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There is a simple and popular solution to help developing countries to build a clean power system and adapt to climate change. A modest new tax on fossil fuel production. The only thing stopping it are corrupt politicians in the pockets of the oil & gas industry

BREAKING: Europe’s largest international airlines have been lobbying to hide the full climate impact of their flights by seeking to weaken EU legislation that would require monitoring of non-CO2 effects from all flights in and out of Europe.
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Academics and journalists in the UK, US and Europe are increasingly interested in attacks on the National Trust and other UK institutions. Sadly the attention is warranted, and needed. Charlie is Media Professor at the LSE.

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50% reduction in car use
20% get rid of a car (second+ household car?)

It would be great to measure & evaluate the longer term effects of these positive findings

When we say “flying is the fastest way to fry the planet” this is what we mean. Nothing that ordinary people do emits such a giant pulse of carbon so rapidly

Great chat between the excellent Ralph Palmer of Transport & Environment and Gareth Dennis here on all things SUVs podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rai…

A cup of tea and a biscuit for the end of the world | First Dog on the Moon theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

There are many misconceptions about heat pumps from being too noisy to not being effective in cold weather.

In a new Medium blog, our sustainable future team explore eight common myths about heat pumps — and why they’re all wrong. bit.ly/4dcn6NL

Meanwhile

The Reckless Policies That Helped Fill Our Streets With Ridiculously Large Cars

“NHTSA’s myopic focus on car occupants is a boon for the heaviest and tallest cars, which pose disproportionate risk to those outside of them.” Vox David Zipper
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Today's interwebz gift

I met the concerned Londoners determined to get rid of Sadiq Khan at the last anti-ULEZ protest before the mayoral election

Car-brained people threatening us with a good time.

Will be interesting to add up all the votes of the anti-ULEZ mayoral candidates next week

LTNs will be discussed in parliament on Monday and we would encourage everyone to fill in this survey with their positive experiences!! 😃 forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

If true that people are to be detained well ahead of any flights, for electoral advantage, it is, let’s say, not immediately obvious how that would be a proper purpose or therefore a lawful use of the Home Office’s powers

LTNs are proven to reduce traffic in a wider area beyond their boundaries. The government sought to disprove this but failed.

They makes everybody’s life better - safer streets, cleaner air, higher house prices!

Politicians opposing them are just prioritising rat runners #LTNs

Unearthed @ue wanted to find out who was behind all the Facebook groups springing up demanding an end to ULEZ and what was going on them...

They found Tory staff running a network of groups riddled with racism, climate conspiracies and abuse ( 1/6)

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/04/27/con…