Matthew Rhodes, chair of Energy Capital, launches the West Midlands Fuel Poverty proposal. I’m very pleased to be part of this innovative partnership to tackle fuel poverty in West Midlands. ⁦SHAP⁩

Claire O’Neill attacks PM’s climate leadership as COP26 ‘miles off track’ current-news.co.uk/news/oneill-at… via @tweetsbycurrent

Great Britain’s new record for the longest period of coal-free electricity generation nationalgrideso.com/news/great-bri…

Fantastic sense of community sharing expertise to tackle climate change at Climate-KIC’s climate coaches network event today #climatecoaches2020

2030 ban on polluting cars could create more than 30,000 new jobs and provide £4.2bn boost to economy, a Cambridge Econometrics report published by Greenpeace UK finds camecon.com/news/2030-ban-…

Encouraging to see new UK targets for cutting carbon emissions as well as record renewable energy generation this spring. But following the disasters of Green Homes Grant and Green Deal, we needs words and policies that can turn into successful delivery.

V2G charging for EV users is seen as essential for combining greater local renewable generation without huge grid upgrade costs. Interesting to see that V2G can significantly increase income for EV owners but hardware costs too high, at bit.ly/3gc9hCq

EIT Climate-KIC launches new series of circular economy courses climate-kic.org/news/eit-clima… This training uses the Circularity Thinking tools created by Professor Dr. Fenna Blomsma and allow deep reflection and practical tools to be used to create circular solutions.

🌳 Starting 22 November, get training to apply #CircularityThinking to the manufacturing sector & supply chain. Register for European Institute of Innovation & Technology EIT Climate-KIC's "Creating Circular Strategies for the Manufacturing Sector": bit.ly/2ZkX7mb

This training delivered by Climate-KIC will be a very useful introduction into creating circular solutions for the food sector.

Very pleased to be representing SHAP at Sustainability West Midlands celebration event yesterday. Great discussions reflecting on the work of SWM over the past 20 years. #swmis20

It's indefensible for the BBC to keep inviting Julia Hartley-Brewer onto #bbcqt: she's a climate-denier whose only credential is as a Murdoch mouthpiece & reliable clickbait. They don’t invite flat-earthers on, so why climate-deniers? The BBC should do much better. >RT,to agree!

We really need to up our game on this. Scandinavian countries are bossing it.

BP made 3-month profit of $8.2bn, which was all cash, and is giving $2.5bn to shareholders via a share buyback. Giving away $2.5bn rather than investing it looks like an invitation by BP to a cash-strapped Sunak government to raise the 25% rate of the “windfall” oil and gas tax

Yesterday we launched our 2nd autumn training on Circularity Thinking for 29 professionals across the globe! Now EIT Climate-KIC offers a new type of course for public stakeholders & #municipalities to advance #circulareconomy transitions, starting next week: store.climate-kic.org/product?catalo…

Lots of interesting Q&A on Day1 with Richard Bubb Richard Bubb, Becky Lane Furbnow, Anthony Jarvis Midland Heart, Tasawir Bashir MECC Trust, Bret Willers Coventry City Council with Oliver Baker Ambion Heating, Tom Oldfield Mixergy #birminghamretrofitsummit

Read my latest: “SHAP convenes with leading thinkers to advance the retrofit agenda” getrevue.co/profile/shapwe…

SHAP is working with leading thinkers to build an evidence base in support of a system-change approach for retrofit. If you are a housing association, local authority, community group, supplier or innovator and have evidence to support any of the followin…lnkd.in/eaMbg4SA

It was a pleasure to come together with aligned minds yesterday, including from the Climate Change Committee, University of Birmingham, National Energy Action (NEA) and UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), to build an evidence base for a system-change appro…lnkd.in/eKsjxPx4

Look at those bloody awful wind turbines. What an absolute eyesore.