Monbiot: 'We are being bludgeoned into accepting a deeply flawed climate strategy that is neither fast enough nor fair enough. The vast response that climate breakdown necessitates must, like a war effort or a pandemic effort, be a joint endeavour, that happens with us, not to us.' 👏👏

Britain’s green transition should belong to everyone. Why is Labour so intent on stopping us having our say? | George Monbiot

Tearing up planning and using protest laws to criminalise local people – this isn’t how to build the broad consent needed, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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📢Calling environmentalists in Manchester: a chance to learn from world leading expert @pkashwan.bsky.social about how to do things differently/better. Hosted by @wen-uk.bsky.social; proudly supported by @justcentre.bsky.social Tickets are free. Please come!

We’re pleased to be hosting an evening conversation with @pkashwan.bsky.social, author of Decolonising Environmentalism, exploring the intersections of climate justice, power, inequality and environmental action. Find out more and book your free place here: www.tickettailor.com/events/clima...

Select tickets – Decolonizing Environmentalism – Kanaris Theatre, Manchester Museum

Decolonizing Environmentalism – Kanaris Theatre, Manchester Museum, Wed 27 May 2026 - Decolonising Environmentalism: A Conversation with Prakash Kashwan Join us for an evening with Prakash Kashwan, au...

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Join us next Thursday for a lively online discussion about the implications of yesterday's local elections for just climate policy and action in the UK 👇https://www.linkedin.com

🗳️ ONE WEEK TO GO | As votes are counted across the UK today, how will the emerging voter shifts away from the political mainstream reshape the path towards climate justice? Join our panel next… | Ce...

🗳️ ONE WEEK TO GO | As votes are counted across the UK today, how will the emerging voter shifts away from the political mainstream reshape the path towards climate justice? Join our panel next Thurs...

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Thirza Amina Asanga-Rae is on course to become a Green councillor in Greater Manchester after four years campaigning in Moss Side. Our reporter Cameron Baillie catches up with Thirza for this Canary exclusive.

Manchester, meet Thirza — Moss Side Green's candidate

Thirza Amina Asanga-Rae is on course to become a Green councillor in Greater Manchester after four years campaigning in Moss Side

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Thirza Amina Asanga-Rae our amazing candidate for Moss Side, Manchester talks on why we need your voices in politics! 🙋‍♀️ The Green Party website which has listed action days and the range of activities you can get involved in! 💚 Today is the last day to register to vote in the local elections!

📢 Do you want to make the theoretical and empirical case for meaningful social inclusion and diverse leadership in UK climate policy and action? We’re delighted to announce a fully funded 3.5 year PhD studentship in the JUST Centre, based at @manchester.ac.uk 👉 Apply now: bit.ly/42gKLIH

Here is a fun cartoon! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is joy off the table? Have we lost the ancient knowledge of how to have a jolly time? | First Dog on the Moon

Some folk suggest ‘having fun’ in the face of global doom hurtling can be an act of rebellion, and while this is not actually true it can be fun

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'The hope is contagious'. Let's hope it spreads all the way from Santa Marta to @edmilliband.bsky.social who chose to stay home.

Hope is contagious and science is king: 10 big lessons on ending the fossil fuel era

At world-first Santa Marta climate meeting, delegates say it was ‘euphoric’ to finally be focusing on concrete solutions

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Congratulations to JUST's Jake Ainscough who has been awarded a prestigious Innovation Fellowship from The British Academy! 👏 The 12-month fellowship will bring Jake's sustainability expertise to the heart of government policymaking. ➡️ Read more: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-bri...

The British Academy launches new Innovation Fellowships bringing sustainability expertise to Whitehall

The British Academy has announced a new cohort of Innovation Fellowships that will bring cutting‑edge social science and humanities (SHAPE) research expertise to the core of government policy making.

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🚀 Yesterday we kicked off our first Practice-Builders’ Network at the People's History Museum in MCR! Facilitated by @theyoungfdn.bsky.social, our first gathering brought together a group of passionate climate practitioners at the forefront of shaping a just climate future in their communities.

♀️Women across #EU are disproportionately affected by energy poverty—and it’s not getting enough attention ❗ Women, in low income, single parent, elderly households, face high energy hardship. @evaalonsoepelde.bsky.social @harrimus.bsky.social @xaquingm.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A widespread Energy Poverty Gender Gap in the European Union demands targeted policy action - Communications Sustainability

Women are more likely to experience energy poverty in most European Union countries, especially in low-income and single-parent households, according to a study using household budget and living condi...

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In this week's newsletter, @amywestervelt.bsky.social on how petromasculinity is taking itself out and unfortunately destroying everything else in its path drilled.ghost.io/petromasculi...

Petromasculinity Is Eating Itself and Destroying Us All

By Amy Westervelt Like a lot of other folks who came of age in the 90s, I'm having Iraq War flashbacks at the moment. The U.S. and Israel's illegal war in Iran is also bringing to mind a nearly 100-y...

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“Every missile strike is another downpayment on a hotter, more unstable planet, and none of it makes anyone safer,” said Patrick Bigger of the Climate and Community Institute and co-author of new analysis about the climate impacts of the war on Iran, in @theguardian.com:

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds

Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

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High time @unep.org push for international norms against targeting energy infrastructure in war. The ecological damage is multifold - wastage of precious resources, toxic pollution and carbon emissions. Revisiting my article for @forbes.com cc: @katharinehayhoe.com www.forbes.com/sites/saleem...

War and the Environment: Military Responsibility and Peacebuilding

Governments need to raise alarm about the environmental impact of war — and also use data on impacts as a motivation for more rapid peace-making.

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Rightwing narrative fuelling false belief UK public oppose net zero, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rightwing narrative fuelling false belief UK public oppose net zero, study finds

Reform, Tory and some media rhetoric runs contrary to poll showing far more voters for net zero than against it

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The final article from our global study of environmental and climate justice activists and academics is out. Read about this work on strategies and tactics for realising EJ, as well as the other articles from the project, here: www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-envir...

New SEI-led research on strategies for realising environmental justice

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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

"it’s more important than ever for the UK to move away from being reliant on volatile foreign fossil fuels, to clean, domestic, less wasteful energy,” Chair of UK Climate Change Committee 👇

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’

Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

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🌍 To celebrate #IWD2026 we're recognising three exemplars of feminist climate leadership within, and in partnership with, the JUST Centre: She Is Sustainable, Wen (Women's Environmental Network) and Professor @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social 👇 Read more about each below. 2/3

Is water wet? What a silly question @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Does Nigel Farage have a problem with women?

Critics say Reform leader’s patronising rhetoric is part of worrying trend. He says scrutiny is a two way street.

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He is just one big walking inappropriate comment. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin faced GB News complaint over colleague’s claim of ‘inappropriate comments’

Exclusive: Nigel Farage understood to have known of grievance against byelection candidate, whose lawyer described it as resolved ‘minor workplace matter’ of miscommunication

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REVEALED: Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, has been campaigning alongside racists and far-right activists in his bid to win the seat. Read the full story: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/16/m...

Meet the racists and far-right activists campaigning for Matt Goodwin in Gorton and Denton – HOPE not hate

On 26 February, a parliamentary by-election will be held in Gorton and Denton and Reform UK has put up the far-right provocateur Matt Goodwin as...

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🗺️ WEBINAR | Joined-Up Sustainability Transformations: Mapping the current landscape Join us on 4th March 1-2pm to explore the findings of our forthcoming evidence review of 140 actors and initiatives driving JUST climate action across the North of England and beyond. 🎟️ Register: bit.ly/4r9D81w

🗺️ WEBINAR | Be the first to see our new evidence review on JUST climate action Join us 4 March 1-2pm as the authors unpack insights from mapping 140+ actors and initiatives across the North of England. Attendees will get an early look at the review before wider release. Register: bit.ly/4r9D81w

Tommy Robinson is backing Reform candidate Matthew Goodwin. And Goodwin won’t distance himself from the former EDL leader.

🧵 Who is Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s provocative far-right candidate? Goodwin was once a serious academic warning about populist extremism. He has since morphed into something very different. Read our updated briefing here: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/11/w...

Who is Matt Goodwin? Far-right provocateur and Reform UK candidate – HOPE not hate

Matt Goodwin was once a serious academic, who sought to understand the drivers of far-right extremism and warn about its dangers. He has since morphed...

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‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments

Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check

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So right, we need the Feminist Green New Deal @wen-uk.bsky.social @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social

The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 6mo ago

The UN Secretary General has said it's time to move beyond GDP and measure "the things that really matter to people and their communities." He's right.

I've written a new blog - Where do you start the story of climate change? This blog lays out the argument for why climate baselines should not be taken from the industrial revolution, and why the science needs to get past its fixation on attribution. blog.geographydirections.com/2026/01/29/w...

Where do you start the story of climate change?

By Charlotte Weatherill, University of Manchester Where you start any story matters. Especially when describing how a problem came to be, your starting point establishes what has caused it, and the…

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