The transport sector is the main reason why I've been sceptical about green growth, but perhaps the rising economies in the south can work with it better than we have.

theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

Recommended read: A long-read in the Brazilian culture magazine @revistapiaui.bsky.social examined the fraught road that the nation faces to host the next UN climate summit in November.

EU environmental law: agreement on new law on use of plastic pellets
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

@davidallengreen.bsky.social with America there is something most commentators miss.

For decades they’ve wondered why institutions in many European nations struggled with poor productivity and complicated bureaucracy

We were told that American culture is more fundamentally more efficient

@sturdyalex.bsky.social why don’t those workers stand their ground ? Seems resigning and then letting a toddler take over their job role isn’t much better than having done what DOGE asked of them.

@vivamjm.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

Brexit means Welsh government will now have to pay £40 million pounds a year for 30 years

Just for a tiny section of this road, because the EU money used to fund the other sections was no longer available since Brexit

£2 billion in total

@vivamjm.bsky.social comms around Brexit changes are a mess.

Eu/Uk/Irish Gov and Ferry companies websites fail to say you need to do tapeworm when entering Ire from UK

We had people in customs who had paid UK vet to do the needed medicine who’s vet didn’t even know about the tapeworm

Shocking

@vivamjm.bsky.social pacific trade partnership deal starts in U.K. tommorow making it much harder to rejoin

@vivamjm.bsky.social visited the U.K. last month. Latest Brexit denial is Premier Inn blaming lack of orange juice on “global shortages” when reality is their unwillingness to pay. Same as when you hear “unexpectedly high call volume”

Good work Egypt 🇪🇬

@sturdyalex.bsky.social could this be the latest sign of a shift in policy by Labour. Lived in Portugal for 5 years, most I ever saw U.K. government drum trade was at tech events or film festivals (your guess as good as mine)

This year they decided to promote lamb at the supermarkets

Something I haven’t seen a lot of discussion about on blue sky is how does it prevent impersonation amongst high profile people. It looks like they have already reserved the usernames of people such as the president of Ukraine, smart!