Recommended read: Climate Home News examined how Nigerian homes and businesses are increasingly switching from backup generators to solar power.

No words to describe the enduring suffering and anguish. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"Tin mining, drainage for agriculture, deforestation, burning and military testing of ordnance are among the activities that have damaged" the bogs. Don't forget overgrazing. ‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On this point: "uptake of heat pumps by households in the UK remains the lowest in Europe." Misinfo is rife in tradespeople too. When installing ours, we were told crap by numerous experts: they don't work, too expensive, house not insulated enough etc. All either not true or easily surmountable.

#Biodiversity - near, and beyond, so many #PlanetaryBoundaries tipping points www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good article. The subtitle says it all: "Unlike geopolitical and technological shifts, which are likely to result in net job losses, the transition towards resilient, low-carbon economies could significantly expand the workforce."

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

climate arson looks like this:

Twice as fast as Moore's law. Let's hope it does it again next year - and the years following!

NEW – Analysis: CO2 from UK data centres could be ‘hundreds of times’ higher than thought | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here ➡️ bit.ly/4btjs3j

What scares me is that Trump seems unhinged enough to take the US from being 'merely' complicit in Israel's genocide to actively copying it in Iran.

Turns out Parisians don’t hate bike lanes as much as CNN thinks.

This bridge is a primary civilian artery linking southern Lebanon—a main agricultural region—with the rest of the country. Its destruction isolates southern communities and cuts off the flow of goods to the north. Israel plans to annex the southern territory under the auspices of a “buffer zone.”

I’ve been saying for months that this Paris election to pick @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s successor is the most important city election in the world. Over 34 years advising cities, I’ve seen inspiring cities either take their success to the next level, or go backwards, in moments just like this. #VOTE

“I don’t think the switching capacity is there. I think Europe’s going to have to rely more on renewables,” said Steven Swindells, a senior LNG analyst at Poten. “I think the dynamic really changed after the Israeli attack on South Pars.” From @nickcunningham.bsky.social

Informative article, lots of positive change take shape. This stood out: "In South Africa, a high court ruling recently overturned the government’s authorization of new offshore oil and gas drilling." Referring to this: www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

For decades we've been told that we don't need to shut down the fossil fuel industry, we just have to let capitalist entrepreneurship and the magic of the free market replace it with better technologies Now we have those better technologies, so legacy industry is ensuring there's no free market

The EU could have completely eliminated Russian gas imports had it actually aligned with its climate ambitions Now we're in 2022 ^ 10 and the consequences of centre-right dweebs hand-wringing about how we need to everything 100x slower are going to hit absurdly and obscenely hard

Heat pumps move homes beyond oil & gas volatility while cutting bills & emissions. Cleaner homes, stable costs, energy independence Less fossil fuel dependence means fewer energy conflicts & a more secure future Time to revive this poster #HeatPumps #CleanEnergy #EnergyIndependence #PumpsForPeace

I feel that part of the failure to tackle Climate Collapse is the lack of a single, epic incident to demonstrate it's happening. It won't play out like that. It'll be death by a thousand cuts.

The other, elephant in the room size key point from the article: "The saving on avoiding some of the impacts of climate breakdown would be worth as much as £130bn by 2050"

Good morning with good news: UK TOTAL carbon emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 to their lowest level since 1872! Wow! Economy-wide emissions are 54% below 1990 levels! In 2025, gas fell 1.5% and oil dropped 0.9%. UK adopts EV/RE. UK GDP up 2X since 1990. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-... #energysky

Israel and the US appear to want to do to Tehran what they have done to Gaza: reduce a busy and complex society to a toxic wasteland.

Not a single soul on the planet happier about bloodshed, conflict, uncertainty, rising energy bills, fuel shortages and cost of living collapse than the CEO of a fossil fuel company The worse the death and destruction, the happier they (and the shareholders) get www.afr.com/companies/en...

Mother nature is going to give us the mother of all spankings.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

This is entirely fixable with coordinated effort & legislation. Environment harm & financial cost aside, fly tipping damages community self-respect. Hugely increased littering is another issue we've just accepted in the UK. Dealing with these local issues will build momentum to tackle global ones.

Good morning with good news: Battery capacity doubles by 2027 & often firms solar! Utility-scale solar jumps 49% (~70 GW) by 2027! Solar is often low-cost option. Utility-scale solar, small-solar, wind & hydro will generate ~29% of USA's electricity in 2027. ieefa.org/resources/so... #energysky

While no country that imports oil will be immune from global price volatility, some are more exposed than others. Structural reduction of oil & gas import dependence is the only durable protection against shocks like this. That means investment in renewables, storage, efficiency and grids at home.

It’s an illegal war, launched by men (Trump, Netanyahu) of flawed character and questionable motives. I certainly would welcome collapse of the hideous Iranian regime, more freedom for its people, and greater security for the region. But, such interventions always have unpredictable consequences.

The attack line on Green Drugs Policy by Reform entirely echoed and exaggerated by David Blunkett on #bbcaq Wherever you stand on drugs and legalisation, this country needs a grown-up debate on this complex subject rather than this dismissive stuff about "Polanski wanting to legalise crack".

🥊 Despite attacking net-zero, Richard Tice's constituency will receive £55 million in flood funding. 🌍 Across Europe climate change has worsened flooding, with the UK being no different. 🌧️ Climate change is a real danger to our lives and our society.

This potentially marks a very important shift in voting behaviour from the Gorton and Denton by-election. Voting Green is no longer a wasted vote.

Given the existential issue of ecosystem collapse, I wish these topics were more mainstream. Endless podcasts & news items talk about bond markets, tariffs, growth, interest rates, productivity etc. In the end, we'll realise that climate breakdown was the biggest macro economic issue of them all.

At some point very soon, these graphs have to start cutting through! For those that get it, it feels like we're in the scene from The Thing where Microbiologist Blair realises the threat to humanity from the alien and subsequently goes mad!

Recommended watch: A Guardian video explored the “unbearable experience of walking in a heatwave in the future”.

New Omnisis poll of Gorton and Denton by-election gives Greens a *two point* lead over Reform and four points over Labour. Basically neck and neck and within margin of error. Hannah Spencer (Greens): 22% Matt Goodwin (REF UK): 20% Angeliki Stogia (Lab): 18% Charlotte Cadden (Conservatives): 3%

As Ember's work makes very clear, Mexico is one of the best positioned countries in the world to build out solar. So what is their president recommending instead? Fracking for more gas. The people and industries of Mexico are being set up to be the bag holders for US gas companies.

💯 I feel the same about progressive political podcasts.

What do tipping points mean for climate policy? Climate change won't be smooth. Delay reaching emission targets by a few years, and you might not just get slightly worse climate impacts. You may unwittingly cross a line for unstoppable, massive changes. global-tipping-points.org

A terrifying acceleration. The number of times a State of Emergency has been declared in 2026, has ALREADY matched the 2025 number. How long before we’re in a permanent State of Emergency and unable to recover? Preparing for climate change, AND cutting emissions have to be election issues.

It’s not just that a large majority want Britain to rejoin the EU, it’s the fact that the majority steadily continues to grow…

Been reading up on Milan since the Olympics began, and one thing that stands out is the transformational 15 km M4 line. Not only did it stitch together the rest of the Metro underground, but it also transformed the streetscape above. This is how you create mode shift!

Sadly, while it is always hard to read, nothing this pillock does boggles my mind any more. Just very sad that so many agree with him. And with a good chunk of Americans believing in the Rapture, I can't imagine that objective, researched science has much sway on their intellect (or lack thereof).

African states should develop the energy sources they need to power their development. But the US has decided to sit this one out, and under Trump to jump in on the side of fossil fuels, whereas China is reaping the benefits of decarbonization. Self-own.

The Today programme this morning interviewed Diana Furchgott-Roth, a senior staff member at the Heritage Foundation, about Trump's climate policies, during which she came out with the zinger: “a lot of people like it a bit warmer.” How is it in the public interest to platform anti-science tripe?

Fascination read - and important context for what is playing out on many fronts in the modern world. 'When Dugin hailed Trump’s win as “the end of the liberal world order,” and Bannon replied that “history is on our side,” they were reading from the same eschatological script.'

This front cover could equally be about climate change.

This is a good news story for sure - more of this please world 👍 But how about China complements it by not cutting down its existing, natural forests? China - along with many other countries - still deforests many 100s of thousands of hectares each year. www.globalforestwatch.org/dashboards/c...

New study looks at extreme Greenland melting events over 1950–2023: - Seven of the ten most extreme events occurred after 2000. - Future projections under high-emission scenarios suggest that extreme meltwater anomalies could increase by up to +372% by 2100. 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...