UK govt carrying over the ‘hot air’ credits from previous years carbon budgets to make the next budget period easier to meet would be short-termism & failure on an epic scale

Main impact is to make compliance with long term targets harder and more costly theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Two striking things about this chart:
1. Environmental taxes have actually been going DOWN, not up, as a share of total revenues in Europe in recent decades.
2. The UK has consistently had lower environmental taxes than the EU avg
ons.gov.uk/economy/enviro…

The NFU ask to pause the BPS phase out is self defeating

It’ll mean that the launch of an expanded SFI in the summer is derailed, just as farmers are getting behind it

Better would be to lobby for a declaration under s.20 of the Agriculture Act

But what, you ask, is this…🧵

Oh come on! This The New Statesman piece by Claire Coutinho 🤦🏻‍♂️- headline: 'New oil and gas is compatible with net zero'. Yet Climate Change Committee states clearly: 'Expansion of fossil fuel production is not in line with net zero'... It's right there in the exec summary!
theccc.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

British farmers are considering walking away from their farms as recent record run of wet weather has left sector “on the brink”, experts warn:

by Jack Simpson 💚

theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Drivers of plug-in hybrid electric cars could be spending twice as much to fuel their cars compared to what automakers have led them to believe, finds ⁦ECIU⁩ analysis:

by ⁦Cecilia Keating⁩
businessgreen.com/news/4206405/s…

Climate change is leading to food price volatility and British households are not equipped to cope, experts warn ahead of Government’s second Farm to Fork summit next week:

by Josie Clarke

independent.co.uk/business/clima…

Brazil floods: 'We've never experienced anything like it' - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A few potentially misleading claims in this piece on electricity imports in Monday's The Times and The Sunday Times

Let's set the record straight... 🧵

💥Exclusive💥

‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair

- Survey of hundreds of IPCC experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn the climate fight must not be abandoned

By me
theguardian.com/environment/ng…

Last month was the hottest April on record for the world, adding an 11th month to the streak of record global temperatures, Copernicus ECMWF scientists said independent.co.uk/climate-change…

Wild thought. I reckon you could probably fix the #climate problem if we stopped subsidising the very profitable fossil fuel industry. Thanks to Financial Times for the graph, in any case. ft.com/content/6873d9…

Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me…
🧵 1/n #ClimateCrisis

World's oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year

Nearly 50 days have smashed existing highs for the time of year by the largest margin in the satellite era:

bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

NEW

Renewable power reaches record 30% of global electricity in 2023

🌞Driven by phenomenal growth in wind and esp solar

📉'Critical turning point' as burning fossil fuels for electricity will likely start to fall this year

Analysis Ember

news.sky.com/story/renewabl…

2024 sees record start to year for electric vehicle sales
independent.co.uk/climate-change…

London voter polling: ULEZ not ‘net zero’, not big issue

Survey says that those who said they were likely to vote ranked the Ultra Low Emissions Zone as ninth from a list of top issues:

eciu.net/media/press-re…

New: poll by More in Common for ECIU finds widespread, majority support for UK’s net zero climate target across voters for all main parties

Even more than half (52%) of Reform UK voters supportive of net zero:

eciu.net/media/press-re…

Fresh polling and results suggest Number 10's decision to rollback climate policies - and crucially to be seen to do so - has backfired quite spectacularly. businessgreen.com/news/4204862/l…

As the local election results come in, new polling from More in Common for ECIU asked what was in the mind's of voters when it came to #NetZero 🧵
eciu.net/media/press-re…