Welcome to see members of the #museums and wider #culture sector respond to the Supreme Court ruling and directly oppose the unworkable interim guidance of the #EHRC…https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2025/05/museums-grapple-with-implications-of-supreme-court-ruling-on-sex/

Remember when banks were scrambling to respond to activist pressure and show they were climate leaders? In Feb 2021, Royal Bank of Canada announced they would put $500 billion into Sustainable Finance by 2025. Yesterday they abandoned that goal. Oh the good 'ol days.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Lord Stern robustly rebutting Tony Blair’s illogical and misleading claims on #netzero on #bbc #radio4 right now, and pushing back on the suggestion that there isn’t progress across the world on #climate.

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Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today

It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town

However it’s a bit odd

By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵

On the day BP is reaffirming it’s commitment to increasing oil production, I think there’s a need to be a phase out both of fossil fuels and Tony Blair’s colossal ego…

Maybe Tony could read the IEA’s #netzero report before weighing in. 🤷‍♂️

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #netzero #warcriminal

Reckless business plans here from BP - and yet no movement from the #BritishMuseum or @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social on partnering with the company… 🙄

#climate #fossilfuels #museums #ethics

We need a new term…

“Cos-washing” 💅🤷‍♂️🛢️
sustainabilitymag.com/articles/she...

Taking an ethical stance on corporate sponsorship can have clear benefits, that people respond to your moral leadership… www.advocate.com/exclusives/t...
#ethics #funding #sponsorship

The Supreme Court is wrong.

Solidarity to trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming in the wake of this ruling. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The idea that new oil & gas fields are a key lever for economic dynamism in the UK is completely at odds with the reality of the North Sea basin's inexorably declining contribution to the UK's economic & energy security--not to mention the costs of escalating climate change. Some thoughts:
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Nick complains that the bar is being raised “even higher” ethically…

Yet, he defends his deal with BP when the vast majority of the culture sector accepts that oil money crosses a red line…

…and even backs BP as it abandons its already weak climate commitments.

He has no leg to stand on here!

Importantly, there have not been protests against unethical corporate sponsors engaging in what he terms “criminal damage”.

Also Baillie Gifford chose to withdraw its funding.

But the goal of Fossil Free Books was for BG to divest!

So how much did the firm *really* care about culture? 🤔 2/x

A poorly argued piece here from #BritishMuseum Director Nick Cullinan which is sprinkled with inaccuracies, straw man arguments and mischaracterisations of activism.

We can - and should - have ethical standards for cultural sponsorship.
www.ft.com/content/4e4e... @cultureunstained.bsky.social 1/x

We stand in solidarity with @Greenpeace and the water protectors fighting the Dakota pipeline.

No matter what the fossil fuel industry throws at us, our global movement will continue to fight back.

Date for your diary | We're delighted to announce that the new Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund, supported by the Julia Rausing Trust, will open for applications on 28 April 📆

Head to our website to find out more about the application process and timeline 👉 ow.ly/F6ca50VlnOu

#MuseumFunding

🚨BREAKING🚨

The trial verdict is in. A jury in the Morton County courthouse found Greenpeace International and two Greenpeace entities in the United States liable for over US$ 660 million combined in Energy Transfer’s meritless SLAPP lawsuit.

#WeWillNotBeSilenced

While the corporate culture of Toyota might be interesting, we should perhaps take learning from a high carbon corporation with a slight pinch of salt…https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/feature/what-the-arts-can-learn-from-toyota-cultivating-a-culture-of-creative-resilience

More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN #Climate

A welcome shift - and one influenced not just by the amazing campaign against #Sackler funding but also the #fossilfreeculture movement’s scrutiny of oil sponsorship of the arts…
www.ft.com/content/d2a9...

UK Tory opposition leader Badenoch to abandon climate change net zero 2050 target

This isn't a new direction but a craven failure, feeding not halting Britain's decline

Wrong in so many ways, it fails
• Morally
• Economically
• Socially
• Politically

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www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We’re appalled that the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem was again subjected to intimidation by the Israeli police yesterday.

We are incredibly grateful that, in the face of this attack on free expression, our friend and colleague, Mahmoud Muna, will nonetheless join us in London today.

And we can’t have that conversation Nick wants about how we pivot away from fossil fuels when you’re *literally* endorsing the industry that is wedded to doing exactly the opposite, slashing renewables spending and ramping up oil and gas drilling.

Wake up and smell the ☕️ Nick.
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“The reality is we all use fossil fuels…it’s not binary…”

And here, Nick parrots the deflection used by the fossil fuel industry, the idea that individuals are somehow as responsible as $ billion oil firms that lobby politicians and drill new fields on a massive scale.
🛢️🛢️🛢️🙄
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And no, the reality is not that the roof will fall in if the BM doesn’t accept BP’s money - this sort of scaremongering is misleading and beneath the Director.

Alternatives exist and many major museums have identified them.

This is a failure of imagination and ethical standards by Nick.
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