It is idiotic to describe ULEZ as authoritarian. Sadiq Khan just won an election because Londoners decided ULEZ wasn’t the threat to freedom that right-wing commentators and Conservatives claimed.

I am afraid that Rishi Sunak needs to stop telling these fibs. Oil and natural gas from the North Sea is sold at international market rates. It does not cut consumer bills.

A stunning 2,000 year-old Roman emerald green glass bowl.

📷 The Met metmuseum.org/art/collection…

#Archaeology

#G7 Finance meeting ends in Stresa with the final Communiqué adopted g7italy.it/wp-content/upl…

While we wait for the G7 Summit on 13-15 June, what are we left with?

A 'fritto misto' (mixed bag) on #climate and #development : 🧵

The Octavia Hill Garden has won the People’s Choice award at #RHSChelsea . The seating is made from trees that came down in Storm Arwen. It features a new seedling grown from the Sycamore Gap tree. And it is lovely. Our founder believed in nature, beauty & history for everyone.

Brexit has defined, disrupted & frankly destroyed almost a decade of our public life in Britain. The consequences of that have been real - for people’s lives, the poisoning of public space, deprivation of opportunity & focus on real crises. Today, its architects simply slip away.

Why does Labour want to set up Great British Energy, a new publicly owned clean power company? 👇

Are humans part of ‘nature’? And does it matter? The current debate reminds me of similar battles over the term ‘rewilding’. It’s an interesting debate but in the end … 1/17

As those who follow me here already know, this past week I drove in a convoy that delivered ambulances to Ukraine. In this thread, I’d like to share some impressions from the very short time I spent in Lviv.

Offshore job losses ‘will hit 30,000’ without faster #energy transition

#Renewables transition in Scotland must be accelerated, and time is running out to implement solutions, academics have warned.

Greig Cameron bit.ly/4asVAJo

Beautiful article on how some very old style farming systems were great for nature -from a fabulous book by Sophie Yeo & how brings lessons to modern farming esp on mixed farming, smaller fields, rotations, cover crops etc..
#naturefriendlyfarming #organic
theguardian.com/environment/ar…

'Despite their bucolic image, Britain’s farms now emit more greenhouse gases than its power stations. They cause more river pollution than the country’s hated sewage companies'

Crikey

- on.ft.com/3WWNEgo via Financial Times

I’ve asked the #GE2024 candidates who want to be my next MP in #Wimbledon to back the Climate & Nature Bill. It’s our best hope of tackling the climate-nature crisis and building a more prosperous future for all. Will you join me? #CANBill Zero Hour action.zerohour.uk

There are huge inequalities in global CO2 emissions

Today's data insight is by Hannah Ritchie.

You can find all of our Data Insights on their dedicated feed: ourworldindata.org/data-insights

Meanwhile
1 Record high GHGs increasing at record rate
1 North India boils as temperatures near 50C
2 Thousands of heatstroke victims in Pakistan
3 Mexico reeling from heat dome, about to experience highest temperatures ever recorded
4 Supercharged record heat in Africa

#climate

SPECIAL REPORT: There’s fear and anger in some of Britain’s industrial heartlands as the drive to go green bears down on jobs and livelihoods. Our special coverage today on the Cost of Going Green. news.sky.com/story/weve-got…

India added an incredible 5 times more solar in the first quarter of 2024, compared to a year ago, or to the previous quarter - a record 10GW

That's 65% of the UK's entire installed solar capacity - in just 3 months!

Wow

mercomindia.com/india-record-s… #climate

Another day, another report saying achieving net zero is eminently affordable. businessgreen.com/news/4213981/d…

One of our most important launches this year for the banking sector #ClimateMitigationJourney #PRB #NZBA #GFANZ

Also, the public know that bills aren't high cos of green levies or lack of competition / transparency in energy market

(as some are seeking to claim)

they're high cos we rely on gas for 85% of home heating and 40% electricity generation

insulation, heat pumps, renewables🔑