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Join @nickdearden.bsky.social of @globaljusticenow.bsky.social to discuss hope for #climateaction in the age of Trump in #Shrewsbury on 2nd December. Nick's talk will come on the heels of the UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil. All welcome!
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In a culture of over-consumerism and next-day deliveries, repair cafés — like the one based at Shrewsbury URC in the West Midlands Synod, featured in this BBC report — have sprung up as an antidote, helping to prolong the life of the items we already own.
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The Shrewsbury repair cafe giving old items a new lease of life
Those behind the Shrewsbury Repair Cafe say it has exploded in popularity since beginning in 2017.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
In a culture of over-consumerism and next-day deliveries, repair cafés — like the one based at Shrewsbury URC in the West Midlands Synod, featured in this BBC report — have sprung up as an antidote, helping to prolong the life of the items we already own.
https://ow.ly/7L5650XeOxB
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Enthusing conversations about the #Climate Change Summit in #Brazil and building a greener and fairer world on #Shrewsbury High Street on Saturday! 🇧🇷 🌍 💚 Looking forward to @nickdearden.bsky.social sharing the energy from the grassroots groups in Brazil in Shrewsbury on 2nd December. #COP30
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Enthusing conversations about the #Climate Change Summit in #Brazil and building a greener and fairer world on #Shrewsbury High Street on Saturday! 🇧🇷 🌍 💚 Looking forward to @nickdearden.bsky.social sharing the energy from the grassroots groups in Brazil in Shrewsbury on 2nd December. #COP30
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This has been a frustrating 2 weeks but with moments of real hope. The hope comes from an increasingly angry and connected movement which will no longer let big business and political leaders burn our world for their own self interest.
The fight continues.
The fight continues.
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This has been a frustrating 2 weeks but with moments of real hope. The hope comes from an increasingly angry and connected movement which will no longer let big business and political leaders burn our world for their own self interest.
The fight continues.
The fight continues.
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5/ Climate change was created by the rich. Most of the world can’t and shouldn’t pay the price to solve this problem. We need finance. Yet rich countries like the UK are cutting budgets, leaving us without a solution.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
UK climate aid is lining the pockets of billionaires
Company trusted with doling out government’s climate finance has invested it in luxury car makers and fossil fuel companies
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
5/ Climate change was created by the rich. Most of the world can’t and shouldn’t pay the price to solve this problem. We need finance. Yet rich countries like the UK are cutting budgets, leaving us without a solution.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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We need an alternative. That’s why we’ve been campaigning for an FFT. We can no longer by held to ransom by petro-states like Saudi or the global north refusing to engage in a real just transition. But hope here:
fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...
fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...
Colombia Announces 1st International Phase-Out Conference — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
Colombia has announced its plan to host the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026. The landmark conference will provide a global platform for countries to coop...
fossilfueltreaty.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We need an alternative. That’s why we’ve been campaigning for an FFT. We can no longer by held to ransom by petro-states like Saudi or the global north refusing to engage in a real just transition. But hope here:
fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...
fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...
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4/ BUT This COP failed to chart a path away from fossil fuels. This is scandalous. Seems Europe has done a deal with the petro-states. We don’t commit to finance, they don’t commit to fossil fuel phase out. Criminals. Never forget.
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
4/ BUT This COP failed to chart a path away from fossil fuels. This is scandalous. Seems Europe has done a deal with the petro-states. We don’t commit to finance, they don’t commit to fossil fuel phase out. Criminals. Never forget.
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3/ The transformation must include radical changes to a trade system which protects fossil fuel interests. It’s good that is on the agenda. We will fight to make the world ISDS-free and ditch a system in which the victims compensate the climate criminals.
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/cop30-m...
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/cop30-m...
‘COP30 must declare an end to ISDS’, delegates told - Global Justice Now
Colombia joins campaigners at event for ISDS-free world UK fossil fuel investors claim more than twice as much money as British government has paid in climate finance Campaigners yesterday launched […...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
3/ The transformation must include radical changes to a trade system which protects fossil fuel interests. It’s good that is on the agenda. We will fight to make the world ISDS-free and ditch a system in which the victims compensate the climate criminals.
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/cop30-m...
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/cop30-m...
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2/ Movements demanded a just transition mechanism and we made progress. A massive achievement in the face of European obstruction. We can’t fight climate change without an economic transformation.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bam! What is the acronym everyone is talking about at Cop30?
Securing the Belém Action Mechanism is a top priority for climate justice advocates at the talks in Brazil
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
2/ Movements demanded a just transition mechanism and we made progress. A massive achievement in the face of European obstruction. We can’t fight climate change without an economic transformation.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Thoughts on #COP30:
1/ This is the first time in years delegates have been brought face to face with those on the frontline. The indigenous communities are the heroes of this COP. They refused to be silenced.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
1/ This is the first time in years delegates have been brought face to face with those on the frontline. The indigenous communities are the heroes of this COP. They refused to be silenced.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
Indigenous activists storm COP30 climate summit in Brazil, demanding action
Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.
www.aljazeera.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Thoughts on #COP30:
1/ This is the first time in years delegates have been brought face to face with those on the frontline. The indigenous communities are the heroes of this COP. They refused to be silenced.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
1/ This is the first time in years delegates have been brought face to face with those on the frontline. The indigenous communities are the heroes of this COP. They refused to be silenced.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
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Colombia slams international trade rules that punish states for climate action
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Colombia slams international trade rules that punish states for climate action
Colombian Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres has called for reform of international arbitration tribunals, saying they’re “one of the greatest obstacles” to the energy transition and favor corpor...
news.mongabay.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Colombia slams international trade rules that punish states for climate action
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🚨 NEW: The UK is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court 🚨
Mikhail Maratovich Fridman - one of the wealthiest individuals in the world - has brought a case against the UK under #ISDS
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/uk-bein...
Mikhail Maratovich Fridman - one of the wealthiest individuals in the world - has brought a case against the UK under #ISDS
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UK being sued by billionaire Russian oligarch in ‘secret corporate court’ - Global Justice Now
THE UK government is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court, it has been revealed. Answering a question in Parliament from Labour MP Martin Rhodes […]
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November 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🚨 NEW: The UK is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court 🚨
Mikhail Maratovich Fridman - one of the wealthiest individuals in the world - has brought a case against the UK under #ISDS
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/uk-bein...
Mikhail Maratovich Fridman - one of the wealthiest individuals in the world - has brought a case against the UK under #ISDS
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/uk-bein...
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A standout awful, but not in direction unusual, experience of the Home Office #HostileEnvironment
So much wasted time and potential
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
So much wasted time and potential
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A standout awful, but not in direction unusual, experience of the Home Office #HostileEnvironment
So much wasted time and potential
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
So much wasted time and potential
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
Glad Bishop Anderson’s spoken out ✔️ Agree strongly!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
Glad Bishop Anderson’s spoken out ✔️ Agree strongly!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
Glad Bishop Anderson’s spoken out ✔️ Agree strongly!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
Glad Bishop Anderson’s spoken out ✔️ Agree strongly!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Last film from #cop30. We’ve been fighting ISDS here all week because these corporate courts = climate finance in reverse. The victims of the crisis paying the perpetrators. It’s obscene. Abolish ISDS.
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Last film from #cop30. We’ve been fighting ISDS here all week because these corporate courts = climate finance in reverse. The victims of the crisis paying the perpetrators. It’s obscene. Abolish ISDS.
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From Cumbria to Colombia the fight against ISDS is on. We’re at #Cop30 to end this toxic system. #CorporateCourts
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
From Cumbria to Colombia the fight against ISDS is on. We’re at #Cop30 to end this toxic system. #CorporateCourts
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As COP30 unfolds in Belém, a study has warned that ISDS rules may make Amazon protection expensive for the very governments trying to save it. aftinet.org.au/new-study-is...
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As COP30 unfolds in Belém, a study has warned that ISDS rules may make Amazon protection expensive for the very governments trying to save it. aftinet.org.au/new-study-is...
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“The reminders that your life may be temporary are a constant drain on your mental health. The big news announcements from all the parties take their toll. It’s always there in your mind that your way of life can be taken away from you.“
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: the people who could face deportation under Reform
As party’s rise fuels fears over future visa rules, people share how the lives they have built are in jeopardy
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“The reminders that your life may be temporary are a constant drain on your mental health. The big news announcements from all the parties take their toll. It’s always there in your mind that your way of life can be taken away from you.“
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To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans
Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
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🚨 NEW in @politico.eu 🚨
Dozens of academics and experts have written to the government urging them to halt and rethink a deal with big pharma that would increase the amount the NHS spends on vital medicines. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Dozens of academics and experts have written to the government urging them to halt and rethink a deal with big pharma that would increase the amount the NHS spends on vital medicines. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🚨 NEW in @politico.eu 🚨
Dozens of academics and experts have written to the government urging them to halt and rethink a deal with big pharma that would increase the amount the NHS spends on vital medicines. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Dozens of academics and experts have written to the government urging them to halt and rethink a deal with big pharma that would increase the amount the NHS spends on vital medicines. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Day two at #COP30 - our director Nick reports back from @caneurope.org's protest for the Belém Action Mechanism ✊🏽
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Day two at #COP30 - our director Nick reports back from @caneurope.org's protest for the Belém Action Mechanism ✊🏽
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I’m at ##COP30 with movements from across the world working to end the rule of the fossil fuel corporations. This week we’re focussing on ISDS. We need to end this toxic system.
#COP30 day one - our director @nickdearden.bsky.social reports back from Belém 👇🏽
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I’m at ##COP30 with movements from across the world working to end the rule of the fossil fuel corporations. This week we’re focussing on ISDS. We need to end this toxic system.
Join @nickdearden.bsky.social of @globaljusticenow.bsky.social to discuss hope for #climateaction in the age of Trump in #Shrewsbury on 2nd December. Nick's talk will come on the heels of the UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil. All welcome!
groups.globaljustice.org.uk/shropshire/2...
groups.globaljustice.org.uk/shropshire/2...
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Join @nickdearden.bsky.social of @globaljusticenow.bsky.social to discuss hope for #climateaction in the age of Trump in #Shrewsbury on 2nd December. Nick's talk will come on the heels of the UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil. All welcome!
groups.globaljustice.org.uk/shropshire/2...
groups.globaljustice.org.uk/shropshire/2...
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Britain has just been challenged under ISDS for the high court decision on the Cumbria coal mine. Why on earth are they demanding more corporate courts in their trade deal with the Gulf? They are a disaster for climate action.
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/gulf-tr...
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/gulf-tr...
Gulf trade deal could ‘lock in’ more rights for fossil fuel industry, campaigners warn - Global Justice Now
UK government reported to be demanding corporate courts as a red line in deal with six Gulf countries The British government has been criticised for demanding investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) ...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Britain has just been challenged under ISDS for the high court decision on the Cumbria coal mine. Why on earth are they demanding more corporate courts in their trade deal with the Gulf? They are a disaster for climate action.
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/gulf-tr...
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/gulf-tr...
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"Given war, exploitation and climate change are forcing many globally to flee their homes, it is time for more politicians to show compassion and decency towards asylum seekers and refugees."
Great from Global Justice Ayrshire in @heraldscotland.bsky.social 👏🏼
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2556...
Great from Global Justice Ayrshire in @heraldscotland.bsky.social 👏🏼
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2556...
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"Given war, exploitation and climate change are forcing many globally to flee their homes, it is time for more politicians to show compassion and decency towards asylum seekers and refugees."
Great from Global Justice Ayrshire in @heraldscotland.bsky.social 👏🏼
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2556...
Great from Global Justice Ayrshire in @heraldscotland.bsky.social 👏🏼
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2556...