My piece for The Conversation on the impact of Putin's 🇷🇺 War in Ukraine 🇺🇦 on some key Strategic Elements & Critical Materials ⚗️🧪 for technologies that will be essential to our 🔋⚡️ green transition. Birmingham Energy #BCSECM Met4Tech theconversation.com/war-in-ukraine… via The Conversation

"We will run out of metals and materials that are vital for technologies that we need. So, quite simply, we have to remanufacture." Matthew Lloyd Davies featured on Bloomberg Green Bloomberg Green talking about the importance of adopting a #CircularEconomy. 📽️ ow.ly/TPMS50JkJOU

Congratulations @ProfDaveWorsley and Prof James Durrant! 👏🏽🎖️🎖️

Using hydrogen instead of coke to power furnaces, cutting the carbon in steelmaking. #21CSteel 🌍♻️ Great to see Materials Processing Institute success in getting funding for this research, as reported in The Chemical Engineer magazine.👇🏽 And our team Steel and Metals Institute are partners in the work!

Sorry to repeat myself, but you *really* need to know this. Under the government's Public Order Bill, anyone who has protested in the previous 5 years can be forced to "submit to ... being fitted with, or the installation of, any necessary apparatus" to monitor your movements.

Huge news for Steel. What now for the UK @beisgovuk @tradegovuk HM Treasury? At SUSTAIN Steel, UK Steel, Steel APPG and Community Union there's recognition of the criticality of low CO2 UK steelmakimg in #UKManufacturing. Trade wise the future is clear. Time to deliver.

"The climate crisis is a huge problem which many children are passionate about, & #Engineering can be used to develop the solutions." 💡Dr Dr Sarah-Jane Potts's new #outreach project uses hands-on activities to inspire future engineers ➡specific.eu.com/reimagine-ener… The IMechE Team The Institution of Engineering and Technology

We have an open PhD position SPECIFIC / Swansea University to study the photochemistry of perovskite materials for solar cells - characterisation will help us make more sustainable interventions for perovskite solar cells! Details below - swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/s…

This is abhorrent. Especially in light of... "Last month Centrica, the owner of British Gas, said it expects to report a more than sevenfold increase in net profits for last year after benefitting from volatile energy prices."

BBC News - Global warming set to break key 1.5C limit for first time bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Once upon a time there was a Tory peer called Michelle Mone… A bedtime story to make your hair curl. Bravo for telling it Led By Donkeys

Today I can share I'm challenging the PM on the legality of abandoning key Net Zero commitments I believe the timeline for the UK to meet Net Zero cannot be changed at will by the PM – I contend that he does not have the legal right The ball is in your court , Prime Minister

🔥 BREAKING 🔥 Case against Greta Thunberg thrown out by the judge & Metropolitan Police criticised for imposing "unlawful" conditions! CLIMATE PROTESTORS ARE NOT THE CRIMINALS bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Today I'm in court as a witness for the trial of Cressie Gethin, a Just Stop Oil activist who scaled an M25 gantry in 2022. I sat sweating on the M25 that day. Was I inconvenienced? Well, I wasn’t drowning in a flood, displaced by famine, or forced to become a climate refugee...

🔴NEW: Hundreds of environmental campaigners in the UK have received legal threats, prompting claims that private companies and the state are increasingly trying to silence critics with huge legal bills. Read the full story here: bit.ly/3OLDY3o?utm_so…

🚨 BREAKING: Oil giant @IthacaEnergy made £1 billion in cash last year, whilst paying out £316 million in shareholder payments. £281 million of those payments will flow to Ithaca's parent company Delek Group, which operates in Occupied Palestinian Territory.

We're joining Fossil Free Parliament to get as many MPs as possible to support a new Bill to ban oily money from our politics. How can we expect elected politicians to stand up and #StopRosebank if they're taking donations and other benefits from fossil fuel companies? 👉Take urgent

Post Doc Opportunity: Join us Birmingham Energy #BCSECM working on our #TReFCo project, collab with Swansea University looking at the Thermal Recovery of Functional Coatings. P.I. @DrJenBaker Working Uni of Birmingham with Professor Paul Anderson and I. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Police in Switzerland have detained several people and opened a criminal case in connection with the death of a 64-year-old woman in a new "suicide capsule". 🔗 Read more trib.al/YxKI9sJ