Before / After Rue Henri Dubouillon, Paris 20, March 2023 just after the works, and October 2024. It usually takes two leafings for these changes to look a bit nicer, so all the last recent changes will be not at their best by the next election in March 2026 !

EU officials have made last-minute changes to a rushed political agreement on #EUDR to close loopholes that could have allowed some of the world’s largest corporations to enjoy exemptions meant for small producers. www.endseurope.com/article/1943...

It may be hard to believe, but my parents phoned the EA because a neighbour's house was plumbed straight into the stream that runs behind their house. Two guys from the EA and Thames Water came *that same afternoon* and issued a section 109. The misconnection got fixed the following week!

Some things never change. It's nearly 17 years to the day that the EU agreed its 2020 climate package, including carve-outs for member states to meet their non-ETS emissions cuts through... international offsets.

Avant / Après la "rue jardin" Rue du Docteur Landouzy dans le 13ème arrondissement de Paris. Là j'ai coupé un peu de la hauteur des jeunes arbres pour le cadrage ;)

Transport emissions are set to fall for the second year running. EVs now exceed 50% of new passenger car sales, putting 12% of the vehicle fleet on electric by year-end, up from under 2% five years ago.

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There's something charmingly human about how even European Commission lawyers drafting incredibly technical regulations can sometimes misspell the word 'regulation'

Astonishing to me walking around south London yesterday how badly the posher streets smelled of wood smoke -- probably no more than a couple of houses that have become major emitters of particulate matter in my neighbourhood...

We've heard that some people in the NGO world are using ChatGPT to 'summarise' our articles -- as a quick health warning, it genuinely doesn't seem to be able to get behind the paywall, but will generate totally bogus material instead!

The UK government has been accused of using 'Trumpian shock tactics' at a recent UN meeting and destabilising the whole of the Aarhus Convention compliance mechanism - one of the only legally binding global instruments on environmental democracy www.endsreport.com/article/1940...

Some beautiful shots of resident Lakeland Fell ponies Stan, Dan and Paddy. They have been really thriving on the rough hill pastures on Tarras Valley and doing a fantastic job helping to regenerate the grassland habitats! 📷 Faith Garvey

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

it's happened again

Avant / Après la végétalisation et les arbres plantés Rue de Toulouse dans le 19ème arrondissement de Paris

Oh wow really? Do you not follow American politics? Do you think New York is just another foreign municipality? Shall we tell everyone? Should we throw a party? Should we invite Zohran Mamdani?

The thing that bothers me most about David Beckham's knighthood is that global emissions and temperatures are continuing to spiral upwards ushering in an era of rolling climate disasters, food insecurity, ecosystem collapse, and forced migration. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521345...

We are a society haunted by the constant declarations of “I’ll never need this math class in real life.”

Fully agree with this from @ivancouronne.bsky.social. If you want a report to recieve media coverage, releasing it during or in the run-up to a major event is one of those ideas that seems good but is actually terrible!

Full credit to Politico for continuing to employ a guy who usually does slightly off Disney characters on ice cream vans as their artist-in-residence.

Big China electricity&industial data update🧵for September: ➡️Power generation from coal and gas dropped 5%, for a 1.2% fall in the first nine months of the year. ➡️Crude steel production fell by 5% and cement output by 9% in Sep, accelerating from 3% and 5% drops year-to-date.

61. If you record PV capacity and only have room for one figure, record MW(DC), the module capacity. It tells you more about what the project will produce, how much land it needs, and what it will cost than MW(AC), which is just the size of the wire. I will die on this seemingly obscure hill.

I love everything about this European Court of Justice case curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

incredible things are happening on LinkedIn, where someone is trying to persuade EU environment commissioner Jessika Roswall that having PFAS in her bloodstream may be Good Actually

That background hum is bees, not traffic. Ivy is one seriously important food for insects at this time of year.

🚨🚨Campaigners have called on the government to ban all plastic waste exports following a joint ENDS investigation out yesterday. It revealed hundreds of boys and men have been killed in recycling factories in Turkey - a top destination for UK waste exports👇 www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

Today's Big News from the UK feels like a good moment to reshare this classic Mike Skinner clip www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue1U...

A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation. Next week we release something a bit special - 'Boy Wasted' - a new true crime podcast series. This has been a massive, heart-breaking project! Please share & subscribe to the Eco Chamber now to get it in your podcast feed.

NEW | China’s clean energy boom and rapid electrification are creating the conditions for a FOSSIL DECLINE at home and abroad⚡ Fossil use in end-use sectors plateaued in 2015--while electricity use grew 65%, becoming central to 🇨🇳’s energy system. https://loom.ly/psjqvhE

You can just... not publish this stuff

A thing I genuinely can't get my head around is that you can still buy old railway sleepers for your garden. Like, the EU specifically bans the use of creosote-treated wood in parks and gardens, and specifically mentions plant containers, because it contains such a nasty bunch of chemicals...

They paved paradise and put up medium density housing served by light rail

Fresque murale récente qui prolonge l'effet de la végétation Rue d'Aubervilliers dans le 19ème

What has been the impact of Norway’s shift to electric vehicles? New study finds: “… BEV ownership leads to an overall increase in car trip demand in the order of 10–20%. This reflects shifts from ICEV to BEV use, but also sizeable shifts away from public transport use, cycling and walking.”

Aside from anything else, this article is a good reminder that AI image generators are still terrible!

Humbly submitting Geschirrrückgabe for consideration as one of the top German compound nouns, partly for its precision + elegance (what do we even say for this in English? 'used crockery here'?) -- but mainly for the incredible triple r

Ea-Nasir is a lesson to all merchants about downsides of preserving records beyond statutory minimums Ea-Nasir's reputation has suffered significantly despite passing of relevant statutes of limitation

Une entrée / sortie de parking condamnée en plein 10ème arrondissement de Paris, les temps continuent de changer.

It's nice to see the Ruhr get a bit of love in the Guardian today. There's so many great places to visit -- Duisburg's Landschaftspark (pictured below) alone makes a trip there worth it

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 After obtaining reams of internal docs, I have a new story out revealing how govt has sat for three years on plans to tighten rules letting water companies SELL sewage sludge contaminated with PFAS & microplastics. Read it in @theguardian.com, and.. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One of the challenges to understanding climate change is that extremes don't necessarily change in the same way as averages. In Western Europe, for example, the hottest day of the year is warming noticeably faster than the average summer day.

Can't read press releases like this without thinking of Disco Stu

I have such a visceral reaction to walking past cars — in London!! — with wheels that are taller than my toddler. Nobody needs them and they are so much more dangerous than smaller cars.

Probably fair to say this is the first time Britney has been cited in an ECJ opinion??

You may not like it, but this is what peak European Commission performance looks like

Cockatoos are the absolute best. They’re hilarious too - complete clowns. Years ago, one used to visit my balcony daily. S/he would comically pretend to sneak up to the window to say hello. Never failed to make me laugh.

Avant / Après la végétalisation de la contre-allée Rue de Meaux dans le 19ème arrondissement de Paris. Je vois bien que les arbres récents paraissent différents des arbres anciens sur la photo, mais ce n'est pas de l'IA, je le jure ! ;)

This opinion piece (from an editor at the Guardian no less) is, uh, really something!

My new favourite category of EU document 😜