Andrew Simms
@andrewsimms.bsky.social
Political economist, campaigner & author. Co-author the original Green New Deal, devised Earth Overshoot Day & jointly, the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty. Co-director New Weather Inst, other roles: https://www.newweather.org/about-us/andrew-simms/
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Good piece here by @andrewsimms.bsky.social 👇
Why do we allow a fossil fuel corp like Petro Canada to serve as Canada's lead sponsor/advertiser of the Winter Olympics, when that company wishes ill for some of 🇨🇦's defining national sports?
theecologist.org/2026/jan/18/...
Why do we allow a fossil fuel corp like Petro Canada to serve as Canada's lead sponsor/advertiser of the Winter Olympics, when that company wishes ill for some of 🇨🇦's defining national sports?
theecologist.org/2026/jan/18/...
Save our snow - ban Olympic fossil fuel ads
The Winter Olympics killed tobacco sponsorship - can it do the same for fossil fuels?
theecologist.org
January 19, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Good piece here by @andrewsimms.bsky.social 👇
Why do we allow a fossil fuel corp like Petro Canada to serve as Canada's lead sponsor/advertiser of the Winter Olympics, when that company wishes ill for some of 🇨🇦's defining national sports?
theecologist.org/2026/jan/18/...
Why do we allow a fossil fuel corp like Petro Canada to serve as Canada's lead sponsor/advertiser of the Winter Olympics, when that company wishes ill for some of 🇨🇦's defining national sports?
theecologist.org/2026/jan/18/...
Is a major climate polluter sponsoring winter sports the most self-harming deal around? Our new report on the upcoming Olympics 👇👇👇
🚨 𝗢𝗹𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 🚨
❄️ In a new report, The New Weather Institute reveals the climate impact of the world's leading snow sports event - the Winter Olympics.
Background and full story. 🧵 1/9
Full report 👉 www.newweather.org/wp-content/u...
❄️ In a new report, The New Weather Institute reveals the climate impact of the world's leading snow sports event - the Winter Olympics.
Background and full story. 🧵 1/9
Full report 👉 www.newweather.org/wp-content/u...
January 19, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Is a major climate polluter sponsoring winter sports the most self-harming deal around? Our new report on the upcoming Olympics 👇👇👇
Happy #WorldSnowDay - the Winter Olympics is celebrating by having sponsors whose pollution melts the snow the Games depend on... More here ❄️💧👉🏼 theecologist.org/2026/jan/18/...
Save our snow - ban Olympic fossil fuel ads
The Winter Olympics killed tobacco sponsorship - can it do the same for fossil fuels?
theecologist.org
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Happy #WorldSnowDay - the Winter Olympics is celebrating by having sponsors whose pollution melts the snow the Games depend on... More here ❄️💧👉🏼 theecologist.org/2026/jan/18/...
If you are into the practical politics of hope, come and join me, @peternewell.bsky.social, @carolinelucas.bsky.social, @jeanmclean.bsky.social at this, to talk about getting out of the mess we're in... www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/5651/...
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
A interdisciplinary arts hub connecting University of Sussex to Brighton & Hove and the wider international arts community.
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January 16, 2026 at 12:35 PM
If you are into the practical politics of hope, come and join me, @peternewell.bsky.social, @carolinelucas.bsky.social, @jeanmclean.bsky.social at this, to talk about getting out of the mess we're in... www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/5651/...
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A PSA for the benefit of west Londoners regarding the latest steaming horseshit to emanate from Wandsworth council and Putney MP Fleur Anderson regarding Hammersmith Bridge, by which I specifically mean their claim, that traffic is up 25% on Putney Bridge since HB closed in April 2019
January 5, 2026 at 8:02 AM
A PSA for the benefit of west Londoners regarding the latest steaming horseshit to emanate from Wandsworth council and Putney MP Fleur Anderson regarding Hammersmith Bridge, by which I specifically mean their claim, that traffic is up 25% on Putney Bridge since HB closed in April 2019
"We're living in an environment engineered for over-consumption."
This is about food, but has wider implications...
BBC News - Why some people really struggle to lose weight more than others - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is about food, but has wider implications...
BBC News - Why some people really struggle to lose weight more than others - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why some people really struggle to lose weight more than others
Thousands of genes that have an influence on weight, say experts - which means weight loss isn't a level playing field
www.bbc.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 8:03 AM
"We're living in an environment engineered for over-consumption."
This is about food, but has wider implications...
BBC News - Why some people really struggle to lose weight more than others - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is about food, but has wider implications...
BBC News - Why some people really struggle to lose weight more than others - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“The reality is that America is in breach of the United Nations charter... It has committed the crime of aggression, which the court at Nuremberg described as the supreme crime, it’s the worst crime of all.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Is there any legal justification for the US attack on Venezuela?
International law experts expect Washington to claim self-defence and face little serious pushback
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
“The reality is that America is in breach of the United Nations charter... It has committed the crime of aggression, which the court at Nuremberg described as the supreme crime, it’s the worst crime of all.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Ah, the annual festive burning of fossil fuels to ensure that, in future, there will be no snow at Christmas...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK’s roads and airports brace for busiest Christmas getaway on record
Transport groups warn of unprecedented congestion as commuters, shoppers and holidaymakers travel at once
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Ah, the annual festive burning of fossil fuels to ensure that, in future, there will be no snow at Christmas...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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The deregulator wants to poison us
EU decisionmakers intent to scrap safety reviews for chemicals that are used for our food & drink
Chemicals that could cause cancer...🫥 So #BigBizz can market them more easily 🤯
Write to @ec.europa.eu! Stop the #FoodOmnibus
friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
EU decisionmakers intent to scrap safety reviews for chemicals that are used for our food & drink
Chemicals that could cause cancer...🫥 So #BigBizz can market them more easily 🤯
Write to @ec.europa.eu! Stop the #FoodOmnibus
friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The deregulator wants to poison us
EU decisionmakers intent to scrap safety reviews for chemicals that are used for our food & drink
Chemicals that could cause cancer...🫥 So #BigBizz can market them more easily 🤯
Write to @ec.europa.eu! Stop the #FoodOmnibus
friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
EU decisionmakers intent to scrap safety reviews for chemicals that are used for our food & drink
Chemicals that could cause cancer...🫥 So #BigBizz can market them more easily 🤯
Write to @ec.europa.eu! Stop the #FoodOmnibus
friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
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In a single generation we built the internet - an advance that has given us the ability to learn anything. 📖
But we still can't seem to learn that promoting polluters is self-destructive. 🤔
Read ‘We can’ from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
But we still can't seem to learn that promoting polluters is self-destructive. 🤔
Read ‘We can’ from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
In a single generation we built the internet - an advance that has given us the ability to learn anything. 📖
But we still can't seem to learn that promoting polluters is self-destructive. 🤔
Read ‘We can’ from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
But we still can't seem to learn that promoting polluters is self-destructive. 🤔
Read ‘We can’ from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
We can do such amazing things, why allow ads that promote pollution to undermine them...
Each year, human ingenuity cures some of the world’s most deadly diseases. 🧪
Yet when science tells us to stop polluting the planet, we continue to promote the industries responsible. 🤔
'We can', a new pamphlet by the Ministry for the Climate Emergency. 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
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Yet when science tells us to stop polluting the planet, we continue to promote the industries responsible. 🤔
'We can', a new pamphlet by the Ministry for the Climate Emergency. 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We can do such amazing things, why allow ads that promote pollution to undermine them...
This 👇🏼 why do we allow ads that promote pollution to undermine hard won human progress? The Ministry for the Climate Emergency asks the question...
🚨 Announcement from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 🚨
The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵
Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
A message from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇 1/3
The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵
Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
A message from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇 1/3
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This 👇🏼 why do we allow ads that promote pollution to undermine hard won human progress? The Ministry for the Climate Emergency asks the question...
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👀🔥 It seems like sporting bodies are finally starting to understand the major risks the climate crisis poses to global athletes and fans alike.
🌍 Here's how some of the world’s biggest tournaments may need rescheduling...
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2025/1...
🌍 Here's how some of the world’s biggest tournaments may need rescheduling...
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2025/1...
December 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
👀🔥 It seems like sporting bodies are finally starting to understand the major risks the climate crisis poses to global athletes and fans alike.
🌍 Here's how some of the world’s biggest tournaments may need rescheduling...
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2025/1...
🌍 Here's how some of the world’s biggest tournaments may need rescheduling...
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2025/1...
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins Inaugural "Football Climate Impact Prize" 🏆
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins Inaugural "Football Climate Impact Prize" 🏆
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
Petty, stigmatising, performative politics that doubles as hard right mood music - the consequences in terms of feeding divisive racism is perfectly well understood by those responsible...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Petty, stigmatising, performative politics that doubles as hard right mood music - the consequences in terms of feeding divisive racism is perfectly well understood by those responsible...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Key point from the brilliant Prof @kevinclimate.bsky.social at the National Emergency Briefing, the UK's climate plans are based on the wildly untenable assumption that the country can have 3x its equitable share of the remaining global carbon budget for meeting the 1.5C guardrail.
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Key point from the brilliant Prof @kevinclimate.bsky.social at the National Emergency Briefing, the UK's climate plans are based on the wildly untenable assumption that the country can have 3x its equitable share of the remaining global carbon budget for meeting the 1.5C guardrail.
Chris Packham kicking off the #NationalEmergencyBriefing making the simple point that ignoring scientific advice on climate, as are current government, costs lives, and that disinformation from fossil fuel interests is one of the biggest problems...
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Chris Packham kicking off the #NationalEmergencyBriefing making the simple point that ignoring scientific advice on climate, as are current government, costs lives, and that disinformation from fossil fuel interests is one of the biggest problems...
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Towards a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF-NPT)
▶️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@peternewell.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social 2019
#ParentsForFuture has stood behind @fossiltreaty.bsky.social since day one.
▶️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@peternewell.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social 2019
#ParentsForFuture has stood behind @fossiltreaty.bsky.social since day one.
![Screenshot von zwei Twitter-Beiträgen aus 2019 zum Thema Klimapolitik und fossile Brennstoffe.
Der obere Beitrag stammt von „Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels...“ (10. Juli 2019) und fordert eine „Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF-NPT)“. Zitat: „[...] leave large swathes of remaining fossil fuels in the ground. Towards that end, we make the case for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF-NPT) to deal with emissions at source.“ Darunter ein Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2019.1636759
Der eingebettete Tweet darunter ist von „Peter Newell“ (08. Juli 2019) und kündigt einen neuen Artikel in *Climate Policy* an: „New article just published in Climate Policy on the need for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Towards a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2019.1636759 ...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vb4q6gkecpq2rx2d6rrpbqio/bafkreifihca7lzcayaxqircrwffenlsw6n3qa4rjg6ixncmeltaftrjneu@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Towards a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF-NPT)
▶️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@peternewell.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social 2019
#ParentsForFuture has stood behind @fossiltreaty.bsky.social since day one.
▶️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@peternewell.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social 2019
#ParentsForFuture has stood behind @fossiltreaty.bsky.social since day one.
More to do, but here's positive movement. And when ads promoting pollution are inevitably ended on public transport, we'll wonder why they were ever allowed 👇👇👇
🚨 Campaign win! 🚨
Mayor Sadiq Khan pledges to review Transport for London's ad policy on polluter ads. 🎉
Here is the brilliant Caroline Russell's question for the Mayor along with his commitment.
Scroll on for other key moments from Mayor's Question Time. 🧵 1/7
@carolinerussell.bsky.social
Mayor Sadiq Khan pledges to review Transport for London's ad policy on polluter ads. 🎉
Here is the brilliant Caroline Russell's question for the Mayor along with his commitment.
Scroll on for other key moments from Mayor's Question Time. 🧵 1/7
@carolinerussell.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
More to do, but here's positive movement. And when ads promoting pollution are inevitably ended on public transport, we'll wonder why they were ever allowed 👇👇👇
Tomorrow the Mayor of London will be questioned on getting London's transport system to drop ads that promote air pollution - please add your voice asking him to do the right thing - takes 30 seconds 👇👇👇
Of the world's major cities, London has the highest levels of air pollution.
Yet the city's sprawling public transport network continues to promote the very industries threatening Londoner health.
✍️ Call on Mayor Sadiq Khan to implement an ad ban: actionnetwork.org/letters/ba2d...
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Yet the city's sprawling public transport network continues to promote the very industries threatening Londoner health.
✍️ Call on Mayor Sadiq Khan to implement an ad ban: actionnetwork.org/letters/ba2d...
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Time to end adverts for polluting products on Transport for London sites
I've written to the London Mayor calling for an end to advertising for polluting products on Transport for London sites. You can email the Mayor here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/time-to-end-adv...
actionnetwork.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Tomorrow the Mayor of London will be questioned on getting London's transport system to drop ads that promote air pollution - please add your voice asking him to do the right thing - takes 30 seconds 👇👇👇
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🚆 In 2019 Transport for London introduced a ban on junk food advertising.
Despite facing fierce lobbying, Sadiq Khan pushed ahead with the ban to protect public health. 🍎
So - why are harmful polluting industries still able to advertise across London? 🧐 🧵 1/5
Despite facing fierce lobbying, Sadiq Khan pushed ahead with the ban to protect public health. 🍎
So - why are harmful polluting industries still able to advertise across London? 🧐 🧵 1/5
Fossil Ads — Badvertising
www.badverts.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🚆 In 2019 Transport for London introduced a ban on junk food advertising.
Despite facing fierce lobbying, Sadiq Khan pushed ahead with the ban to protect public health. 🍎
So - why are harmful polluting industries still able to advertise across London? 🧐 🧵 1/5
Despite facing fierce lobbying, Sadiq Khan pushed ahead with the ban to protect public health. 🍎
So - why are harmful polluting industries still able to advertise across London? 🧐 🧵 1/5
Let's be clear: what's dividing the country is not illegal immigration, it is politicians exploiting the issue of migration for political positioning, power plays and their own gain. Whether that's Reform, the Tories or the Labour Home Secretary. And...
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Let's be clear: what's dividing the country is not illegal immigration, it is politicians exploiting the issue of migration for political positioning, power plays and their own gain. Whether that's Reform, the Tories or the Labour Home Secretary. And...
One more time - wouldn't it help if we stopped actively promoting the pollution from frequent flights, massive SUVs & oil companies, with a fossil ad ban? 🤔
BBC News - Fossil fuel emissions rise again - but renewables boom offers hope for climate - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Fossil fuel emissions rise again - but renewables boom offers hope for climate - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fossil fuel emissions rise again - but renewables boom offers hope for climate
Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels are forecast to reach a new high in 2025 but could soon peak.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
One more time - wouldn't it help if we stopped actively promoting the pollution from frequent flights, massive SUVs & oil companies, with a fossil ad ban? 🤔
BBC News - Fossil fuel emissions rise again - but renewables boom offers hope for climate - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Fossil fuel emissions rise again - but renewables boom offers hope for climate - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Times picks up on the @badvertising.bsky.social London transport campaign to stop polluting ads from undermining action on clean air and climate in the city link.thetimes.co.uk/view/62e2a8a...
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Times picks up on the @badvertising.bsky.social London transport campaign to stop polluting ads from undermining action on clean air and climate in the city link.thetimes.co.uk/view/62e2a8a...
One day soon it will seem very weird that we ever allowed ads promoting pollution in the middle of a health & climate crisis 👇
🌍 What do global cities such as Amsterdam, Stockholm and Edinburgh all have in common?
These major cities have ALL banned fossil fuel adverts. These ads have massive climate and health impacts, all while targeting politically influential decision makers.
These major cities have ALL banned fossil fuel adverts. These ads have massive climate and health impacts, all while targeting politically influential decision makers.
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
One day soon it will seem very weird that we ever allowed ads promoting pollution in the middle of a health & climate crisis 👇