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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action

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BFCCA is a local charity that helps our community address the climate and biodiversity crisis. Our Vision - Bracknell Forest will work together to live sustainably, making green choices, and we will achieve net zero as close to 2030 as possible.

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 3d

Wind generated the last share of UK electricity over the last year, gas second, and zero coal for the first year ever since we have used electricity! via the ever informative grid.iamkate.com

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Climate Change Committee @thecccuk.bsky.social · 2d

We're thrilled to share two new appointments to the Adaptation Committee announced today by Defra and the Devolved Governments.

Dr Michael Keil and Ian Dickie will join the Adaptation Committee from January, with specialisms in water and biodiversity finance.

www.theccc.org.uk/2025/10/09/n...

New appointments to the Adaptation Committee - Climate Change Committee

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Devolved Governments have appointed Dr Michael Keil and Mr Ian Dickie to the Adaptation Committee.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

China ≠ just coal plants and solar exports. The deeper shift: electrifying everything it can. Strategic, because China relies on imported fossil fuels. Coal is still king in the power mix—for now. But the balance is changing year by year.

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 3d

Wind generated the last share of UK electricity over the last year, gas second, and zero coal for the first year ever since we have used electricity! via the ever informative grid.iamkate.com

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 7h

Brown-banded carder bee buzzes into Southhill solar farm sustainablecharlbury.org/news-and-vie...

Unusual bee seen at Southill Solar – Sustainable Charlbury

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 7h

Brown-banded carder bee buzzes into Southhill solar farm sustainablecharlbury.org/news-and-vie...

Unusual bee seen at Southill Solar – Sustainable Charlbury

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Land Use for Net Zero (LUNZ) Hub @lunz-hub.bsky.social · Mar 18

The recording of the Farm planning horizons and the transition to net zero webinar is now available on the LUNZ Hub Website.

Click here to access the webinar recording and read the key takeaways: bit.ly/3XZSQj0

Farm planning horizons and the transition to net zero webinar - LUNZ Hub

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 17h

How do heat pumps work? www.theheatpumpwarehouse.co.uk/how-heat-pum...

A house and a compressor showing how heat pumps work.

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 17h

How do heat pumps work? www.theheatpumpwarehouse.co.uk/how-heat-pum...

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 10d

Coming soon from Bracknell Library.

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 5d

'Bunhill Heat and Power Network (BHPN) is the first scheme in the world to take waste heat from an underground train network and use it to provide lower carbon heating' www.islington.gov.uk/environment-...

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 14d

'Electric vehicle fleet saving Wiltshire Council more than £54,000 this year' www.wiltshire.gov.uk/news/electri... #EVs #ElectroState #NetZero #LoveNetZero

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 3d

Wind generated the last share of UK electricity over the last year, gas second, and zero coal for the first year ever since we have used electricity! via the ever informative grid.iamkate.com

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 4d

As recently as 2010 fossil fuels made up over 70% of UK electricity suppyl, now they are below 30%. Our electricity gets cleaner and cleaner. via www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

UK electricity supply showing fossil fuels falling from nearly 100% in 1920 to close to 33% by 2023

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 5d

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Reader David Toke @davidtoke.bsky.social · 8d

UK Power networks to use heat from data centres to heat homes and replace gas boilers www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/news/uk-powe... See also: 'How data centres will cut carbon emissions, not increase them' davidtoke.substack.com/p/how-data-c...

UK Power Networks helping SHIELD vulnerable customers from Fuel Poverty

Customers struggling with energy bills could soon benefit from low-cost heating, thanks to an award-winning UK Power Networks innovation that re-uses heat from mini data centres.

www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 7d

'How wind power cuts UK wholesale electricity prices' via @davidtoke.bsky.social davidtoke.substack.com/p/how-wind-p...

How wind power cuts UK wholesale electricity prices by a quarter

A new analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has calculated that in 2024 UK wholesale electricity prices would have been over 30 per cent higher if there had been no wind power ge...

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 7d

66% of electricity is from wind this evening. Nice!

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 9d

@tomhayesmp.bsky.social … this is a promising idea and worth doing elsewhere, I suggest.

Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 10d

Coming soon from Bracknell Library.

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 8d

Windy out there? Nearly 73% of our electricity late on Friday night is renewable. grid.iamkate.com #NetZero #LoveNetZero

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 10d

Coming soon from Bracknell Library.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 13d

Recommended read: For @nytimes.com, the @asiapolicy.asiasociety.org's Li Shuo wrote that China was “the adult in the room on climate now”, despite its “modest” new pledge.

Opinion | China Is Promising a Lot More Clean Energy While America Is Lost

While the West is distracted and divided, China is focused and surging ahead.

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 12d

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-gre... #NetZero #LoveNetZero

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 13d

Food waste accelerates climate change but food waste can be collected and used to produce renewable energy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ko... #FoodWaste #Methane #Climatechange

The food waste journey

YouTube video by Bracknell Forest Council

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 13d

Food waste accelerates climate change but food waste can be collected and used to produce renewable energy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ko... #FoodWaste #Methane #Climatechange

The food waste journey

YouTube video by Bracknell Forest Council

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 14d

4 yrs ago today, September 28, 2021 – Greta Thunberg and “blah blah blah”

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Greta Thunberg has excoriated global leaders over their promises to address the climate emergency, dismissing them as “blah, blah, blah”.

She quoted statements by Boris Johnson: “This is not some expensive, politically correct, green act of bunny hugging”, and Narendra Modi: “Fighting climate change calls for innovation, cooperation and willpower” but said the science did not lie.

Carbon emissions are on track to rise by 16% by 2030, according to the UN, rather than fall by half, which is the cut needed to keep global heating under the internationally agreed limit of 1.5C.

“Build back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah blah blah. Net zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah,” she said in a speech to the Youth4Climate summit in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday. “This is all we hear from our so-called leaders. Words that sound great but so far have not led to action. Our hopes and ambitions drown in their empty promises.”

‘Blah, blah, blah’: Greta Thunberg lambasts leaders over climate crisis | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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