Samantha Wannop
@samanthaw.bsky.social
Social change, development, nature, climate
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Imagine cycling from your hotel to a historic site, hopping on an electric bus to a museum and strolling to dinner. That’s a blueprint for sustainable tourism.
How bus stops and bike lanes can make or break your festive city trip
Imagine cycling from your hotel to a historic site, hopping on an electric bus to a museum and strolling to dinner. That’s a blueprint for sustainable tourism.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Imagine cycling from your hotel to a historic site, hopping on an electric bus to a museum and strolling to dinner. That’s a blueprint for sustainable tourism.
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Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵
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Beyond the negative headlines, some truly good things came out of Cop30
Beyond the negative headlines, some truly good things came out of Cop30
In this week’s newsletter: Ultimately, climate progress will come from real-world action, and this year’s summit made some promising strides on that front
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Beyond the negative headlines, some truly good things came out of Cop30
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“More than 80 countries supported a transition away from fossil fuels, but were blocked by countries that refused to support this necessary step. More than 90 countries supported improved protection of forests. That too did not make it into the final agreement.” Carolina Pasqualil, Greenpeace Brazil
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
“More than 80 countries supported a transition away from fossil fuels, but were blocked by countries that refused to support this necessary step. More than 90 countries supported improved protection of forests. That too did not make it into the final agreement.” Carolina Pasqualil, Greenpeace Brazil
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An actual just energy transition needs two things: a clear plan to get rid of fossil fuels, and serious money for climate adaptation. COP30 ended weak on both.
We do have the Belém Action Mechanism (BAM), but what is a just transition mechanism w/o the money or political will to make it happen?
We do have the Belém Action Mechanism (BAM), but what is a just transition mechanism w/o the money or political will to make it happen?
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
An actual just energy transition needs two things: a clear plan to get rid of fossil fuels, and serious money for climate adaptation. COP30 ended weak on both.
We do have the Belém Action Mechanism (BAM), but what is a just transition mechanism w/o the money or political will to make it happen?
We do have the Belém Action Mechanism (BAM), but what is a just transition mechanism w/o the money or political will to make it happen?
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NEW: UK confirms 15% cut to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria for its next funding round, a decision aid agenices say will result in hundreds of thousands of otherwise avoidable deaths.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK cuts contribution to Aids, tuberculosis and malaria fund by £150m
Campaigners say 15% cut, which is smaller than had been feared, is serious setback in efforts to combat the diseases
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
NEW: UK confirms 15% cut to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria for its next funding round, a decision aid agenices say will result in hundreds of thousands of otherwise avoidable deaths.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Six works of literary fiction at its most adult.
Booker prize 2025: the six shortlisted books, reviewed by experts
Six works of literary fiction at its most adult.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Six works of literary fiction at its most adult.
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BAD NEWS! Should the swift brick vote have taken place earlier today we would have won. Tories whipped YES but by the time of the vote, support had gone home just like 2 years ago. It is an AGONISING reality. Tell your MP & [email protected] what you think. GUTTED.
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
BAD NEWS! Should the swift brick vote have taken place earlier today we would have won. Tories whipped YES but by the time of the vote, support had gone home just like 2 years ago. It is an AGONISING reality. Tell your MP & [email protected] what you think. GUTTED.
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UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
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Just come across this fabulous website...
'Rewild Your Street - transforming urban streets for wildlife'
What a wonderful idea... and so many useful resources!
If you want to attract more #wildlife to your garden/street this is a great place to start.
www.rewildmystreet.org
#nature
'Rewild Your Street - transforming urban streets for wildlife'
What a wonderful idea... and so many useful resources!
If you want to attract more #wildlife to your garden/street this is a great place to start.
www.rewildmystreet.org
#nature
October 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Just come across this fabulous website...
'Rewild Your Street - transforming urban streets for wildlife'
What a wonderful idea... and so many useful resources!
If you want to attract more #wildlife to your garden/street this is a great place to start.
www.rewildmystreet.org
#nature
'Rewild Your Street - transforming urban streets for wildlife'
What a wonderful idea... and so many useful resources!
If you want to attract more #wildlife to your garden/street this is a great place to start.
www.rewildmystreet.org
#nature
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Read our colleague Max Roser’s article, “The world’s energy problem”, for a global perspective on this issue: ourworldindata.org/worlds-energ...
The world’s energy problem
The world faces two energy problems: most of our energy still produces greenhouse gas emissions, and hundreds of millions lack access to energy.
ourworldindata.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Read our colleague Max Roser’s article, “The world’s energy problem”, for a global perspective on this issue: ourworldindata.org/worlds-energ...
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Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)
Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups
Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)
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Rare wildflower bloom blankets Chile's Atacama desert
Rare wildflower bloom blankets Chile's Atacama desert
One of the world's driest deserts is transformed into a sea of wildflowers after a rare bloom.
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October 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Rare wildflower bloom blankets Chile's Atacama desert
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Some good news.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
September 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Some good news.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
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The UN commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women today.
Mayra Buvinic looks back at the common history of the global women’s movement and the UN starting in the 1970s, offering takeaways on progress for women framed by this history:
https://bit.ly/46wDBBL
Mayra Buvinic looks back at the common history of the global women’s movement and the UN starting in the 1970s, offering takeaways on progress for women framed by this history:
https://bit.ly/46wDBBL
Beijing + 30: Looking Back on Women’s Rights, Progress and Backlash
Over eleven unusually rainy, cold days in September 1995, around 17,000 delegates from189 governments gathered in Beijing for the Fourth UN World Conference on Women. At the same time, more than 30,00...
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September 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The UN commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women today.
Mayra Buvinic looks back at the common history of the global women’s movement and the UN starting in the 1970s, offering takeaways on progress for women framed by this history:
https://bit.ly/46wDBBL
Mayra Buvinic looks back at the common history of the global women’s movement and the UN starting in the 1970s, offering takeaways on progress for women framed by this history:
https://bit.ly/46wDBBL
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The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.
We’ll need to do more than "touch grass" to revive them.
grist.org/language/nat...
#Climate #Language #Words #Dictionary #Environment #Culture #Librarians
We’ll need to do more than "touch grass" to revive them.
grist.org/language/nat...
#Climate #Language #Words #Dictionary #Environment #Culture #Librarians
The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.
We’ll need to do more than ‘touch grass’ to revive them.
grist.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.
We’ll need to do more than "touch grass" to revive them.
grist.org/language/nat...
#Climate #Language #Words #Dictionary #Environment #Culture #Librarians
We’ll need to do more than "touch grass" to revive them.
grist.org/language/nat...
#Climate #Language #Words #Dictionary #Environment #Culture #Librarians
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Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor): 35cm (13.8in) Photographers Doug Gimsey & Tobias Baumgaertner captured these two widowed fairy penguins looking over the Melbourne skyline. The lighter penguin is an elderly female whose partner died. The darker one is a male who lost his partner 2yrs previously. 🐧
September 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor): 35cm (13.8in) Photographers Doug Gimsey & Tobias Baumgaertner captured these two widowed fairy penguins looking over the Melbourne skyline. The lighter penguin is an elderly female whose partner died. The darker one is a male who lost his partner 2yrs previously. 🐧
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Circular retail is not just about what we buy, but how and where we buy it.
How Sweden’s ‘secondhand only’ shopping mall is changing retail
Circular retail is not just about what we buy, but how and where we buy it.
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August 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Circular retail is not just about what we buy, but how and where we buy it.
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Without nature, there is no economy: www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p...
Without nature, there is no economy | The Enlightened Economist
www.enlightenmenteconomics.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Without nature, there is no economy: www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p...
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“But even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. This is about defiance. It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited.” Luke Kemp, on his new book Goliath’s Curse.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
“But even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. This is about defiance. It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited.” Luke Kemp, on his new book Goliath’s Curse.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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More councils are taking action to curb pesticide use on parks, playgrounds, pavements, and housing estates, but legislation is still needed!
My Bill (2nd reading soon) would introduce a national phase-out of pesticide use in public spaces by local authorities.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
My Bill (2nd reading soon) would introduce a national phase-out of pesticide use in public spaces by local authorities.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Half of UK councils still use pesticides in public places, research finds
Pesticide-free movement has grown, but many local authorities still spray weedkiller linked to wildlife declines and cancer
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
More councils are taking action to curb pesticide use on parks, playgrounds, pavements, and housing estates, but legislation is still needed!
My Bill (2nd reading soon) would introduce a national phase-out of pesticide use in public spaces by local authorities.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
My Bill (2nd reading soon) would introduce a national phase-out of pesticide use in public spaces by local authorities.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🚨 @carolinelucas.bsky.social: “The #CANBill is back in Parliament today. We need to build pressure on the Government to make time for it. If you share my frustration, join the campaign, and make sure the Government hears loud and clear that this is urgent and must be passed into law, now.”
July 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
🚨 @carolinelucas.bsky.social: “The #CANBill is back in Parliament today. We need to build pressure on the Government to make time for it. If you share my frustration, join the campaign, and make sure the Government hears loud and clear that this is urgent and must be passed into law, now.”
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Today #HouseofLords, my amendment on exposure - with uniforms - of school pupils to micro- & nano-plastics, #PFAS & other chemicals that permeate environment & will be building up in their bodies through life
@bsacandjac.bsky.social @chemtrusteurope.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@bsacandjac.bsky.social @chemtrusteurope.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Forever chemicals’ in school uniforms could be banned under proposed law
Amendments to children’s wellbeing and schools bill call for ban on Pfas and synthetic fibres over health concerns
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Today #HouseofLords, my amendment on exposure - with uniforms - of school pupils to micro- & nano-plastics, #PFAS & other chemicals that permeate environment & will be building up in their bodies through life
@bsacandjac.bsky.social @chemtrusteurope.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@bsacandjac.bsky.social @chemtrusteurope.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Brilliant video put together by @theguardian.com from footage we gathered investigating new fashion dumps polluting protected wetlands in Ghana
We found Next, M&S, George garments in the conservation area, and H&M, Zara, Primark in a 3rd dump upstream
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We found Next, M&S, George garments in the conservation area, and H&M, Zara, Primark in a 3rd dump upstream
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Clothes from UK brands found discarded in Ghana wetland dumps – video
Unearthed and Greenpeace investigation found items from Next, George at Asda and Marks & Spencer on a rubbish dump in a protected wetland in Accra
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Brilliant video put together by @theguardian.com from footage we gathered investigating new fashion dumps polluting protected wetlands in Ghana
We found Next, M&S, George garments in the conservation area, and H&M, Zara, Primark in a 3rd dump upstream
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We found Next, M&S, George garments in the conservation area, and H&M, Zara, Primark in a 3rd dump upstream
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Treasury cuts to cycling and walking budget UNLAWFUL, rules Court of Appeal
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/treasury-cut...
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Treasury cuts to cycling and walking budget unlawful, rules Court of Appeal
Treasury cuts to cycling and walking budget unlawful, rules Court of Appeal FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10 June 2025 In a historic judgment, the Court of Appeal has today ruled in Transport Action Network’...
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June 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Treasury cuts to cycling and walking budget UNLAWFUL, rules Court of Appeal
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/treasury-cut...
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/treasury-cut...