Jane Vaus
janeyv.bsky.social
Jane Vaus
@janeyv.bsky.social
Project Director: sustainability hub @sustainhub2024
Director @PRASEG
Passionate admirer of pigs 🐖
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🔶 🗳️ Voting opens today in the Lib Dem Federal elections. I am standing for Federal Board and Federal Policy Committee. Please find my manifestos, along with others from Liberal Voice for Women here and don't forget to vote if you are Lib Dem! 👉 liberalvoiceforwomen.org/blog/federal...
Internal Elections: Help us Rebalance the Lib Dems! — Liberal Voice for Women
Voting opens in the triennial Federal Elections at 1pm on Tuesday 28th October. Liberal Voice for Women is standing a strong slate of candidates who will be focused on responsible governance, sound ...
liberalvoiceforwomen.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Next, @samalvis.bsky.social, associate director at @ippr.bsky.social provides some perspective on why the govt may be acting how they are.

Sam discusses how they need the private sector on board to make the investment the government can't do itself.
February 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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🔥 And even *Conservative* MPs AND peers are now telling govt to agree a youth mobility scheme…

Lord Kirkhope, David Simmonds MP, Sir Roger Gale MP and Stephen Hammond (ex Chairman of Conservatives) all tell Starmer to go for a youth mobility scheme.
Post-Brexit youth mobility scheme should be UK priority Starmer told ahead of EU meet
Tory MPs and peers have added to growing pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to agree a youth free movement deal with the EU
www.independent.co.uk
February 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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📢 #GAevent starting in a few minutes!

Can't make it? Follow this thread for some highlights 🧵✨
📢#GAevent | Is it possible to green the chemicals industry? 🤔🌍

We'll explore existing govt support and policies for the chemicals industry, the necessary policies for the new industrial strategy and the industry’s role in the transition.

Register: green-alliance.org.uk/event/is-it-...
Is it possible to green the chemicals industry? » Green Alliance
Green Alliance is an independent think tank and charity focused on ambitious leadership for the environment
green-alliance.org.uk
January 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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We’ve lost a Greenpeace legend today. Pete Wilkinson, founder of Greenpeace UK in the 1970s, was still campaigning right up to the end.

His passion and directness, always speaking truth to power, never wavered. Rest in peace, Pete.
January 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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🚨🚨 Characteristically astute analysis by David Gauke reflecting on how the recent interventions by Ed Davey and Kemi Badenoch suggests that the tide is turning against #brexit.🧵
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
The tide is starting to turn against Brexit
Interventions by Ed Davey and Kemi Badenoch show how the European question has been reopened.
www.newstatesman.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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2024 was hottest year on record for world’s land and oceans, US scientists confirm
2024 was hottest year on record for world’s land and oceans, US scientists confirm
Noaa says last year was the warmest since records began in 1850 and Nasa concurs: ‘The long-term trends are very clear’ It was the hottest year ever recorded for the world’s lands and oceans in 2024, US government scientists have confirmed, providing yet…
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Why have Britain’s energy costs soared and what does it mean for Labour?
Why have Britain’s energy costs soared and what does it mean for Labour?
Claims that power plants are gaming the system to charge huge sums to switch on in the UK’s cold weather * No 10 insists UK has sufficient energy supply A rise in electricity costs this week has raised fears that officials operating Great Britain’s…
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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In 2024 global temperatures surpassed the 1.5°C warming limit.

In 2021, we made a video showing the difference between a 1.5°C and 2°C rise. We're resharing it now, with greater evidence - floods in the UK & wildfires in LA.

We can still limit warming if we act now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPpQ...
1.5°C versus 2°C of global heating: why every degree matters
YouTube video by Good Energy
www.youtube.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Incinerators produce dioxins, which are so toxic they are measured in nanograms per meter cubed.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labour under fire over plans for 40 more ‘greenwashing’ waste incinerators
Communities across the UK are fighting ‘catastrophic’ proposals to build new energy-from-waste plants
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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Energy Secretary @edmiliband.bsky.social publishes “Clean Power 2030 Action Plan”. Drawn up by mission controller @chrisstark.bsky.social, it plots a clear path to grid reform and getting 95% Britain’s electricity from clean energy sources by 2030.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Government sets out plan for new era of clean electricity
Government delivers on the Prime Minister’s Plan for Change to build an energy system that can bring down bills for households and businesses for good.
www.gov.uk
December 13, 2024 at 7:57 AM
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Cost of electricity relative to fossil fuels is key factor when it comes to industrial electrification.

In most EU countries electricity is taxed more & renewable energy support levies are often put on electricity & not on fossil fuels.

See our new report👇

www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
December 13, 2024 at 7:52 AM
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‘I was made to think the pain was all in my head’: gynaecological ordeals shared
‘I was made to think the pain was all in my head’: gynaecological ordeals shared
As a UK report finds women with reproductive conditions have faced poor care due to ‘medical misogyny’, people share their suffering Women and girls in the UK with gynaecological conditions such as endometriosis and adenomyosis have spent years in pain…
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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In today's #GreenAlliancePodcast we dive into the UK’s evolving transport policy discussion. 🚌⚡

Nick Davies chats with transport experts Michael Solomon Williams, @lauralaker.bsky.social, and Green Alliance's Johann Beckford and Rosie Allen.

Listen here: green-alliance.org.uk/podcast/chan...
December 4, 2024 at 10:57 AM
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115 out of 149 UK universities have now publicly committed to divest from fossil fuels

£17.7bn-worth of endowments no longer in the fossil fuel industry

Not megabucks if you're Exxon, but shows how little social licence fossil fuel comps now have in academic

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
More than three-quarters of UK universities join fossil fuel pledge, say activists
Move to exclude fossil fuel firms from investment portfolios follows years of campaigning by staff and students
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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"Analysis from Sustain found that the ten biggest UK agribusinesses are responsible for more excrement than our 10 largest cities, but none have publicly available strategies to prevent water pollution." Wow! Fortunately there are cost neutral, small farm-friendly solutions to water pollution.
While pollution from sewage has had plenty of attention, #WaterPollution from agriculture is being overlooked.

Faustine Wheeler, policy adviser, discusses how the government can tackle the issue while giving farmers a better deal for the blog:
buff.ly
November 27, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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Everyone has to pay the standing charge even if they don’t use any energy. This disproportionately
affects low-income users. #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay
November 27, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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What do we do with the gas distribution grid when we no longer use gas?

How can we manage the risks, not only to gas distribution companies but to their customers?

I was interviewed by Paul Schuster who asked me these and other questions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kvd...
What's Next for Gas Distribution Companies? - Jan Rosenow (Regulatory Assistance Project)
YouTube video by Eight Minute Climate Fix
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:41 AM
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Evidence, if it were needed, that I work with AMAZING colleagues.

Less than 16hrs after the gavel came down on COP29, they have published a 20,000-word omnibus article summarising EVERYTHING you need to know about the two-week event in Baku

👏👏👏
NEW – COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku

#COP29

➡️ https://buff.ly/3V5jndk
November 24, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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I have some friends on the ground at #COP29 and they can confirm that it’s an absolute clown show right now. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Saudi Arabia accused of modifying official Cop29 negotiating text
Exclusive: News of changes to usually non-editable document ‘risks placing climate summit in jeopardy'
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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The final #cop29 plenary has kicked off.

Just 30 hours after the talks were due to finish.

This is it, deal on new finance, or collapse.
November 23, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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BREAKING: The latest #COP29 text falls woefully short.

The finance package is too low, too weak, while critical acknowledgement of nature has been entirely erased.

This is more than disappointing, it's dangerous. 🚨

Leaders—don't walk away without fixing this.
November 22, 2024 at 4:16 PM