⚖️ 🌍 ⚡ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 🇳🇱 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞: 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝, @milieudefensie.bsky.social et al. v. Shell. #ClimateJustice #ClimateCaseShell 🧵 ⬇️ analysis in thread below

I was especially pleased that my client Wendy Smith was honoured for her courage in bringing the case that has led the government to repeal parts of the PCSCA 2022 and that the tireless campaigner Maggie Bendell-Smith was given the lifetime achievement award.

It was wonderful to be at the Friends Families and Travellers 2026 awards last night and to honour the inspirational achievements of all those Gypsies and Travellers nominated.

🌿Environmental Law Update🌿 Abigail Holt, Acland Bryant, Alex Grigg, Jodie Blackstock, Liam McKenna & @marcwillerskc.bsky.social of @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social report on climate policy, State obligations and important environmental decisions in the UK & abroad. ➡️ hi.switchy.io/tFK6

Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden. The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite. The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK. Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

If only we had clean, renewable energy and were not beholden to a dirty, expensive, dangerous commodity that pollutes our environment and is the source of most of our geopolitical woes.

FACTS: Net Zero barely nudges your bill. Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof. So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

What a fantastic event - with brilliant speakers throughout the day.🙏 @publiclawproject.bsky.social and @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too! The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression. 🧵 1/19

"There are indications that, over the past decade, carbon transfer to the atmosphere from Northern Hemisphere ecosystems is accelerating. If so, the overall land carbon sink would be smaller than currently anticipated, which would imply an even lower remaining carbon budget"

Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

It’s a case inspired by the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice and it is hoped it will provide vulnerable states with a template they can use to bring real cases against major emitting states breaching their international obligations. lnkd.in/e957w-hg lnkd.in/eYzjNbRt

The People argue that 5 high emitting states - the USA, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Argentina - have failed to comply with their international obligations to tackle climate change and have consequently committed international wrongful acts.

Today I was in Berlin and had the privilege of representing The People in a mock civil climate case before The Court of the Citizens of the World.

Matt Weston slides to skeleton gold as Team GB finally win medal at Winter Olympics

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

When we trawled data on excess nitrate & phosphate pollution (key drivers of algal blooms) we found agriculture was the primary source in rural areas, sewage in urban areas. As Chowns says, to save our rivers, we need to tackle both. share.google/bLY8yWL1AeIQ...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed

At this point, some leaked videos might help.

Important new @annualreviews.bsky.social review on #AMOC collapse. 🌊⚠️ 🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Here are 8 key takeaways from Dijkstra & van Westen (2026) on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and its risks. 👇🧵

In short: the #AMOC is weakening, may collapse this century, &even small shifts could trigger abrupt change These tipping points are a major national security blind spot, threatening food, energy &global stability, they must be addressed urgently As argued here by @laurielaybourn.bsky.social et al

“Some are saying we’ll have a 10% GDP loss at between 3C and 4C degrees [of global heating], but the physical climate scientists are saying the economy and society will cease to function as we know" Damn right we are saying this We are in deep, deep, sh*t www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Obsessing over water supplies & worried that there's no captain on this ship. Nobody knows the true picture over who's using the critical resource, and the global picture is pretty dire. I've pulled my latest articles together to try to make sense of it watershedinvestigations.com/dry-taps-flo...

I’ll be speaking at @publiclawproject.bsky.social's Public Law and the Planet conference on 3 March in London. This event brings together activists, community groups, lawyers and NGOs. Join us in person or online! Concessionary and free tickets available publiclawproject.org.uk/events/publi...

Together, @oceanauk.bsky.social + @zslofficial.bsky.social examined research on harm to wildlife from 1000s of oil spills in UK waters, finding evidence of: - lung lesions in bottlenose dolphins - harm to the livers of minke whales - orcas + dolphins less able to successfully reproduce

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Please support this campaign to ensure that anyone facing strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) has equality of arms and full access to swift justice. Better still, let’s ask our government to recognise the abusive nature of SLAPPs and stop them being used to stifle free speech.

All while water resources are becoming more + more stretched. Water security + passive cooling need to be at the heart of all planning measures. share.google/BS3ZMsQdXNVe...

All of this horror, murder, trump’s popularity, is based on the irrational (racist) notion that immigrants are bad, criminals and need to be purged from the nation. This must be challenged. We need new pragmatic understanding of citizenship and human mobility. #NomadCentury

Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them or something. It's nonsense, people. It's nonsense and it is lies."

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

Half the world's 100 largest cities are experiencing high water stress, where the amount of water being used is perilously close to exceeding what's available. Now, climate change is drying already stretched water supplies. Our new article, out now: share.google/EUPGwaOZefaC...

Disinformation around climate action is surging just as threats escalate. Governments can’t sit by in silence while public understanding is undermined. Resilience comes from honest communication. Time for a televised emergency briefing. MPs please sign: www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...

Residents say that is not the first such attack, nor the first time the police have failed to respond to emergency calls. ERRC lawyer Andrea Čolak points to the police failure to consider violence a hate crime as indicative of a wider problem in Serbian law enforcement. www.errc.org/news/masked-...

NEW: Scottish actor Brian Cox is among almost 400 millionaires who have signed an open letter to world leaders in Davos calling for a tax on the super-rich 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

It’s incredible that Farage was too ill to go on BBC Breakfast last minute, but has enough energy to do a Reform rally and Davos this week. He must have a severe allergy to scrutiny.

I'm very excited to be appearing as Prosecutor in the mock trial before The Court of the Citizens of the World's Ecocide Tribunal on 16 February in Berlin. Here's the link to the Court's press release www.the-court.eu/the-ecocide-... and to its posting on instagram www.instagram.com/reel/DTaaf5x...

Map of parts of the UK with potential for fracking exploration (British Geological Survey). There's a current pause on fracking in the UK & the government is considering making it illegal. Reform, however, have pledged to license fracking if elected. nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/51...

Merry Christmas Drill or Drop! Thank you for all your great work over the year (and every year). Everyone interested in onshore oil & gas, follow @drillordrop.bsky.social for incisive reporting on all aspects of the industry, and the fight against it.

@wealdactiongroup.bsky.social is considering legal action over methane emissions from onshore oil & gas sites. We've written to DESNZ and the Environment Agency. Depending on their response, we may bring a claim for judicial review. Read more ⬇️ www.wealdactiongroup.org.uk/2026/01/new-...