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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 18h

With just 5 years remaining to protect 30% of our land for nature, we urgently need to boost nature in our National Parks and National Landscapes.

Any weakening of laws protecting these vital areas for nature recovery would be a serious backwards step.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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

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Evan Walker @ecologicalev.bsky.social · 17h

“It took us decades to accumulate the impact that we’ve got already today, and just in a few short years—25 years—we’re going to double, or maybe triple that.”

🌎 insideclimatenews.org/news/2609202...

Human Impacts on Ocean Could Double or Triple by 2050, a New UC Santa Barbara Study Warns - Inside Climate News

As climate change, fishing and other human activities threaten marine ecosystems, scientists predict which areas are most at-risk to better inform decision makers.

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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 14h

Suriname steps up and wants to protect 90% of its #forests reports the @rainforetrust.bsky.social 🌍

#30x30 #Rewilding #HalfEarth #TropicalForests

www.rainforesttrust.org/our-impact/r...

Suriname pledges to permanently protect 90% of its forests, far exceeding the 30x30 global goal for climate and biodiversity protection – Rainforest Trust

Suriname pledges to permanently protect 90% of its forests, a significant commitment for global climate action and biodiversity.

www.rainforesttrust.org

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 18h

Important. Do share.

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 20h

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 20h

Another Brexit fail. And a Climate Emergency stlll in progress: Brexit has done nothing to stem sharp decline of UK fish populations, shows study www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brexit has done nothing to stem sharp decline of UK fish populations, shows study

Experts call for urgent strategy to end overfishing as report shows just 41% of stocks of species such as cod and mackerel considered healthy

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 20h

Something to write to your Labour MP about, if you have one: UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 20h

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds

NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

www.theguardian.com

Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 20h

Very good.

Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 20h

Britons back staying in ECHR by 46% to 29%, poll suggests - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 20h

Hard to cut emissions in some sectors? See an analysis:
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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 21h

MPs and public underestimate urgency of climate action, new UEA study reveals eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

MPs and public underestimate urgency of climate action, new UEA study reveals

Fewer than 15% of UK MPs knew emissions must peak by 2025, raising questions about climate communication

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1d

It’s now *cheaper* to buy and install solar panels and batteries in Africa replacing all the electricity from a coal power plant, than it is to buy coal for an existing coal power plant .

Just by not wasting money on the coal and buying solar PVs.

Only idiots would buy the coal.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 2d

Oh:
- The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July.
- China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period.
By @akshatrathi.bsky.social
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance

China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

www.bloomberg.com

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. How is that for a measurement of economic decline.

John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 1d

The IEA has updated its projections of renewable power capacity expansion around the world. The forecast for the US is revised downward by 50% thanks to the hostile policy environment.

IEA (2025): Renewable capacity expansion changes from Renewables 2024 to Renewables 2025 in selected countries or regions, 2025-2030

Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 1d

Oops. The accumulating evidence of factors suggesting decline towards collapse of AMOC bears a family resemblance to the speedier scenario offered in to the film THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. AMOC collapse at any point in the future would be catastrophic with geographically far reaching effects.

Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 1d

Cold freshwater pouring off Greenland's melting ice cap and glaciers is messing with key ocean currents that help modulate the entire global climate ... Scientists say it's not a good thing.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...

Aerial view of part of the coast of Greenland, showing glaciers flowing through mountains and into a blue sea flecked with big and small icebergs.

Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 1d

Delay is denial, whatever the words used may be.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

There's a very nice new report from @climateanalytics.org on precisely this: "Hard to abate" has become its own form of subtle climate delay --->>

@billhare.bsky.social @cindybax.bsky.social

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Conclusion
The persistent classification of iron and steel and cement as “hard-to-abate” sectors has
shaped both policy and industrial responses in ways that risk undermining the urgency
and effectiveness of global climate mitigation efforts.
While the technical and process-related challenges in these sectors are non-trivial, the
evidence presented in this report demonstrates that their decarbonisation is not only
possible but highly achievable with existing and emerging technologies—especially
when guided by integrated, whole-of-system approaches and supported by robust
policy frameworks.
A narrow focus on production-side constraints—such as process emissions in clinker
production or the fossil fuel dependence of BF-BOF steelmaking—has encouraged
decarbonization strategies put forward by the industry to rely heavily on CCUS and
offsetting as core mitigation strategies. This framing assumes that a substantial portion
of sectoral emissions are unavoidable, which justifies delayed action and continued
operation of high-emissions infrastructure. However, our analysis shows that much of
what is labelled “residual” or “unavoidable” emissions can, in fact, be abated at source
through a combination of clean technology deployment, material efficiency, and
demand-side reductions.
In the iron and steel sector, commercially available technologies—particularly electric arc
furnaces (EAFs) coupled with high scrap availability and direct reduced iron (DRI) using
green hydrogen—can replace the BF-BOF pathway. While steel production capacity is
long-lived and capital-intensive, studies show that aligning investment timelines with
early retrofit and decommissioning schedules could reduce cumulative emissions by up
to 66% over 2020–2050, compared to just 47% if low-carbon measures are delayed by
five years.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 2d

Greta--always a hero, and always eager to get the focus where it belongs
www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-...

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 1d

It's really great that places with melting permafrost get extra heat. Or it wd b if we were terra forming an ice world?

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 1d

Much of the #Arctic Circle observed warmer than average conditions in September 2025. Some of the largest anomalies were over Greenland and northern Canada, though regionally-dependent anomalies were over Siberia.

High resolution version updated monthly for download at zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Two polar stereographic maps side-by-side showing actual air temperatures in September 2025 on the left and the temperature anomaly on the right for September 2025. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. All data uses ERA5 reanalysis. Most areas are warmer than average.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

New satellite imagery from @planet.com this morning shows water overflowing the Tala Hydroelectric Power Station in Bhutan. Hard to tell from this, but appears the dam hasn't failed at this point. Unclear what the brown stuff is in the lake upstream. Logs or sediment upstream landslides perhaps? 🧪⚒️

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Renewables have now overtaken coal in the share of electricity generation globally.

Ember @ember-energy.org · 1d

NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️

Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.

https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Despite the noise, renewables keep rising now generating more electricity than coal.

@iea.org halved its US outlook, but raised India’s by 10%, putting it on track as the No. 2 growth market after China. MENA up 23%, driven by Saudi wind and solar.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

You can't fix offsets, because they're not really broken

They are designed from the ground up as a way for polluters to falsify climate action, and for disgustingly rich bankers to divert funds away from frontline communities

As long as fossil fuels exist, offsets will exist

Good paper! -->>>

Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?

This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their p...

www.annualreviews.org

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely. What's the difference between an offset and an alibi? Can't hear any convincing answers out there...

Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 1d

The entire idea of "offsetting" was always flawed. The only way to draw down emissions is to require emitters to emit less. There were well-intentioned people who mistakenly thought offsets were useful. Then there are others who still know it's worthless, but make money off selling them anyway.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.