Today @mikebernerslee.bsky.social has joined almost 600 scientists and healthcare professionals in an open letter to Andy Burnham, stating that approving Rosebank is not compatible with the UKs climate goals or our position as an international climate leader: www.zerohour.uk/news/roseban...

Nearly 600 Scientists call for Government to reject Rosebank

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"The climate doesn't care how many renewables we have only how much fossil fuel is burned" @mikebernerslee.bsky.social This overall drop in emissions is welcome but needs to be significantly more year-on-year. More renewables AND no new oil or gas #rosebank www.businessgreen.com/news/4535893...

Study: Global fossil-fuel emissions to fall 0.5 per cent this year

Strait of Hormuz crisis has led to lower oil and gas demand that should more than offset any increased emissions from higher coal power generation, Carbon Brief calculates

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Moving just some of our farmland from cattle and sheep (and crops grown to feed them) to home-grown legumes, is a massive win for: 🌍climate 🥗health 🦉biodiversity 💸people's shopping bills Which is why so many orgs and communities can support #banginsomebeans campaign. Great to it working!

The Food Foundation@foodfoundation.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's official, shoppers are eating more beans and lentils. It's no surprise given they're a triple win for health, sustainability and our wallets! www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...

✈️ €10.9bn in free carbon allowances went to European airlines between 2013 and 2025. How much did they spend on decarbonisation? Just €1bn. So where did the rest go? 🧵

How to you go beyond spend-based and build more specific data into your #Scope3 footprint? Join the discussion, with practical tips and best-practice examples from the Small World Scope 3 specialists. 📆 Thu 17 Sept 🕚 11am BST Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6850e0...

The pistachio problem - a fashionable food that's sinking the ground it grows on from its thirst for water. In a changing climate, carbon footprints don't show everything about how sustainable our food really is. Pistachios - time to be a treat, not a staple? theconversation.com/can-producer...

Can producers keep up with our hunger for pistachios?

Pistachio production will require even more water use by 2050 if temperatures and greenhouse gas levels continue to rise.

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More turmoil at the GHG Protocol and another prominent resignation. The carbon accounting industry needs to be built on the best available science, to build trust in carbon footprint data. Scientists resigning is a worrying sign. financialpost.com/pmn/business...

Dispute Over Counting Forest Carbon Roils Global Standard-Setter

Scientists and industry are sparring over climate accounting rules being developed by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

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Good to see another initiative to make sharing carbon footprint data between different business suppliers easier. #OpenCCF Open Corporate Carbon Footprint Data Model has been developed by our friends at the SME Climate Hub and is endorsed by the Carbon Accounting Alliance. openccf.org

Open Corporate Carbon Footprint Data Model

OpenCCF is an open, CC0 data model for exchanging corporate carbon footprint data between software systems, aligned with the GHG Protocol.

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Is this summer the 'New Normal'? I wish that were true... subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/88/n...

Not the ‘New Normal’ Educating the Public on the Nature and Climate Crisis is a Step to Putting it Firmly on the Political Agenda – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition

Professor Mike Berners-Lee, chair of the National Emergency Briefing, sets out the ‘civic moment’ he is trying to create as extreme weather events show no sign of slowing

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Here's a letter in the @financialtimes.com today from me and others at the @nebriefing.bsky.social making the case that the national renewal Burnham is calling for of trust, hope and 'good growth in every postcode' is enabled by the country being properly informed on the climate and nature crisis.

Great podcast with @mikebernerslee.bsky.social & @nickbreeze.genn.cc discussing heat, food production, national security and why we're not ready for what's coming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziP8... open.spotify.com/show/1jhQYkB...

Carbon Footprint Radar want to know what your company is doing in it's carbon plans: fr.surveymonkey.com/r/carbonfoot... Which Scopes do you cover? Which methodologies do you use? How much budget have you allocated? Who makes the decisions? What do your target and reduction plans look like?

When we map landscape carbon, peatland restoration in our uplands is vital, and could help create net zero or even net negative National Parks. Add in the increased risk of flooding to cities like York and Carlisle, and these cuts don't make economic sense. inews.co.uk/news/defra-c...

Defra cuts halt peatland restoration in Lakes and Yorkshire - while South gets funding

Upland areas in the North of England and the South West miss out on new funding, meaning cities like Leeds and Carlisle could be more vulnerable to flooding

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Can You Trust Your #Scope3 Emission Factors? If an auditor or client asked you what your emission factors include, would you know? Join our webinar 16 July with @mikebernerslee.bsky.social events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3cefa3... We'll explore... 1/4

Exactly. There will be no new normal. The weather will keep becoming more extreme until the world decarbonises. We might have the odd calmer year but the trend will be more extreme. So today’s UK weather is the least extreme we can ever expect. Time to finally WAKE UP.

Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NO! It's going to keep getting hotter year-on-year, decade-by-decade Until we stop pumping out greenhouse gases and positive feedback loops and tipped tipping points have finished with us And the temperature will stay elevated for many thousands of years www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

A report by TheCityUK and insurer Marsh warns of 'protection gaps' as extreme weather events increase. "The report argues there is more that could be done by the private sector... in developing ways to account for climate resilience in insurance." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Rising cost of insuring against climate crisis will have wider knock-on effects for UK economy | Heather Stewart

As extreme weather events become more common, economists say government will need to take more active role to protect consumers

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🚨 Landmark ruling in France: Companies are responsible for ALL their emissions, from their upstream supply chain and downstream from their products. #Scope3 #CarbonAccounting www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

City of Paris achieves partial victory over TotalEnergies in climate risks case

French capital hails ‘landmark decision’ against oil firm relating to disclosure of emissions from oil and gas products

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Sometimes our predictions for the future can be a little off, particularly around how well we think emerging technology will scale. ☀️ Carbon capture and solar power generation have both been predicted to rapidly increase in the first half of this century...

The new ISO Standard for Net Zero Organisations is open for consultation, ends 17 Aug. Aiming to bring best practice on setting net zero targets and reporting action, in a new international standard. It proposes 4 stages a business can claim to be at: pages.bsigroup.com/iso-net-zero...

Worrying to see these allegations of industry-led influence over forest carbon accounting standards at the GHGP. When we assess the carbon footprint of landscapes we account for woodlands, peatlands and wetlands as carbon sinks. Accounting for carbon as trees are felled is problematic...

Danny Cullenward@ghgpolicy.org · 4mo ago

I have resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board. The Protocol is openly violating its own rules and has effectively delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret, industry-led working group. ghgpolicy.org/s/2026-06-08...

The economic reality is starting to push back against climate delayers and denialists. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds

Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics

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Great to see this collaborative push to get supermarkets to increase plant-based food sales. Product choice, product placement, special offers and promotions, recipe guidance, are all powerful levers to shift buying patterns.

The Food Foundation@foodfoundation.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We've joined the @wwf.org.uk @eatingbetter.bsky.social and @madrebrava.bsky.social to ask UK supermarkets to increase their sales of plant-based food. This could mitigate rising food prices and protect our food system from the threat of climate and conflict-related shocks. www.plantricheurope.org

🚨 The UK should hold a national briefing on climate and nature risk to the UK. ✅ Sign and then share this petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... #NEBriefing

Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks

The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...

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✈️ Every transport sector pays for its pollution. Except one. Cars. Trains. Trucks. All are subject to fuel taxes, VAT and carbon pricing. Aviation? Still mostly exempt. 📲 Share this post if you think aviation should pay its fair share.

Reporting of Scope 1 and 2 emissions should be mandatory for all corporations. And Scope 3 should be mandatory for large businesses. If a business isn't measuring its emissions, it can't claim to be working to reduce them.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 5mo ago

Both CDC and Amazon fought like hell to avoid having to disclose their Australian emissions to the regulator, for instance. You can really see why:

This is great news. OF COURSE our flight emissions should be counted in the UK's carbon footprint. But full consumption-based footprints would be better 🧵 "Ignoring emissions beyond the UK’s borders is no way to tackle climate change." Toby Perkins MP...

EAC Chair welcomes changes to international air emissions and national highways - Committees - UK Parliament

Today the Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee has welcomed news from the government on international aviation emissions and the environmental management of highways projects.

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The climate doesn't care how many renewables we have. It only cares how little fossil fuels we use. "A group representing more than 1/2 of global GDP and 1/5 of fossil fuel production is large enough to begin shaping markets..."

Tzeporah Berman@tzeporah.bsky.social · 5mo ago

History is made by those who show up, and that is exactly what's happening in Santa Marta. There are 60 countries here, academics from all over the world, Indigenous people, civil society, all here to do one thing: figure out how to phase out fossil fuels. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...

Congratulations to @sarahfinch.bsky.social for winning the Goldman Environmental Prize. Sarah's story has 3 important lessons ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

From a Surrey oil well to the supreme court: how an activist changed UK climate law

Sarah Finch’s fight against drilling led to a landmark ruling on fossil fuel emissions – and a leading environmental prize

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The People's Emergency Briefing provokes a lot of different emotions. Here are some from viewers at our Lancaster screening. How will you feel? Find a screening: www.nebriefing.org/screening-map