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  1. chdot
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    The populist backlash against net zero around the world is imperilling the fight against climate breakdown and must be countered urgently or we face planetary destruction “beyond comprehension”, the US climate chief, John Kerry, has warned.

    He hit out at the rise of “disinformation” and “demagoguery” which he said were damaging the transition away from fossil fuels, and being used as tactics by special interests to delay action.

    “People are not being told the truth about what the impacts are from making this transition [to net zero greenhouse gas emissions],” he said. “They’re being scared, purposely frightened by the demagoguery that is oblivious to the facts or distorting the facts. And in some cases outright lying is going on.”

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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/28/populism-imperilling-global-fight-against-climate-breakdown-says-john-kerry

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  2. chdot
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    For the time being, bosses such as Bill Winters – the chief executive of London-headquartered Standard Chartered bank – will prove an anomaly. When asked during a media call whether UK bosses were paid enough to keep them from defecting, he said he was comfortable with his £7.8m package: “I made my choice a long time ago. I’m very happy to be sitting here in the UK. I’m very happy to be paid what I’m paid”.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/10/when-17m-isnt-enough-ftse-firms-plead-to-pay-bosses-millions-more

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  3. chdot
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    Shortly before COP26 in Glasgow, Sir David Attenborough remarked that the decisions policymakers will make this decade on climate change are “the most important in human history”.

    Unmitigated global warming will have catastrophic impacts on our natural environment and our economy. As a result, climate change is also one of the major risks facing our public finances. The Office for Budget Responsibility has warned that the costs of adapting to severe increases in global temperatures could see national debt spiralling to nearly three times the size of the UK economy by the end of the century

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    https://web.archive.org/web/20240311122706/https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/24172560.cost-climate-change-requires-frank-political-discussion/

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  4. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/12/swedish-police-forcibly-remove-greta-thunberg-parliament-climate-protest

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  5. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/12/what-does-sunaks-plan-for-new-gas-plants-mean-for-uk-climate-targets

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  6. chdot
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    Government has no credible plan for effects of extreme weather, says Committee on Climate Change

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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/13/uk-climate-crisis-plans-fall-far-short-of-what-is-required-ccc-says

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  7. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/13/failure-insulate-uk-homes-costing-thousands-of-lives-winter-cold-deaths

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  8. chdot
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    So when she came to the UK as a young woman in her 20s, she was amazed at the huge variety of sanitary products on offer, and even more shocked to find they contained so much plastic. This triggered her journey into developing and making her first set of underpants designed to completely absorb a period, that could be washed and reused repeatedly – and so WUKA was born.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001x52w

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  9. chdot
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    But the scheme – which requires companies to install a gradually increasing proportion of heat pumps compared with the number of gas boiler installations or face a financial penalty – was inaccurately described as a “boiler tax” by gas heating companies and their lobbyists. Some boiler companies put their prices up by £120, which they said was in reaction to the potential scheme, but which one government insider told the Guardian was unfair price “gouging”.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/14/government-delays-scheme-to-spur-take-up-of-heat-pumps-after-pressure-from-gas-lobbyists

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  10. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/15/no-compelling-examples-of-what-levelling-up-has-delivered-watchdog-finds

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  11. chdot
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    The East Lothian Question

    Scotland’s East Lothian District epitomises the UK’s struggle to secure clean, affordable heating. But by scaling our ambitions and learning from Denmark’s use of waste heat, we can embed sustainability into the fabric of our urban planning.

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    https://www.energiraven.com/heat-highways/

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  12. chdot
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    Restoring economic growth will be the central purpose of the next Labour government based on partnerships with business, she will say. “Once again, we have found ourselves in a moment of political turbulence and recurrent crises with the burden falling on the shoulders of working people; with at its root, a failure to deliver the supply-side reform needed to equip Britain to compete in a fast-changing world.”

    She will pitch her economic measures as being in line with large international bodies such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Monetary Fund, which have argued for reductions in inequality to boost growth.

    The annual Mais lecture has become a set-piece event for central bank governors, chancellors and prime ministers to set out their economic philosophy. In 2022, Rishi Sunak, then the chancellor, said he wanted to cut taxes “sustainably” and downgrade the role played by the state as an engine of growth.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/17/reeves-to-promise-decade-of-economic-renewal-if-labour-wins-power

    Back to the old normal then.

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  13. chdot
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    https://www.techtimes.com/articles/302536/20240313/scientists-achieve-groundbreaking-efficiency-thin-roll-printed-solar-cells.htm

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  14. chdot
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    Unlike the 1980s, growth in the years to come must be broad-based, inclusive and resilient, Reeves will say, driven by planning reform, strengthening devolution and a new industrial strategy. She will promise to create half a million jobs across the UK through a new national wealth fund that will invest in the “industries of the future”.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/18/treasury-growth-tax-spending-rachel-reeves-labour-election

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  15. LaidBack
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    https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scotlands-2030-emissions-target-now-beyond-what-is-credible-experts-say

    What we all know. Closure of Grangemouth will 'help'. But a lot of Scotland's approach seems to be to based on manufacturing decline. People still need jobs and only so many can come through tech and finance.

    Currently involved with a community garden. They are picking up blueberry plants at £3 each from a farm in Alyth. Owner getting out of that sector as Tesco brings blueberries from Peru and will not pay for Scottish grown fruit. Whole area decimated by Brexit causing lack of labour plus fewer export opportunities.

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  16. chdot
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    https://transform.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Transform-Scotland-Dirty-Deals-report-March-2024.pdf

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  17. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/20/emissions-connected-to-top-oil-and-gas-firms-may-cause-millions-of-heat-deaths-by-2100-study-finds

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  18. LaidBack
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    Guardian and National journalist Owen Jones has quit the Labour party to back the Green party in England.

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/24200154.owen-jones-quits-labour-party-endorses-greens-england/

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  19. chdot
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    I’m not surprised,” David Lis, with Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, said of my predicament. Once people discover that going electric is an option, most run headlong into the complexities. “Your experience of having to navigate a lot of market actors is a big barrier.”

    With each step, however, we became increasingly confident that decarbonization was possible. The question quickly became whether we were willing to bear the cost.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/21/decarbonizing-your-home-solar-heat-pump

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  20. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/21/fossil-fuel-companies-homicide-climate-deaths-lawsuit

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  21. chdot
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    So, let’s focus on the two or three areas that really matter when it comes to reducing climate emissions. The first, and highest, is domestic transport (which, contrary to the presumptions of the rich socialists in Stop Climate Chaos, does not include aviation; a relatively tiny source of emissions).

    The route map to solving this is through the decarbonisation of the private car, which requires pragmatism rather than activism. People will always own cars, especially in a country like Scotland whose land mass is largely rural and unserviced by public transport. Rather than trying to force people out of their cars (which is in shorthand the current government policy, but which really only works in our larger cities), the Government should be nudging them into battery electric vehicles.

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    https://web.archive.org/web/20240322075817/https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/24201615.net-zero-three-steps-scotland-can-take-reach-better-future/

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  22. neddie
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    Andy Maciver is Founding Director of Message Matters and Zero Matters

    Aye, follow the money back to the fossil fuel industry. What a shill!

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  23. neddie
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    blue hydrogen is produced from carbon captured by the oil and gas industry

    What nonsense. More disinformation from the fossil industry

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  24. chdot
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    https://commonweal.scot/submerged-in-leith

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  25. chdot
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    https://www.transporttimes.co.uk/news.php/Climate-crisis-Urban-transport-s-key-role-in-how-we-respond-714/

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  26. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/26/tone-deaf-fossil-gas-growth-in-europe-is-speeding-climate-crisis-say-activists

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  27. chdot
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    Global warming has slightly slowed the Earth’s rotation — and it could affect how we measure time.

    A study published Wednesday found that the melting of polar ice — an accelerating trend driven primarily by human-caused climate change — has caused the Earth to spin less quickly than it would otherwise.

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    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna145009

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  28. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/01/public-figures-urge-shell-to-drop-lawsuit-against-greenpeace

    Posted 3 weeks ago #

  29. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/just-57-companies-linked-to-80-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-since-2016

    Posted 3 weeks ago #

  30. neddie
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    Meanwhile, actor Brian Cox and airline JetBlue have launched a new campaign to help US-based acts and companies appear at the Fringe.

    The same Brian Cox that lives and works "between New York and London".

    Fundraising £350,000 for a campaign to encourage more flying between the US and the UK. Completely tone-deaf on climate!

    <Paywalled Scotsman article that I'm not linking to>

    Posted 3 weeks ago #

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