🏘️ 'Housing is on the front line of our experiences of climate change but too many homes are ill equipped to deal with surging heat' says Green Alliance's Johann Beckford following the release of our latest report.

Read the article in The Times and The Sunday Times here👇
thetimes.co.uk/article/half-o…

Looking forward to speaking to Parliamentarians at this event about the necessary policies to tackle aviation emissions ✈️

Please get in touch with your MP to encourage them to attend! 👇👇

action.wearepossible.org/page/146142/ac…

📢 This is a stark warning from Climate Change Committee

📅 Over a decade of risk assessments and National Adaptation Programmes and we're still missing a 'credible vision for a well-adapted UK'

⌛️ Climate impacts won't wait

The total cost of fuel duty freezes since 2010 is now an eye-popping £90bn and counting, says official Office for Budget Responsibility outlook

obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploa…

Air Passenger Duty is being increased for business class and private jet flights - a welcome move, but the aviation sector still pays £0 in fuel duty, so people filling their cars up at the pump are paying more fuel duty than any airline in the UK...

#budget2024

Chancellor confirms fuel duty will remain frozen

He claims this will save the UK's drivers £50 a year

But that works on the assumption that this freeze will be passed on by fuel retailers

And as Johann Beckford points out, the evidence that this will happen is shaky at best...

In our latest briefing, Sophie O'Connell and Johann Beckford explain what needs to change to reform planning for a future power system that prioritises people, nature and the climate 🏘️🐦☀️

green-alliance.org.uk/briefing/refor…

🚨🚙🚨THE UK IS BECOMING A TAX HAVEN FOR BIG, POLLUTING CARS. 🚨🚙🚨

Transport & Environment’s Good Tax Guide lays out how car taxation unfolds across Europe with a focus on how countries are using their tax systems to support the EV transition.

The UK, it turns out, isn’t doing too well. 🧵

I dug into UK car sales data from 2023 for Transport & Environment UK and, my word, do we have an SUV problem...

🚨UK SUV sales surpassed 1.1 million in 2023, up 24% from 2022 and 37% from 2021🚨

A thread 🧵

Interactive tables here: transportenvironment.org/discover/whats…

Some positive news, despite the bizarre EV reporting over the last couple of days.

⬆️Used EV sales up to 119,000 in 2023
📈91% increase on year before

This matters as it makes cleaner and cheaper to run cars more accessible

🚘 Last Sunday, Paris took a stand by substantially raising the parking charges for SUVs in the city.

👏 This is a bold move that starts to tackle their disproportionate environmental impact.

More from Johann Beckford in our latest blog 👇

greenallianceblog.org.uk/2024/02/06/bra…

💚Happy Monday to the people of Paris!

🗳️Voters have spoken out in favour of cleaner air, lower carbon emissions, better road safety and public space returned to walking and cycling.

#SUVparis Clean Cities Green Alliance

theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

New Environmental Audit Committee report on #heatresilience is vital reading 👇

We spend 90% of our time indoors but only a fraction of our homes are resilient to high temperatures 🏠🌡️

We must bring forward a comprehensive strategy on heat to kickstart a broader conversation on #adaptation