Jess
@jessmith.bsky.social
Climate action scholar at the Hertie School 🍀🌿🪴 passionate about nature X climate X transport X politics. Berlin based. Prev WWF, Edinburgh uni ☀️🌞🐼
Excited for the thurstaston solar farm to be built if that’s what impact assessment deems appropriate! Clean energy is the future and has to go somewhere. 👍👍 shame about this anti growth pamphlet! Let’s get the Wirral powering the energy of the future 🌞🔋
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Excited for the thurstaston solar farm to be built if that’s what impact assessment deems appropriate! Clean energy is the future and has to go somewhere. 👍👍 shame about this anti growth pamphlet! Let’s get the Wirral powering the energy of the future 🌞🔋
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The report, representing six years of work by scientists, was “hijacked” by the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and others, at an October meeting in which they refused to approve the report’s summary findings, said the report’s co-chair Professor Sir Robert Watson.
By @mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social
By @mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social
UN environment report 'hijacked' over fossil fuels - top scientist
The US and other governments derailed an agreement on a global environment study, its co-chair says.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The report, representing six years of work by scientists, was “hijacked” by the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and others, at an October meeting in which they refused to approve the report’s summary findings, said the report’s co-chair Professor Sir Robert Watson.
By @mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social
By @mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social
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cool cool cool the gender culture wars have come to COP. trying to imagine a situation where it could possibly matter. oh no, a trans woman got some drought-resistant seeds? ridiculous www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women
Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
cool cool cool the gender culture wars have come to COP. trying to imagine a situation where it could possibly matter. oh no, a trans woman got some drought-resistant seeds? ridiculous www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Treating the symptoms not the cause #1
India trials Delhi cloud seeding to clean air in world’s most polluted city
#airpollution
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India trials Delhi cloud seeding to clean air in world’s most polluted city
#airpollution
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India trials Delhi cloud seeding to clean air in world’s most polluted city
Bharatiya Janata party launches first test flight as brown haze blankets city after Diwali – but experts decry ‘gimmick’
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Treating the symptoms not the cause #1
India trials Delhi cloud seeding to clean air in world’s most polluted city
#airpollution
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
India trials Delhi cloud seeding to clean air in world’s most polluted city
#airpollution
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Despite being among the most carbon-intensive modes of transport, aviation and shipping continue to enjoy generous VAT exemptions across Europe.
This is costing governments billions in lost revenue and putting cleaner forms of passenger transport at a competitive disadvantage.
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This is costing governments billions in lost revenue and putting cleaner forms of passenger transport at a competitive disadvantage.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Despite being among the most carbon-intensive modes of transport, aviation and shipping continue to enjoy generous VAT exemptions across Europe.
This is costing governments billions in lost revenue and putting cleaner forms of passenger transport at a competitive disadvantage.
🧵⤵️
This is costing governments billions in lost revenue and putting cleaner forms of passenger transport at a competitive disadvantage.
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NEW | Surging wind and solar power helped make electricity in Spain CHEAPER than in most European countries.
📈 As wind and solar grows…
📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks
https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc
📈 As wind and solar grows…
📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks
https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
NEW | Surging wind and solar power helped make electricity in Spain CHEAPER than in most European countries.
📈 As wind and solar grows…
📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks
https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc
📈 As wind and solar grows…
📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks
https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc
Noooooo 😭😭😭
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Noooooo 😭😭😭
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Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
September 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Just can’t fathom making the harrowing life threatening journey across the Channel in search of hope and safety only to be treated like this. Such a shameful time for the UK
Eritrean man is second to be deported to France under UK’s ‘one in, one out’ deal
Eritrean man is second to be deported to France under UK’s ‘one in, one out’ deal
Home Office confirms man left Heathrow for Paris early on Friday after losing high court bid to block move
An Eritrean man has been deported to France under the UK government’s “one in, one out” deal with the neighbouring country.
The man – the second to be deported under the agreement – was on a flight that left Heathrow for Paris at 6.15am on Friday, the Home Office confirmed after he lost a high court attempt to block the move. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Just can’t fathom making the harrowing life threatening journey across the Channel in search of hope and safety only to be treated like this. Such a shameful time for the UK
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Two countries dealing in black lives because small-minded white people with small hearts who need to get a genuine life have dressed up in white and red flags, got drunk and urinated all over the pavements of London and shouted obcenities based on lies.
Eritrean man is second to be deported to France under UK’s ‘one in, one out’ deal
Eritrean man is second to be deported to France under UK’s ‘one in, one out’ deal
Home Office confirms man left Heathrow for Paris early on Friday after losing high court bid to block move
An Eritrean man has been deported to France under the UK government’s “one in, one out” deal with the neighbouring country.
The man – the second to be deported under the agreement – was on a flight that left Heathrow for Paris at 6.15am on Friday, the Home Office confirmed after he lost a high court attempt to block the move. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Two countries dealing in black lives because small-minded white people with small hearts who need to get a genuine life have dressed up in white and red flags, got drunk and urinated all over the pavements of London and shouted obcenities based on lies.
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3/ Another example:
Oh dear we're going to overshoot, but don't worry we don't need to urgently stop burning fossil fuels we can... use CCS to store carbon underground.
Scientists: We've taken another look & the prudent storage capacity is "an order of magnitude less than commonly-cited figures"
Oh dear we're going to overshoot, but don't worry we don't need to urgently stop burning fossil fuels we can... use CCS to store carbon underground.
Scientists: We've taken another look & the prudent storage capacity is "an order of magnitude less than commonly-cited figures"
Guest post: How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated - Carbon Brief
Removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere is widely expected to play a key role in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement.
www.carbonbrief.org
September 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
3/ Another example:
Oh dear we're going to overshoot, but don't worry we don't need to urgently stop burning fossil fuels we can... use CCS to store carbon underground.
Scientists: We've taken another look & the prudent storage capacity is "an order of magnitude less than commonly-cited figures"
Oh dear we're going to overshoot, but don't worry we don't need to urgently stop burning fossil fuels we can... use CCS to store carbon underground.
Scientists: We've taken another look & the prudent storage capacity is "an order of magnitude less than commonly-cited figures"
Gotta be one of my favourite genres
July 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Gotta be one of my favourite genres
Can’t wait!
So back to just four MPs as a third of the parliamentary party is now suspended and under investigation.
Pretty soon they’ll suspend themselves out of existence.
Pretty soon they’ll suspend themselves out of existence.
July 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Can’t wait!
@telegraphnews.bsky.social hi I absolutely despise your advert in Birkenhead that reads as extremely net zero sceptic. In Birkenhead we have green councillors so this is not the place for your fossil fuel loving nonsense please remove
Your billboard
Your billboard
May 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
@telegraphnews.bsky.social hi I absolutely despise your advert in Birkenhead that reads as extremely net zero sceptic. In Birkenhead we have green councillors so this is not the place for your fossil fuel loving nonsense please remove
Your billboard
Your billboard
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To be clear, the centre ground on net zero is that the public are broadly supportive - even if there is some conditionality to that support.
The idea that net zero is a source of significant electoral discomfort for Labour is a zombie political fact.
The idea that net zero is a source of significant electoral discomfort for Labour is a zombie political fact.
May 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
To be clear, the centre ground on net zero is that the public are broadly supportive - even if there is some conditionality to that support.
The idea that net zero is a source of significant electoral discomfort for Labour is a zombie political fact.
The idea that net zero is a source of significant electoral discomfort for Labour is a zombie political fact.
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Blair's new climate report is “muddled and misleading"
So says Prof Nicholas Stern, at LSE and author of the ‘The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review’ published by Tony Blair’s Government in October 2006
#climatecrisis
So says Prof Nicholas Stern, at LSE and author of the ‘The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review’ published by Tony Blair’s Government in October 2006
#climatecrisis
April 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Blair's new climate report is “muddled and misleading"
So says Prof Nicholas Stern, at LSE and author of the ‘The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review’ published by Tony Blair’s Government in October 2006
#climatecrisis
So says Prof Nicholas Stern, at LSE and author of the ‘The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review’ published by Tony Blair’s Government in October 2006
#climatecrisis
