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NEW - Developed countries spend over TEN TIMES more on their military than on climate finance for developing countries.
£1,242bn military spending in 2022
£97bn est. climate finance in 2022
Chart by @tomoprater
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Watched last night's @BBCPanorama show on #ElectricVehicles
Given some recent 'non-fact based' interventions (I'm looking at you Mr Bean), I was wearily concerned it'd repeat some of the same old points
Happily it was fairly balanced - but felt it missed a few things. A thread
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We can now confirm that 2022 was the UK’s hottest year on record & the first time the average annual temperature has been over 10°C
An attribution study has also shown climate change made this around 160 times more likely
Read more in our news release and thread 👇
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Good journalism is expensive. Please help us do more of it by supporting @thecontinent's end-of-year fundraiser. All funds raised go directly into African journalism.
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Of course voluntary efforts to reduce emissions can have an impact.
But our fixation on carbon footprints is distracting from the desperate need for serious government policy, which is where the real action must happen.
My column for @FTMag:
ft.com/content/7135e4d8-96ec…
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Will it really hit 40 C within the next week? ☀️🥵
Here's Alex with an explanation of whether or not we think it's likely to happen 👇
Really important piece on the reality of heat impacts on people. Also important to consider the chronic exposure to these levels of heat during the day and at night, wrote about this with colleagues while at @GRI_LSE here: lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/…
"The problem is, many of the options to make the heat more tolerable involve either somebody else’s sweat or burning more fossil fuels." –– Sapna Verma v/ @ClimateHome
climatechangenews.com/2022/0…
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Can you save the planet from climate change? xitter.cf/i/events/1517041168089…
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Great opportunity for climate journalists.
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#ClimateChange is a grave and mounting threat to our wellbeing and a healthy planet. Our actions today will shape how people adapt and nature responds to
increasing climate risks:
New @IPCC_CH #ClimateReport
bit.ly/3voqLVa
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WFH saves employees about 70 minutes a day on average. Most (about 60 minutes) from no commute, and the rest (about 10 minutes) from less preparation in the morning. About 1/2 of this saved time goes to working more and 1/2 to leisure/tasks, so employers and employees benefit.
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#energy The term "cost of capital" is repeated everywhere in the energy transition debate. WHY? Because a move to + investment in clean energy is also a move to investment in assets that are very capital intensive. (1/12)
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A historic day for conservation in Ecuador 🇪🇨. The @CorteConstEcu ruled that mining in Los Cedros Protected Forest constitutes a violation of the rights of nature, setting a significant precedent. @WWFEcuador
theguardian.com/environment/…
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It's time the Help to Buy and Lifetime ISA max house purchase limits were raised from £250,000 and £450,000.
House prices have increased so much recently many can no longer buy the property they were saving for.
RT if you agree, to spread word.
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The Chinese Embassy in South Africa has confirmed in correspondence with Fossil Free SA that China will not be funding the proposed 3GW power plant in the Limpopo MM-SEZ fossilfreesa.org.za/2021/11/…
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A moment in history
The Glasgow Climate Pact is agreed
#COP26 | #TogetherForOurPlanet
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Excited that, among other things, it will become illegal in the UK to use forest risk commodities that have been produced on illegally deforested land. First legislaton of its type. @tfa_Global @ZacGoldsmith
A momentous day - Royal Assent granted by HM to the Environment Act 2021. After a remarkable 2 year passage thr Parliament we have a ground breaking framework for a sustainable future. Huge thx to ALL involved - truly honoured to have been a part of this
@DefraGovUK @ZacGoldsmith
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Under a Binface government, any company that advertises for Christmas in October will be nationalised, liquidated and destroyed within the first 100 days. #GBBO