Mandi Bissett
mandibissett.bsky.social
Mandi Bissett
@mandibissett.bsky.social
ACCESS Network Leadership College Fellow | Independent researcher - environmental social science, geoengineering, radical climate action |
Co-Director of https://socollective.org.uk Co-production, community, culture
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2 related bits of news:
- Deliveries (not just purchases) of durable carbon removal credits to hit 1m by end of 2025
www.newscientist.com/article/2482...
- Biggest buyer of ☝️ is Microsoft - emissions up by 23.4% since 2020.
www.microsoft.com/en-us/corpor...
Carbon Markets are not a climate solution
2025 Environmental Sustainability Report | Microsoft
Read the annual sustainability report from Microsoft. Explore our progress to become a carbon negative, water positive and zero waste company.
www.microsoft.com
2 related bits of news:
- Deliveries (not just purchases) of durable carbon removal credits to hit 1m by end of 2025
www.newscientist.com/article/2482...
- Biggest buyer of ☝️ is Microsoft - emissions up by 23.4% since 2020.
www.microsoft.com/en-us/corpor...
Carbon Markets are not a climate solution
2025 Environmental Sustainability Report | Microsoft
Read the annual sustainability report from Microsoft. Explore our progress to become a carbon negative, water positive and zero waste company.
www.microsoft.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Loving Icelandic journalism - digging deep into carbon removal claims and finding them wanting

heimildin.is/grein/24581/... $bn DAC company Climeworks can't cover own emissions
heimildin.is/grein/22132/... marine CDR company Running Tide not sequestering any carbon - they closed in June 2024
Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions
The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – wh...
heimildin.is
May 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Reposted by Mandi Bissett
Is it hot right now in the UK?

New interactive website allowing anyone to explore live temperatures hour-by-hour across the UK, and whether they are cool, warm or hot relative to normal.

istheukhotrightnow.com

Built by @roostweather.bsky.social.
May 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Reposted by Mandi Bissett
This week's Substack about bullshit-based climate pathways.

"You can be science-based and talk about cumulative emissions and future warming but you do not get to use science to prop up the most fatuous speculation about carbon removal."

open.substack.com/pub/jamesdyk...
The Dangerous Lie of ‘Science-Based’ Climate Action
The plan this week was to talk about climate doomism - the argument that the collapse of industrialised civilisation is now unavoidable.
open.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
May 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“For the first time in history, a higher court in Europe has ruled that large emitters can be held responsible for the consequences of their greenhouse gas emissions”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/c...
German Court Dismisses a Climate Suit but Opens the Door to Future Cases
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM