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Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Pepsico named UK’s biggest packaging polluters
Surfers Against Sewage’s annual audit finds 12 companies responsible for 70% of branded pollution
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Dealing with Climate Change & Justice
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Dropping green pledges would be ‘political suicide’, Sunak and Starmer warned
Science and business leaders say lurch away from climate agenda after byelections would be deeply unpopular with voters and damage UK’s reputation
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/22/green-pledges-sunak-starmer-byelections
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Rhodes is burning
https://twitter.com/mrmatthewtodd/status/1682787296309903364?s=46
https://twitter.com/ianhall_cu/status/1682776683630174209?s=46
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Children calling out to their parents saying they “don’t want to die”
https://twitter.com/mrmatthewtodd/status/1682799080542552069?s=46
First-world climate refugees
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The depressing thing is ~80% of the replies on those are variations on "vandals did it" and "there have always been wildfires", with an occasional "WAAHRGARBLE LIZARDPEOPLE INVENTED THE CLIMATE LIE TO CONTROL US BUY CRYPTO MY AWAKENED BROTHERS" for spice.
We're doomed.
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Rishi Sunak says net zero strategy must be ‘proportional and pragmatic’
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That’ll work…
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Sunak & co have net zero policies on climate change. Zilch.
UK Gov will just do what airlines tell them anyway.
You know things are bad when adults are going to see a film about Barbie.
Displacement activity while Rhodes burns.
Race is on to plant trees faster than we can burn them.Depressing.
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Tories will ditch green policies to win voters ‘
Aston Martin exemption’ on the cards to help carmakers adapt to petrol ban
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Some summer reading for anyone thinking that further delaying action on net zero might be a good idea
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Gove says 2030 ‘immovable’ date to ban new petrol cars sales as MPs tell Sunak to halt ‘mixed signals’ on climate policy
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Neither the UK nor Scottish Government have passed any legislation that would ban the sale of new internal combustion engine cars. They have been talking about this for several years, but not actually done anything to bring it about.
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Labour should counter “absolutely unacceptable” and “ignorant” Conservative attacks on its climate policies by offering a cross-party consensus on climate action, to bring forward measures this parliament to meet net zero, the outgoing chair of the Climate Change Committee has urged.
Lord Deben, a former Tory environment secretary and minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, strongly criticised Grant Shapps and Suella Braverman, cabinet ministers who have led vitriolic attacks on Labour as “the political wing of Just Stop Oil”. He called on the government instead to heed the message of climate protesters.
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Gulf stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests
A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis
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This current is caused by wind patterns in the tropics (trade winds) and the mid-latitudes (westerlies), plus the Earth's rotation.
As long as the wind blows and the Earth rotates, the larger Gulf Stream ocean current is going to continue. There is zero chance it will collapse.
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Michael Gove is a “monster” if he continues to rubbish green policies while fully understanding the urgency of the climate crisis, and Grant Shapps, the energy and net zero secretary, is taking “backward steps”, Zac Goldsmith has said in his first major interview since leaving the government.
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Humza Yousaf has suggested he could weaken his government’s plans to penalise those with fossil fuel boilers under an overhaul of energy efficiency standards – pointing to the cost-of-living crisis.
The Herald on Sunday revealed that the Scottish Government’s Zero Carbon Buildings Minister, Patrick Harvie, is set to shake-up EPC ratings before requiring home-owners to meet certain standards at trigger points, such as the sale of a building, from 2025.
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He said: “Barring a major asteroid impact today, it is virtually certain that July 2023 will be the warmest month on record by a large margin. I personally find the magnitude of this record a bit stunning. We don’t see anything analogous in the historical record for the month of July.”
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Sunak now the drivers ‘ friend in attempt to win more votes?
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What bad urban leadership looks like. Anyone who truly understands how cities actually work, and why they succeed or fail, knows that this isn’t “motorists vs everyone else.” Designing cities for cars fails for everyone, including drivers.
https://twitter.com/brenttoderian/status/1685567205331939328?s=46
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Imagine being the guy who considers whether to pursue policies aimed at sustaining human life on earth or a quick headline - and going with the headline option.
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He appears to be going for the Truss option of ignoring the experts with disastrous consequences. At one time, the Conservatives prided themselves on being "sensible". This will do the UK's reputation no end of harm.
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The Guardian revealed in April that the UAE had the third biggest net-zero-busting plans for oil and gas expansion in the world. The leaked document, which highlights “increase in production capacity v climate ambition” as an issue, is understood to have been created after this date.
The key Cop28 messages include: “We need to reduce emissions in the systems we depend on today.” A former UN climate chief in May denounced as “dangerous” a focus only on emissions, rather than the burning of fossil fuels.
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