Join Witney MP Watch for their next Climate Matters meeting with Charlie Maynard MP on 11th Oct from 11am. This session will explore honesty in politics, climate updates from Parliament, and insights from the recent Lib Dem Party Conference. Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-ma...

Join us for an insightful evening with Roger Harrabin, former BBC Environment broadcaster, on 14th Oct at 7:30pm. Gain practical ideas for effectively communicating climate issues. The event is also accessible via Zoom for registered participants. Register at actionnetwork.org/events/oxfor....

Corporations should not be allowed to destroy nature or abuse human rights in the name of profit 🌍 We need a new UK law to hold them accountable✊ ✍️ Sign the petition here: action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/mak... #PlanetOverProfit #FriendsoftheEarth

📢 Our Next Monthly Meeting – Wed 10 Sept, 7:30–9pm Friends Meeting House, Oxford (and on Zoom) We will be setting out autumn plans and discussing: 🌍 Climate denial 📑 UK Climate Plan 🏛 Planning Bill 🤝 Volunteer roles Register here: actionnetwork.org/events/oxfor...

Our friends at MP Watch Witney are hosting an important event on Thursday 18th September at 7pm at Wesley Memorial Church. The meeting will explore a crucial question: Why is politics failing to respond to the climate crisis and how can we make it work? 🌳 www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-ma...

Was great to join other Friends of the Earth groups at the Westminster lobby to call for action on climate, nature and justice. We had productive meetings with Freddie van Mierlo, Anneliese Dodds, Olly Glover, Callum Miller and Sean Woodcock 🌍💚

Our celebration of local climate action is getting close! Join us next week

📢 Nature & Climate: What is the Government doing – and what should they be doing? Join us for a vital public meeting with expert speakers on Weds 11th June, 7.30pm at Wesley Memorial Hall, Oxford. 🔗 Reserve your place: actionnetwork.org/events/oxfor...

Celebrate World Environment Day with us on Broad Street, Oxford - live music, inspiring speakers, great food and local environmental groups all coming together for an afternoon of community and climate action. Join the party and help us protect the planet!

💚 Save the Date! 💚 On 9th July 2025, we’re heading to Westminster to show MPs that climate & nature must be a priority. This is your chance to speak directly to your MP & call for urgent action. Stay tuned for details! 📅 9 July 2025 |📍 Westminster, London 🔁 Spread the word!

We are supporting this excellent campaign for a fair community payment scheme from the Botley West solar farm if it goes ahead. Please sign and share this post

🌍 Vote for the Climate on 1st May! 🌿 The Oxvote tactical voting website is now live, helping you make a climate-conscious choice in the Oxfordshire County Council elections. Check it out now: www.oxvote.org

🚨 Last week, we joined @friends-earth.bsky.social at Westminster for The Big Climate Plan, pushing for bold and fair climate policies. Tackling the climate crisis can create warmer homes, cheaper energy and green jobs—if done right. Now, we need action. #BigClimatePlan

Our right to protest is under threat! The Public Order Act is silencing climate activists & campaigners. Protest is a fundamental right. We must defend it. ✍️ Sign Greenpeace’s petition to demand its repeal: 🔗 action.greenpeace.org.uk/protect-the-right-to-protest

More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN

Starting something without a proper plan is a recipe for disaster. Especially when it comes to combatting the climate crisis. That's why we’ve joined forces with @chrisgpackham.bsky.social, Drag Race UK star Crystal and Dylan Bachelet to help demand a #BigClimatePlan that delivers a brighter future.

SHOCKING FACT: a Greenpeace investigation found that destructive supertrawlers with huge nets spent 21 HOURS A DAY fishing in UK protected waters in the last 5 years. Anyone else think that marine protected areas should actually be protected??? 🐬 #oceansanctuaries #conservation

🏛️ Are Climate Assemblies the gold standard for democratic participation? 🌿 How can campaign groups become critical friends of their council?

Join us at our March monthly meeting to discuss lobbying MPs on "The Big Climate Plan: The Fairness Test", the "Vote for the Climate" website for County elections, World Environment Day event planning and Oxford FoE fundraising. actionnetwork.org/events/oxfor...

Politicians who mislead the public should face consequences! Sign the petition to demand accountability: 38d.gs/oyss

70 YEARS OF SHELL’S ‘BLOOD MONEY’ IN COURT 🔥 Shell: your clean up projects are a scam, you must take responsibility for the poisoning you have caused. Royal Courts of Justice: Do we recognize the right to a healthy environment as a fundamental human right?

I’ve just written a letter to my MP, condemning the recent decision to grant further tree burning subsidies to Drax. This decision harms bill payers, forests, communities and our planet. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

The speaker at our forthcoming meeting this month is Barbara Hammond, the CEO of the Low Caron Hub. * This exciting meeting allows Barbara to explain how we can overcome obstacles to clean energy * Join us on Wednesday 12th February at 7.30pm, Friends Meeting House, Oxford. * All welcome

See you there!

The speaker at our forthcoming meeting this month is Barbara Hammond, the CEO of the Low Caron Hub. * This exciting meeting allows Barbara to explain how we can overcome obstacles to clean energy * Join us on Wednesday 12th February at 7.30pm, Friends Meeting House, Oxford. * All welcome

We're helping Oxford Marston Community Group with their tree care and snowdrop planting session on Sunday 16th February 2025 🌳 👉 From 2-4pm 👉 Meet at OXSRAD 🤩 Meet new people whilst helping the community at the same time 😀

We're helping Oxford Marston Community Group with their tree care and snowdrop planting session on Sunday 16th February 2025 🌳 👉 From 2-4pm 👉 Meet at OXSRAD 🤩 Meet new people whilst helping the community at the same time 😀

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has given the green light to airport expansion whilst we're in a climate emergency! Add your name to our petition now to demand no more airport expansion (like Heathrow) while we’re in a climate emergency! action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sto...

BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK. The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned. This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.

Oxfordshire community, please sign! Urge Keir Starmer to deliver a Big Climate Plan that: 🔋 Ensures clean energy & affordable bills 🏡 Creates warm homes 🚌 Supports accessible transport 🌿 Generates green jobs actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Right now, there’s a real risk the government will fail to deliver on the Plan– even though it’s legally obliged to write a new plan!! Oxford Friends of the Earth will be asking our local MPs to deliver our petition signatures to the Prime Minister. Will you add your name?

Hurray! Some good news for bees at last. Our new government has followed the science, and refused the application by sugar beet farmers to use banned neonicotinoid pesticides.

A small victory for the bees: www.theguardian.com/environment/... @davegoulson.bsky.social @dougparr.bsky.social @pauldezylva.bsky.social @judywebb.bsky.social @profejzrobinson.bsky.social #bees #pollinators

OxFoE met with Layla Moran MP to hand over the new FoE report 'Climate at a crossroads'. She responded "Our climate is at a crossroads and the government must act decisively. I will keep working across parliament to make sure this government upholds its legal duty to protect our future".

With the recent inauguration and troubling news about climate change and expanded oil drilling in the USA, it’s clear that the UK is going to have to step up. One way we can make a difference is by pushing our government to deliver a strong climate plan. Please take a moment to sign this petition!

As @dougparr.bsky.social reminds us in a different post, "For the first time since before the last ice age (and possibly long before that) global temperatures were over 1.5C higher than the pre-industrial average". For those based in Oxford, or friends of, the following worth a look and a sign?

OxFoE met with Layla Moran MP to hand over the new FoE report 'Climate at a crossroads'. She responded "Our climate is at a crossroads and the government must act decisively. I will keep working across parliament to make sure this government upholds its legal duty to protect our future".

Sign our petition to urge Keir Starmer to deliver a bold and fair Big Climate Plan! The UK needs a new climate plan by May 2025, let's push for: ✅ Clean energy ✅ Warm homes & lower bills ✅ Better transport ✅ Thriving nature & green jobs 📢 Add your voice today: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Sign our petition to urge Keir Starmer to deliver a bold and fair Big Climate Plan! The UK needs a new climate plan by May 2025, let's push for: ✅ Clean energy ✅ Warm homes & lower bills ✅ Better transport ✅ Thriving nature & green jobs 📢 Add your voice today: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

For the first time since before the last ice age (and possibly long before that) global temperatures were over 1.5C higher than the pre-industrial average Anyone thinking it's cheaper to manage it and keep using fossil fuels should look at Los Angeles right now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

GOOD NEWS: UK electricity is now cleaner than ever before. Carbon emissions per unit of electricity in the UK have fallen 4x over the last decade.

If you want to reduce plastic use in 2025, make this simple swap. Yellow kitchen sponges like these are made of plastic, and release microplastics that end up in the sea - harming marine environments and animals. Eco-friendly, compostable alternatives are available – see: bit.ly/42rwUOX

Myths and outright nonsense about heat pumps continue to get spread through traditional and social media. Read my comprehensive heat pump myth buster for @carbonbrief.org here: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18...

This isn’t “reducing censorship”, as Zuckerberg claims, it’s permitting disinformation to run rife on Facebook, with all the political & social dangers that entails. Facts, truth & trusted information matter. Meta just supercharged their opposite. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“Heart-opening”: thanks @bbcoxford.bsky.social for this piece on climate cafés. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Latest science shows 1 metre of sea level rise now inevitable within a century or so & could come as early as 2070”. How on earth do political leaders read this stuff & reconcile it with their continued failure to act? ‘Cognitive dissonance’ doesn’t come close ….

Please sign FoE's petition against new oil and gas. It's being handed in on the 7th, so PLEASE do it now and SHARE THIS! action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/hav...

Please sign FoE's petition against new oil and gas. It's being handed in on the 7th, so PLEASE do it now and SHARE THIS! action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/hav...

“I’m prepared to call out this for what it is. We’ve seen this playbook many times…when the poison of the far right leads to serious threats to Jess Phillips and others than in my book a line has been crossed” Prime minister Keir Starmer

Let’s not kid ourselves: Europe still buys a lot of Russian gas. Russian LNG accounted for 20 per cent of the EU’s overall imports in 2024. The only way to sustainably drive out Russian gas is to accelerate renewable energy buildout, electrification and energy efficiency.