🔴 BREAKING: Big banks poured over 2× more into fossil fuels than sustainable energy between 2021–2024! Our new report Banking on Business as Usual offers the first full comparison of global fossil vs. sustainable power finance. Read the 3 key findings below⤵️

Here's a better idea: every data centre you build, you build enough renewable energy to power it, and you supply the waste heat from your cooling system to power homes and businesses nearby. Simple. Common sense. And fair.

CO2 storage is a “scarce resource” rather than “an unlimited solution” say Grantham Institute, owing to inaccessibility, earthquakes, population centres It should not be “wasted on offsetting ongoing and avoidable CO₂ pollution” from fossil fuels that can be substituted www.ft.com/content/7ace...

Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power ✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social Tom Pearson Read here: buff.ly/47kIjiZ

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

Concerning news that the Conservatives led by Kemi Badenoch have banned @bylinetimes.bsky.social from attending their annual conference - ironically amid the party's claim to uphold free speech: bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

Environmental defenders in Iran are facing severe repression. Many have been imprisoned, silenced, or even lost their lives while trying to protect nature. Young volunteers attempting to extinguish wildfires in the Kurdish regions were killed in recent weeks. www.kurdishpeace.org/research/env...

I’m in @financialtimes.com on Trump’s recent move to make the Pentagon the top shareholder in the US only rare earths mine. This is the “worst of all worlds” resource nationalism: a toxic mix of environmental harm, militarism, Big Tech, financial de-risking, and asset appreciation. Link below ⬇️

UK experienced its hottest summer on record in 2025, Met Office says "a summer as hot or hotter than 2025 is now 70 times more likely than it would be in a ‘natural’ climate" with no emissions from fossil fuel burning #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Analysis: What record global heat means for breaching the 1.5C warming limit | @hausfath.bsky.social #CBarchive Read here: buff.ly/3zdrjRV

The EU must take decisive action and advance immediate sanctions, including the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Journalists are not a target. Health workers are not a target. Civilians are not a target.

This is not good news. We can't wait for a convenient moment before taking climate action. The time is now. "the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here is the official statement from the American Meteorological Society on the "foundational flaws" of the Department of Energy’s recent attempt to deny the reality of #climate change. www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

Flying in the US is half as expensive as it was in 2000. Unsurprisingly, Americans fly more now. Source: buff.ly/QYSdaCm

The headline SHOULD read: BBC Complicit In Stoking Far Right Hate Towards Refugees This is the LEAD story on their website right now. Given more prominence than GCSE Results Day, Ukraine, Gaza... And we wonder why The UK is overwhelmed by racists.

Today, GB News presenter uses racist slur in an interview with Kerry Katona. This is what Monday.com, #Lebara mobile, and #BrookTaverner are aligning with by advertising on there.

In Q2 of this year, a record level of renewable energy capacity was given planning permission in Britain There's also a surge in battery storage planning applications as the govt plan for clean power seems to be gathering pace www.ft.com/content/926a...

Lovely podcast about allotments bringing people together open.spotify.com/episode/3pk3... Mike Farrell National Allotment Society says they should be included in planning committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide... Sign our petition if you want MORE allotments not fewer weownit.org.uk/act-now/hand...

A more charitable view on the migrant situation.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "We seem to have learnt nothing. The killing of innocent men, women, children, and even babies goes on. And the world, with some honourable exceptions, watches in silence... "It was all futile, because it's still happening. We haven't learned anything at all."

There is almost no transparency when it comes to lobbying MPs. We all need to know who politicians are listening to. Today I have published a log of every private policy meeting with campaigners, unions, charities and businesses in my first year as an MP. Every MP should have to do the same.

UK shipping decarbonisation policy has mostly (ie too much) relied on the IMO reaching agreement, so this is a problem for UK policy as well as internationally. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1... The deliberate targeting of journalists is yet another appalling crime from the current Israeli government.

A special little video for those who keep telling me I'm not welcome. I'm not going anywhere, I'll keep walking free, I'll keep enjoying my country!

Meanwhile the same newspaper - whose parent company makes huge amounts of cash from servicing the fossil fuel industry - has a headline attacking climate action as "insanity"...

Today's attack on clean energy by the Telegraph - whose owner has huge investments in oil and gas - comes with an advert just below it from Baillie Gifford, who reportedly also have hundreds of millions of pounds invested in fossil fuels... fossilfreefunds.org/families?q=B...

Oops! The Times has had to issue an embarrassing correction over supposedly "sluggish" EV sales 😳 ❌ It said EV sales to private buyers fell 10.8% this yr ✅They actually GREW…by 62% Yet Times articles still claim a "big fall", "collapse" & "slide" in private EV sales 🤔 1/7

The unrest we are seeing outside hotels housing asylum seekers and in our communities is unacceptable. The protests are the result of the deliberate spread of myths and lies about asylum seekers and refugees and are being stoked by far right Cllr Amanda Onwuemene greenparty.org.uk/2025/08/06/g...

Have you heard? The Rewilding Innovation Fund is open 🌱 Whether you’re a land or marine rewilding project, this is your chance to get your vision off the ground or try out a new approach.  Apply now👇 https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/how-to-rewild/funding-for-rewilding/rewilding-innovation-fund

I wrote this last year, and it remains one of the biggest challenges for the net zero transition. Clean technologies will deliver huge savings, but how do you ensure everyone can access them? www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/41...

UK govt is wrong on the cost of bringing England's water back into public ownership. Its £100bn number has no economic/legal basis. The cost of public ownership is "closer to zero". Companies are bankrupt, their shareholders and lenders have already extracted billions.

He is a human skeleton, Gaza hostage's brother tells BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thinking of the women of Afghanistan, and the West's major contribution to their situation www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Worauf warten die Europäer? Dass Putin mit den Massenangriffen mit Drohnen und Raketen von allein aufhört? Wenn wir die Ukraine nicht schnell stark bei der Luftverteidigung der Städte unterstützen, werden viele Ukrainer mit ihren Familien vor der "Todeslotterie" fliehen müssen.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... This is a hard watch, but sadly corroborates what we have been hearing for many months. Those responsible need to be brought to justice, particularly those in government, as well as the terrorists, that create this sense of impunity. These are crimes against humanity.

Noah is second. As English as Muhammad. Oliver 3rd most popular. Believed to derive from "Olive Tree planter", or "Olive branch bearer". Olive trees are not native to England. Leo at 5, Luca 7th most popular. Come to think of it what are real English names?

NEW: UK electricity generation was over 50% renewable in 2024 for the first time, with fossil fuels falling to under a third (31.8%), also for the first time assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6889ec...

One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Starmer should not fall for the idea of airdrops into Gaza - it isn't a real solution, it's a political move by the Israelis

Sorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why. This week's column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Racist demonstrations, reportedly organised by Neo-Nazi groups, have been held outside asylum hostels around London. They have turned ugly & violent at times. First question on #r4today to a local MP: “do you have sympathy with protesters?” I switched off. Enough.

Following weeks of far right agitation against asylum seekers culminating in violence on our streets, the Mail on Sunday's contribution to the debate is to run a double-page spread with a series of inflammatory headlines...

Heidi Alexander's decision to remove the safeguarding of HS2's route from Birmingham to Leeds is short-sighted in the extreme. This is the most beneficial part of the whole HS2 scheme - as we said at the time that the construction of the leg was cancelled. www.placeyorkshire.co.uk/govt-axes-de...

Yet another credible academic study published today, this time in the BMJ, showing that LTNs significantly cut road traffic injuries. To no one's surprise. injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/earl...

In a sane world, this would be the biggest, most important news story in the world. ‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders. “Every fraction of a degree above 1.5°C matters. And every year of “overshoot” matters too.” “It’s ultimately a matter of survival.” #ClimateCrisis

River Seine reopens to swimmers in Paris after century-long ban www.bbc.com/news/article...

We don't find it easy to change our minds, our conceptions, even when they're mis. We don't like to admit we are wrong. That is a challenge. To do so for the right reasons, & not under peer pressure, duress, for our benefit or advantage, that is another. #GoodMorning, everyone