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Chantal Kerr-Sheppard 🌱🌍
@chantalks.bsky.social
Sustainability | Cyclist | Broadcaster | Climate Advocate 🌱🎙️

Helping people make smarter, sustainable choices. Sharing insights and solutions to make sustainability accessible, while engaging in conversations about climate change and its impacts.
Extreme weather, longer fire seasons, rising insurance costs.

Still think sustainability is a nice-to-have?

The cost of inaction is already hitting margins.
#ClimateRisk #BusinessResilience
April 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
💬 Communicating climate beyond the echo chamber is hard, but vital.

In this Greentruth podcast episode, Prof. @dabaden.bsky.social and I explore how stories shift minds where stats can’t.

How do you get sustainability to stick?

open.spotify.com/episode/1upB...

#ClimateComms #GreenTruthPodcast
They Don't Get Sustainability? Tell Stories
GreenTruth · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
💰 You think sustainability is expensive?

Try budgeting when resource shortages double material costs

From timber to water, climate change is disrupting supply chains. Businesses relying on scarce resources will struggle

Should companies be required to disclose climate risks?

#SustainableBusiness
April 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The most vital force in climate stability isn’t on land; it’s in the ocean.

David Attenborough’s new film OCEAN explores how this overlooked lifeline supports life on Earth & how we still have time to protect it. Can't wait to see it! 8th May 🌊
🎟️ oceanfilm.net
#OceanWithAttenborough #ClimateCrisis
Ocean with David Attenborough | Official Website | 8 May 2025
Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for Ocean with David Attenborough on the official site. In cinemas 8 May 2025 brought to you by Altitude Film. Directed by: Toby Nowlan, Colin Butfiel...
oceanfilm.net
April 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If you work in climate, politics, or just want to understand what global agreements really take, go see Kyoto

It’s fierce, funny, and painfully relevant. The kind of storytelling we need more of.

Playing Soho Place Theatre, London until 3 May 🎭

#ClimateStorytelling #KyotoPlay #ClimateAction #COP3
The most moving part? Seeing how nations with vastly different agendas did come to an agreement

It’s easy to feel cynical about global climate talks, especially in our current divided era, but this is a powerful reminder that unity is possible when urgency outweighs ego

#COPHistory #KyotoPlay
Kyoto puts you in the room where it happened: 11 hrs past the COP deadline, nations deadlocked, and fossil fuel lobbyists doing all they can to sink a deal.

Climate negotiations aren’t dull, they’re messy, human, political. This play nails it.

#Sustainability #ClimateDiplomacy #KyotoPlay
April 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The most moving part? Seeing how nations with vastly different agendas did come to an agreement

It’s easy to feel cynical about global climate talks, especially in our current divided era, but this is a powerful reminder that unity is possible when urgency outweighs ego

#COPHistory #KyotoPlay
Kyoto puts you in the room where it happened: 11 hrs past the COP deadline, nations deadlocked, and fossil fuel lobbyists doing all they can to sink a deal.

Climate negotiations aren’t dull, they’re messy, human, political. This play nails it.

#Sustainability #ClimateDiplomacy #KyotoPlay
Saw Kyoto at Soho Place Theatre last night: Tense, brilliant & painfully real. It captures the drama, division & surprising unity of the 1997 climate talks.

Ultimately, it gave me hope that so many countries can, in fact, agree on a global scale🌍
rsc.org.uk/kyoto

#ClimateAction #KyotoPlay
April 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Kyoto puts you in the room where it happened: 11 hrs past the COP deadline, nations deadlocked, and fossil fuel lobbyists doing all they can to sink a deal.

Climate negotiations aren’t dull, they’re messy, human, political. This play nails it.

#Sustainability #ClimateDiplomacy #KyotoPlay
Saw Kyoto at Soho Place Theatre last night: Tense, brilliant & painfully real. It captures the drama, division & surprising unity of the 1997 climate talks.

Ultimately, it gave me hope that so many countries can, in fact, agree on a global scale🌍
rsc.org.uk/kyoto

#ClimateAction #KyotoPlay
About the play | Kyoto | Royal Shakespeare Company
From the writers and directors of the universally-acclaimed The Jungle comes this pulse-pounding political drama.
rsc.org.uk
April 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Saw Kyoto at Soho Place Theatre last night: Tense, brilliant & painfully real. It captures the drama, division & surprising unity of the 1997 climate talks.

Ultimately, it gave me hope that so many countries can, in fact, agree on a global scale🌍
rsc.org.uk/kyoto

#ClimateAction #KyotoPlay
About the play | Kyoto | Royal Shakespeare Company
From the writers and directors of the universally-acclaimed The Jungle comes this pulse-pounding political drama.
rsc.org.uk
April 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Reposted by Chantal Kerr-Sheppard 🌱🌍
Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says

Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security

#netzero #cimatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says
Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
💰 Think sustainability is expensive?

🤔 Watch your margins shrink when climate risks drive up insurance costs

Extreme weather = rising premiums & policy exclusions. Companies tied to fossil fuels or resource-heavy industries will pay the price

How can businesses stay ahead? 🌍💸

#SustainableFinance
February 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Feel helpless, want an easy thing to do? Switch banks

Just FYI

💰 UK’s biggest banks are still fueling the climate crisis. Since the Paris Agreement, Barclays, HSBC, Santander, NatWest & Lloyds have invested $556 billion in fossil fuels- $55 billion in 2023 alone

#SustainableFinance #ClimateAction
February 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Our savings & pensions could be fueling deforestation & pollution. 😟 Switching to a sustainable pension provider redirects your money to green projects.

Don't know who to go to?
makemymoneymatter.co.uk/pensions/

@makemymoneymatter.bsky.social

#GreenSavings #Sustainability #SustainableFinance
Climate Action Report - Make My Money Matter
Make My Money Matter's 2024 Climate Action Report ranking the UK's biggest pension providers on their climate action. How does yours rank?
makemymoneymatter.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reposted by Chantal Kerr-Sheppard 🌱🌍
Good climate news this week (yes, there's lots)
1 China brakes own renewables in 2024, with solar and wind up 45% and 18%
2 EU’s solar and wind growth pushes fossil power to lowest in 40 years
3 Australia injects A$2 billion into its green bank
4 Italy's 2024 gas consumption lowest in 15 years

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January 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reposted by Chantal Kerr-Sheppard 🌱🌍
Historic: Record surge of clean energy and EVs in 2024 halted China’s CO2 rise

Next: Watch China's CO2 emissions begin their permanent decline within 1 to 3 years

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-rec...
January 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Where your business banks matters. 💰

Supporting banks that fuel climate change risks undermining your sustainability efforts.

You can make a switch to a fossil-free bank using MakeMyMoneyMatter’s guide. 🌍

Check it out: makemymoneymatter.co.uk/wp-content/u...

#SustainableFinance #ClimateAction
makemymoneymatter.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
A huge & easy sustainability switch we can all make —it's not cycling or a plant-based food 🌱 It's your savings account!

Did you know UK’s big banks provided $55bn to fossil fuels in 2023? Your money matters. Switch to a fossil-free bank & fund a greener future. 💚 #Sustainability #ClimateAction
January 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reposted by Chantal Kerr-Sheppard 🌱🌍
The PIK paper "The economic commitment of #climatechange" is 2024's 2nd most-featured climate paper in the media, per @carbonbrief.org! 🎉 Huge kudos to Maximilian Kotz, @leoniewenz.bsky.social & @alevermann.bsky.social for this achievement! 🥳👏
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the...
Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 - Carbon Brief
Thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles were published over 2024, helping shape online discourse around climate change.
www.carbonbrief.org
January 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Scientists are linking the wildfires in LA to climate “whiplash”— the rapid shifts between drought & heavy rain driven by a warming world. While #climatechange isn’t the direct cause, it’s a significant factor making fire weather more extreme & frequent

@mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social
bit.ly/4jpsYGH
Climate change: What role is it playing in the California fires
Experts say that rising global temperatures are making wild fires more likely in California.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It is brilliant, I might reference this next time I'm trying to explain the climate change problem in a short presentation.
I still think my attempt at #climate #scicomm holds up, many years after I created it, but my "call for action" is weak tea given the inaction of the past 15 years. youtu.be/85TQHzS88L4?...
The Carbon Crisis in 90 Seconds.
YouTube video by Peter Griffith
youtu.be
January 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by Chantal Kerr-Sheppard 🌱🌍
In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.

rdcu.be/dbFbB
Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative
Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.
www.nature.com
October 29, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Great to see Veganuary having a lasting impact on meat consumption! 🌱

But social pressures, limited comparable meat swaps & perceived inconvenience still make plant-based diets hard to maintain.

What do you think would make plant-based eating easier for more people?

#Sustainability #PlantBased
The Veganuary campaign, which encourages a plant-based diet in January, has successfully reduced meat consumption over the long term, with over 80% of participants reducing their intake to half or even more after six months.

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Does taking part in Veganuary put people off meat in the long term? Here’s what the evidence shows
In 2024, 25 million people gave up meat for Veganuary. For many, it was a lasting change.
theconversation.com
January 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Big tech funding $80M in carbon removal for paper mills & sewage plants—progress or patchwork? Retrofitting older industries is a step forward, but can these solutions scale fast enough to make a real dent in emissions? Systemic change still feels like the missing link.
🌍 #ClimateAction #NetZero
Google, H&M, Stripe and other members of the climate-focused Frontier coalition will buy $80 million of carbon credits from a firm using oil industry technology to capture paper mill emissions and another using rocks to do the same at sewage plants reut.rs/3ZJig4y
Climate tech firms get $80 million to pull carbon from paper mills, sewage plant
Google, H&M, Stripe and other members of the climate-focused Frontier coalition will buy $80 million of carbon credits from a firm using oil industry technology to capture paper mill emissions and another using rocks to do the same at sewage plants.
reut.rs
December 17, 2024 at 5:30 PM
As sustainability continues to rise on the global agenda, major events like SXSW London 2025 have an opportunity to set the stage for impactful change. How do you think large-scale gatherings can balance innovation, entertainment & environmental responsibility?

🌍 #Sustainability #SXSWLondon
December 16, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Reposted by Chantal Kerr-Sheppard 🌱🌍
Investing in nature-based solutions could create up to 32 million new jobs by 2030, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the UN Environment Programme.

www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Nature-based Solutions can generate up to 32 million new jobs by 2030, but investments in skills needed
Investing in nature-based solutions (NbS) could create up to 32 million new jobs by 2030. This is according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Union for ...
www.unep.org
December 9, 2024 at 6:40 AM
All valid points, it's a shame Vinted, Ebay and Depop aren't on here to respond. Right to return should be up there on the list of must-haves - personally, anything I've not received as satisfactory, I've had no problem returning.

But you're right about diseases - it hadn't occurred to me!
You don't have the same rights - can't return etc - and potential disease risks - clothes can harbour germs and bedbugs😖. Mitigated by buying from a brick & mortar 2nd hand shop but that drives the prices up and those businesses operate with low margins and are therefore few and far between.
December 4, 2024 at 1:08 PM