Climate change, coming soon to a town near you

E3G is on the front page of the Guardian website today with 60 other organisations, from energy suppliers to consumer groups, fuel poverty charities and climate NGOs, urging the government not to cut one of its major decarbonisation schemes, ECO, in the budget. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

E3G is on the front page of the Guardian website today with 60 other organisations, from energy suppliers to consumer groups, fuel poverty charities and climate NGOs, urging the government not to cut one of its major decarbonisation schemes, ECO, in the budget. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Frightening stuff in Camarthenshire on the same day as the Prince of Wales' speech at COP. Any government that claims to care about working people must take climate action www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Evidence that being "gender critical" has nothing to do with listening to women. Women have made it clear that trans women are welcome in the ladies' pond at Hamstead Heath, and now a small group of transphobes is going to court to override them.

Important thread here on the possibility of scrapping ECO. I would add that when ECO was cut in 2013, 10,000 people lost their jobs. That's more than 3 times as many than Scunthorpe steel works and a whopping 20 times more than Grangemouth oil refinery

Renewable energy is the future

My comms hero @anatosaurus.bsky.social always says "if you want to recruit people to your cause, be attractive." I think the Zohran Mandani campaign is the apotheosis of that theory. It just looked fun, and I think that's a really underrated factor in his victory

To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦‍♂️ …and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️

The blueprint for winning big on climate also came out last night. No more technocratic, policy wonk approaches. People showed they care about utility bills, free buses, affordable housing, etc. These are all climate issues. Talk about climate in terms people understand and experience.

Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania. The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown. 🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...

Zohran Mamdani ran one of the best political campaigns of my lifetime against opponents that had billions of dollars to play with, and with a split Democrat vote. His victory is well earned

Sorry but this is mad. Cutting a scheme that will deliver insulation that can lower bills by up to £300 a year so you can pay for £170 in bill reductions? Make it make sense www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS WARNING 65% of the planned coal capacity from 2015 ended up not existing, thanks almost entirely to climate policy and renewable energy construction China is an outlier - but maybe not for long @e3g.bsky.social www.e3g.org/publications...

"The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is." Dick Cheney

A total and utter hero

A politician's job is to improve the world

Watched Sinners yesterday and I think it is an absolutely superb film. I could have written reams about it. But a cameo from Buddy Guy? A cover of Wang Dang Doodle by RL Burnside's grandson? Ryan Coogler you are really spoiling us

Please consider donating whatever you can to help the people of Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa 🇯🇲 www.projecthope.org/news-stories...

Please consider donating whatever you can to help the people of Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa 🇯🇲 www.projecthope.org/news-stories...

I fucking knew it.

If there is a way out for Graham Planter, it starts with solemnly recognising that the tattoo is a pretty fkn big deal

Why do right's odious lies & horrifying claims break through not merely as rhetoric but policy? Because center-left keeps wielding thermometers to take temperature while right power up flame throwers to change it. New evidence from Germany: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

je sais qui a cambriole la Louve

Via City Hall: "Sadiq Khan has launched a new £2.7 million programme to deliver indoor air quality filters to hundreds of schools across the capital, bringing cleaner air to tens of thousands of children in their classrooms. "At least 200 schools across London will receive HEPA filters."

This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate. Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not. From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

If you told the average British person you've never eaten most takeaways because they're not British, you would simply come off as weird I'm afraid

Recommendations for non fiction books that are page turners, like Say Nothing, The Looming Tower?

Delays to the #UK government’s £13bn Warm Homes Plan risk holding back investment, jobs and household savings. As E3G's @jamesdyson.bsky.social told @thetimes.com, swift action is vital to boost the economy, cut bills and deliver cleaner, more secure energy. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

ugh its just too terrifying really

The mounting evidence of natural carbon sinks failing really should be one of the biggest stories in the world right now, demanding a response from governments and boardrooms everywhere. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520467...

This is interesting from the founders of Green New Deal Rising - it's a big challenge to the climate movement changetheweather.substack.com/p/reform-is-...

The Onion can re-run this today with D’Angelo swapped in for Prince RIP a(nother) legend @theonion.com @bencollins.bsky.social

oh my god

🧵Quarterly post that is actually about energy policy: There was an NAO report out today about big failures of a scheme introduced by the previous government to reduce households' CO2 emissions. The scheme, ECO, obligated energy companies to pay installers to fit heat pumps, solar, insulation etc.

Sinatra was such a fox

I don't think this opinion is unhinged but whatever: stream of consciousness almost always ruins a book. Only the best of the best writers can do stream of consciousness in a way that actually enhances the plot. Most of the time it just makes you feel like you're having to work against the text

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Here's some personal news I'm sharing because why not: 我学习中文 / I'm learning Chinese. I've been taking classes for 6 months, still very much a beginner (not even HSK1 yet) but enjoying it. Also appreciating Chinese culture more, especially food. If you can recommend learning resources, please do!

I went with the pink robin as it's an amazing bird and hails from Victoria like my husband www.theguardian.com/environment/...

hay gente que no entiende a la derecha latinoamericana y eso se nota!

Ironically María Corina Machado likes Donald Trump. She said the path for Venezuela to follow has been laid out by the Trump administration and has called for Trump to intervene militarily in Venezuela

guys we need food to live

The Director of E3G's UK Programme (and my boss) @edmatthew.bsky.social has unpacked why the Conservatives' announcement that they would scrap the Climate Change Act is an act of national sabotage: www.e3g.org/news/pledge-...

If India wants to be a developed country by 2047, it should stop investing in coal and throw the kitchen sink at renewables. Otherwise the effects of global warming will be so catastrophic that there won't be much of a country to develop

This is good www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It is a genuine privilege to work on the UK's energy transition but having to stare in the face every day what the earth is doing compared to what global politicians are doing... Some days that is very hard

This is actually one of the best news pieces I've read in mainstream media about our circumstances. It carefully lays out the scale of the catastrophe we're potentially facing, and the utter unseriousness of those elected to do something about it