The #RighttoRepair Directive encourages sustainable consumption by making it easier to repair products instead of replacing them. Today, it becomes applicable helping #consumers save money, reduce #waste, extend the lifecycle of products, reduce CO2 emissions commission.europa.eu/law/law-topi...

Directive on repair of goods

Promoting repair improves the sustainable consumption of goods by consumers

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Since 1 March 2020, anyone in #Luxembourg has been able to board most trains, trams and public buses without purchasing a standard ticket. The small European nation became the first country to introduce free public transport across its entire territory. #publictransport #ActOnClimate #SmartCities

From the garlic-growing region near Nuremberg, following two severe storms on Tuesday and Friday, with gusts of wind, hail and heavy rain totalling 60 to 70 litres within an hour. Around 500 hectares have been affected. Some farmers have lost 100% of their crop #ClimateEmergency #KatharinaReiche

Is Kemi Badenoch “the online right”?

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.

++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."

Irony? Stupidity?

A 3-year-old girl watched ICE murder her father yesterday. We all watched Sebastian Guerrero’s final moments through our phones. We can scroll away — but Sebastian’s 3-year-old daughter cannot.

The US is stripping the world of the International Criminal Court. www.state.gov/releases/off...

State Department Launches Campaign to Dismantle International Criminal Court’s Threat to American Sovereignty - United States Department of State

Today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court to U.S. sovereignty. The campaign will feature a whole-of-governme...

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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Net Zero is not something you can be against; it is a point in time when emissions of man-made greenhouse gases are no greater than their absorption (man-made or natural). You can argue about how and when but not about whether.

This is so powerful. Inspired by the March of a Thousand Robes in Poland, retired and sitting judges in the United States walked down the streets of Columbus, Ohio to stand up for the Rule of Law. #JusticeinMotion

ICE fatally shot a man in Houston yesterday. Agents arrested a nun on her way to mass. An Afghan who helped the U.S. military died in ICE detention, one of at least 21 people to die in detention this year. The headlines have moved on, but Trump is still waging his reign of terror.

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

Independent Scotland will be one of the Richest Countries in Europe. Are you a Unionist, running out of excuses?

Norway will always be the GOAT of the energy transition. Instead of talking about the future, they proved it could be done & showed how. In 15 years, new car sales went from 0% to 99% electric, while the rest of the world kept arguing about timing and speed. #Bettrification #EV

With 150,000 public #chargingpoints by end of 2023, the #Netherlands leads Europe in charging infrastructure per square kilometer. In Amsterdam, drivers are rarely more than 200 meters from a working charger. This density removes the biggest barrier to EV adoption: #rangeanxiety. #ElectricVehicles

Sad to watch this regime purge anyone who puts the country before this president. (And make Us all Less Safe in the Process)

A Missing Woman from Germany Reappears in the #Epstein Files. She vanished without a trace 11 yrs ago. Now, she makes several appearances in the files. There are few certainties, but what is clear is that a family is missing their daughter, their sister. www.spiegel.de/internationa... #DonaldTrump

(S+) The Mystery of Michele: A Missing Woman from Germany Reappears in the Epstein Files

A young woman from Germany vanished without a trace 11 years ago. Now, her name makes several appearances in the Epstein files. Her family wants to finally learn what happened to her.

spiegel.de

AI firms are now destroying our cultural heritage: they are buying massive amounts of used books, scanning them in likely violation of copyright laws, training their models and destroying the books. www.tagesschau.de/kultur/ki-fi...

KI-Firmen kaufen offenbar Antiquariate leer - Buchhändler alarmiert

Es sind sonderbare Bestellungen: Massenweise werden in Antiquariaten innerhalb kürzester Zeit online Ladenhüter bestellt. Dahinter stecken vermutlich Firmen, die ihre KI trainieren. Nicht nur Buchhänd...

tagesschau.de

Le nombre de décès a augmenté de presque 30% en France et de plus de moitié (62%) dans la seule région parisienne lors de la semaine du 22 juin, sommet de la canicule exceptionnelle ayant frappé le pays, a annoncé vendredi l'agence Santé publique France.

#Exxon ’s comeback - #DarrenWoods, CEO of the largest non-state-owned oil company, told shareholders the group’s #oilandgas production was at a 40-yr high and they could look forward to a future that would be the brightest in the company’s history www.ft.com/content/df23... via @FT #ClimateEmergency

Exxon’s comeback

Darren Woods has become the most powerful oil industry chief executive for a generation by testing the limits of corporate power

ft.com

El Niño : l’ONU alerte sur un épisode de forte intensité augmentant les risques de phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes dans le monde

El Niño : l’ONU alerte sur un épisode de forte intensité augmentant les risques de phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes dans le monde

Selon l’Organisation météorologique mondiale, des conditions El Niño sont apparues dans le Pacifique tropical et « devraient se renforcer rapidement ces prochains mois.

lemonde.fr

France’s National Assembly has passed an assisted dying bill for the 2nd time, after it was rejected by the Senate (parallels with the House of Lords - tho the French bill has differences). France looks set to join a flurry of European nations in legalising AD. www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

France's National Assembly approves assisted dying bill

The French National Assembly has passed the assisted dying bill — a law that has sparked controversy across the country — following the Senate's rejection.

euronews.com

Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?

🌡️ L'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) a annoncé dimanche plus de 1.300 morts imputables à la canicule qui frappe l'Europe depuis le 21 juin.

In Spain today: installation of solar panels above major irrigation channels. Channels of more than 100 kms transport water from dams to farmland. - Reduces evaporation -Provides large agricultural areas with power & supports irrigation -Decreases use of water in food production, doubling the crop.

For the first time in the UK, more new electric vehicles (EVs) have been sold over a 12-month period than petrol cars. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Analysis: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time - Carbon Brief

For the first time in the UK, more new electric vehicles (EVs) have been sold over a 12-month period than petrol cars, according to Carbon Brief analysis.

carbonbrief.org

🚨 China just became the first country in history to surpass 4 TW of installed electricity capacity. • 4.01 TW total capacity • 62% non-fossil • 61% renewable • ~1.5% nuclear • 32% coal (down from 61% in 2010) China's electricity system is now roughly 1.7× larger than the US and EU combined.

Germany has successfully engineered a revolutionary transparent solar glass that generates clean electricity while remaining completely see-through from both sides, fundamentally transforming how buildings produce energy. #solarpower #ActOnClimate

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests

Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...

desmog.com

Intolérable: Ce 23 juin alors que #MarcBloch entre au Panthéon, la chaine #Planète de #Bolloré diffuse une adaptation du livre de #Zemmour "Suicide français" dans lequel il lance sa thèse de #Pétain "sauveur de Juifs" (et des Juives) pour laquelle il a été condamné. Une honte absolue !