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Finally finished! Our report on the @climatejusticeuk.bsky.social rally in Leeds for #COP30. Thanks to Ilze Millere for most of the photos. Thanks to #StormClaudia for abating. Thanks to our donors. Thanks to you all for turning out!
justtransitionwakefield.org.uk/activities/c...
justtransitionwakefield.org.uk/activities/c...
United Nations Annual Conference of the Parties (COP) – Just Transition Wakefield
justtransitionwakefield.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Finally finished! Our report on the @climatejusticeuk.bsky.social rally in Leeds for #COP30. Thanks to Ilze Millere for most of the photos. Thanks to #StormClaudia for abating. Thanks to our donors. Thanks to you all for turning out!
justtransitionwakefield.org.uk/activities/c...
justtransitionwakefield.org.uk/activities/c...
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Hi @jontrickett.bsky.social We hope you have already signed up for the #NEBriefing. It is on Thursday. #COP30 is over, but the struggle for a liveable future continues! For your constituents and our members, please attend! Thank you!
Hi @jontrickett.bsky.social We hope you have already signed up for the #NEBriefing. It is on Thursday. #COP30 is over, but the struggle for a liveable future continues! For your constituents and our members, please attend! Thank you!
Jon Trickett.mp4
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November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Hi @jontrickett.bsky.social We hope you have already signed up for the #NEBriefing. It is on Thursday. #COP30 is over, but the struggle for a liveable future continues! For your constituents and our members, please attend! Thank you!
Hi @jontrickett.bsky.social We hope you have already signed up for the #NEBriefing. It is on Thursday. #COP30 is over, but the struggle for a liveable future continues! For your constituents and our members, please attend! Thank you!
drive.google.com/file/d/11XwT...
Hi @simonlightwood.org.uk Have you signed up for the #NEBriefing yet? It's on Thursday. #COP30 is over but the struggle for a liveable future doesn't stop! Please attend for the sake of your constituents and our members.
Hi @simonlightwood.org.uk Have you signed up for the #NEBriefing yet? It's on Thursday. #COP30 is over but the struggle for a liveable future doesn't stop! Please attend for the sake of your constituents and our members.
Simon Lightwood.mp4
drive.google.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
drive.google.com/file/d/11XwT...
Hi @simonlightwood.org.uk Have you signed up for the #NEBriefing yet? It's on Thursday. #COP30 is over but the struggle for a liveable future doesn't stop! Please attend for the sake of your constituents and our members.
Hi @simonlightwood.org.uk Have you signed up for the #NEBriefing yet? It's on Thursday. #COP30 is over but the struggle for a liveable future doesn't stop! Please attend for the sake of your constituents and our members.
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Hi @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social Have you signed up the the #NEBriefing yet. It is on Thursday. #COP30 might be over, but the fight for a liveable future continues. Please attend for the sake of your constituents and our members.
Hi @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social Have you signed up the the #NEBriefing yet. It is on Thursday. #COP30 might be over, but the fight for a liveable future continues. Please attend for the sake of your constituents and our members.
Yvette Cooper.mp4
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November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Hi @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social Have you signed up the the #NEBriefing yet. It is on Thursday. #COP30 might be over, but the fight for a liveable future continues. Please attend for the sake of your constituents and our members.
Hi @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social Have you signed up the the #NEBriefing yet. It is on Thursday. #COP30 might be over, but the fight for a liveable future continues. Please attend for the sake of your constituents and our members.
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Hi #JadeBotterill. Have you signed up for the emergency briefing yet? It's on Thursday. #COP30 is over, but work on saving the future carries on! Please attend for the sake of your constituents and our members!
Hi #JadeBotterill. Have you signed up for the emergency briefing yet? It's on Thursday. #COP30 is over, but work on saving the future carries on! Please attend for the sake of your constituents and our members!
Jade Botterill.mp4
drive.google.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Hi #JadeBotterill. Have you signed up for the emergency briefing yet? It's on Thursday. #COP30 is over, but work on saving the future carries on! Please attend for the sake of your constituents and our members!
Hi #JadeBotterill. Have you signed up for the emergency briefing yet? It's on Thursday. #COP30 is over, but work on saving the future carries on! Please attend for the sake of your constituents and our members!
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World top soils store 45% more carbon than previously thought, making them a better sequester of carbon but also a bigger threat is soil degradation is allowed to continue
earth.org/soil-is-bigg...
earth.org/soil-is-bigg...
Soil Is Bigger Carbon Sink Than Previously Thought: Report
The world’s soils store 45% more carbon than previously estimated, making them a powerful, largely untapped carbon sink.
earth.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
World top soils store 45% more carbon than previously thought, making them a better sequester of carbon but also a bigger threat is soil degradation is allowed to continue
earth.org/soil-is-bigg...
earth.org/soil-is-bigg...
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Oh that little stat? Yeah that's the free newsletter I edit six days a week, which hey you should subscribe
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Oh that little stat? Yeah that's the free newsletter I edit six days a week, which hey you should subscribe
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Climate change is going to push global food inflation to extreme highs over the coming decade.
Most people don’t realise how precarious most of agriculture globally is right now.
Most people don’t realise how precarious most of agriculture globally is right now.
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Climate change is going to push global food inflation to extreme highs over the coming decade.
Most people don’t realise how precarious most of agriculture globally is right now.
Most people don’t realise how precarious most of agriculture globally is right now.
Yes! This!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you for this @doctorvive.bsky.social. We have thought that this #MultiLateral approach by 90 nations could be a wedge into the impasse and create some of the missing momentum. Definite need for activism & lobbying around this. Continued...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you for this @doctorvive.bsky.social. We have thought that this #MultiLateral approach by 90 nations could be a wedge into the impasse and create some of the missing momentum. Definite need for activism & lobbying around this. Continued...
Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way | Genevieve Guenther
The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope, says End Climate Silence founding director ...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Yes! This!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you for this @doctorvive.bsky.social. We have thought that this #MultiLateral approach by 90 nations could be a wedge into the impasse and create some of the missing momentum. Definite need for activism & lobbying around this. Continued...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you for this @doctorvive.bsky.social. We have thought that this #MultiLateral approach by 90 nations could be a wedge into the impasse and create some of the missing momentum. Definite need for activism & lobbying around this. Continued...
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In 'Lie of the Land' @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
highlights that 2% of our wheat is for pheasant rearing, about 32,000 ha
That's 50% more than 21,200 ha in 2024 for ground-mounted solar, not all on arable land
Questions over priorities when the value of electricity is traded against food security
highlights that 2% of our wheat is for pheasant rearing, about 32,000 ha
That's 50% more than 21,200 ha in 2024 for ground-mounted solar, not all on arable land
Questions over priorities when the value of electricity is traded against food security
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
In 'Lie of the Land' @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
highlights that 2% of our wheat is for pheasant rearing, about 32,000 ha
That's 50% more than 21,200 ha in 2024 for ground-mounted solar, not all on arable land
Questions over priorities when the value of electricity is traded against food security
highlights that 2% of our wheat is for pheasant rearing, about 32,000 ha
That's 50% more than 21,200 ha in 2024 for ground-mounted solar, not all on arable land
Questions over priorities when the value of electricity is traded against food security
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Tragic: The Fifth-Worst Politician in Britain Just Made a Great Point
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Tragic: The Fifth-Worst Politician in Britain Just Made a Great Point
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Don't make me agree with Michael Gove. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522257...
'Sustained pattern of retreat': Michael Gove slams proposals to water down Biodiversity Net Gain scheme
Former Environment Secretary accuses government of undermining flagship nature scheme through proposals to exempt developments from new biodiversity market
www.businessgreen.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Don't make me agree with Michael Gove. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522257...
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That's the way to do it.
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
That's the way to do it.
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A very moving ceremony at the Eemshaven power station, mourning the forests destroyed and wildlife harmed to power RWE's Dutch power stations with wood pellet #biomass #BigBadBiomass
#OperatieStorm in Groningen: een grote rouwceremonie bij energiecentrale RWE. We staan stil bij de natuur die vernietigd is door RWE. Zij verdienen geld met het plunderen van de aarde maar geven ons er vervuilde lucht en de klimaatcrisis voor terug.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
A very moving ceremony at the Eemshaven power station, mourning the forests destroyed and wildlife harmed to power RWE's Dutch power stations with wood pellet #biomass #BigBadBiomass
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Isn't it always welfare cuts? While tax avoidance goes on and on and on, barely touched and hardly discussed.
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Isn't it always welfare cuts? While tax avoidance goes on and on and on, barely touched and hardly discussed.
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Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST
Full technical submission to planning inspectors:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
We need real clean power — not hydrogen-washed gas.
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST
Full technical submission to planning inspectors:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
We need real clean power — not hydrogen-washed gas.
🌋 Co-Firing Hydrogen with Natural Gas: A Dangerous Detour for the UK Energy System
Based on my submission to the upcoming planning examination for the Keadby gas and hydrogen co-firing plant
scrapcc.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST
Full technical submission to planning inspectors:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
We need real clean power — not hydrogen-washed gas.
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST
Full technical submission to planning inspectors:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
We need real clean power — not hydrogen-washed gas.
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Hydrogen co-firing, based on carbon capture generated fuel, is being used as a fig leaf to justify new gas plants
medium.com/the-future-i...
Hydrogen co-firing, based on carbon capture generated fuel, is being used as a fig leaf to justify new gas plants
medium.com/the-future-i...
Carbon Capture Remains A Fig Leaf For Fossil Fuel Industry
Carbon Engineering, now purchased by oil and gas giant Oxy, pumping new oil out of old wells
medium.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Hydrogen co-firing, based on carbon capture generated fuel, is being used as a fig leaf to justify new gas plants
medium.com/the-future-i...
Hydrogen co-firing, based on carbon capture generated fuel, is being used as a fig leaf to justify new gas plants
medium.com/the-future-i...
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The UK will not have enough low-carbon hydrogen to run power stations anyway. The CCC’s own data shows this
www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u...
See detail in scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
The UK will not have enough low-carbon hydrogen to run power stations anyway. The CCC’s own data shows this
www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u...
See detail in scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
www.theccc.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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The UK will not have enough low-carbon hydrogen to run power stations anyway. The CCC’s own data shows this
www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u...
See detail in scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
The UK will not have enough low-carbon hydrogen to run power stations anyway. The CCC’s own data shows this
www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u...
See detail in scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
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And hydrogen combustion creates more NOx pollution than natural gas
(Image: from earthjustice.org/feature/gree...)
And hydrogen combustion creates more NOx pollution than natural gas
(Image: from earthjustice.org/feature/gree...)
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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And hydrogen combustion creates more NOx pollution than natural gas
(Image: from earthjustice.org/feature/gree...)
And hydrogen combustion creates more NOx pollution than natural gas
(Image: from earthjustice.org/feature/gree...)
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Green hydrogen is even worse for power:
Turn 3 units of renewable electricity into hydrogen → you only get 1 unit of electricity back.
The rest is wasted.
Read more:
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Green hydrogen is even worse for power:
Turn 3 units of renewable electricity into hydrogen → you only get 1 unit of electricity back.
The rest is wasted.
Read more:
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
#hydrogen #energytransition #ccs #climatepolicy #netzero #renewables… | Andrew Boswell | 33 comments
Hydrogen Co-firing - how UK policy turns green electrons into dirty electrons
The Guardian yesterday reported on “Energy firms complete UK first hydrogen-blending trial on power grid” (13 October 20...
www.linkedin.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Green hydrogen is even worse for power:
Turn 3 units of renewable electricity into hydrogen → you only get 1 unit of electricity back.
The rest is wasted.
Read more:
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Green hydrogen is even worse for power:
Turn 3 units of renewable electricity into hydrogen → you only get 1 unit of electricity back.
The rest is wasted.
Read more:
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
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🚨 #LNG ‼️
Blue hydrogen (the only hydrogen available at scale this decade) often has higher lifecycle emissions than burning natural gas once LNG met, read more:
scrapcc.org/BLOG
🚨 #LNG ‼️
Blue hydrogen (the only hydrogen available at scale this decade) often has higher lifecycle emissions than burning natural gas once LNG met, read more:
scrapcc.org/BLOG
Autumn 2025 update: Scrap Carbon Capture when it is based on gas
Time for Governments to review the science and remove CCS from its climate plans
scrapcc.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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🚨 #LNG ‼️
Blue hydrogen (the only hydrogen available at scale this decade) often has higher lifecycle emissions than burning natural gas once LNG met, read more:
scrapcc.org/BLOG
🚨 #LNG ‼️
Blue hydrogen (the only hydrogen available at scale this decade) often has higher lifecycle emissions than burning natural gas once LNG met, read more:
scrapcc.org/BLOG
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🏭 Fossil fuel developers claim it cuts emissions.
🔬 The science says the opposite.
🚨Govt and @thecccuk.bsky.social have bought the lobby lines.
💰💰And see how much it would cost as part of CCS programme using blue hydrogen scrapcc.org/400BN-CCS-SST
🏭 Fossil fuel developers claim it cuts emissions.
🔬 The science says the opposite.
🚨Govt and @thecccuk.bsky.social have bought the lobby lines.
💰💰And see how much it would cost as part of CCS programme using blue hydrogen scrapcc.org/400BN-CCS-SST
#ThinkAgainRachel about burning billions on Carbon Capture
UK CCS plans have up to £136bn for power stations to burn gas and £128bn to burn biomass
scrapcc.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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🏭 Fossil fuel developers claim it cuts emissions.
🔬 The science says the opposite.
🚨Govt and @thecccuk.bsky.social have bought the lobby lines.
💰💰And see how much it would cost as part of CCS programme using blue hydrogen scrapcc.org/400BN-CCS-SST
🏭 Fossil fuel developers claim it cuts emissions.
🔬 The science says the opposite.
🚨Govt and @thecccuk.bsky.social have bought the lobby lines.
💰💰And see how much it would cost as part of CCS programme using blue hydrogen scrapcc.org/400BN-CCS-SST
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🔥 The UK is sleepwalking into a major energy mistake: co-firing hydrogen with natural gas in NEW gas power stations
Like this one on Humberside just going to national planning
keadbynextgen.com
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST, summary in 🧵 below
🔥 The UK is sleepwalking into a major energy mistake: co-firing hydrogen with natural gas in NEW gas power stations
Like this one on Humberside just going to national planning
keadbynextgen.com
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST, summary in 🧵 below
Keadby Next Generation Power Station
keadbynextgen.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🧵 1/
🔥 The UK is sleepwalking into a major energy mistake: co-firing hydrogen with natural gas in NEW gas power stations
Like this one on Humberside just going to national planning
keadbynextgen.com
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST, summary in 🧵 below
🔥 The UK is sleepwalking into a major energy mistake: co-firing hydrogen with natural gas in NEW gas power stations
Like this one on Humberside just going to national planning
keadbynextgen.com
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST, summary in 🧵 below
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Hey #RachelReeves & @teamlabouruk.bsky.social - here's a thought. New policy: every benefit fraud crackdown has to have a parallel tax evasion crackdown. With human resource applied to each commensurate with the scale of the fraud. #MakeThemPay
Hey #RachelReeves & @teamlabouruk.bsky.social - here's a thought. New policy: every benefit fraud crackdown has to have a parallel tax evasion crackdown. With human resource applied to each commensurate with the scale of the fraud. #MakeThemPay
Reeves to launch crackdown on benefit fraud alongside lifting two-child limit
Move aims to bring in extra £1.2bn of savings as government seeks to head off criticism over welfare spending
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Hey #RachelReeves & @teamlabouruk.bsky.social - here's a thought. New policy: every benefit fraud crackdown has to have a parallel tax evasion crackdown. With human resource applied to each commensurate with the scale of the fraud. #MakeThemPay
Hey #RachelReeves & @teamlabouruk.bsky.social - here's a thought. New policy: every benefit fraud crackdown has to have a parallel tax evasion crackdown. With human resource applied to each commensurate with the scale of the fraud. #MakeThemPay
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Foxholes’ ‘line in the chalk’: locals come together to resist gas drilling proposal
What happens when a village community stands its ground against the potential environmental threat from a powerful developer
By David Eddy
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
What happens when a village community stands its ground against the potential environmental threat from a powerful developer
By David Eddy
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Foxholes’ ‘line in the chalk’: locals come together to resist gas drilling proposal
What happens when a village community stands its ground against the potential environmental threat from a powerful developer
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Foxholes’ ‘line in the chalk’: locals come together to resist gas drilling proposal
What happens when a village community stands its ground against the potential environmental threat from a powerful developer
By David Eddy
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
What happens when a village community stands its ground against the potential environmental threat from a powerful developer
By David Eddy
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk