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Claire Potter
@clairepotter.bsky.social
🌐 circular economy designer + researcher + associate professor of design + circular economy + head of University of Sussex Product Design
🟥 Design Council Expert
🌍 ECOS Expert
📖 author
🌊 ocean plastic nerd + policy writer
🏋🏻‍♀️ Crossfit + martial arts
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‘Rising star’: Europe made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024
‘Rising star’: Europe made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024
Report reveals solar power generated 11% of Europe’s electricity, surpassing coal at 10% Europe made more electricity from sunshine than coal last year, a report has found, in what analysts called a “milestone” for the clean energy transition. Solar…
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Brilliant day launching EN17988 - Circular Design of Fishing Gear at the stakeholder event in DG Mare, Brussels! It took us 4 years but we got there! Well done team. Very proud to be part of TC466 #circulareconomy #marineplastic
November 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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“Some plastics can take up to one thousand years to decompose. Even then, they break down into ever smaller particles that persist, pervade and pollute.”

At #INC5 opening, @ingerandersen.bsky.social called for urgent action to deliver a #PlasticsTreaty to end pollution: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
November 25, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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I can sum up the latest from #Cop29 in a word: confusion

Liveblog will let you know what is happening when we do 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop29: carbon trading rules approved as talks overrun into the night
Deal paves the way for country-to-country carbon trading and creation of regulated global market to meet Paris targets
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Well hello Blue Sky 🦋
November 20, 2024 at 4:44 PM