Won’t someone think of all the world leaders who worked really really hard to get where they are and have serious jobs with serious work attire and have very important jobs with critical decisions to make and yet they get to the UN and then this happens. bsky.app/profile/juli...

Sitting by the campfire Chatting together Thinking about tax rises ushering in far right populist authoritarianism Remembering CCUS is £22b New nuclear £10b plus guarantees which eat into borrowing power SUVs, flights, oil and gas low tax and £2-5-10-20 billion foregone What’s it all about Alfie?

It is likely no coincidence that yesterday the EU announced a Free Trade Deal with Indonesia... ...And today EU Environment Commissioner Jessica Roswall announces at AGCO that there will be yet another one-year delay to the EU Deforestation Regulation.

This is the correct decision bsky.app/profile/juli...

Disruption to the carbon cycle leads to climate chaos when tropical rainforests or Atlantic rainforests are destroyed, diminished or degraded. And the water cycle while we’re on the topic.

The foreigners aren't coming into the UK and 'eating the swans', but they are coming and buying £885,000 houses in cash with money that they earned from *checks notes* being a waitress. I'm sure Nigel Farage would agree, that needs investigating.

That gives industry twenty years to construct a case for delays to 2050. As good as meaningless. Lobbyists are well-funded. Campaigners are not.

Brilliant piece. Quiet quitting and voluntarily eliminating as much unneeded consumption as possible are only the beginning: signs that people instinctively feel a need to opt out of the current economic model.

Pygmy Blue Whale sighting at Bussleton! Megan Wood who captured the encounter reflected on the experience “we are incredibly lucky to call this place home, and it is our responsibility to care for it and protect it"

Some people work for years and years to be senior politicians or UN negotiators. We really ought to do something about this sort of thing. I suggest some serious and substantive steps to make it more engaging if they’re sitting there for hours in a windowless room. Maybe some balloons?

As the further details note, the 'sugar trade' referenced here was 'built on slavery'. Call it by its name.

How would you rate your experience today with the Rapture?

This is an excellent point. 👇

Some people work for years and years to be senior politicians or UN negotiators. We really ought to do something about this sort of thing. I suggest some serious and substantive steps to make it more engaging if they’re sitting there for hours in a windowless room. Maybe some balloons?

Who pays for LGW expansion? A plan funded via RAB & financed by guarantees to private lenders for private profit: a return, paid by the airlines. Airlines transfer costs to passengers. Which airlines run most flights from LGW? EJ and BA, in that order. What do they think? What press says:

Less ‘investment’. More a debt cycling facility. The plan guarantees lenders a return, paid by airlines. Airlines will transfer costs to passengers. Which airlines run most flights from Gatwick? EasyJet and BA in that order Can and will the passenger pay more for a flight? Good question!

#Nucléaire : Hausse des températures, gestion de l'eau, recul du trait de côte, tempêtes... Les centrales nucléaires de Seine-Maritime s'adaptent-elles au #changementclimatique ? www.paris-normandie.fr/id655769/art...

De nombreuses forces de l'ordre, 2 bateaux spécialisés équipés de canons et missiles, 1 sous-marin nucléaire d'attaque... rien que ça pour #Orano et son 9ème transport de combustible MOX vers le Japon ! On aime tellement l'électricité #nucléaire !!! 💀 www.ouest-france.fr/environnemen...

Conservative MP: Make suits mandatory again. Response: Suits never stopped being mandatory for the Minister. Appearances and all. Their advisors write the advice in trackies and hoodies. Eating crisps, chocolate and Haribo. On a Teams call. Listening to hip hop and Katy Perry.

And as they’re fed climate / net zero scepticism, they’re also fed support for nuclear and insufficient information on the direct and indirect subsidies to nuclear. #energysky

Net zero opponents may not be informed enough and unable to articulate nuanced view: a. we need energy mix to net zero at lowest cost (in a meaningful timeframe), b. costs need to be shared in a fair way. People fed an agenda miss those two critical points. It’s like Brexit ‘non-debate’ all over.

'Chinese Miners Accused of Gold Pillage, Environmental Destruction in DRC... semi-industrial gold mining operations have devastated at least 155 miles of rivers and streams in Haut-Uélé, a province where poverty and armed conflict are widespread' insideclimatenews.org/news/1709202...

'Chinese-linked mining firms sued over 'ecological catastrophe' in Zambia. Farmers in Zambia have filed an $80bn lawsuit against 2 Chinese-linked firms, blaming them for an "ecological catastrophe" caused by the collapse of a dam that stored waste from copper mining.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

75% of UK govt. climate/energy funding goes to #nuclear What a waste.

'Subprime lender collapses as Wall Street hits new highs. Sound familiar? History doesn’t repeat, but occasionally, it rhymes For now, investors think bad economic news is actually good; Tricolor’s bankruptcy might arguably add more weight to the case for a rate cut.' www.afr.com/chanticleer/...

The good people of Lewes voted a new MP in. She’s therefore no longer an MP.

Options #energysky

Restaura una: experimento busca melhor técnica para restaurar Mata Atlântica ⬇️ Iniciativa realizada na Reserva Biológica de Una, no sul da Bahia, irá testar 50 técnicas diferentes, com aposta na regeneração natural

Current GB grid being powered by 19GW wind. Carbon emissions measure, the average intensity is extremely low. Our electricity provider is providing electricity for free for an hour. #energysky

FCA investigates Drax - a UK biomass power station - for its sourcing practices. Concerns raised about logging in US primary forests. #energysky

No, I don’t think that you are missing anything. Drax is subsidised and leading to ecologically and climate damaging impacts in the US and Canada.

What else is happening: Golden age of bioenergy & timber construction ‘coming along’ for 20yrs Import biomass pellets ( US&Canada). lower cost UK landowners inheritance to protect Uk overheads to profits ratio challenge Sustainability /FSC certification not robust enough bsky.app/profile/juli...

Existing plantation forestry is a fire liability, esp. following drought. extremely limited wildlife value. landowners elsewhere seek funds to restore ancient woodland sites. Sitka plantations likely to be seeking inheritance tax break for ‘production’. Even if timber harvest unlikely. All money.

Scottish Forestry have decided that planting a vast sitka spruce plantation in the Scottish Borders (11 sq km) does not need an Environmental Impact Assessment. Please consider giving to this crowdfund to support a legal challenge + share. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-todri...

Current GB grid being powered by 19GW wind. Carbon emissions measure, the average intensity is extremely low. Our electricity provider is providing electricity for free for an hour. #energysky

The point is: UK imports sawn timber when plantations are not restored ecologically. UK woodlands & grasslands also left unrestored ecologically, and again, biomass is imported unnecessarily. Absurd. We leave UK ecosystems without eco restoration, simultaneously damaging overseas ecosystems.

Yes: Drax is notorious for forest destruction in BC: including old growth and primary. Pure evil.

Drax is also odious in British Columbia.

Canadian export credit agency wrote off close to a billion Canadian dollars, last year www.theguardian.com/business/art...

In total, the UK water companies have therefore cost: £198bn over 15 years (~$250bn in the money of the day) In the current funding period, AMP8, the water companies’ own statements state that sewage releases and water leaks will not be fully or even halfway resolved.

UK water AMP8 (2025-2029), agreed 19/12/24, sought £104bn but companies now seek further funds via a competition challenge. AMP7 (2020-2024) included agreed revenues of £50bn. nb. £11.7bn to Thames Water, and leaks only reduced by 16% in AMP7. AMP6 (2015-2019) included agreed revenues of £44bn.

Worth ppl understanding that UK - USA trade deal & the conditions +agreement on regulations which that involves, takes 🇬🇧 further away from the EU. It would have to be unwound for 🇬🇧 to re-join. Perhaps the EU would demand changes before even starting any negotiations. @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social

Has the hosepipe ban resigned yet?

London march today… Guys in t-shirts tried to enter pubs when it started tipping down. Large groups weren’t allowed into pubs. They must have got soaked and cold. Would have expected most Brits to always be prepared for drizzle and unpredictable weather. So quite ironic.

Has the hosepipe ban resigned yet?

Deforestation impacts in Colombia… institutions and the rule of law undermined from Peru to El Salvador and Mexico, and all the countries in between. Anyone? Cocaine is just another consumption habit where the impacts on producing and transit nations seems to be way down the list of priorities.

Could spend the next 2-3 years debating campaign objectives and an organisational form. I would start agreeing a policy agenda and negotiating a coalition agreement. Now. Ideally yesterday.

5. Failing to change the funding model in the water industry which is using customer bills as collateral for accumulating ever more debt bsky.app/profile/juli...

London march today… Guys in t-shirts tried to enter pubs when it started tipping down. Large groups weren’t allowed into pubs. They must have got soaked and cold. Would have expected most Brits to always be prepared for drizzle and unpredictable weather. So quite ironic.