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The PM is still failing to understand the threat of the #climateemergency. Andy Burnham will “sleepwalk” into climate disaster if he fails to get a grip on a series of important policies whose combined impact could scupper plans to reach net zero. #stoprosebank #noheathrowexpansion

Almost 600 scientists, ecologists, health professionals and more have called on Andy Burnham to reject the re-submitted application for drilling Rosebank The science is abundantly clear - we cannot open new oil and gas fields. @profbillmcguire.bsky.social

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

The UK gov was able to approve #Jackdaw because UK targets are woefully outdated. The current ‘Carbon Budget’ was set 15 years ago back when 2°C of warming was considered ‘safe’. It wasn’t tightened as the threat picture worsened due to concerns about public acceptance.

Brazil and Serbia, defying rise the tide of autocracy. This is how we do it, everywhere. 🌈

‘Overnight, everything was dead’: the Teesside fisherman turned activist dubbed the Mr Bates of the seas. The fight back against toxic ocean pollution is on. All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea is in cinemas from 23rd October... www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

Health for XR position statement. Special thanks to Ali 🙏 Please read and share widely

And @andyburnham.bsky.social approves #Jackdaw Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer. Morgues and funeral homes filled with bodies as the heat added by planet-baking pollution cut short an extra 32,000 lives in urban areas. #climatecrisis #extremeheat 🔥🌍🔥

Am reminded of a quote from @kevinclimate.bsky.social “There’s no such thing as a non-radical future.” ‘The world needs to cut carbon emissions by nearly a fifth in the next four years, and by close to half within a decade, to avoid overshooting climate targets by a disastrous margin.’

Today, The Scottish Government announced that they have REFUSED plans to develop a golf course at Coul Links in Sutherland. This fragile landscape is home to some of our rarest and most threatened wildlife, so this a huge win for nature! 1/3

Interesting. ‘Miatta Fahnbulleh is leaning towards rejecting the giant Rosebank oilfield, in what would be a blow for the North Sea energy industry but a major victory for climate campaigners.’ (And humanity) #stoprosebank www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BREAKING 🚨: The UK Government has just approved the Jackdaw gas field We cannot let them open Rosebank

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

Today's decision by Labour to approve new drilling in the North Sea is climate vandalism. It's a betrayal of all of our futures, and Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change. This is a victory for Shell over the people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

After a summer of deadly heatwaves, with England in drought, they do this….😡 The Jackdaw gasfield will be given the go-ahead on Wednesday, signalling Andy Burnham’s commitment to the North Sea fossil fuel industry. #climatecriminals 🔥🌍🔥 #nonewoilandgas

Please join if you can. Protest Jackdaw. 📅 Wednesday 21st Oct ⌚️7:45am 📍DESNZ, 55 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2HP Join @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social to hold giant bills for climate damage to highlight the cost of climate wrecking new oil and gas fields outside DESNZ. #nonewoilandgas #stopjackdaw

Residents of Longyearben in #Norway - one of the fastest-warming places in the world - have been told they must no longer drink tap water from their lake water supply. The climate crisis has led to thawed permafrost, leading to newly exposed bedrock leaching metals into the pond. #climateemergency

Long suspected, this is now evidence that honey bees are adding to the pressure on wild bee species www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Insulating Britain’s homes and investing in heat pumps would do more to cut the cost of living, create jobs & boost the UK’s economy than drilling for new oil. It would provide about 50,000 new jobs spread across thousands of small businesses. #stoprosebank #nonewoilandgas @andyburnham.bsky.social

Yet golf courses are still permitted to water their greens Just unbelievable www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The 2026 state of the climate report: challenges and opportunities" | Honored to be a co-author of this article in #Bioscience, led by @williamripple.bsky.social, detailing the increased danger signs from our warming planet: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

This brilliant new tool allows blame to be allocated and shames those seeking - in the face of our collapsing climate - to load the atmosphere with even more carbon Please take a look and share www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

The government said the change to severe drought status had been prompted by specific concerns for two major reservoirs, Ardingly in #WestSussex and Wimbleball in Somerset. The latest figures show Ardingly is 19.4% full. #severedrought www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farmland bird populations in England have now declined by a staggering 66% since 1970, according to the latest official figures. What's going to turn this around? Not piecemeal grants or trusting in the 'custodians of the countryside', but Landscape Recovery & regulation www.gov.uk/government/s...

ROSEBANK & JACKDAW⁉️ UK BENEFIT? Oil/gas would be sold on international market JOBS? Jackdaw 27, Rosebank 450 WHEREAS … UK green economy already has 1.1m jobs & worth £100bn pa TAX BENEFIT? Rosebank could cost £258m in tax losses CLIMATE COST? Deadly heat, flood, drought, food/water shortages

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/...

📰How police scanned 1.3m faces across Manchester 🗣️"Scanning people's faces as they go about their daily lives represents a serious intrusion into privacy Without proper safeguards police should pause facial recognition use" www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

They still don’t seem to understand that the #climateemergency is the biggest threat to our security. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Documents obtained by Freedom of Information requests show that parts of the 'simplification drive' have ended up closely reflecting the demands of fertiliser & chemical companies to roll back environmental & health safeguards Insects in EU have declined 75% in 3 decades www.ft.com/content/3c86...

"We see the same tendency at the individual level, with greater faith in technological solutions going hand in hand with less engagement in climate action. Yet technology cannot substitute for the broader societal changes and large-scale shifts in consumption that are also needed"

Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires I discovered via an FOI request that DEFRA’s commitment in the National Adaptation Programme to run a “wildfire risk programme” since 2023 “was not brought into effect”. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

‼️GREAT NEWS ‼️ Drax AI Data Centre Scrapped Last year, Drax announced a bid to build an AI Growth Zone, powered by burning trees, in partnership with the North Yorkshire Combined Authority and the University of York. Over the last year SBT has been fighting to stop this bid from going ahead.

Outrageous 😡 Drax’s planned datacentre could produce nearly double the emissions of all flights out of Gatwick airport each year by burning 4.9m tonnes of wood annually, an analysis has shown. Campaigners say this would make it “one of the dirtiest datacentres out there.” #axedrax #climatebreakdown

Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A #stoprosebank protest in #Worthing three years ago. Still waiting for the government to say no to Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields. @stopcambo.bsky.social #nonewoilandgas #climatecrisis

Europe saw a powerful heatwave which boggled climate scientists in late May, and the high heat continued. Recurring heatwaves, made hotter and more common by #climatebreakdown, killed tens of thousands of people across the continent while ruining harvests and shutting power plants. #extremeheat

Good news from Scotland!

The signal is clear: we're heading for a future warmer than the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5°C. What does this mean in practice? We break down "overshoot" into five key things to understand: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided

Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide

[1/3🧵] 🚨The Trump administration wants to green light deep sea mining after receiving the first-ever application to commercially mine the international seabed from The Metals Company USA.

NAZA film-makers say they spoke to more than 100 sources about Israeli actions in Gaza

The Ministry for the Climate Emergency presents the A-Z of Badvertising, a new public information campaign that reveals the dirty tricks used by the ad industry to promote highly polluting products and lifestyles.🤥🛢️ 👉Learn more at www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...

Time to join the Pheasants’ Revolt… DEFRA have launched a Call for Evidence on the environmental & animal welfare impacts of the gamebird industry. If you care about this, PLEASE submit evidence - this @wildjustice.bsky.social blog tells you how: wildjustice.org.uk/defras-call-...

Three days to go for @northwildlife.bsky.social to raise £30M to buy the Rothbury Estate. Impressively, they've secured over £27M in donations & pledges. But that still leaves a shortfall. I can only hope they're given more time by the seller. Or that he waives the difference. You can chip in here:

Please join this day of action if you can. 4-6pm #Worthing Hospital #peoplevspalantir

Amanda Blanc, CEO of Aviva, said 110,000 homes had been built in flood areas in the past 10 years, and if that continued, a further 115,000 new homes would be built in flood areas in the next decade. “That doesn’t seem to me to make sense. We need to think about where those homes are being built.”

Make your voice heard on the issue of pesticides! Help us get the dangerous herbicide glyphosate out of our gardens, parks, playgrounds and public spaces... www.gardenorganic.org.uk/get-involved...

Another terrible tragedy in the Channel. 😢 A 10-year-old child and two women died ⁠attempting ​to cross the Channel on Monday. Their deaths and the injuries of dozens of others in a large dinghy were probably caused by crushing, according to a French official. #safepassage #refugeeswelcome