Over two thirds of the British public back proposals for solar panels to be installed on all new houses
87% believe govt policy should ensure new homes are designed to cut energy costs
www.businessgreen.com/news/4526696...
Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a *single* oil price shock
& will insulate UK against future shocks
Meanwhile Reform UK & Tories want to scrap net zero targets on the grounds of 'cost' - so either foolish or doing donors' bidding
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
BP's latest strategy to avoid scrutiny of its vulnerabilities after rowback on green plans?
Don't allow shareholders to talk or vote about it
"Experts said they were unaware of any previous examples of FTSE 100 companies rejecting resolutions that met filing thresholds"
www.ft.com/content/1220...
Reform UK have picked this moment to say they'd scrap support for converting homes to heat pumps, thereby keeping them - & Britain - more dependent on fossil fuels
It's not like there's massive instability & security issues with the world's biggest supplier....
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
"More North Sea drilling will not shield households, building domestic green energy will
"More drilling will mainly boost oil company profits
"Once built, sunlight or wind is free. Prices are stable. Green power is an insurance policy against geopolitical risk"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Eloquent explanation of why waste incineration is bad for England's efficient use of resources
Where there are incinerators, recycling is lower, sometimes much lower
That's aside from the air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions
www.ft.com/content/3585...
On English rivers:
“Excess nutrients translate into algal blooms, fish without oxygen. Ecosystems have spent thousands of years finding their balance, but just a few decades of mismanagement &profiteering at expense of the environment, and the impacts are clear"
www.endsreport.com/article/1950...
War in Iran exposed that Europe failed to stand up to a business lobby that slowed decarbonisation
It committed a "strategic error of slowing a transformation necessary for security & independence....truth is that rearguard action on fossil dependence is bad for business"
www.ft.com/content/a6be...
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
(Published Oct. 2025 with @readfrontier.bsky.social)
Lobbyists for the UK wood-burning stove industry have threatened councils with legal action over public information campaigns warning of the harms of air pollution from the stoves
"straight from the playbook of tobacco" say @mumsforlungs.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If it’s true Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson Robert Jenrick told a business audience last night that renewable companies are "screwed" if Reform get in, it tells you everything about their readiness to inflict national self-harm in pursuit of ideological war on climate action.
Worth noting that despite frothing at the mouth of various right-wing media outlets in UK, the decision by Ed Miliband to go ahead with over 8GW of offshore wind in the recent renewables auction now looks a sensible bet
One of few ways UK can reduce economic risk from instability in Middle East
Maritime groups, ship owners, port operators & logistics companies urge govts to push ahead with global shipping climate deal
It's the one USA used 'bully-boy' tactics to derail last yr
Business is not with US administration on this - USA is being ideological. And wrong
www.ft.com/content/aff5...
See also diluting the electric vehicle mandates. Smart move guys. Keep your entire transport system dependent for longer on oil from unstable regimes
This is a good moment for Europe & UK to remember that they can stick up wind and solar, insulates houses, far quicker than they can find new gas in e.g. North Sea
If you're chasing more gas, it's now a case of which unreliable regime you prefer to depend on
news.sky.com/story/market...
BREAKING: UK to cut international finance on climate & nature
Seemingly under cover of the war on Iran, out comes some bad news
Reminder that govt were warned last year by UK’s spy chiefs that collapse of ecosystems could seriously impact national security
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
quite possibly
QTWTAI...it was a crap idea and always was. Electricity is so much more efficient than hydrogen. It's where buses are headed globally
"If you look at the commercial and technical framework around hydrogen buses, they just don't work'.. It was a house built on sand"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rollback risk
The EU's retreat from climate action means some companies are - quite rightly - kicking off about investments made in good faith on the back of climate policy
"those very policies are precisely the ones that can attract new investment and create jobs"
www.ft.com/content/1f60...
Spanish company Moeve takes final investment decision on 300MW electrolyser for green hydrogen project in southern Spain
Abundant wind & solar make hydrogen production there relatively cheap
First production 2029. Ambition is to enlarge to 2GW electrolyser capacity
www.ft.com/content/32cc...
“A 7.2% decline for every tenth of a degree per decade might sound small. But compounded over time, across entire ocean basins, it represents a staggering and deeply concerning loss of marine life.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
These projections are for 2.4C temp rise, slightly less than what we're currently heading for
And assumes response from govt/local authorities in increasing flood defence spend
But even so, number of homes at high risk of flooding triples to 800k from now
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
If you want to know how Farage's Reform will govern if they take power after next UK election, see how they govern in local areas
Against poll preferences of locals, the Reform Mayor of Lincolnshire cultivates fracking companies to see if they can come & operate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Is there going to be a datacentre NPS? Wasn't aware of that.
Where is it in process?
Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, has disclosed that 140 data centres want grid connections, requiring **50GW** of power capacity at peak
Britain’s peak demand on a recently was 45GW
Can this amount of energy be provided cleanly? Even if it can, is it worth it?
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
There was an effort to eradicate black lung disease that 1/5 of veteran coal miners have
The Trump administration paused enforcement of the relevant standard
“The guy who says he’s a champion of coal miners literally doesn’t care whether they live or die”
www.ft.com/content/4d25...
the next version of this power station has been contracted by UK govt for Sizewell in East Anglia
And for that project all the risks of cockups like this will sit with the consumer and not the builder, EDF
So you do wonder what HMG have been smoking to think it was a good idea
The world is turning upside down with tariff wars and Epstein revelations
It’s reassuring to see normality in some places
Like the news that Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is going to be even more over time & over budget
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
@rogerprotz.bsky.social do pls follow, I'd like to DM - thanks!!
“It’s scandalous that billions of euros of EU taxpayer money is being used to prop up a high-emissions industry at a time when scientists are telling us that we need – on health & environmental grounds – to shift to lower-meat diets”
say @foodrise.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
