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/
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
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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...
Cherishing this rare moment of parliamentary sense...
BBC News - Airport expansion put climate goals at risk, MPs say - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Airport expansion put climate goals at risk, MPs say - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Airport expansion put climate goals at risk, MPs say
A committee of MPs says the government has not demonstrated if economic benefits from airport expansion outweigh climate impacts.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Cherishing this rare moment of parliamentary sense...
BBC News - Airport expansion put climate goals at risk, MPs say - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Airport expansion put climate goals at risk, MPs say - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Is AI going to worsen patterns of pollution and inequality?
Find out what the tech bros & big polluters are planning and what can be done about it. This Weds, 15th Oct at 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET. I'll be chairing some great speakers 👇
@responsiblesci.bsky.social
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Find out what the tech bros & big polluters are planning and what can be done about it. This Weds, 15th Oct at 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET. I'll be chairing some great speakers 👇
@responsiblesci.bsky.social
www.tickettailor.com/events/scien...
Reserve your free ticket – Polluter and cyber elites: A lethal alignment? – Zoom
Polluter and cyber elites: A lethal alignment? – Zoom, Wed 15 Oct 2025 - The 'cyber elite' - tech corporate leaders, such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos - are embracing many policies from the far right i...
www.tickettailor.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Is AI going to worsen patterns of pollution and inequality?
Find out what the tech bros & big polluters are planning and what can be done about it. This Weds, 15th Oct at 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET. I'll be chairing some great speakers 👇
@responsiblesci.bsky.social
www.tickettailor.com/events/scien...
Find out what the tech bros & big polluters are planning and what can be done about it. This Weds, 15th Oct at 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET. I'll be chairing some great speakers 👇
@responsiblesci.bsky.social
www.tickettailor.com/events/scien...
Again, the loaded language, Israelis are 'hostages', Palestinians 'prisoners' & 'detainees' (although many are held without trial or charge)
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
Hostages reunited with families as Trump greeted with cheers in Israeli parliament - follow live - BBC News
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
Hostages reunited with families as Trump greeted with cheers in Israeli parliament - follow live - BBC News
Hostages reunited with families as Trump greeted with cheers in Israeli parliament - follow live
Israel has also released almost 2,000 Palestinian detainees, with busloads greeted by huge crowds in the occupied West Bank.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Again, the loaded language, Israelis are 'hostages', Palestinians 'prisoners' & 'detainees' (although many are held without trial or charge)
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
Hostages reunited with families as Trump greeted with cheers in Israeli parliament - follow live - BBC News
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
Hostages reunited with families as Trump greeted with cheers in Israeli parliament - follow live - BBC News
Polluter and 'cyber' elites - is AI just going to worsen patterns of pollution and inequality?
Find out what the tech bros & big polluters are planning, next Weds 15th Oct at 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET. Its free with great speakers. 👇 👇 👇 @responsiblesci.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/scien...
Find out what the tech bros & big polluters are planning, next Weds 15th Oct at 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET. Its free with great speakers. 👇 👇 👇 @responsiblesci.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/scien...
Reserve your free ticket – Polluter and cyber elites: A lethal alignment? – Zoom
Polluter and cyber elites: A lethal alignment? – Zoom, Wed 15 Oct 2025 - The 'cyber elite' - tech corporate leaders, such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos - are embracing many policies from the far right i...
www.tickettailor.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Polluter and 'cyber' elites - is AI just going to worsen patterns of pollution and inequality?
Find out what the tech bros & big polluters are planning, next Weds 15th Oct at 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET. Its free with great speakers. 👇 👇 👇 @responsiblesci.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/scien...
Find out what the tech bros & big polluters are planning, next Weds 15th Oct at 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET. Its free with great speakers. 👇 👇 👇 @responsiblesci.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/scien...
"Abducted", surely, if this happened in international waters, not "detained", which suggests the exercise of legitimate authority...
BBC News - Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla and detains activists including Greta Thunberg
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla and detains activists including Greta Thunberg
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greta Thunberg among activists detained as Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla
South Africa and Turkey have criticised the incident in international waters. Israel says those on board are safe.
www.bbc.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"Abducted", surely, if this happened in international waters, not "detained", which suggests the exercise of legitimate authority...
BBC News - Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla and detains activists including Greta Thunberg
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla and detains activists including Greta Thunberg
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I think 'Storm Gatwick' has a better ring to it, in honour of the absurd & self-harming decision to expand the climate polluting airport...
BBC News - UK weather: Storm Amy named by Met Office as warnings issued for rain, wind - BBC Weather
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BBC News - UK weather: Storm Amy named by Met Office as warnings issued for rain, wind - BBC Weather
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
UK weather: Storm Amy named by Met Office as warnings issued for rain, wind
Simon King looks at what impacts Storm Amy, the first named storm of the season, will bring at the end of the week.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I think 'Storm Gatwick' has a better ring to it, in honour of the absurd & self-harming decision to expand the climate polluting airport...
BBC News - UK weather: Storm Amy named by Met Office as warnings issued for rain, wind - BBC Weather
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
BBC News - UK weather: Storm Amy named by Met Office as warnings issued for rain, wind - BBC Weather
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
Hear some of the best natural intelligence discuss the problems with the artificial kind at this year's online Responsible Science conference. @responsiblesci.bsky.social
New technologies are never neutral, what about the polluter & cyber elites?
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New technologies are never neutral, what about the polluter & cyber elites?
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🚨 We are excited to share our 2025 conference line-up:
Astrid Nilsson Lewis, Oxfam Sweden
Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR
James Parr, Trillium Technologies
Dr Simon Clark, Science communicator
Emily… | Scie...
🚨 We are excited to share our 2025 conference line-up:
Astrid Nilsson Lewis, Oxfam Sweden
Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR
James Parr, Trillium Technologies
Dr Simon Clark, Science communicator
Emily Ghosh, ...
www.linkedin.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Hear some of the best natural intelligence discuss the problems with the artificial kind at this year's online Responsible Science conference. @responsiblesci.bsky.social
New technologies are never neutral, what about the polluter & cyber elites?
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
New technologies are never neutral, what about the polluter & cyber elites?
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Athletes exposed to life-threatening weather extremes call for an end to sports sponsorship by climate polluters...
🚨BIG news 🚨
Climbing pioneers, rising talents and major orgs have signed an open letter urging climbing federations and other pro climbers to take a stand against polluting sponsorship. 🧵 1/7
Full story. 👇
Climbing pioneers, rising talents and major orgs have signed an open letter urging climbing federations and other pro climbers to take a stand against polluting sponsorship. 🧵 1/7
Full story. 👇
Pro Climbers Urge IFSC to Swear Off Fossil Fuel Ties
An open letter associated with the Cool Down network of sports for climate action asks the IFSC and climbers to swear off fossil fuel ties.
www.climbing.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Athletes exposed to life-threatening weather extremes call for an end to sports sponsorship by climate polluters...
How and why did the car industry push people to buy larger, more dangerous and polluting cars, just as the world needed the opposite? Today with some fabulous colleagues we're going to be talking about how to reverse car-spreading (or 'autobesity')
www.suv-alliance.org.uk/reversing-ca...
www.suv-alliance.org.uk/reversing-ca...
Reversing Carspreading Conference September 2025 — SUV Alliance
www.suv-alliance.org.uk
September 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
How and why did the car industry push people to buy larger, more dangerous and polluting cars, just as the world needed the opposite? Today with some fabulous colleagues we're going to be talking about how to reverse car-spreading (or 'autobesity')
www.suv-alliance.org.uk/reversing-ca...
www.suv-alliance.org.uk/reversing-ca...
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Amazing contribution from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social at the @fossiltreaty.bsky.social virtual summit. Grateful for her conviction that ‘the fossil fuel treaty is making the future liveable for humans & more than humans alike’. @suspol.bsky.social @sussexfss.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Amazing contribution from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social at the @fossiltreaty.bsky.social virtual summit. Grateful for her conviction that ‘the fossil fuel treaty is making the future liveable for humans & more than humans alike’. @suspol.bsky.social @sussexfss.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social
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Fascinating piece by @andrewsimms.bsky.social for @responsiblesci.bsky.social on the connections between arms control treaties & the origins of the campaign for a @fossilfueltreaty.bsky.social
www.sgr.org.uk/resources/ca...
www.sgr.org.uk/resources/ca...
Carbon disarmament: the rise of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
With oil majors abandoning climate targets and politicians friendly to their interests capturing power, Andrew Simms looks at how SGR’s campaigning history inadvertently sparked an idea, developed joi...
www.sgr.org.uk
September 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Fascinating piece by @andrewsimms.bsky.social for @responsiblesci.bsky.social on the connections between arms control treaties & the origins of the campaign for a @fossilfueltreaty.bsky.social
www.sgr.org.uk/resources/ca...
www.sgr.org.uk/resources/ca...
We asked the UK advertising watchdog, the ASA, to investigate its own ads for being misleading. Then, to use the universal language of clickbait, this happened (they said their own rules didn't apply to them)
@badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social
theecologist.org/2025/sep/09/...
@badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social
theecologist.org/2025/sep/09/...
The watchdog living beyond its rules
Advertising regulator in Britain asked to investigate its own adverts...
theecologist.org
September 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We asked the UK advertising watchdog, the ASA, to investigate its own ads for being misleading. Then, to use the universal language of clickbait, this happened (they said their own rules didn't apply to them)
@badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social
theecologist.org/2025/sep/09/...
@badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social
theecologist.org/2025/sep/09/...
‘Ad regulator asked to investigate its own ads’ To combat climate misinformation we need a regulator as strong as the ASA claims to be in its own ads, but they're seriously misleading, so we’ve asked them to investigate themselves @badvertising.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
UK advertising watchdog accused of breaking rules in its own ad campaign
Complaint lodged asks ASA to investigate claims made in promotion launched in conjunction with household brands
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
‘Ad regulator asked to investigate its own ads’ To combat climate misinformation we need a regulator as strong as the ASA claims to be in its own ads, but they're seriously misleading, so we’ve asked them to investigate themselves @badvertising.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
'Where there is no vision, the people perish,' and I don't just mean the future career prospects of the current Labour government. Here's an article based on my chapter, From climate emergency to national renewal, in new book, The Starmer Symptom, just published 👇🏼
theecologist.org/2025/aug/21/...
theecologist.org/2025/aug/21/...
From climate emergency to national renewal
Sir Keir Starmer has presided over a government that so far has failed to address the climate emergency and social inequality. This is the last chance for course correction.
theecologist.org
August 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
'Where there is no vision, the people perish,' and I don't just mean the future career prospects of the current Labour government. Here's an article based on my chapter, From climate emergency to national renewal, in new book, The Starmer Symptom, just published 👇🏼
theecologist.org/2025/aug/21/...
theecologist.org/2025/aug/21/...
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There's an "inherent bias in the carbon market structure where auditors are selected and paid by carbon project developers" finds @rishpardikar.bsky.social, diving into the flawed process that leads to dubious carbon credits.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
drilled.media/news/carbon-...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
drilled.media/news/carbon-...
New Research: The Inherent Conflict of Interest in Carbon Markets
The allure of “verified” carbon credits is obvious, but new research finds the verification process deeply flawed by the fact that auditors are hired and paid by project developers, creating a financi...
drilled.media
August 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
There's an "inherent bias in the carbon market structure where auditors are selected and paid by carbon project developers" finds @rishpardikar.bsky.social, diving into the flawed process that leads to dubious carbon credits.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
drilled.media/news/carbon-...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
drilled.media/news/carbon-...
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🚨 Out today: "The Starmer Symptom"
In a book documenting the precarious rise of Kier Starmer's Labour party, Badvertising's Andrew Simms outlines an alternative to the dead end of growth politics.
Here's an overview of the chapter. 🧵 1/6
@andrewsimms.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social
In a book documenting the precarious rise of Kier Starmer's Labour party, Badvertising's Andrew Simms outlines an alternative to the dead end of growth politics.
Here's an overview of the chapter. 🧵 1/6
@andrewsimms.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social
The Starmer Symptom
04.07.24: Fourteen years of Tory gross mismanagement of government, economy and society came to a crashing and well-deserved end. Keir Starmer's Labour gover...
www.plutobooks.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🚨 Out today: "The Starmer Symptom"
In a book documenting the precarious rise of Kier Starmer's Labour party, Badvertising's Andrew Simms outlines an alternative to the dead end of growth politics.
Here's an overview of the chapter. 🧵 1/6
@andrewsimms.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social
In a book documenting the precarious rise of Kier Starmer's Labour party, Badvertising's Andrew Simms outlines an alternative to the dead end of growth politics.
Here's an overview of the chapter. 🧵 1/6
@andrewsimms.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social
Bizarrely poor timing & deaf to the world of BBC Radio 4 to just promote an appeal for the Holocaust Memorial Trust that works on genocide education, and warns of not learning the lessons of the past, without even a passing mention to the genocide in Gaza happening now, in real time...
August 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Bizarrely poor timing & deaf to the world of BBC Radio 4 to just promote an appeal for the Holocaust Memorial Trust that works on genocide education, and warns of not learning the lessons of the past, without even a passing mention to the genocide in Gaza happening now, in real time...
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@peteknapp.bsky.social put this as succinctly as I've ever heard: flying is a past time of the rich, at the expense of the poor.
August 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
@peteknapp.bsky.social put this as succinctly as I've ever heard: flying is a past time of the rich, at the expense of the poor.
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🚨𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁!
Mathieu van der Poel has signed a sponsorship deal with Dutch private jet firm Flying Group.
This disappointing choice sadly reflects cycling’s wider sportswashing problem. 🧵 1/6
Mathieu van der Poel has signed a sponsorship deal with Dutch private jet firm Flying Group.
This disappointing choice sadly reflects cycling’s wider sportswashing problem. 🧵 1/6
'This partnership isn’t about luxury' – Mathieu van der Poel on the defensive following backlash over deal with private jet charter company
The average private jet flight in 2023 emitted two-thirds of the average EU citizen's total yearly emissions
www.cyclingnews.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🚨𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁!
Mathieu van der Poel has signed a sponsorship deal with Dutch private jet firm Flying Group.
This disappointing choice sadly reflects cycling’s wider sportswashing problem. 🧵 1/6
Mathieu van der Poel has signed a sponsorship deal with Dutch private jet firm Flying Group.
This disappointing choice sadly reflects cycling’s wider sportswashing problem. 🧵 1/6
Just as oil companies dig in & ditch green energy & climate targets, cleaner energy investments are now double those for oil, coal & gas - and the gap is widening. Dirty energy is kicking, screaming & sliding into history, we just have to stop it taking us down with it www.iea.org/reports/worl...
Executive summary – World Energy Investment 2025 – Analysis - IEA
World Energy Investment 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.
www.iea.org
August 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Just as oil companies dig in & ditch green energy & climate targets, cleaner energy investments are now double those for oil, coal & gas - and the gap is widening. Dirty energy is kicking, screaming & sliding into history, we just have to stop it taking us down with it www.iea.org/reports/worl...