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Ministers are also expected to confirm plans to encourage more drilling in the North Sea, including giving oil and gas companies incentives to drill in parts of the seabed which others have previously abandoned.
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Scotland's finance secretary has warned that the Chancellor is risking thousands of job losses by failing to lift the UK government's windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas producers.
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As well as promoting COP30 for the UN and the Brazilian government, Edelman also has contracts with big polluters such as Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and others (Eyes passim). Climate pressure group Clean Creatives gave Edelman the highest score on its Fossil Fuel Income Risk Exposure (FIRE) index - meaning the group is uniquely vulnerable to a shift away from fossil fuels.
An open letter by the group highlighting the conflicts of interest pointed out that "one key Edelman leader in Brazil is personally overseeing communications for both COP30 and Shell at the same time". Simultaneously promoting fossil fuels and the solution to fossil fuels? Nice work if you can get it!“
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Honestly, I've stopped reading anything about the COPs - it's complete joke of a meeting / organisation. Completely infiltrated and captured by the fossil fuel industry.
Time to nuke the whole thing from orbit and kill the fossil fuel industry in the background
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Prof Robert Reich, the co-founder of Inequality Media, warned: “The ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy.
“Billionaire media owners like [Elon] Musk, [Jeff] Bezos, [Larry] Ellison and [Rupert] Murdoch are businessmen first and foremost,” he said. “Their highest goal is not to inform the public but to make money.
“In an era when wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few individuals who have bought up key media there is a growing danger that the public will not be getting the truth it needs to function in this democracy,” said Reich.
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"“Billionaire media owners like [Elon] Musk, [Jeff] Bezos, [Larry] Ellison and [Rupert] Murdoch are businessmen first and foremost,” he said. “Their highest goal is not to inform the public but to make money"
I don't beleive this changed since print media started selling newspapers, it's just the names and delivery method that are different now.
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“I don't beleive this changed since print media started selling newspapers, it's just the names and delivery method that are different now.”
In outline yes, but the concentration of ownership has increased and internet based companies have/are using methods previously unavailable to spread disinformation, increase ‘engagement’ and ‘monetise’ in new ways.
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A host of eminent scientists have warned politicians, business and community leaders that the UK risks severe climate-related risks to its economy, public health, food systems and national security.
According to its organisers more than 1,000 corporate bosses, senior civil servants and civic leaders were set to assemble in the Methodist central hall in Westminster for the “first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing” on Thursday morning.
“This event is about resetting the national conversation, especially in the face of growing misinformation,” said Prof Mike Berners-Lee, the climate writer and pioneer in carbon footprinting, as he introduced the talks.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/27/limate-related-risks-uk-economy-security
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In the two years since the system was launched, beverage-packaging collection and recycling has risen to 94%
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The second spur has been the increasing number of apparent attacks on oil and gas pipelines, such as the Nord Stream attack in 2022, for which Germany has identified a Ukrainian suspect, and damage in 2023 to the Balticconnector pipeline between Finland and Estonia. Undersea power and internet cables are also crucial to the global economy. An underwater power cable between Finland and Estonia was hit last Christmas, two months after two telecommunications cables in Swedish waters in the Baltic Sea were cut.
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(Wars and ‘security’ have a big impact on climate and justice.)
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Paul Brown was the Guardian’s environment correspondent from 1989 until 2005 and has written many columns since. He submitted his last column last week after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. From his hospital bed in Luton, Paul offers his reflections on 45 years writing for the Guardian.
We, in the climate business, all owe a great deal to Mrs Margaret Thatcher. Her politics were anathema to me and to many Guardian readers. But she prided herself on being a scientist before she was a politician.
It was Thatcher’s inquiring mind that first demanded a scientific briefing about the dangers of the hole in the ozone layer, and subsequently on another even greater potential catastrophe, climate change. She was at the height of her influence on the international stage.
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It was clear from the beginning of my new job that Thatcher’s understanding of the science clashed with her ideology. Curbing the free market was not going to happen. Instead, she did what all politicians do – divert attention by creating something else. In this case, it was the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, to study the subject better. The centre is now one of our world-renowned institutions.
But this pattern of politicians learning the inconvenient truths of climate change and then falling short in the actions required to solve the problem has continued ever since. In fact, with the recent advent of blatant climate deniers, it has got far worse.
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The government subsidies are simply huge: a nuclear tax is being levied on hard pressed consumers. What is the government thinking of? The fossil fuel industry, which has thrown its weight behind nuclear power, is of course delighted; all these decades of new construction without any electricity to show for it gives at least another decade or two of unabated burning gas. It is no accident that Centrica invested in Sizewell C – after all, it is primarily a gas company. With Sizewell C likely to take 10 to 15 years to build, that is a lot of extra gas being burned and profits for shareholders.
But the biggest mystery is small modular reactors (SMRs), which are theoretically built in factories and put together on site, making them easier and cheaper to build. SMRs originally were defined as generating less than 300MW, about a third of the size of a traditional nuclear or gas station, but have now been redefined by Rolls-Royce to mean 470MW because even on the drawing board the company could not make the economics work.
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A landmark agreement has been signed at a Highlands summit to unlock “potentially billions of pounds of sustainable investment for communities across the region”.
The memorandum of understanding between Highland CIC, a not-for-profit organisation that believes the Highlands can be "a world leader in sustainable development", and the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet, focuses on bringing support for the Highlands to access grants, investment and expertise to "create world class community-led sustainable development".
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Airbus said in a statement that a recent incident involving an A320-family aircraft had revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.
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Water shortages could derail UK’s net zero plans, study finds
Tensions grow after research in England finds there may not be enough water for planned carbon capture and hydrogen projects
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But Kristofer Harrison, a senior foreign policy official under President George W Bush who now runs an anti-corruption organisation called the Dekleptocracy Project, is among those accusing the Trumps of operating a “pay to play” system that benefits those who do business with the president’s family. Such an approach could be manipulated, he said, especially by rival powers such as China. He said: “Trump has made authoritarians’ wildest dreams come true.”“
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Human-caused climate breakdown has increased the occurrence of the most intense and destructive tropical cyclones (though the overall number per year has not changed globally). This is because warming oceans provide more energy, producing stronger storms. Extreme rainfall is more common and more intense because of human-caused climate breakdown across most of the world,
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In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy it
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Meta is building a facility in Louisiana large enough to cover much of Manhattan. Google is reported to be planning a $6bn centre in India and is investing £1bn in an AI datacentre just north of London. Even a relatively modest Google AI factory planned in Essex is expected to emit the equivalent carbon footprint of 500 short-haul flights a week.
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In the past five years scamming, says Sims, has mutated from “small online fraud rings into an industrial-scale political economy”.
“In terms of gross GDP, it’s the dominant economic engine for the entire Mekong sub-region,” he says, “And that means that it’s one of the dominant – if not the dominant – political engine.”
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Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic pollution in 15 years – report
Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken
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In the most wide-ranging analysis of the global plastic system, the Pew Charitable Trusts, in collaboration with academics including at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, said plastic, a material once called revolutionary and modern, was now putting public health, world economies and the future of the planet at risk.
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A rural charity has pointed out there is is a “huge oversupply” of battery storage in the planning system and is calling for a moratorium on such projects.
A new report by Action to Protect Rural Scotland found that in Scotland there is “already four times more capacity in the planning pipeline than the maximum required by 2030”.
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Millions of pounds in landfill tax owed to the government has to be paid by the Environment Agency (EA) if it clears any of the thousands of illegal waste dumps across the country.
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The plan to include an ambitious heat network as part of the £1.3 billion-pound regeneration of Granton has been abandoned, The Inquirer can reveal.
The heat network pre-development partner appointed two years ago by the city council, Vattenfall Heat UK Ltd, has concluded that for a variety of factors it cannot make the proposed scheme economically viable.https://open.substack.com/pub/edinburghinquirer/p/showpiece-green-district-heating
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There is 'an ambitious' heat network in Clydebank, serving the college and the Queens Quay development on the site of the old shipyard. I visited it a couple of months back.
The energy centre that uses WSHPs (plus gas backup) is running only at about 10% capacity because they haven't built all the houses yet. Clearly they should switch it off because it's too expensive to run right now.
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The Power Shift:
Investigating Scotland’s Green Energy Boom Scotland is at the forefront of a green energy revolution, with wind farms, solar projects, and other renewable developments transforming landscapes and communities. But who really benefits from this shift – and who is being left behind?
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https://www.scottishbeacon.com/project/the-power-shift-investigating-scotlands-green-energy-boom/
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