New: UK to loosen post-Brexit chemical regulations further theguardian.com/environment/20…

World behind on almost every policy required to cut carbon emissions, research finds -Coal must be phased out 7x faster and deforestation reduced 4x faster to avoid worst impacts of climate breakdown #ClimateCrisis Story by Fiona Harvey theguardian.com/environment/20…

This article really bridges the link between fossil fuels, plastics, false solutions, corporate greenwashing and the brazen attempts of vested interests to delay political progress. Well worth a read. #INC3 #PlasticsTreaty npr.org/2023/11/13/121…

via ⁦Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦⁩ in the Times diary

🚨 BREAKING: Today Greenpeace activists are in court with Greta Thunberg, Fossil Free London and Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍 for protesting a meeting of Big Oil CEOs. But it's climate wrecking CEOs who should be in court NOT activists holding them to account. It’s time to make polluters pay!

Not enough people know Netanyahu actually said this. Help Voices Against War place it as a full-page ad in the New York Times. Chip in 👉 gofundme.com/f/raise-money-…

At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency theguardian.com/global-develop…

EU agrees to ban exports of waste plastic to poor countries theguardian.com/environment/20…

This simple infographic is SO powerful- all week at the #PlasticsTreaty negotiations I have heard the concept of 'plastic pollution' completely misrepresented as just a litter/marine issue. Plastic creates pollution at *every* stage of it's life, & we must address all of it

A cocktail of toxins is poisoning our fields. Its effect on humans? Nobody can tell us. A truly jaw-dropping and shocking scandal, that few people have heard of. This week's column. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

🚨 URGENT: Just ONE day left of #PlasticsTreaty negotiations. The world needs High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution to speak up NOW to cut plastic production, ban toxic chemicals & end single-use plastic - that means YOU Steve Barclay! Stop letting the #LowAmbitionCoalition HIJACK the treaty.

Bang-on summary of how the #PlasticsTreaty negotiations ended & why we’re all reeling a bit today. My personal feeling? This fight is already incredibly hard because we could deliver something genuinely impactful!! Chris & colleagues deserve enormous credit for getting us here

Our front page today from the amazing Guardian Environment team who’ve uncovered the most polluting elites and their carbon belching lifestyles

🏳️‍⚧️ Today we remember the transgender people whose lives were lost to acts of anti-transgender violence. #TransDayOfRemembrance | #TDOR

World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before #COP28 - ‘We must start setting records on cutting emissions,’ UN Environment Programme boss says, after temperature records obliterated in 2023 #emissionsgap Story by me theguardian.com/environment/20…

"Small victories and major frustrations mark latest round of plastics treaty negotiations" - neat wrap up of where we landed at the end of #PlasticsTreaty #INC3 by Joseph Winters 🔶 grist.org/international/…

Nearly two thirds of popular swimming spots on English rivers have been found to have unsafe levels of bacteria 24 out of 40 sites tested would be classified "poor" Latest annual water report by Surfers Against Sewage thetimes.co.uk/article/bacter…

Long jail terms of two Just Stop Oil protesters potentially breach international law, UN expert says - Sentences risk silencing public concerns about the environment, climate change rapporteur Ian Fry says #climatecrisis Story by Damien Gayle theguardian.com/environment/20…

"85% of emission reductions [by 2050] must come from cutting fossil-fuel use and less than 15% from applying carbon capture,” says Adair Turner Energy Transitions Commission #ClimateCrisis #COP28 #CCS ft.com/content/c5abf5…

Whenever a journalist exposes a scandal, a load of people jump up and say “so what’s your solution?”. If you propose a solution, they ask “so why haven’t you fixed it alrady?”. We’re not the messiah, we’re journalists. No one’s coming to rescue you. You too need to get active.