Doug Parr

Climate emissions resulting from approving drilling at Rosebank, expanding Heathrow airport, watering down UK’s EV targets, cutting heat pump grants would be 402m tonnes of CO2 over the next 25 years Greater than the annual emissions of 106 coal plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...

European nations asked to prepare for 3C of climate warming Good luck My suspicion is combined disruption to food production & supply chains, building unusability with heat & flooding, increased migration etc means civilisation as we know it would collapse by 3C www.euronews.com/2026/10/27/e...

Three of the 5 splits in the Burnham cabinet identified by the FT political correspondents are to do with climate policy Rosebank, the electric vehicle mandate, Heathrow airport expansion all pitch traditional industry models against the reality of climate breakdown www.ft.com/content/b04b...

"Why is UK govt considering a major U-turn on electric vehicle policy that, if followed through, could stall take-up of EVs, close off a route to lower living costs, & dent the UK’s ability to meet its carbon targets?" 94% of drivers are happy with their EV www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lula's win in Brazil will avert a free-for all on Amazon deforestation that Bolsonaro planned One of the largest & most diverse ecosystems on earth is already under strain from deforestation & climate change. Bolsonaro may have set it inexorably towards collapse We should all be grateful. For now.

About 2/3 of the 50,000 deaths from the summer heatwaves in Europe are attributable to climate change, say Imperial College researchers That's risen from 2/5 at the start of the century Note that heat deaths are projected to rise faster than cold deaths fall www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Dear Google, WTAF? "the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with machinery trail marks....brown water flowing off the site into a stream" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Jackdaw...go-ahead in blow to climate campaigners" Not just climate campaigners. It's only a sensible headline viewed through lens of political in-fighting It's a blow to everyone - climate deniers won't get their own bit of the planet retaining normal weather www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The problem is not really Jackdaw, which is pretty small. The problem is the UK's plan to transition away from fossil fuels is still not ambitious and detailed enough. The problem is if Rosebank follows. The problem is if every country develops one last fossil fuel project we're all screwed.

BREAKING: Go ahead for North Sea Jackdaw field Jackdaw's gas will cause an estimated £16.1 billion in global damage through climate change, and over 8,000 heat-related deaths. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Most of Europe’s wild bee species & 1/2 hover fly species have declined over last century Research “confirms what has long been suspected" on pollinator loss Wildlife being lost at unprecedented rate as humans destroy habitats, spray pesticides & change climate www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Almost 2 years into his 2nd term, the case to go green increasingly rests on need for cheaper, faster & more secure power and less on climate. Trump may have placed obstacles in the way of green transition, but he's also, inadvertently, made case for it harder to ignore" www.ft.com/content/b263...

Well, he’s right in the sense there’d be economic growth - 0.05% according to UK govt’s impact assessment. Not much Same assessment also said the cost-benefit analysis, accounting for pollution, health impacts of noise etc would be negative by tens of billions of ££ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A frequent lens on North Sea oil & gas exploitation has been about jobs on N Sea platforms, which UNITE & GMB represent But climate change makes 'jobs' like firefighter, teachers, nurses much worse Now their unions are saying stop exploiting more fossil fuels www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

"What do we do with all this money?" isn't a question most have to worry about But the oil companies do! (Thanks Donald...) "After... payments to shareholders rise, companies are likely to come under pressure to divert extra cash into boosting their oil & gas reserves" www.ft.com/content/9d70...

EU Commission is preparing to delay a key climate law by a year, as a concession to the fossil fuel sector, Trump administration & some EU member countries. Already Big Oil is pushing for more drastic changes to gut the proposed legislation www.politico.eu/article/big-....

War on nature effectively being conducted by successive UK govts is working, with continued bird decline Supplemented by recent avian flu in seabirds Farmland bird decline owing to loss of mixed farming, increased pesticide & fertiliser use, removal of hedgerows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brutal takedown of European response to China's electric vehicles "BYD operations were refined in a ferociously competitive Chinese EV market. Meanwhile, European car manufacturers were eking out incremental engineering advances in obsolescent internal combustion engine" www.ft.com/content/52a1...

3 weeks ago Trump promised to allow offshore wind construction to proceed, in exchange for Democrat support on a Bill going through congress Now? Filing court case to review permits You couldn't run a chip shop like that, never mind long term energy projects www.ft.com/content/4cb3...

Countries led by Saudi Arabia & Russia are pressing climate scientists to delay publication of a report, so it's not ready for a major evaluation of country commitments on cutting emissions Even in scientific processes the fingers of oil interests cause trouble www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Errr.... right, so UK is having to find more money for defence against Russia... by cutting funding for heat pumps that get us off gas... thereby keeping us dependent on an energy commodity *weaponised* by Russia & international conflict. Smart thinking guys www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Due to **declining soil quality**, nutrients in fruit & vegetables are sharply lower Researchers at Deep Science Ventures found twice the fruit & veg need to be eaten today to get the same level of minerals like potassium, magnesium or copper than 60 yrs ago www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

FACTCHECK: UK Conservatives double the ‘cost of net-zero’ after spreadsheet blunder The Tory "Right Way" booklet makes an erroneous claim about the cost of cutting emissions, possibly taken from a Jan26 thinktank report, and deffo the most idiotic error I've seen for a while 🧵

That's a very high proportion of people who find out what the real state of play is with climate change, who then think "Christ we should really do something about that" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Is there something peculiarly British about celebrating wildlife species on banknotes but only grudgingly (or not at all) doing things to avert their decline? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Expert analysis of Tory claim stripping 'net zero regulation' from new homes saves £50,000 concludes it only makes sense if: 1. Every new heat pump is most expensive available 2. All insulation stripped out 3. Someone at CCHQ still failed their GCSE in Maths www.businessgreen.com/opinion/4536...

Stanlow refinery is now owned by EET Fuels Documents obtained by investigative journalists describe breaches with cyanide, benzene and heavy oils regularly spilled into waterways & groundwater. Permitted levels for chemical releases were exceeded 100s of times. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Upshot of US diesel export ban "Trump has been talking about a possible diesel export ban... during recent UN meeting I heard non-US execs & govt officials outlining plans to protect themselves from a fossil fuel squeeze by “diversifying”, ie embracing renewable energy" www.ft.com/content/3ae1...

"In India, the government held an auction in August for renewable power delivered round the clock, with bidders required to match the typical supply of coal plants. It secured 1GW of solar and storage capacity at a lower cost than recent coal power contracts" www.ft.com/content/b847...

Water company for Devon & Cornwall to pay *record fine* of £8m for hundreds of sewage spills Incl untreated sewage gushing through a harbour wall for 10 hours on a bank holiday weekend Pennon Group, owner of SW Water, returned £138mn to shareholders last year www.theguardian.com/environment/...

HSBC & Barclays were among global banks pledging in 2021 to cut emissions from loans Driven mainly them, loans by UK banks to the coal industry rose 17% from 2022 to 2025, EU banks nearly halved coal financing. Banks in Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan also cut theirs www.ft.com/content/52e5...

Internal documents show European Commission ignored its own advice to maintain a bloc-wide combustion engine ban in cars and instead caved to automakers & national capitals Short-termism at work as tech wave rolls out. So China will dominate 21st century car-making www.politico.eu/article/comm...

Crown Estate is the owner of England's seabed and charges offshore wind farms to use it But the way it has charged in the past has raised costs and looks like monopoly profiteering And it will add up to £38 to energy bills in the future, according to Oxford Uni www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Based on current building patterns 115,000 new homes will be built in England’s flood zones in the next 10 years Many could become uninsurable in the future due to the risk of flooding, says Insurance company Aviva Which would make those houses essentially useless www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In 2020 Starbucks, in a public letter, said “sustainability has been at Starbucks’ core since the beginning...a great business that scales for good” Targets to cut water use & waste now abandoned, & likely climate targets The public letter is no longer on their website www.ft.com/content/f537...

Fuel cost of running an electric vehicle vs petrol was always significant, now factor of 9 for diesel New EVs inevitably flow into second-hand market where ££ savings are made by all societal segments UK Govt plans to dilute the mandate for EVs will stop that www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...