NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach. I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn. www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

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Really proud to be involved in the @globalcanopy.org research for the latest Which? guide on UK banks and the #climate crisis. Hats off to @triodosuk.bsky.social and The Co-operative Bank for being the good guys. ⬇️ www.which.co.uk/news/article...

Are you bankrolling the climate crisis? - Which?

As banks backtrack on environmental pledges, Which? reveals how your money could be funding climate change – and where to move it

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🌎 On #EarthDay, we're calling on the UK government to fulfil its 2021 promise to ban commodities produced on illegally deforested land. The delay has already cost forests worldwide. We demand ambitious regulations before #COP30 in November⬇️ www.earthsight.org.uk/news/earth-d...

Earth Day 2025: The UK must end its role in global deforestation

This Earth Day, we urge the UK government to lead by example: honour its promises, raise its ambition, and stop the UK’s role in driving global deforestation.

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Estimates suggest more than a third of Brazil’s Amazon timber is of illegal origin - and a lot of it ends up in the United States and Europe as luxury decks, benches and public boardwalks.

The panel also featured ​Helen Bellfield, co-director of @trase.earth. "There exists huge transparency gaps in indirect supply chains. Using per-shipment trade data & information on where companies own assets, Trase maps the supply chain, enabling companies to focus on areas with highest risk.”

#MarmaladeFestival | Belinda Borck, public policy lead for EU, US & UK at Tony’s Chocolonely, explained the importance of shifting mindsets on #data control. “Farm owners should own their GPS mapping data & be fairly compensated. Each company sourcing from the same farmers should share the data."

🔊“Regulation is great, but it’s all about implementation” - ​Aisha Raheem, CEO and co-founder of Farmz2u, at a Global Canopy-led discussion at the Marmalade Festival on the critical role played by open data to end #deforestation and associated human rights abuses. @skollfoundation.bsky.social

well done @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social. I'm with you. In a world that needs leaders, we lose so much by cutting our aid budget www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

International Development Minister Anneliese Dodds quits over aid cuts

Dodds delayed her resignation until after Keir Starmer's meeting with President Trump, saying he had needed a united cabinet.

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#Climate change scepticism has "almost disappeared" from the British press and instead been replaced by a critique of climate action. That means as environmentalists we have to change too and highlight how climate action can build the economy and not weaken it. pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

Climate change scepticism almost extinct from UK national press

Scepticism about climate change has "almost entirely disappeared" from the opinion pages of UK newspapers in ten years, according to research.

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I was tasked with writing a piece about why environmentalists shouldn't be too miserable about the last few months of 2024. I mean, it hasn't been great, but that doesn't mean there's not still a lot to play for. #deforestation #nature globalcanopy.org/insights/ins...

Making 2025 a year for action – Global Canopy

Even though 2024 ended with underwhelming global deals for climate and nature, the economic and political case for action is only getting stronger.

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Great BBC Rare Earth programme on the droughts and fires in the #Amazon featuring Global Canopy Executive Director Niki Mardas. Our thanks to @tomheap.bsky.social and @helenczerski.bsky.social for marshalling the subject so expertly! globalcanopy.org/insights/pod...

“If we don’t solve this problem, it will solve us” – Global Canopy

Global Canopy’s Executive Director, Niki Mardas, spoke to Tom Heap and Helen Czerski for BBC’s Rare Earth - Amazon Future, broadcast on 6 December 2024. Here

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It did not take long until the naysayers on heat pumps also arrived on Bluesky. To all of the "experts" commenting in my feed that heat pumps don't work: STUDY THE SCIENCE! I have - here's my summary: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18...

Factcheck: 18 misleading myths about heat pumps - Carbon Brief

Heat pumps are an alternative to gas boilers and wood stoves for indoor heating. They...

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In the last 2 months we've had: 1️⃣Failure to agree a deal at COP16 2️⃣A deeply unsatisfactory deal at COP29 3️⃣No deal on tackling plastics pollution. Governments are not doing enough which means supporting civil society is more important than ever ⤵️ donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Driving urgent action to end deforestation

Global Canopy is at the forefront of the fight to end market-driven deforestation and nature loss. Our data brings transparency …

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My first skeet, is that really what these are called? And yes it's about #deforestation... The #EUDR is a chance for the EU to lead the world. Is it perfect? No. But the EU amendments to it, make it worse not better. Great article by my Trase colleagues. globalcanopy.org/insights/new...

Trase urges EU to reject last minute amendments to deforestation regulations – Global Canopy

Amendments to the EU deforestation regulations proposed by the EPP group in the European Parliament are not based on evidence and could breach free-trade rules.

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