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🔥 BP made £4.2 billion in profit in just 3 months while 'firewaves' hit communities across the UK… What climate change? ❌ Enough putting profits before people. 📣 Join us in calling on Andy Burnham to reject all new UK oil and gas licences. Sign the petition ✍️ zerohour.uk/andy
A massive plastic pellet spill is threatening North Sea wildlife 🌊 Coastal communities are stepping up, but we need action. Join us and ask @andyburnham.bsky.social to launch an emergency response & hold polluters accountable! #NurdleSpill #StopPollution action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tyn...
Tell Andy Burnham: Save the North Sea from plastic pellet disaster
One of the UK's biggest spills of plastic pellets (or “nurdles”) is flooding the North East’s coastline. It could harm wildlife in the North Sea for decades. Thousands of volunteers – including Friend...
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A massive plastic pellet spill is threatening North Sea wildlife 🌊 Coastal communities are stepping up, but we need action. Join us and ask @andyburnham.bsky.social to launch an emergency response & hold polluters accountable! #NurdleSpill #StopPollution action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tyn...
Tell Andy Burnham: Save the North Sea from plastic pellet disaster
One of the UK's biggest spills of plastic pellets (or “nurdles”) is flooding the North East’s coastline. It could harm wildlife in the North Sea for decades. Thousands of volunteers – including Friend...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
If corporations paid ‘where they play’ not ‘where they say’, the UK would be up £13 billion a year. It's time we ended the corporate tax scam. 👉 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It happened again! BP just announced staggering. Oil and gas companies should not profit from an energy crisis. Will you sign this petition calling on governments to put in place permanent taxes on oil and gas companies? act.350.org/sign/treaty-...
Sign the petition: The global tax treaty that can make polluters pay
Every time oil and gas prices spike, from war, shortage, or plain market panic, big oil and gas companies cash in. We pay more at the pump and on our energy bills. They pay almost nothing extra in tax...
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All the new mega AI data centres planned or under construction in the UK vs all the areas currently in drought. Can anyone spot a problem?
We're asking the new Democracy Minister to make the Representation of the People Bill truly transformative for our democracy. Please sign our letter! secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/196341/...
The New Democracy Minister
We're asking the new Democracy Minister to make the Representation of the People Bill truly transformative for our democracy. Please sign our letter!
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk
Our country and its people need investment and those with the broadest shoulders - people like us - should be the ones to do it #TaxTheSuperRich
Can you help @zero-hour.bsky.social reach it's £25k crowdfunder target? Help us call on Andy and the UK Gov to deliver on climate and nature! #ClimateChange www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/secure-our...
SECURE OUR FUTURE, FOR US
Help us make the new UK’s Prime Minister – Andy Burnham – deliver on climate and nature and Secure Our Future.
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The open letter to the Prime Minister from the NEB experts, published in the Financial Times, is now on our website for easier sharing. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
National Emergency Briefing
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from nine leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions.
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The cards are stacked against people - it doesn't have to be this way #TaxTheSuperRich
🔥 The UK is burning. But you don’t put out wildfires by greenlighting a new North Sea oil field that will increase extreme heat and energy bills. ❌ Zero Hour's Co-Director James Sutton asks: will Andy choose to protect communities or polluters' profits? ✍️ Sign our petition zerohour.uk/andy
🔇Spain declares climate change a national emergency. The UK should not wait for similar catastrophic impacts to happen in the UK - but get ahead and stage a televised emergency briefing. Enter postcode to see if your MP has joined the Parliamentary Call: www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
Check here to see if your MP has signed
For MPs and Peers to express support for briefing the nation on the threats from climate & nature breakdown to the UK’s security, food supply, health and economy.
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Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
🚨 The climate and nature crisis is no longer a warning about the future. It’s here and now. But is Burnham prepared to meet the moment? 🌍 That's why we're calling on Andy to Secure Our Future and protect communities. ✍️ Sign the petition—and help us reach 10,000 signatures! 👉 zerohour.uk/andy
Prof Hayley Fowler, at the #NationalEmergencyBriefing last November, explaining why wildfires are a growing problem - and why extreme weather is worsening faster than climate models predicted. #TimeToStepUp
In his first speech Britain’s new Chancellor said he wanted to "build hope." But is John Healey ready to fix an economy undermined by decades of underinvestment? Here's what we know about him & what we think of his early flurry of policy announcements. 👉 taxjustice.uk/blog/can-new...
Can new Chancellor John Healey "Build Hope for Britain" - Tax Justice UK
What does Burnham's surprise pick for Chancellor,John Healey, and his early flurry of policy announcements tell us?
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Well done to the anonymous billionaire family on‑shoring their wealth! 👏 But banking in Guernsey instead of Gateshead shouldn’t save you £0.8bn a year in tax. Paying for the investment the UK needs starts with closing tax havens. spearswms.com/wealth/briti...
Record-breaking May temps. June heatwave with significant mortalities, disruption and costs to the economy. Cairngorms. France. Spain. And that's just "our" neighbourhood.
National Emergency Briefing@nebriefing.bsky.social · 2w agoHugely important - and powerful - letter to the Prime Minister from NEB climate science expert Professor @kevinclimate.bsky.social and other senior academics. Please share #NationalEmergencyBriefing
++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."
𝟲.𝟲 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻: the litres of drinking water used by datacentres in England *every day*, estimated by Water UK. 𝟮𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻: the litres of drinking water used by datacentres in England *every day* if the Gov reaches its goal of tripling capacity by 2030...
Right now, the new administration is considering new oil and gas in the North Sea. The heatwaves just keep coming. Please write to the Energy Secretary to demand no new drilling and accelerate the transition to renewables: to.350.org/wQCOF
Tell the Energy Secretary: Bring down bills, don’t destroy the climate
The government says they’re serious about tackling soaring energy bills – but they’re considering new oil and gas in the North Sea. I’ve messaged the Energy Secretary demanding renewable energy that b...
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🚨 North Wales is now officially in drought. This is not normal. It's what happens when we fail to prepare for climate change. 🌿 Andy's 10-year plan is a chance to restore hope. Put adaptation and restoring nature at the centre, and break the cycle of just reacting from one climate-shock to another.
Drought declared in parts of Wales as July on course to be driest in nearly 200 years
Government agency confirms status in north Wales and Upper Severn after series of heatwaves and lack of rainfall
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"We don't solve society's problems by lobbing in the odd cheque...it's about building society together and we should all contribute our fair share." - PMUK's @mr.place
I just signed the @stoprosebank open letter Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP. Please sign here and ask her to #StopRosebank or fail the very first test of the UK's climate leadership: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Open Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP
Our new Secretary of State for Energy faces the first big climate test for Andy Burnham's new government -- whether or not to approve new North Sea oil & gas developments. Sign the open letter asking ...
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A letter to the Prime Minister from the #𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴 experts in today's @financialtimes.com. Please share. Link to a zoomable image: www.nebriefing.org/media With thanks to Business Declares. #TimeToStepUp #NationalRenewal
"It's never one person who creates wealth" Our member Julia Davies on the Good Morning Britain sofas this morning as 120 UK-based millionaires - including Gary Lineker and Brian Eno have signed a letter urging the new Prime Minister to tax their wealth.
Thank you to the 103 MPs who have joined the Parliamentary Call for a live government-led televised emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis. It's time to level with the public about the threats and opportunities. Link in comments to check if your MP supports. #NationalEmergencyBriefing
Wealth taxes on the super-rich were splashed across the front pages of newspapers today. Because our friends at Patriotic Millionaires UK worked with Gary Lineker and over a hundred of their members to loudly say, they're proud to pay more tax. The ball's in your court, Burnham
