The ship has largely sailed on limiting warming to 1.5C at this point, barring us getting very lucky with low climate sensitivity or actively geoengineering the climate.

But there still are viable paths to limit warming to below 2C this century, as shown in the figure below:

“Just 6% of national park land in England and Wales managed effectively for nature.” 6%. Of national parks. 😮 theguardian.com/environment/20…

We welcome the European Court of Human Rights ECHR CEDH ruling in #KlimaSeniorinnen case v. #Switzerland affirming that States have human rights obligations to sufficiently mitigate #climate change. Ruling provides a basis for determined action & justice globally - Volker Türk

In a paper for Grantham LSE researchers Pierre Monnin, Joe Feyertag, Nick Robins and Alexander Wollenweber discuss what role central banks can play in greening sovereign bond markets.

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“Keep the art and the buildings, I say. Turn the offices, perhaps, into a Museum of British Colonialism. Lord knows, we need to understand the history better.” Thank you, ⁦⁦Sathnam Sanghera⁩! Abolish King Charles Street - New Statesman newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

➡️The just transition to a green economy, one that doesn’t leave workers behind, is also a matter of intra- and intergenerational equity.

Read our blog by Sharan Burrow and Jodi-Ann Wang 王珏璇 on why youth employment is key to the just transition.

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Alarming to see that we now have the highest concentration of #greenhouse gases in over 4 million years. axios.com/2024/04/08/gre…

Please join me in praying for the well-being and swift release of Laylan Nasser, a member of St Peter’s Anglican Church in Birzeit, in the West Bank, snatched from her family by Israeli troops at 4am on Saturday without giving any reason or saying where she is being held

“There are all sorts of reasons for supporting a #JustTransition ” says SSE - A Better World of Energy CEO Alistair Philips-Davies at the Transition Plan Taskforce event citing workforce, community, and stressing “ultimately if you don’t help society in the transition, then society will reject you.”

There will be lots of complaints about judicial overreach because of this, but if access to a habitable biosphere is not a human right then nothing is. A safe and stable climate is a human right. businessgreen.com/news/4195157/c…

'What Europe needs instead is a fair deal that addresses the systemic issues underpinning our food system in order to restore dignity in farming' - my piece in POLITICOEurope

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“Climate lawsuits can put pressure on governments to increase their climate policy efforts and thus advance diplomatic negotiations,” says Johan Rockström on today's win for Swiss older women in case against their governments over #climate inaction ECHR CEDH climatechangenews.com/2024/04/09/eur…

A great list of sector priorities - but oddly misses out the financial sector and system, where there’s heaps that governments & regulators need to do to get public and private finance flowing in the right direction to the right places notably to the Global South

🚨 BREAKING: Our research reveals England could produce 13 TIMES MORE renewable energy, using less than 3% of land!

We could power 83 MILLION homes with clean energy, and end our reliance on fossil fuels...

🚨 Huge news: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Switzerland's efforts to meet its emission reduction targets have been woefully inadequate.

The ruling is binding and could influence the law in 46 countries, including the UK.
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We’re looking at the first ‘year without harvest’ on my farm, with only c.10-15% currently cropped & surviving, but very low quality after winter.

Heavy 🌧️ again today. Extreme weather overcoming decades of investment in healthier soils. A real crisis point & wake up call.

How is Europe doing in clean tech manufacturing?🏭🔋More than 400 factories are established in the continent, with Germany being the key hub in this space. This and many other green transition facts in our
Bruegel European Clean Tech Tracker: bruegel.org/dataset/europe…

The UK Transition Plan Taskforce has published additional guidance on transition planning. The Just Transition Finance Lab has been co-leading the work of the TPT's just transition working group.
We are proud to release our independent advisory pieces, led by Jodi-Ann Wang 王珏璇 & Nick Robins. transitiontaskforce.net/just-transitio…

We need to put people at the heart of climate transition planning & that's why is so good to see the release of the new Transition Plan Taskforce #JustTransition advisory paper with a great compendium of metrics. Let's now make this the norm for all firms. Read here: transitiontaskforce.net/just-transitio…

The Voter ID policy is designed to stop young people voting.👇🏻

Don’t let them win!

To vote in May, sign up here for free ID before 24/4.

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You will then be set up for the General Election whenever it comes. 👍🏻