I ask MPs and media heads to consider this question: 𝙄𝙛 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙, 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙙? Clips below of expert warnings of severe economic and societal threats without emergency action. #NEB2025

youtu.be/jvjJ8Ag0-z0 Brilliant, disturbing yet positive talk by @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social his advice is a no-brainer. Hardly anyone is fully aware of our precarious food security plight, or the huge upsides of fixing it. @sioldridge.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

We have a new review out: “Obesity and Climate Change: Co-Crises with Common Solutions”. These aren’t separate crises but two symptoms of the same broken food system. A threat (and thread) 🧵 www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

More wise words by the excellent @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social. Read the interview! www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/article/beyo... Or extracts, in this short 🧵 "Behrens believes in tackling the biggest drivers of environmental damage head-on. 'If you can make a small shift in the parts of the system 1/6

Food expert @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social of @ox.ac.uk with a vital message for MPs & the public. "If we don't lead this change on the front foot, we'll be forced into it anyway as food shocks intensify." Full talk: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #NationalEmergencyBriefing #NEB2025 #FoodShortages

Our future food system will be very different. By design or by disaster. Much of the choice is ours If we get it right, everyone wins. Healthier diets and communities, more nature, higher productivity, stable(r) climate, etc... My speech: @nebriefing.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvjJ...

Wise words from @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social! You can hear more from Paul here on our podcast: How To Build A Sustainable World - Paul Behrens. youtu.be/VQrGldPO7P8 @timcoulson.bsky.social

What evidence is there that uplands like this were once covered by temperate rainforest, and would return to such a state naturally but for sheep? Loads... 🧵

'It’s urgent that we support a shift to plant-rich diets.' Oxford @oxmartinschool.bsky.social’s Prof Paul Behrens sets out why the UK food system needs reform - and how it could benefit farmers, the public and nature ⬇️ #OxfordClimate

Will the government back the call for a televised #ClimateEmergency briefing, as called for by @nebriefing.bsky.social? In the context of #COP30, I ask the question Minister's answer: hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-1...

Thank you to @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social for pushing for Government to consider a televised emergency briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis. The public have a right to know. Sign the open letter: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... Now at over 36,000 signatories. #TimeToStepUp #NEB2025

"The food industry itself is alarmed. UK food executives have warned that the sector is on course for pronounced shortages and business failures." @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social of @ox.ac.uk calling for urgent action at the National Emergency Briefing. #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUP

My write up on the @nebriefing.bsky.social here, please consider signing the letter calling on Kier Starmer and media heads to televise a briefing to the country: theconversation.com/what-we-told...

Are climate models counting people as well as carbon? A new @thelancetplanet.bsky.social Review with @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social finds major wellbeing impacts - on mental health, work and stability - often missing from policy tools. Including them strengthens the case for prevention. Link below ⬇️

Climate action isn’t just about carbon tonnes or warming degrees, it’s about people’s lives, health, dignity, and wellbeing We've a new article in Lancet Planetary Health mapping how climate policy models are missing far too much of this story. 🧵 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Yesterday we spoke to 100s of the UKs MPs, Peers, faith leaders, CEOs, and celebs for the first @nebriefing.bsky.social on the climate & nature crises. What happened needs to reach millions more, please sign this letter to the PM and media organisations: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... 🧵...

Yesterday we spoke to 100s of the UKs MPs, Peers, faith leaders, CEOs, and celebs for the first @nebriefing.bsky.social on the climate & nature crises. What happened needs to reach millions more, please sign this letter to the PM and media organisations: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... 🧵...

A packed audience for the #NationalEmergencyBriefing this morning, listening to 9 experts give a hard-hitting and evidence-based view of the state of climate effects to MPs, Lords, and leaders across media, business and culture. @nebriefing.bsky.social

Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names. "Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond." Please share with your MP #NEB2025

Prof. Paul Behrens keynote on land use + #food systems at Sustainability In Drinks in October- youtu.be/xnnzPhkKzps?... @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social

𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀! Want to join @chrisgpackham.bsky.social in supporting the National Emergency Briefing on Climate & Nature? 🖋️ 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 urging MPs to attend: lnkd.in/ecGDM3Ry

Bit of a details one, this. Myself and Joseph Poore wrote a correspondence on why we need to be really clear about food system boundaries, budgets, and allocations. A few key points: 🧵 rdcu.be/eOzAC

"we show that an underestimation of present-day #Antarctic sea ice in the latest generation of #climate models results in an underestimation of future OHU by 3%–14% an underestimation of global cloud feedback by 19%–32% &an underestimation of global atmospheric warming by 6%–7%" #FasterThanExpected

"National security threat" "Economic disaster" Not from a thriller, but warnings from the UK Joint Intelligence Committee about climate breakdown and ecosystem collapse. The analysis has been delayed - the threat hasn't Urge your MP to join us at the @nebriefing.bsky.social www.nebriefing.org

Wind power has saved UK consumers over £100 billion since 2010 – see our new study UK saved £14.2 billion from lower electricity prices & £133.3 billion from reduced natural gas prices. Offset £43.2 billion in wind energy subsidies consumers saved £104.3 billion theconversation.com/wind-power-h...

"We stand at a crossroads where the choices we make about our food systems will determine not just the trajectory of climate change, but the very viability of agriculture itself." I was happy to write a foreword for the new Roasting the Planet report: foodrise.org.uk/research/roa... Foreword 👇🧵

Butter, milk, beef, chocolate and coffee are responsible for much of the UK’s food inflation, with climate change the key driver of rising grocery bills #climatecrisis @eciu.net HT @carbonbrief.org www.ft.com/content/ced8...

Penguin and club bars hit by climate change - you can't call them chocolate any more. Though you wouldn't know it from the BBC, all they say is: "poor harvests as a result of severe drought conditions in cocoa-producing countries" I wonder what could be happening 🤷‍♂️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“We vote three times a day when we eat. Every meal shapes the #food system.”—Prof. Paul Behrens Climate change is driving up food prices + hitting resilience. Plant-rich diets= 1 of the big levers for climate + health. https://youtu.be/3Zp8slyOfcI 🎧 Full interview @nickbreeze.genn.cc  #ClimateAction

Wow, even higher than recent years - explains MP's focus on H2, biofuels, and CCS over solar, wind, etc. Exactly why we need the national emergency briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social and then on to weekly briefings. Pls ask your MP to attend: www.nebriefing.org www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🍺🍷 What does climate change mean for your pint of beer or glass of wine? Professor Paul Behrens from our Future of Food Programme shares five insights on how it’s transforming what we eat and why it matters this #WorldFoodDay. 🎥

'It’s not just us who struggle in the heat.' @oxmartinschool.bsky.social's Prof Paul Behrens explains how climate change is driving up the cost of food. #OxfordClimate

"Some of the most important global problems of the 21st century, from malnutrition, to climate change, to the large-scale torture of animals raised for food, could be mitigated if humans ate more soy directly." www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Powered by trillions of data points & thousands of hours of expert analysis, the revolutionary Drawdown Explorer platform will drive #ClimateSolutions forward like never before. But we are just getting started! Your support will help us unleash Explorer’s full potential. https://drawdown.org/donate

This open invitation to the @nebriefing.bsky.social was published in the @financialtimes.com today. Please check whether your MP can make it here: www.nebriefing.org and if not ask them to! We will be briefing on national security, tipping points, food security, nature and more.

I was quoted about New Zealand's rowing back of ambition on methane in Bloomberg this week: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... To explain why New Zealand’s new methane target puts the Global Methane Pledge (and ultimately climate targets) at risk. 🧵

Three of the UK's five worst harvests on record have happened this decade, following extreme weather Harvest data from Defra suggests a much worse harvest for 2025 than estimates so far had predicted. eciu.net/analysis/re...

Come work with us! We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Food System Transformations at the University of Oxford. This role is part of an ambitious, interdisciplinary project exploring rapid food system transformations. More details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

I urge all policymakers to attend this vital briefing on the climate & nature crisis, which brings the latest science from leading experts straight to the people in power. I’d like to see one in every country, & the organizers are open to sharing the model. More info: www.nebriefing.org

Have you seen our petition? We need 10k signatures by Sept 24th to get a response from the government. Please help! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

📢 Britain faces a climate & nature emergency. On 27 Nov, eight leading experts will brief 800+ leaders from politics, business, culture, faith & media. An unfiltered overview of the latest threats & solutions. Only by facing it can we rise to the challenge. www.nebriefing.org

This could be a tipping point for decision makers across the UK: we're holding a National Emergency Briefing on the Climate and Nature crisis for national leaders at Westminster Central Hall, and you can help!...🧵

Another succinct explanation by @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social of the many reasons it makes sense to shift to plant-rich diets before the polycrisis forces us to do so anyway - thus helping to stall the crisis!

🥦 Is eating more plants in the future actually a choice? 🥦 @paulbehrens.bsky.social breaks down how the plant-based future will arrive in this #FoodTakes video with @rebelwrit.bsky.social Watch the full video here: buff.ly/SJ1L1EY @oxfutureoffood.bsky.social @oxmartinschool.bsky.social

I have a new column out today in The Irish Times: “Why ‘No Additional Warming’ Is a Dangerous Climate Loophole.” www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

The UK is on track for another year of poor harvests. It's starting to become a familiar story - driven mostly by climate change and a smaller amount of shifting land use...🧵 www.ft.com/content/7376...

New data paper out: Ammonia doesn't often make the headlines – but it’s one of the major drivers of biodiversity loss and air pollution in Europe, harming ecosystems and our health. > 90% of it in Europe comes from one source: agricultural fertiliser and manure 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

James Renwick and Paul Behrens: Securing a future for NZ agriculture requires ambitious climate action. #opinion

Lovely piece in the Guardian today on train travel. Loved the interleaving of train experiences by Woolf, Joyce, and Langston Hughes with today (I may be a bit biased as I did this trip with Caoilinn!)

Hello! New to using this platform, but thought to share a piece I wrote for @theguardian.com about long distance train travel and the lineage of writers who have traversed Europe by rail. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...