🗝️ #GeneralElection2024 battleground seats 3️⃣❎ more likely to be #NetZero economic ‘hotspots’

New analysis also shows 🇬🇧 net zero economy ⬆️ 9% in 2023

despite stagnation in wider economy w/ GDP ⬆️ just 0.1% last year.

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Fantastic to see Starmer give clear and robust vocal support to the Green Prosperity Plan, borrowing to invest to improve energy independence and lower energy bills.

Bring it on, indeed!

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One week on from the PM's #NetZero speech, what's the impact on 🇬🇧 economy and UK PLC?

🧵 of UK businesses, consumer groups, and trade bodies railing against scrapping net zero policies
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Backlash from scrapping key policies on:
❌ insulation
❌ electric cars
❌ home heating

In 2022, 🇬🇧 imported around 1/2 food: 37bn kg, worth £58bn

25% these food imports – 9.8bn kg, worth just over £16bn – came from the Mediterranean region, where #climate -driven extreme weather has hit food production hard

*NEW* ECIU report: bit.ly/3KzULnF

In light of *that* BBC News article on a North Sea oil and gas producer wanting to produce more oil and gas, here are a few home truths

1/4 UK oil production is in terminal decline, with or without new fields

There's something interesting going on in today's ONS data on food price inflation - thread

The Sun paid for a big UK poll on net-zero but forgot to report the key finding

Maybe they didn't want you to know that there's HUGE, cross-party public support for net-zero?

65% support net-zero
19% opposed
+46 net support

+23 net support (Con 2019)
+72 (Lab)
+72 (LD)

#RIHLive Fritz Haber developed the method for producing fertiliser which has fed millions. He also invented chlorine gas during WWI. Hero or villain ?

#RIHLive I asked my 6 year old daughter to “Draw mummy’s hero”. Wasn’t expecting this.

UK #NetZero economy worth more than £70 billion

📈 840,000 jobs supported by almost 20,000 net zero businesses

New ECIU CBI Economics The Data City analysis shows top 20 🇬🇧 net zero hot spots across UK from Tyneside to Merseyside, Shetland to Kent.

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Slightly frustrating to again see climate/environment pitched as a fringe activist concern here.

This has not been true for the best part of 5 years now!

Despite everything, climate remained voters top 3/4 concerns throughout 2022.

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Disinformation is a threat to climate action & to democracy. We can't beat CC if the goals & obstacles aren't clear for all to see & if the fossil lobbies try hard to mask them

First step: adopting a universal definition of climate disinformation. #COP27
caad.info/open-letter/

🌬 African continent wind resource = 59,000GW … enough to power the continent 250 times over

Current wind power capacity = 7GW

Only 0.01% of Africa’s wind power resource has been tapped.

JUST IN ➡️ Unlimited travel via public transport in all of Germany for 49€ per month becomes a reality.

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An important milestone towards modernizing public transport and improving affordability 💪

📣 Official Announcement 🇩🇪👇👇

How newspapers work: A story in 3 parts

1⃣New data shows UK sales of pure EVs surged by 40% in 2022, as petrol & diesels slumped by 15 & 43%

(BEVs also up 17% in September)

2⃣The Times headline:

'Electric car sales slow'

3⃣Daily Telegraph:

'Electric car sales slow'

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+BREAKING+

RAC: 'To be clear. We did not say it would cost more to run an EV than a petrol car from Oct [or] provide any figs on Jaguar’s models [or] say it cost just £50 to fill a petrol car…[We're] trying to reach journalist to find out why he wrote the story the way he did.'

FACTCHECK

Electric vehicles significantly cut the cost of motoring in the UK, even under the October price cap

I estimate a current saving of £64 per tank of fuel equivalent when driving an EV (£39 in Oct)

Today's Daily Telegraph suggests the opposite?!

Let's take a look

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FACTCHECK | Some Conservative politicians are claiming solar farms are a ‘threat’ to UK farmland.

But what are the facts?

Josh Gabbatiss Freya Graham Robert McSweeney Giuliana A. Viglione, PhD

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New UK #renewable s are 4️⃣ ❎ cheaper than gas.

So why is price of electricity they generate set by 'ruinously expensive' #GasPrices ?

Decoupling cheaper, homegrown #renewable electricity from gas would ✂️ bills in the long-term 💬 ECIU's Jess Ralston to Ben Chu BBC Newsnight

Here's the half-page cartoon on the comment pages of today's Times...