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🎉 A rare bit of good news for your Saturday. And it's not just hot air...
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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Labour to subsidise heat pumps that can cool your home in summer
Smaller air-to-air heat pumps will be brought into the government’s clean heating subsidy programme for the first time, with householders able to get £2,500 off
www.thetimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
🔥 Scientists say a heatwave at 1.5C of warming could take deaths in Europe over 17K in one week!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⚠️ Labour can't rest on their laurels, they must make deep emissions cuts, fast.

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Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature Climate Change
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. Th...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If you slow down, other people overtake you. Labour's backsliding means the UK is no longer leading the world in cutting CO2.

Maybe Labour should be copying Denmark's climate plan, not their immigration policy.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
UK Overtaken by Denmark as World’s Most Ambitious Country on Climate
The UK is no longer the most ambitious nation in the world when it comes to cutting CO2 emissions in the fight against climate change over the next decade.
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🌴 Colombia's environment minister on the importance of the tropical forests fund at #COP30:
backchannel1.substack.com/p/its-crunch...

😡 This is the fund Keir Starmer refused to sign the UK up to.

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It’s crunch time for the Forest COP - will we let them burn?
We must sustain the momentum on forest finance and a roadmap to secure their future at COP30.
backchannel1.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Last week #KickBigPollutersOut revealed that 1,600+ fossil fuel lobbyist have been representing the interests of oil and gas at #COP30

Now we find they were joined by 300 lobbyists from big agricultural - an industry that produces up to a third of emissions.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds
Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Killer heatwaves for 1,000 years if we decarbonise now, unthinkable ones if we don't.

The fact there is even a debate about fossil fuel phaseout at COP is farcical. Or evidence of corporate capture.

#COP30

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Damned if we do but completely stuffed if we don’t’: heatwaves will worsen longer net zero is delayed
A new study suggests heatwaves will not revert back towards preindustrial conditions for at least 1,000 years after emissions target reached
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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‘Severe and widespread’ flooding in South Wales after Storm Claudia

www.channel4.com/news/severe-...
‘Severe and widespread’ flooding in South Wales after Storm Claudia
A major incident has been declared in Monmouth after Storm Claudia triggered ‘severe and widespread’ flooding.
www.channel4.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
🗳️ According to YouGov polling from this week, 60% of Britons support net zero, while only 25% oppose it.

💸 This government could boost its abysmal polling with policies which slash bills and cut emissions.

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November 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
😡 Removing heat pump subsidies from hundreds of thousands, what an utter betrayal of everything Labour promised.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🗳️ Tell the government policies like this will cost them your vote.

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Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: Supporters say grants largely going to middle-class households, but experts warn move will slow transition from gas boilers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📈 Countries' new climate plans submitted during #COP30 have made no difference to projected temperature rises of 2.6C
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🗯️ Labour must stop the in-fighting & focus on the things that really matter.

✅ Make it an election issue: VoteClimate.uk/register
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The images of Indigenous demonstrators forced to break in to the conference centre while the likes of BP and Shell are literally allowed to SIT IN ON NEGOTIATIONS shows just how 'inclusive' #COP30 is.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🌎 Can't get enough COP?!

📰 We'll be sending out a special, #COP30 edition of our email newsletter tomorrow!

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Image: UNEP
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This chart from @carbonbrief.org shows the HUGE gap between countries' current policy & pledges, and what is needed to reach 1.5C or even 2C of warming

As a self-styled 'climate leader' the UK should be pushing for bold action at #COP30

Tell Labour your vote depends on it: VoteClimate.uk/register
November 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Let's kick off #COP30 with a good news story.

Last year, Brazil's emissions fell by 16%, thanks to a slowdown in deforestation under Lula.

Climate action is a matter of political will. We hope world leaders remember that as they gather in Belém.

www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
Brazil records biggest annual fall in emissions in 15 years, notably thanks to fight against deforestation
The gross emissions of Latin America's biggest country fell by 16.7% year-on-year, according to Brazil's Climate Observatory, a network of environmental NGOs.
www.lemonde.fr
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Developers allowed to lobby ministers while ecologists kept out?

Now there's a surprise 😡

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out
Exclusive: Leading ecologists say warnings over threat to wildlife have been ignored in drive to build 1.5m new homes
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
💦 The water crisis will get worse every year as the climate destabilises.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚰 If we want to have enough water to drink, emissions must come down fast.

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England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
⚡️ Free solar electricity for 3 hours a day!
www.reuters.com/business/ene...

💸 A great way to show the public green policies can save us all money. Are you listening, Keir and Ed?

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Australia to offer three hours free solar per day to millions
Australia will offer at least three hours of free solar power every day to households including those without solar panels under an energy-saving programme that is expected to go live in 2026, energy minister Chris Bowen said on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
1.5 is still alive... just.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It's now or never.

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Still a chance to return to 1.5C climate goal, researchers say
Report calls for scaling-up of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors to limit peak of global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
🌩️ 26+ dead, thousands evacuated. And 5 more storms could hit this year.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

🌏 Countries like the Philippines suffer because Western nations industrialised first.

✅ Just one reason to demand that Labour slash emissions faster: voteclimate.uk/register
Typhoon Kalmaegi kills 26 as it slams into central Philippines
Residents seek refuge on rooftops, and cars float through flooded streets on the island of Cebu.
aljazeera.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🌳 So Britain is one of the world's least nature-connected nations.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🤔 Is this why Labour are forcing through their disastrous Planning Bill, which could decimate nature?

✅ Tell Starmer you won't back an ecocidal government: voteclimate.uk/register
Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most
Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The UK government’s climate plan has been published! Will Keir Starmer deliver for the UK public or pander to climate sceptics and the fossil fuel industry?

We’re currently making our way through hundreds of pages of documents, but here’s our quick take 👇
October 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Jamaica is about to endure the most powerful hurricane ever to make landfall on the island.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

It's not right that Caribbean nations should pay the price for industrialisation.

Just one of many reasons why Labour must slash emissions fast.
Hurricane Melissa: Where and when will it make landfall in Jamaica?
Melissa has strengthened into a major Category 5 storm. Here's what that means.
www.aljazeera.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If OFCOM won't enforce the rule, the government should make them.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If 'journalists' are allowed to spout such flagrant lies without consequence, what hope do we have?
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Too right airport expansion threatens climate goals!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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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 7:28 AM
🤑 No bank has committed to fossil fuel divestment. In fact, many have recently weakened their climate policies.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

💸 If banks won't divest, the government should make them.

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No major banks have yet committed to stop funding new oil, gas and coal, research finds
‘The objectives of the Paris agreement are slipping further out of reach,’ say researchers from LSE
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM