Marili Boufounou
@marilib.bsky.social
Climate change policy and analysis for London (@Greater London Authority).
Formerly @thecccuk.bsky.social.
Aspiring yogi, cinephile, 🇬🇷 export | she/her.
That’s just, like, my opinion, man.
Formerly @thecccuk.bsky.social.
Aspiring yogi, cinephile, 🇬🇷 export | she/her.
That’s just, like, my opinion, man.
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Have started listening and right from the off we have claims from Coutinho that she was the first Energy Secretary to question net zero and that net zero is 'making emissions worse'.
The UK has delivered the fastest emissions reductions in the G20.
The UK has delivered the fastest emissions reductions in the G20.
In latest Nick Robinson pod, Claire Coutinho sets out why her love of maths and data convinced her to call for abandoning climate change act, net zero targets and chase more fossil fuels extraction.
Curious, I’ve been using AI to examine these claims …
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Curious, I’ve been using AI to examine these claims …
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Net Zero has become a religion: Claire Coutinho on climate, identity and cooking
Podcast Episode · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · 17/10/2025 · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Have started listening and right from the off we have claims from Coutinho that she was the first Energy Secretary to question net zero and that net zero is 'making emissions worse'.
The UK has delivered the fastest emissions reductions in the G20.
The UK has delivered the fastest emissions reductions in the G20.
Got to admire Kemi Badenoch’s timing, deciding to announce that she’d repeal the Climate Change Act in the wake of the news of Dr Jane Goodall’s passing 👏
October 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Got to admire Kemi Badenoch’s timing, deciding to announce that she’d repeal the Climate Change Act in the wake of the news of Dr Jane Goodall’s passing 👏
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spokesperson for Sadiq Khan:
“We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.
“London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”
“We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.
“London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”
Trump to the UN: "I have to say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor -- terrible terrible mayor -- and it's been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia Law ... both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe."
September 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
spokesperson for Sadiq Khan:
“We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.
“London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”
“We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.
“London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”
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Terrific column by @johnthornhill.bsky.social, which also led me to a great FT story I'd missed at the time:
Generative AI models are skilled in the art of bullshit
Large language models are unconcerned with truth because they have no concept of it — and therein lies the danger
www.ft.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Terrific column by @johnthornhill.bsky.social, which also led me to a great FT story I'd missed at the time:
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new Icelandic volcano just dropped
March 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
new Icelandic volcano just dropped
🚨Cool new job alert🚨
Come be the new me at the CCC!
This is a dream job for anyone who wants to work at the intersection of climate mitigation and adaptation policy. 🌳 🐄 🌰 🪴
Get in touch if you have any questions and please share far and wide!
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
Come be the new me at the CCC!
This is a dream job for anyone who wants to work at the intersection of climate mitigation and adaptation policy. 🌳 🐄 🌰 🪴
Get in touch if you have any questions and please share far and wide!
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
Climate Change Committee - SEO Analyst, Land-use, agriculture and nature team - ( Ref : 6098 ) - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UKGOV.UK
Search and apply for jobs in the UK Civil Service
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February 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🚨Cool new job alert🚨
Come be the new me at the CCC!
This is a dream job for anyone who wants to work at the intersection of climate mitigation and adaptation policy. 🌳 🐄 🌰 🪴
Get in touch if you have any questions and please share far and wide!
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
Come be the new me at the CCC!
This is a dream job for anyone who wants to work at the intersection of climate mitigation and adaptation policy. 🌳 🐄 🌰 🪴
Get in touch if you have any questions and please share far and wide!
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
#thetraitors dolls challenge episode last week might be the single best hour of television I’ve seen this year, and January’s not even out yet.
January 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#thetraitors dolls challenge episode last week might be the single best hour of television I’ve seen this year, and January’s not even out yet.
Great to see yesterday’s @thenewsagents.com episode look into the backlash to animal feed additives to reduce livestock emissions. Less great to hear them perpetuate the common misconception that most methane is emitted through cow flatulence - it’s actually livestock burping that’s the culprit!
December 12, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Great to see yesterday’s @thenewsagents.com episode look into the backlash to animal feed additives to reduce livestock emissions. Less great to hear them perpetuate the common misconception that most methane is emitted through cow flatulence - it’s actually livestock burping that’s the culprit!
Great @nytimes.com The Daily episode today on the Community First Village in Austin and the really complex subject of addressing homelessness: open.spotify.com/episode/0XtW...
The Texas Village Rethinking Homelessness
The Daily · Episode
open.spotify.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Great @nytimes.com The Daily episode today on the Community First Village in Austin and the really complex subject of addressing homelessness: open.spotify.com/episode/0XtW...
Not complaining that everyone’s voting with their feet and joining #Bluesky, but part of me (the paranoid part) is thinking we should pipe down with the advertising on the other place, in case Musk gets any bright ideas about buying up and ruining this place, too.
November 15, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Not complaining that everyone’s voting with their feet and joining #Bluesky, but part of me (the paranoid part) is thinking we should pipe down with the advertising on the other place, in case Musk gets any bright ideas about buying up and ruining this place, too.
I listened to some of the content of this film on a News Agents Friday episode a couple of weeks ago, and it was truly astonishing.
The plight of women in Florida is dystopian, including the rise of fake abortion clinics offering the untested practice of "abortion reversal." After the failure of the abortion rights referendum in the state, the situation will get worse. Our News Agents film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=df5B...
A war on women - Florida’s abortion crisis | The News Agents
YouTube video by The News Agents
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:14 PM
I listened to some of the content of this film on a News Agents Friday episode a couple of weeks ago, and it was truly astonishing.
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I couldn't see an overall starter pack for FT journalists active on Bluesky. So given the recent influx of new people on here, I thought it'd be useful to make one.
Do shout out all the people I've inevitably missed and I'll update
go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD
Do shout out all the people I've inevitably missed and I'll update
go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD
November 12, 2024 at 7:10 PM
I couldn't see an overall starter pack for FT journalists active on Bluesky. So given the recent influx of new people on here, I thought it'd be useful to make one.
Do shout out all the people I've inevitably missed and I'll update
go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD
Do shout out all the people I've inevitably missed and I'll update
go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD
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This week we launched the @thecccuk.bsky.social work on the UK's 7th Carbon Budget (2038 to 2042) - and the UK's 2035 NDC.
We'll advise on a new path to UK Net Zero. This explains how we'll do it.
The big news is we'll publish our advice in *early* 2025.
www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...
We'll advise on a new path to UK Net Zero. This explains how we'll do it.
The big news is we'll publish our advice in *early* 2025.
www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...
November 30, 2023 at 5:36 PM
This week we launched the @thecccuk.bsky.social work on the UK's 7th Carbon Budget (2038 to 2042) - and the UK's 2035 NDC.
We'll advise on a new path to UK Net Zero. This explains how we'll do it.
The big news is we'll publish our advice in *early* 2025.
www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...
We'll advise on a new path to UK Net Zero. This explains how we'll do it.
The big news is we'll publish our advice in *early* 2025.
www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...
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The Seventh Carbon Budget is underway at the @thecccuk.bsky.social and we need your input. Our call for evidence runs until 16 Jan 2024. This document also sets out our planned methodology and key assumptions.
Some of my amazing colleagues explain it all here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKZc...
Some of my amazing colleagues explain it all here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKZc...
Proposed methodology for the Seventh Carbon Budget advice - Climate Change Committee
The CCC has started the analytical work that will underpin the Seventh Carbon Budget advice. This document sets…
www.theccc.org.uk
November 28, 2023 at 11:45 AM
The Seventh Carbon Budget is underway at the @thecccuk.bsky.social and we need your input. Our call for evidence runs until 16 Jan 2024. This document also sets out our planned methodology and key assumptions.
Some of my amazing colleagues explain it all here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKZc...
Some of my amazing colleagues explain it all here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKZc...
November 26, 2023 at 12:43 PM
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Welcome to @thecccuk.bsky.social - our new Bluesky account for the mothership.
November 14, 2023 at 7:09 AM
Welcome to @thecccuk.bsky.social - our new Bluesky account for the mothership.
Feels like Groundhog Day.
November 14, 2023 at 12:11 PM
Feels like Groundhog Day.