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Peatlands cover just 3–4% of Earth's land, yet they store twice the carbon of all the world's forests combined. Protecting peatlands is rated an Emergency Brake climate solution, one of the fastest-acting tools we have.

Learn more 👉 drawdown.org/explorer/protect-peatlands

🎉 Great news: the UK’s emissions fell to their lowest level in 150 years last year, with coal use roughly halving.

𖣘 We also saw record-breaking generation from renewable sources, especially wind & solar.

👉 Read @carbonbrief.org's analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

How escalating Iran conflict is driving up oil and gas prices – a visual guide A halt to shipping in strait of Hormuz and attacks on Middle East refineries are threatening supplies and stoking inflation

Recommended read: The Guardian has published a “visual guide” with charts and videos showing how the “escalating Iran conflict is driving up oil and gas prices”.

Good to see our research reported in the Guardian

HUGE moment for the EU car market as battery EVs overtake petrol cars for the first time ever

But there's no "natural" demand for EVs amirite?

Article by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

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#CopernicusAtmosphere dust aerosol optical depth forecast shows a massive #SaharanDust plume crossing NW Africa, W Mediterranean + parts of Europe through the first week of March.

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NEW: Six out of ten new EU city buses were zero-emission in 2025, led by four countries where 100% of new buses were battery-electric: Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia & Latvia.

That’s a huge leap from just 12% in 2019 when the EU adopted the Clean Vehicles Directive.
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We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

“Our existing economic system, capitalism, is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the 21st century.”
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We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Building a Revolution from the Ground Up How do you build a mass movement capable of real system change? This session lays out a practical, ground-up strategy for revolutionary organising: from listening in communities, to local campaigns,…

Build a revolution from the ground up: start by listening, organise around real local needs, then scale into assemblies that can outgrow broken politics. A practical roadmap from door-knocking and campaigns to national coordination, built for the crises ahead.
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Bilanz 2025: Bürgerräte bleiben begehrt 🦋 www.buergerrat.de/aktuelles/bi... 2025 wurden in Deutschland 58 Bürgerräte gestartet oder beendet. 32 weitere begann die Planung. Insgesamt gab es bisher gut 400 Losversammlungen in Deutschland - auf allen politischen Ebenen und in mannigfaltigen Varianten.

Via Euronews: ‘That ends now’: German court ruling raises pressure to fix stalled climate plans www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...

Impacts of Citizens’ Assemblies: A Summary of the Latest Research — People Powered A new summary of global evidence to help you understand the power of citizens’ assemblies to change people, communities, and governments.

We read 70 studies on citizens' assemblies, so you don't have to.

The evidence is clear: they reduce polarization, build trust, and democratize policymaking -- when designed well.

Free brief + interactive database with findings from 24 countries: www.peoplepowered.org/news-content...

Klima und Ernährung global gesehen 🦋
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“More” or “Better” Institutionalization? Lessons From Latin American Institutions of Citizen Participation | Article | Politics and Governance | Melisa Ross The article on institutionalisation of democratic innovations is finally out! Three reasons I am particularly happy with this work. First, we break down the far too simplistic claims that institution...

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Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we expl...

Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries - The Lancet Planetary Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @jasonhickel.bsky.social @timjackson.org.uk @kateraworth.bsky.social

Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we expl...

The Lancet Planetary Health: onbegrensde economische groei maakt onze planeet onleefbaar. Tijd voor een economie die welzijn binnen ecologische grenzen centraal zet. Het is eigenlijk zo logisch: niet “meer”, maar “beter”.
#PostGrowth #PlanetaryHealth #BeyondGDP
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Capitalism’s Addiction To Growth Means Civilisational COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Jason Hickel YouTube video by Novara Media

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It's not as if we weren't warned.

ABSTRACT Policy on greening freight constitutes a recent addition to the discourse on sustainability in the EU. To stimulate economic growth, the EU also plans for freight transport activity to grow significantly over the coming decades. In this paper, drawing on critical discourse analysis and Marxian geographical thought, I show how the argument for implementing sustainable freight is constructed in EU freight policy and analyse its contribution to capital reproduction. I find a dominating argument that, by promoting green expansion legitimized by clean technologies, underpins actions that reshape geographies to the demands of circulation, commerce and trade while reproducing conditions of crisis. Thus, EU freight policy harbors contradictions between sustainability and growth that are only discursively resolved.

New article!

Fossil and friction free: a critical discourse analysis of sustainability in EU freight policy by Christina Gratorp / @cyborgchris.bsky.social

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In 2019, a corner of Belgium made history when it established a new form of institutionalised citizen deliberation. Five years after its inception, the team of researchers following it reflect on the ongoing learnings emerging from the Ostbelgien Model.

Less debate, more deliberation. #jimmycarr #hecklers #crowdwork #standup #heckles YouTube video by Jimmy Carr

Comedian Jimmy Carr with a great insight. Debate vs deliberation.

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Global Environment Outlook 7 The Global Environment Outlook, Seventh Edition: A Future We Choose, the product of 287 multi-disciplinary scientists from 82 countries, is the most comprehensive scientific assessment of the global e...

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NEW Report from @unep by 200 Scientists. The unsustainable production of food and fossil fuels causes $5bn (£3.8bn) of environmental damage per hour, according to a major UN report.

"Ihre Stimme wurde gehört" 🦋 www.buergerrat.de/aktuelles/ih... Less food waste, longer warranty periods for products and more incentives for travel by train, recommendations made by the first National Council of Citizens of the Netherlands. 1 Dec 2025 the Assembly handed its proposals to the govt.

"Demokratie von morgen beginnt im Gespräch von heute" - Dr. Angela Jain von der @bertelsmannst.bsky.social ist am 2. Dezember um 18 Uhr im Münchner PlanTreff im Gespräch zum Thema "Stadtentwicklung als demokratischer Prozess". veranstaltungen.muenchen.de/plan/veranst... #bürgerrat

Radical with Amol Rajan Society & Culture Podcast · Updated weekly · Conversations about tomorrow, from Today. Every week Today programme presenter Amol Rajan talks to radicals, pioneers and innovators from all over the worl...

podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/r... listen to @chrisgpackham.bsky.social wants the UK govt to lead a global emergency action plan as it did in World War Two to address what he calls climate and nature breakdown. But ultimately he says we need a policy shift, which makes polluters pay.

Greenpeace warns in a report: European investments in energy and agriculture may worsen environmental and social harm in the Middle East and North Africa - Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa - Gr... European investments in energy and agriculture in the region may worsen environmental and social harm. Thus reveals a new report by Greenpeace MENA and the MENAFem Movement for Economic, Development, ...

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Delegates announce global citizens assembly Replies by 🎓William J. Ripple, 🎓Michael E. Mann, 🎓Fernando Valladares, 🎓Roger C. Bales, 🎓Gavin L. Foster +59 more scholars

Delegates announce global citizens assembly

Delegates and activists at the UN climate summit announced plans for a global citizens' assembly on agriculture and climate in 2026 and showcased cross sector agreements pressing for national policies.

With replies from 64 scholars.