Climate Reality Team UK
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The official account of @theclimatereality.bsky.social in the UK. Act like your world depends on it. Founded by AlGore.com #ClimateChange #ActOnClimate
As wildfires continue to burn, Shell today announced £7.4 billion in obscene profits. So we delivered your open letter to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social calling on her to #StopRosebank the UK’s biggest undeveloped oil field. The reality of new oil & gas= our communities pay, Big oil profits.
Hugely important letter to PM Andy Burnham from @kevinclimate.bsky.social &Tyndall colleagues. Rapidly shrinking global carbon budgets were ignored when Govt set the recent Seventh Carbon Budget - now a key ground in #CarbonReckoning legal case www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... (see below)
Kevin Anderson@kevinclimate.bsky.social · last wk.Open letter to the PM on Rosebank & Jackdaw oil and gas fields, covered in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Full letter here: climateuncensored.com/letter-to-th...
Thanks for this really insightful article George CCS is a fossil fuel stitch-up - now with data centres. More data centres ⏩ more gas+CCS ⏩ more LNG ⏩ more methane ⏩ more heat🔥 Burnham has a chance to stop this spiralling - data centre moratorium, move CCS funding to green economy, no Rosebank
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4w agoDespite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Met Office has announced that 2025 has been the sunniest year in the UK since records began in 1910. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
2025 becomes the sunniest year on record for the UK
Sunshine amounts across the UK in 2025 have beaten the previous record set in 2003. Sarah Keith-Lucas looks at reasons behind this record-breaking weather.
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The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out - says Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley
The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out, says the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley
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On 27th Nov, 10 of the UK’s leading experts briefed an invite-only audience of around 1,250 politicians & leaders from business, culture, faith with the latest implications for health, food, national security & the economy of the climate emergency Sign a letter to Keir Starmer www.nebriefing.org
National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
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NEW – UK budget 2025: Key climate and energy announcements | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/unfZgrv
NEW 🚨: Two of the biggest climate villains of our time have teamed up to pull off what could be a £1.3 billion tax dodge. Shell and Equinor are forming a new joint venture, Adura, which will be the new owner of the Rosebank oil field 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/disr...
Disrupt the deal: Shell and Equinor's £1.3 billion tax grab
Two of the biggest climate villains of our time have teamed up to pull off what could be a £1.3 billion tax dodge. Demand Rachel Reeves intervene, investigate this deal, and plug this massive hole in ...
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🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨 It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting… –Global mutirão –Adaptation finance –Fossil-fuel roadmap –China +Much more Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast www.carbonbrief.org/...
Delegates at COP30 made minimal headway on timetable for replacing oil and gas or on firm commitments to reducing carbon emissions www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30’s watered-down agreements will do little for an ecosystem at tipping point
Delegates made minimal headway on timetable for replacing oil and gas or on firm commitments to reducing carbon emissions
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After another divisive climate summit at COP30, the gulf between oil-producing countries (in particular in the Middle East) and the rest of the world has never been wider theconversation.com/cop30-five-r...
Cop30: five reasons the UN climate conference failed to deliver on its ‘people’s summit’ promise
Deals were agreed but with crucial elements missing.
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NEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3isyGpX #COP30
Cop30 moved forward the fight against the climate crisis and the damage it is already causing to lives and livelihoods. But the measures delivered are steps, rather than the leaps needed Read 7 key takeaways from Cop30 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The Amazon insisted on being heard’: seven key takeaways from Cop30
After talks come close to collapse, the deal represents steps, rather than leaps, forward on tackling climate crisis
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”Countries are failing their legal duties, says Erika Lennon, at the Center for International Environmental Law” From: Cop30 live: Deal agreed at Cop after long negotiations www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30 live: Fury, confusion and gratitude as climate deal reached in Belem
After a series of all-night meetings and fears the summit could collapse, an agreement has been gavelled through at Cop30
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It’s very hard to see what the opposition is to a roadmap beyond ‘we just want to burn lots more fossil fuels’. It’s just a promise to discuss a roadmap and it’s for a ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels, not a full phase out. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30: dozens of countries threaten to block resolution unless it contains roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out
Exclusive: The Guardian understands Brazil had been planning to drop a roadmap to a transition away from fossil fuels amid opposition from petro states
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The climate crisis is a crisis mostly of the fossil fuel industry's own making – and one they do not want to fix nor be held accountable for The presence and involvement of oil, gas and coal lobbyists at the #COP30 UN climate summit is like tobacco lobbyists at a lung cancer summit: unacceptable
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
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NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
There’s no Planet B. This is our only home — let’s protect it like our lives depend on it. Because they do. #ActOnClimate
This is frankly ridiculous: More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém, significantly outnumbering every single country’s delegation apart from the host Brazil www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
theguardian.com
A first-of-its-kind nuclear power station is to be built on Anglesey, bringing up to 3,000 jobs & billions of pounds of investment. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the UK's first three small modular reactors
The world is still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as countries have not made sufficiently strong climate pledges, while emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high, two major reports have found www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
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A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, potentially threatening the health of more than 2 billion people as well as critical ecosystems www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people – report
Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure
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Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for combating the climate crisis while China is surging ahead in producing and using clean energy equipment, the president of the UN climate talks has said www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief
Brazil’s André Corrêa do Lago says countries should follow China’s lead on clean energy as conference begins
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BREAKING 🚨: @zackpolanski.bsky.social has joined 250+ organisations calling on Keir Starmer to reject the controversial Rosebank oil field. Rosebank is a defining test of this government’s credibility on climate change. They must reject this disaster project.
US President Donald Trump has been criticised by world leaders for his stance on climate change, ahead of the global COP30 summit - being called a liar by the leaders of Colombia and Chile for his rejection of climate science. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
COP30: Starmer warns 'consensus is gone' on fighting climate change
World leaders address COP30 climate summit in Belém and take aim at Trump record on climate change.
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A new @climateanalytics.org study shows how to limit the overshoot of 1.5°C to the lowest possible level and return warming back well below 1.5°C by 2100 by looking at the highest possible ambition that could be undertaken by countries, starting in 2025 climateanalytics.org/publications...
Rescuing 1.5°C: new evidence on the highest possible ambition to…
This study shows that, even after years of insufficient action, the world can still return to well below 1.5°C of warming this century if countries pursue the “highest possible ambition” in climate ac...
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Climate Emergency Forum@climateeforum.bsky.social · 9mo agoWatch Prof Jem Bendell reveal why saving forests and oceans is the frontline of climate action. Deep insights, urgent solutions, and a call for global collaboration—don’t miss this essential video for our future! @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social #ClimateAction #DeepAdaptation youtu.be/PW9qYpm2xaE
The Trump administration has confirmed that no high-level representatives will be sent by the US to upcoming UN climate talks in Brazil, underscoring the administration’s hostile stance towards COP30 and action on the climate crisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
No high-level US representatives will go to UN climate talks, Trump officials say
Decision to stay away from Cop30 meeting in Brazil underscores administration’s hostility to climate action
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Over half a million Jamaicans are without power and 15,000 are in shelters after Hurricane Melissa tore through the island. A nation amongst those least responsible for the climate crisis is bearing its weight. This is the cost of fossil fuel greed and it’s time they pay up.