate, energy, environmental regulation, biodiversity & water

subtext: Trump's cronies have bet on a fall in the oil price. www.theguardian.com/world/middle...

Palantir discovered ontology in much the same way Columbus discovered America. That is to say:the broligarchs are thieves & barbarians. They plant their flags on others' work & say "look at our genius!" Now they're claiming to have "popularized" a well-known branch of philosophy 1,000s of yrs old.

1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries

🙌 Some Monday motivation from our partner @theyoungfdn.bsky.social: "Programmes including...the Centre for Joined-Up Sustainability Transformations (JUST) are bringing together residents, public services, funders and policy makers to learn from one another and redesign how decisions get made."

1. Germany already said the war is illegal. 2. US now threatening "complete obliteration" of Iran's energy system and, maybe, of desalination plants – i.e., war crimes. 3. Reminder: The war is conducted from Ramstein, Germany: "the nerve center of America’s operations against Iran". What gives?

The logic of the Trump regime is grounded in the right-wing’s desire to establish the US as a petro-empire that manages the impacts of climate change w fascism: fake elections, disinformation as common sense, concentration camps for migrants, & the destruction of blue states by extreme weather. 1/n

Been a while since it came out but just got my copy today. Very pleased to be in this.

Packed rooms for GEP 25th anniversary panels at ISA this week. @gepjournal.bsky.social @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social @kmoneill.bsky.social @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @devoncantwell.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @robertfalkner.bsky.social @bethdesombre.bsky.social

🚀 Yesterday we kicked off our first Practice-Builders’ Network at the People's History Museum in MCR! Facilitated by @theyoungfdn.bsky.social, our first gathering brought together a group of passionate climate practitioners at the forefront of shaping a just climate future in their communities.

Congratulations to JUST's Jake Ainscough who has been awarded a prestigious Innovation Fellowship from The British Academy! 👏 The 12-month fellowship will bring Jake's sustainability expertise to the heart of government policymaking. ➡️ Read more: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-bri...

Good news if it continues - their opposition to climate action causing trouble for Reform. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Has Trump's war on wind power accidentally fuelled a push for wind energy in the Great Lakes? Here's hoping. And while we're talking about damaging rules and regulations, it's time for Ontario to nix its offshore wind moratorium. @cape-acme.bsky.social www.theenergymix.com/the-great-la...

56 Landscape Recovery projects across England have been funded to develop plans, covering 240,000 hectares. Only three are approved for delivery. Our new briefing asks why, and what needs to change. 🧵 1/5

Seriously one of the most hopeful things you’ll read today.

Western car manufacturers are making a “profound strategic mistake” as they pull back from EVs just as oil prices are soaring once again. Prioritising short-term profits selling petrol cars is not a valid business view if you still want to be in the car market in 2035. bit.ly/4bGj00t

Iran is now releasing cartoons that Trump can understand (via Bill Madden) 😂🤣👇

There seems to be a strong undercurrent throughout the Trump administration of insider trading opportunities driving things, from the early flip-flops on tariffs to this.

Good to see UK moving new homes off gas…in 2028. 12 years later than 2016, the target first proposed by Brown in 2006. The majority of the 1.86m homes built since 2016 will have to be retrofitted. For a #longproblem, kicking the can down the road does not save money. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excited to announce our new co-authored book!! Trade Fetishism: Magical and Materialist Thinking in Global Political Economy. www.routledge.com/Trade-Fetish...

Someone's started counting the carbon emissions from Trump and Netanyahu's illegal war. Iceland's annual emissions in just two weeks, will surely rise way beyond that. open.substack.com/pub/climatec...

co-sign

This will be the first time in history that the oil industry has had a big profitable war that drives up the prices of their products and a large portion of the world has a lower cost option that provides the same solution. They called it a hoax. Oops!!

A cover that was a year ahead of its time

Another great report out today, this time on what Reform has been up to on climate where it has won. this one from @granthamlse.bsky.social . www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Insane and then the racism on top. The one positive flipside of sprawl in north american cities ought to be that people can grow large % of their own food. I did that in Ottawa for years even in an 'inner' neighbourhood.

Honestly. Racial capitalism is the anti-life equation www.motherjones.com/environment/...

🌎️ | NEW REPORT: The net zero "backlash" is a myth. Voters still back climate action, but politics and media are telling a different story. Our new analysis with Persuasion UK explains why and how we fix it 👉 www.ippr.org/articles/apa...

excellent new report by @ippr.org on why the sense of opposition to climate action is driven by RW populist rhetoric not shifts in public opinion. www.ippr.org/articles/apa...

At one level all of this is obvious, just brilliantly stated. But it tells us how screwed we are that states are still engaged in so much violence to shore up the oil economy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hardly any fossil fuel car sold anymore in Denmark now.

Past GEP editor @matpaterson.bsky.social on generosity as the key to being a good journal reviewer: "Be a gardener, not a gatekeeper." www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQhR... Stay tuned for more videos in celebration of GEP's 25th Anniversary (& associated Special Issue, direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...).

NEW – Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by more than North Sea drilling | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/7B0fLPB

Some thoughts on what the Gorton and Denton byelection means for pursuing climate action in the contemporary UK political landscape. www.just.ac.uk/news/2026/03...

some keep on telling this story of people not wanting green policies, warning politicians to steer away from climate policies, yet the majority in the heartland of German car production has just voted for a guy that has not backtracked from saying that e-cars are the future bsky.app/profile/jere...