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Energy Minister launches anti-NetZero campaign. The idea breaks the UK Paris Agreement pledge & potentially harms business. Climate change is set to cost the UK more than £400m/yr by 2035. The campaign threatens economic security.
Be careful who you vote for in UK Elections.

Ah yes, it rained and Thames Water 💧 as usual empties the bowels of its sewage system into the nearest river.

Claire Coutinho, in my view, is the embodiment of Big Oil capture of the UK government. She's predicted to hold her seat, but possibly not if a group there runs a Primary with the help of South Devon Primary.
There are now 8 primaries in 'safe' tory seats.
politicalprimary.org

Tory MP Chris Philp discovers in real-time that the Democratic Republic of Congo is not Rwanda…

#bbcqt

Left: Conservative MP Lee Rowley suggests inflation and interest rates were not something the UK gov could control and that they are worse all over the world #C4News

Right: In one of those tacky Downing Street videos Rishi Sunak takes credit for 'his plan' bringing inflation…

BREAKING: The High Court has this morning dismissed the application of Robert Courts MP, the Solicitor General, to imprison Trudi Warner, a 69 year-old retired social worker, for holding a sign outside Inner London Crown Court in 2023.

Full press release: shorturl.at/ortKY

WATCH: BBC News report on Trudi Warner’s hearing.

“A 69 year old has been in court today for holding a placard which had no bad language on it, or offensive images on it…”

We can’t make sense of it either, Asad. #DefendOurJuries

defendourjuries.org

Global heating pushes coral reefs towards worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record theguardian.com/environment/20…

A few years ago this stretch of the Strand was a congested road and this was a photo I took of it yesterday, now that it has been pedestrianised 🌳🙌

How to spot five of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest disinformation tactics theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

They should call it Planet Water!

The UK parliament is debating the historic Global Oceans Treaty on 25th April and we need to pressure MPs to ensure this vital legislation, which we signed up to, is ratified as soon as possible.

Contact your MP: act.greenpeace.org/page/147529/ac…

As Minister of Energy Security and Net Zero, Graham Stuart MP championed neither.

But he did:
- blow past the UK’s carbon budget by approving oil & gas fields like Rosebank and Jackdaw
- make us more reliant on expensive polluting energy
- allow £billions in oil & gas subsidies

Jail for holding a placard? Protest over the climate crisis is being brutally suppressed.
Read on Natasha Walter
A doctor of 30 years imprisoned for holding a piece of cardboard, ‘Stop New Oil.’
Her hearing to be struck off begins tomorrow.
#GMC
#BMA
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Justin Tomlinson MP Claire Coutinho MP 'halving emissions' claim is only 👎soundbite Justin Tomlinson MP

Pls do read experts for facts
eg:
twitter.com/SiOldridge/sta…
&
twitter.com/SiOldridge/sta…

We all know that CBDP delivery is hugely at risk twitter.com/friends_earth/…

Over to you to sort out the mess of UK climate policy...

So now Sunak's saying we're world leading with a 68% emissions reduction target. Does he really not know that UK has offshored more manufacturing than almost any other country? So whilst our territorial emissions are down 48%, our total footprint is down by <1% per year.
Does…

Last night's BusinessGreen Overnight Briefing was on getting East Anglia some wind and solar farms.

It's me, Philip Greenwood, founder of Waterways Protection on GB News this morning talking about Thames Water 💧 and Yorkshire Water 💧. I also take aim at the false hope and distraction campaigns of bathing water status and blue flag, which don't help!

#Endsewagepollution