Andrew Simms
@andrewsimms.bsky.social
Political economist, campaigner & author. Co-author the original Green New Deal, devised Earth Overshoot Day & jointly, the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty. Co-director New Weather Inst, other roles: https://www.newweather.org/about-us/andrew-simms/
Ah, the annual festive burning of fossil fuels to ensure that, in future, there will be no snow at Christmas...
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UK’s roads and airports brace for busiest Christmas getaway on record
Transport groups warn of unprecedented congestion as commuters, shoppers and holidaymakers travel at once
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December 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Ah, the annual festive burning of fossil fuels to ensure that, in future, there will be no snow at Christmas...
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The deregulator wants to poison us
EU decisionmakers intent to scrap safety reviews for chemicals that are used for our food & drink
Chemicals that could cause cancer...🫥 So #BigBizz can market them more easily 🤯
Write to @ec.europa.eu! Stop the #FoodOmnibus
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EU decisionmakers intent to scrap safety reviews for chemicals that are used for our food & drink
Chemicals that could cause cancer...🫥 So #BigBizz can market them more easily 🤯
Write to @ec.europa.eu! Stop the #FoodOmnibus
friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The deregulator wants to poison us
EU decisionmakers intent to scrap safety reviews for chemicals that are used for our food & drink
Chemicals that could cause cancer...🫥 So #BigBizz can market them more easily 🤯
Write to @ec.europa.eu! Stop the #FoodOmnibus
friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
EU decisionmakers intent to scrap safety reviews for chemicals that are used for our food & drink
Chemicals that could cause cancer...🫥 So #BigBizz can market them more easily 🤯
Write to @ec.europa.eu! Stop the #FoodOmnibus
friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
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In a single generation we built the internet - an advance that has given us the ability to learn anything. 📖
But we still can't seem to learn that promoting polluters is self-destructive. 🤔
Read ‘We can’ from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
But we still can't seem to learn that promoting polluters is self-destructive. 🤔
Read ‘We can’ from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
In a single generation we built the internet - an advance that has given us the ability to learn anything. 📖
But we still can't seem to learn that promoting polluters is self-destructive. 🤔
Read ‘We can’ from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
But we still can't seem to learn that promoting polluters is self-destructive. 🤔
Read ‘We can’ from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
We can do such amazing things, why allow ads that promote pollution to undermine them...
Each year, human ingenuity cures some of the world’s most deadly diseases. 🧪
Yet when science tells us to stop polluting the planet, we continue to promote the industries responsible. 🤔
'We can', a new pamphlet by the Ministry for the Climate Emergency. 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
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Yet when science tells us to stop polluting the planet, we continue to promote the industries responsible. 🤔
'We can', a new pamphlet by the Ministry for the Climate Emergency. 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We can do such amazing things, why allow ads that promote pollution to undermine them...
This 👇🏼 why do we allow ads that promote pollution to undermine hard won human progress? The Ministry for the Climate Emergency asks the question...
🚨 Announcement from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 🚨
The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵
Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
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The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵
Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
A message from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇 1/3
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This 👇🏼 why do we allow ads that promote pollution to undermine hard won human progress? The Ministry for the Climate Emergency asks the question...
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👀🔥 It seems like sporting bodies are finally starting to understand the major risks the climate crisis poses to global athletes and fans alike.
🌍 Here's how some of the world’s biggest tournaments may need rescheduling...
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2025/1...
🌍 Here's how some of the world’s biggest tournaments may need rescheduling...
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2025/1...
December 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
👀🔥 It seems like sporting bodies are finally starting to understand the major risks the climate crisis poses to global athletes and fans alike.
🌍 Here's how some of the world’s biggest tournaments may need rescheduling...
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2025/1...
🌍 Here's how some of the world’s biggest tournaments may need rescheduling...
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2025/1...
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins Inaugural "Football Climate Impact Prize" 🏆
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins Inaugural "Football Climate Impact Prize" 🏆
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
Petty, stigmatising, performative politics that doubles as hard right mood music - the consequences in terms of feeding divisive racism is perfectly well understood by those responsible...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Petty, stigmatising, performative politics that doubles as hard right mood music - the consequences in terms of feeding divisive racism is perfectly well understood by those responsible...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Key point from the brilliant Prof @kevinclimate.bsky.social at the National Emergency Briefing, the UK's climate plans are based on the wildly untenable assumption that the country can have 3x its equitable share of the remaining global carbon budget for meeting the 1.5C guardrail.
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Key point from the brilliant Prof @kevinclimate.bsky.social at the National Emergency Briefing, the UK's climate plans are based on the wildly untenable assumption that the country can have 3x its equitable share of the remaining global carbon budget for meeting the 1.5C guardrail.
Chris Packham kicking off the #NationalEmergencyBriefing making the simple point that ignoring scientific advice on climate, as are current government, costs lives, and that disinformation from fossil fuel interests is one of the biggest problems...
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Chris Packham kicking off the #NationalEmergencyBriefing making the simple point that ignoring scientific advice on climate, as are current government, costs lives, and that disinformation from fossil fuel interests is one of the biggest problems...
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Towards a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF-NPT)
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@peternewell.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social 2019
#ParentsForFuture has stood behind @fossiltreaty.bsky.social since day one.
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@peternewell.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social 2019
#ParentsForFuture has stood behind @fossiltreaty.bsky.social since day one.
![Screenshot von zwei Twitter-Beiträgen aus 2019 zum Thema Klimapolitik und fossile Brennstoffe.
Der obere Beitrag stammt von „Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels...“ (10. Juli 2019) und fordert eine „Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF-NPT)“. Zitat: „[...] leave large swathes of remaining fossil fuels in the ground. Towards that end, we make the case for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF-NPT) to deal with emissions at source.“ Darunter ein Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2019.1636759
Der eingebettete Tweet darunter ist von „Peter Newell“ (08. Juli 2019) und kündigt einen neuen Artikel in *Climate Policy* an: „New article just published in Climate Policy on the need for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Towards a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2019.1636759 ...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vb4q6gkecpq2rx2d6rrpbqio/bafkreifihca7lzcayaxqircrwffenlsw6n3qa4rjg6ixncmeltaftrjneu@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Towards a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF-NPT)
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@peternewell.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social 2019
#ParentsForFuture has stood behind @fossiltreaty.bsky.social since day one.
▶️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@peternewell.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social 2019
#ParentsForFuture has stood behind @fossiltreaty.bsky.social since day one.
More to do, but here's positive movement. And when ads promoting pollution are inevitably ended on public transport, we'll wonder why they were ever allowed 👇👇👇
🚨 Campaign win! 🚨
Mayor Sadiq Khan pledges to review Transport for London's ad policy on polluter ads. 🎉
Here is the brilliant Caroline Russell's question for the Mayor along with his commitment.
Scroll on for other key moments from Mayor's Question Time. 🧵 1/7
@carolinerussell.bsky.social
Mayor Sadiq Khan pledges to review Transport for London's ad policy on polluter ads. 🎉
Here is the brilliant Caroline Russell's question for the Mayor along with his commitment.
Scroll on for other key moments from Mayor's Question Time. 🧵 1/7
@carolinerussell.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
More to do, but here's positive movement. And when ads promoting pollution are inevitably ended on public transport, we'll wonder why they were ever allowed 👇👇👇
Tomorrow the Mayor of London will be questioned on getting London's transport system to drop ads that promote air pollution - please add your voice asking him to do the right thing - takes 30 seconds 👇👇👇
Of the world's major cities, London has the highest levels of air pollution.
Yet the city's sprawling public transport network continues to promote the very industries threatening Londoner health.
✍️ Call on Mayor Sadiq Khan to implement an ad ban: actionnetwork.org/letters/ba2d...
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Yet the city's sprawling public transport network continues to promote the very industries threatening Londoner health.
✍️ Call on Mayor Sadiq Khan to implement an ad ban: actionnetwork.org/letters/ba2d...
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Time to end adverts for polluting products on Transport for London sites
I've written to the London Mayor calling for an end to advertising for polluting products on Transport for London sites. You can email the Mayor here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/time-to-end-adv...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Tomorrow the Mayor of London will be questioned on getting London's transport system to drop ads that promote air pollution - please add your voice asking him to do the right thing - takes 30 seconds 👇👇👇
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🚆 In 2019 Transport for London introduced a ban on junk food advertising.
Despite facing fierce lobbying, Sadiq Khan pushed ahead with the ban to protect public health. 🍎
So - why are harmful polluting industries still able to advertise across London? 🧐 🧵 1/5
Despite facing fierce lobbying, Sadiq Khan pushed ahead with the ban to protect public health. 🍎
So - why are harmful polluting industries still able to advertise across London? 🧐 🧵 1/5
Fossil Ads — Badvertising
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November 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🚆 In 2019 Transport for London introduced a ban on junk food advertising.
Despite facing fierce lobbying, Sadiq Khan pushed ahead with the ban to protect public health. 🍎
So - why are harmful polluting industries still able to advertise across London? 🧐 🧵 1/5
Despite facing fierce lobbying, Sadiq Khan pushed ahead with the ban to protect public health. 🍎
So - why are harmful polluting industries still able to advertise across London? 🧐 🧵 1/5
Let's be clear: what's dividing the country is not illegal immigration, it is politicians exploiting the issue of migration for political positioning, power plays and their own gain. Whether that's Reform, the Tories or the Labour Home Secretary. And...
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Let's be clear: what's dividing the country is not illegal immigration, it is politicians exploiting the issue of migration for political positioning, power plays and their own gain. Whether that's Reform, the Tories or the Labour Home Secretary. And...
One more time - wouldn't it help if we stopped actively promoting the pollution from frequent flights, massive SUVs & oil companies, with a fossil ad ban? 🤔
BBC News - Fossil fuel emissions rise again - but renewables boom offers hope for climate - BBC News
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BBC News - Fossil fuel emissions rise again - but renewables boom offers hope for climate - BBC News
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Fossil fuel emissions rise again - but renewables boom offers hope for climate
Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels are forecast to reach a new high in 2025 but could soon peak.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
One more time - wouldn't it help if we stopped actively promoting the pollution from frequent flights, massive SUVs & oil companies, with a fossil ad ban? 🤔
BBC News - Fossil fuel emissions rise again - but renewables boom offers hope for climate - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Fossil fuel emissions rise again - but renewables boom offers hope for climate - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Times picks up on the @badvertising.bsky.social London transport campaign to stop polluting ads from undermining action on clean air and climate in the city link.thetimes.co.uk/view/62e2a8a...
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Times picks up on the @badvertising.bsky.social London transport campaign to stop polluting ads from undermining action on clean air and climate in the city link.thetimes.co.uk/view/62e2a8a...
One day soon it will seem very weird that we ever allowed ads promoting pollution in the middle of a health & climate crisis 👇
🌍 What do global cities such as Amsterdam, Stockholm and Edinburgh all have in common?
These major cities have ALL banned fossil fuel adverts. These ads have massive climate and health impacts, all while targeting politically influential decision makers.
These major cities have ALL banned fossil fuel adverts. These ads have massive climate and health impacts, all while targeting politically influential decision makers.
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
One day soon it will seem very weird that we ever allowed ads promoting pollution in the middle of a health & climate crisis 👇
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🤡OIL DEMAND WILL KEEP RISING🤡
What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?
What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?
November 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
🤡OIL DEMAND WILL KEEP RISING🤡
What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?
What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?
Genocide, the extended remix...
'Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire'
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'Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire'
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Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Genocide, the extended remix...
'Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Here's the Guardian picking up on our new research revealing that UK newspapers carried 3x more 'high carbon' ads for big polluters than coverage of the climate talks at last year's COP29... the big story is drowned out by promotion of pollution-as-usual
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30 live: crucial climate talks begin in Brazil as hosts insist summit must lead to ‘implementation’
Ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries have gathered in the Amazonian city of Belem, with Brazil insisting this will be “the Cop of implementation”.
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Here's the Guardian picking up on our new research revealing that UK newspapers carried 3x more 'high carbon' ads for big polluters than coverage of the climate talks at last year's COP29... the big story is drowned out by promotion of pollution-as-usual
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
If we were serious about clean air and climate action - we wouldn't allow ads that promote pollution - that's why we've done this 👇
BREAKING! 🚨
📢 We’ve taken over the ad space at Southwark tube station, calling on the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to end adverts that promote pollution. 🧵 1/8
✍️ Use our template to write to the Mayor: actionnetwork.org/letters/time...
📢 We’ve taken over the ad space at Southwark tube station, calling on the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to end adverts that promote pollution. 🧵 1/8
✍️ Use our template to write to the Mayor: actionnetwork.org/letters/time...
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
If we were serious about clean air and climate action - we wouldn't allow ads that promote pollution - that's why we've done this 👇
Ever wonder why climate action doesn't happen? The noise from pollution-as-usual (PAU) drowns the message out... Its bonkers that we still allow ads that actively promote the pollution that kills people and wrecks the climate 👇🏼
The COP29 talks took up 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 of all editorial space in the leading 10 UK newspapers during the two days when the issue was highest on the international news agenda. 🙃 3/8
UK Newspapers Publish More Ads for Polluting Products than Climate Coverage
British national newspapers devoted more than triple the space to advertising polluting industries such as oil, airlines and sports utility vehicles than they did to covering last year’s U.N. climate ...
www.desmog.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Ever wonder why climate action doesn't happen? The noise from pollution-as-usual (PAU) drowns the message out... Its bonkers that we still allow ads that actively promote the pollution that kills people and wrecks the climate 👇🏼
Hint... it was global heating, not the butler
BBC News - Rapid Antarctic glacier retreat sparks scientific 'whodunnit' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Rapid Antarctic glacier retreat sparks scientific 'whodunnit' - BBC News
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Rapid Antarctic glacier retreat sparks scientific 'whodunnit'
A new study suggests that changes to Hektoria Glacier are unprecedented - but not all scientists agree.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Hint... it was global heating, not the butler
BBC News - Rapid Antarctic glacier retreat sparks scientific 'whodunnit' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Rapid Antarctic glacier retreat sparks scientific 'whodunnit' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...