🌍 @hannahblitzer.bsky.social and @donnaokell.bsky.social at the #BlueEarthSummit: “Protecting our environment requires joined-up thinking and joined-up legislation. That's what the #CANBill delivers: a clear framework for coherent, science-led action for our planet." @blueearthsummit.bsky.social

It's official - I am joining the Zero Hour team as a Non-Executive Director! Very excited to work with my fellow Board members to tackle the nature and climate emergencies 🌱🌍

Fantastic new report from Wildlife Trusts on the environmental footprint of UK pig and poultry farming. 🐔 1/3 of UK wheat is grown for feed 🐷 Annual waste = 4,160 Olympic pools 💧 Some regions face extra pressure on rivers and soils Read more 👉 wildlifetrusts.org/news/huge-im...

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

Fantastic!

The recording for our recent event "Drivers, Investments, Trends & Regulations of Alternative Proteins" is now available! In the 1st webinar in a 3-part series, we heard from Thomas Vincent / @foodgov.bsky.social‬, Yadira Tejeda-Saldana / New Harvest, & Helen Breewood of @gfi.org: buff.ly/99Ug8n8

Deeply concerning and... that's not very free market of them!

❌ Simplification should not mean deregulation. ✅ The time has come to adopt a multilateral approach regarding EU environmental policies. It is a matter of global leadership 🌎 Read more in our briefing by @pierreleturcq.bsky.social‬ 👇

🧵 The latest stocktake from our Legislation and Governance Unit takes a snapshot of UK and EU financial sustainability reporting regulations since Brexit. While both have introduced anti-greenwashing measures, companies operating across borders face slow reform and duplication. 1/5

A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source. In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up. @ember-energy.org

Thank you, Aurora Floridia, for your support for the legal protection of the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll at the @coe.int! @pace.coe.int members are once again showing leadership on this crucial issue. Ministers must do the same at their May meeting - time to act NOW & recognise the right!

Very welcome move by Defra to extend the ban on burning on peatlands. We’ll be responding to the consultation as we want to see default ban extended even further to ALL burning on peatlands. @campaign4parks.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/n...

Nature & farming groups are united in calling for Government to not cut the nature-friendly farming budget🧑‍🌾 Budget cuts would hit farming families, scupper climate action & cause further damage to rivers, landscapes & wildlife🥀

The UK published its National Action Plan on sustainable use of pesticides today: ✅Sets the UK's first pesticide reduction target ✅Encourages uptake of Integrated Pest Management Yet, the NAP is mysteriously silent on a productive farming system that has long thrived w/o artificial pesticides 1/

Demand for organic soars just as Defra cuts support for sustainable farming More shoppers than ever are seeking out organic according to @thesoilassociation.bsky.social Organic Market Report, but UK farmers loosing out. Our analysis 🔽

The Government's abrupt announcement to halt the SFI will ultimately harm nature-friendly farmers who are producing sustainable food for our society. Smaller, family farms and organic producers risk facing disproportionate impacts with this short-sighted, and entirely avoidable decision.

A good part of my job is to read extremely concerning studies in order to compose cross-sectional view of What's At Stake and work out ways to engage stakeholders This is, without hyperbole, the most concerning thing I have read in a long time www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...

🚨Breaking news! Yesterday the High Court issued a HUGE win for the River Wye 🐔Industrial poultry farming is a major source of agricultural pollution of our soils, waterways & air 👉The Court held that farming manure *is* waste: a step forward for reducing pollution & boosting the circular economy!

SHOW THE LOVE: Turn your love for people, climate, and nature into action. 🌳 We all have a place worth protecting. Submit a photo of a space you love to be part of a collaborative artwork celebrating cherished places. Then, share it with #ShowTheLove2025 thepeoplespicture.com/projects-sho... 💚

"In the face of the current wave of environmental backlash and net zero scaremongering, rejecting Rosebank is a golden opportunity for the UK to draw a line in the sand against the myths and misinformation" writes @carolinelucas.bsky.social in our latest blog. Read it now👉

A healthy environment is a prerequisite for the realization of all #HumanRights. That is why it's critical that @coe.int Member States explicitly protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll within the European Convention of Human Rights. A mini 🧵👇

The great strength of the Climate and Nature Bill is that it was developed from the very beginning with climate and biodiversity scientists (including me as it happens) It's not based on what politicians think will be expedient, but on what the evidence says is necessary

This + recent 'news and bats' rhetoric coming from Reeves is a betrayal of the British public. People want to protect nature and mitigate climate change. Why is this Government intent on repeating the mistakes of its predecessor by pitting economic growth against transformative change?

Excellent deep dive on the manure/biogas issue in the US

Organic: the preserve of the privileged? We don't think so! #OFRC25 session starting now with @sustainweb.org @thesoilassociation.bsky.social #bridgingthegap #organicforall

The Environment Secretary wants to make it EASIER for farmers to build industrial chicken sheds?! This is legitimately stupid. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨A new Soil Association Exchange funding scheme will reward arable farmers for reducing emissions

Organic farming is a key part of the sustainable farming transition. An Organic Action Plan with a 10% organic farmland target will help deliver England's climate and nature goals, strengthen food security and benefit public health. Read more about @thesoilassociation.bsky.social's open letter 👇

"The report estimates that 85 percent of farming subsidies for chicken and pig farmers are absorbed by factory farms, which is around £269 million per year." plantbasednews.org/news/environ...

Recently, I discovered a docuseries from a respected Master of Wine and Australian filmmaker, highlighting the stories of winemakers in the regenerative agriculture movement. Worth a watch if interested in #regenerativeviticulture! www.onethirdfilms.studio/our-films/

The UK Food Security Report released earlier this week identified that we are still importing much of our fruit and veg. We need a Food Strategy that supports horticulture ++ better understandings of seasonality and regenerative farming. wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/wl-...

Companies in the UK are exporting thousands of tonnes of hazardous pesticides to the Global South - chemicals banned on British farms because of the dangers they pose to human health and nature. Surely this should be illegal? unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/u...

A nature-friendly #farming transition won't happen without supporting farmers. The Government must commit to decisive investment and a strong delivery plan to address the root causes of systemic issues (incl. unfair supply chains and uncertainty around ELMS) www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Decision-makers must consider the human & environmental impact of this "farm" (can we even call it that?)? Intensive livestock operations are hotspots of poor animal welfare, cause air, soil and water pollution and crowd out smaller, independent farms. It is totally unnecessary.

At the end of a difficult couple of weeks for farmers, our Head of Farming and Land Use Policy, Gareth Morgan, reflects on how the Westminster government finally responded to the cries of anguish from farmers at the rally in London and their ongoing discontent www.soilassociation.org/blogs/2024/n...

“When you clear land to grow corn, what you’re doing is you’re losing a whole bunch of carbon that’s in the forest or the grass or whatever is on those fields before you clear it to make corn,” Smith said. Here’s why dedicating land to biofuels won’t curb climate change: www.wri.org/insights/why...

This piece is good. Lack of food and land use policy direction is causing chaos for all managers of land. Farmers have a plan. Environmentalists have a plan. Often they’re aligned. Govt meddling is a dangerous foot on the hosepipe causing both to wonder what on earth they are supposed to be doing.

Great blog by @barnabycoupe.bsky.social. Farmers need a clear roadmap for the nature friendly farming transition, to 2030 and beyond. A Land Use Framework would support this. The Govt also needs to take action now relieve the mounting pressure on SFI

Thread : @DefraUK has paused access to some of their farming capital grants - but why? Let's get into it defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2024/11/27/a...

In case you missed our sustainable diets webinar this week, you can now watch it online👉 tinyurl.com/53s2mptn Big thanks to our speakers Lauren Leak-Smith and Ed Whincup from global consultancy Behavioural Insights Team www.bi.team 🙏

Sewage pollution, agricultural pollution and toxic chemical contamination are pushing English rivers to the brink. 18/27 of new bathing sites tested were classified as having "poor" #waterquality

My first comment piece in @theguardian.com is on a topic very close to my heart; the threat that the #ClimateCrisis poses to my local community in South Wales. Here's a thread with a few extra thoughts from me 🧵

Commenting on the conclusion of the #COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, @gredmondking.bsky.social, @eciu_net said: "Unless the world works together to protect those countries and its people, our food supplies cannot be guaranteed."

Capital grant update: Increasing application numbers and budget pressures have resulted in the suspension to capital grants, including for important actions like slurry stores and hedge creation. Another reason why we need information re: CS Higher Tier to relieve uncertainty/pressure on farmers

Good that Defra has clarified a temporary bridge for expiring HLS/CS HT agreements. However, we still need more clarity on the new Higher Tier offer to relieve the pressure on SFI. defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2024/11/25/c...

Really useful resource from @sustainweb.org. Possibly surprising to city-dwellers as not just a rural issue. www.foodfortheplanet.org.uk/muck-map/

📢 68 UK NGOs across the four nations have issued a call to the UK as a Council of Europe member state: ⏰ The time is now to legally recognise the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll via an additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights. Read👇: www.wcl.org.uk/docs/Letter_...

In the US, we already did our large-scale deforestation a while ago (and are now using those cleared lands for agriculture or settlements), and we currently use a very high amount of fossil fuels

Historic so-called "hunter-gatherers" might be better described as proponents of #agroecology. They managed their landscapes with sophisticated - and non-destructive - skill. That's what we are finding everywhere we look www.science.org/content/arti...