"The evidence suggests that climate impacts are what’s actually driving issues of profitability as opposed to policy change. Without reaching net zero emission there is no way to limit the impacts making food production in the UK ever more difficult.” https://bit.ly/4pfrq4d

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Two quick takes on the government's Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan - this podcast and a new @green-alliance.org.uk blog. That's your lunchtime sorted! greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/10/31/a...

David Harvey is 90 today. What impact on geographical thought he has had !

The drainage of lowland peat has produced a giant carbon bomb in the Fens - something I discuss in The Lie of the Land Very interesting proposal in the Govt's Carbon Budget Delivery Plan to *consider* regulating Fen landowners to raise water levels: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6901d0...

@versobooks.bsky.social's series "Harvey at 90" continues with recently posted pieces by Trevor J. Barnes, Helga Leitner and Richard A. Walker. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Our co-lead @profneilward.bsky.social joined BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today to discuss the Roadmap for Resilience: A UK Food Plan for 2050, and what needs to change to build a fairer, healthier, more resilient food system for the UK. 🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/3ee88y3k

Today, we remember the 144 lives lost in the Aberfan disaster — 116 children and 28 adults. A community forever changed, a loss beyond measure. Our thoughts are with the families and all those whose lives were touched by that tragedy. ❤️

Three ways to make the UK’s food system more resilient - read this piece in @uk.theconversation.com by our co-lead @profneilward.bsky.social about our Roadmap for Resilience report. theconversation.com/three-ways-t...

This thread from an experienced govt comms person makes significant points: emphasis on ‘behaviour change’ led govts to move away from actual arguments & real persuasion. And into the vacuum left by that…

1/ How should the UK respond to mounting pressure from climate change, health problems, and global instability? Our Roadmap for Resilience report calls for rapid and urgent action on food, at a scale not seen since WW2. Full report: tinyurl.com/369s6wuy #UKFoodPlan2050 #AFNRoadmap

📷 John Lindsey

What a wonderful night in Norwich with Edwyn Collins, who put on a great show with much love all round.

Join the live launch of EAT Lancet on Friday, 3 October! We’re proud to be part of the upcoming launch of the EAT Lancet Commission, a major scientific update to one of the most influential food systems reports of the past decade. Register now: bit.ly/3Kg9SW8

🚨 NEW: We’ve been told for years that private finance will fix Scotland’s nature crisis. Our new research shows why it won’t – and sets out a bold public-led alternative. Highlights in 🧵 Read full report 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...

Got my performance review.

Great stuff from Edwyn Collins, 47 mins in

📃 Our team have digested another raft of the latest key reports and news on food systems and climate covering the latest on health inequalities, school meals, lobbying by food industry, a sustainability framework for farmers & much more 👉 tinyurl.com/4am62du3

Bringing our key objective into focus in a session at our #BigTent event today in the Net Zero Pathways workshop, attendees discussed how soil and agricultural systems can inform and support the development of pathways to net zero in the land use sector. #LUNZHub #LandUse #NetZero

Feed: "Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research" By: April Dyer on Monday, September 8, 2025

The panels for REF2029 have been announced... 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-...

I have a new column out today in The Irish Times: “Why ‘No Additional Warming’ Is a Dangerous Climate Loophole.” www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Very good piece from @bengoldsborough.bsky.social. More of this please. www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...

NEW from me: Clean energy growth helped China’s CO2 emissions fall 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024. Power sector CO2 fell 3% as growth in solar power alone matched the rise in electricity demand.

A reminder that Nigel Topping will be speaking at our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference this September, in a plenary on "Irreversible progress in climate policy and technology". Full agenda here: tyndall.ac.uk/events/criti...

40 years old - what a song ! #NickCave #Tupelo

💉To Ozempic & beyond: Could weight-loss jabs help or hinder sustainable dietary shift?' Don't miss our last webinar before the summer break - What will be the climate impact of the weight-loss drugs that are sweeping the nation? 9am tomorrow! (24/07)👉 tinyurl.com/6a8jn9fh

Policy paper published today on the UK government's food strategy for England: www.gov.uk/government/p...

A new book says tech-supported industrial ag will feed the world. Agroecologists, like experts from @ipes-food.org and American Farmland Trust, would like a word. Read more in our latest by @lelanargi.bsky.social: foodprint.org/blog/a-new-b...

I am probably quite unusual in preferring to write for non-academic audiences. Love the advice 'write to be understood not admired'

How can taxpayers be confident about these biodiversity promises around large infrastructure projects ?

“After 25 years of the Scottish Parliament, 17 years of SNP Government, 2 major reviews of land reform policy and the establishment of the Scottish Land Commission …the core agenda of land reform – redistributing power over land – is essentially not much further forward than it was in 1999.”

#Groundswell2025 Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says we need the food system to be more resilient to cope with future shocks #AFN

👋Have you got a spare 10 minutes to take our survey? Funding for our Network ends later this year & we’re exploring new ways to continue. We want to hear your views on what you value most about us and what you’d like to see from us in the future 👉tinyurl.com/25tcbyhu

DIGEST: Retailers to be required to report proportion of healthy food sold – joint announcement from Defra and Health secretaries Another great summary from our Knowledge Exchange expert @overthefarmgate 👉 tinyurl.com/yc87wx4j

#AFN talking resilience with Tim Lang and Polly Davies at #Groundswell2025 - get ready as more shocks to the system are coming

#AFN all set up and ready for #Groundswell2025. Come and see us at C26 in the Pasture Field

Happy birthday, Debbie Harry. 🥳💐

Looking forward to being at two sessions at Groundswell on Weds 2 July. Q: What can growers and farmers do to improve civil food resilience? A: community not just soil; feed humans not commodity markets; press politicians for more diverse systems as well as biodiversity. Grasp this nettle?

If you’ve missed perhaps the most joyous performance at this year’s Glastonbury, check out Ezra Collective here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Two of my neighbours, who are new parents, were discussing that it's far too hot for babies. I had to keep it to myself that this may well be the coolest summer of the rest of their lives... It's 32.5°C in a central London park right now, but it reached 46°C in Spain today. istheukhotrightnow.com

Ezra Collective just knocked over Glastonbury Easy.

This is very exciting - some new live Only Ones video footage - Dingwalls, 1980 !! m.youtube.com/watch?v=fUD9...

I find it interesting how ‘decimated’ is misused: this suggests that just 10% of Iran’s nuclear programme has been hit. Seems unlikely that’s the plan