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Background photo of a gavel, with dramatic lighting. Red text box with “BREAKING: Real estate corporation Cushman & Wakefield is risking its workers' retirement funds by investing in climate-risky funds. We're highlighting a groundbreaking class action lawsuit to hold the company accountable in court.” “A worker filed a precedent-setting lawsuit against one of the world's largest real estate corporations, alleging Cushman & Wakefield's retirement plan managers breached their duties by failing to protect workers' savings from climate-related financial risks.” Arrow icon pointing right in top right corner. Stand.earth logo in bottom right corner.

Background photo of an investment graph. Red text box with “Retirement funds are deferred wages & long-term security that workers rely on. Retirement plans aren't abstract financial products; they're deferred wages, long-term security, and a reflection of how employers care for their people in uncertain times. When these critical savings are invested in underperforming fossil fuel companies and climate exposed real estate, employees shoulder risks they never knowingly agreed to.” Arrow icon pointing right in top right corner.

Background photo of stock investment graph. Gray text box with “The Kvek vs. Cushman & Wakefield class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court Western District of Washington, is the first-ever legal challenge on 401(k) managers for ignoring climate financial risk, alleging that such oversight violates their fiduciary duties. We are supportive of this lawsuit and have been working for several decades to educate and activate both public and private sector workers about risks to their pensions and retirement funds.” Arrow icon pointing right in top right corner.

Background photo of a flaring oil refinery. Red text box with “It's not just Cushman & Wakefield. Instead of safeguarding its workers' futures, companies across the United States are funneling retirement savings into risky funds packed with underperforming fossil fuel companies or high-risk businesses like real estate, that can be severely damaged by the impacts of climate change-fueled extreme weather. No matter who you are or how you vote, your retirement should be secure, and this new landmark lawsuit is arguing just that. Retirement savings should be managed to protect working people, not to bankroll polluters or enrich billionaires.” Arrow icon pointing right in top right corner.

BREAKING: One of the world’s largest real estate corporations, Cushman & Wakefield, is risking its workers’ retirement funds by investing in climate-risky funds.

We’re highlighting a groundbreaking lawsuit to hold the company accountable in court. #GreenSky

Your 401(k) could shrink due to climate risks. A lawsuit argues that your employer has a duty to protect it A novel legal challenge alleges that a real estate company breached its duties by failing to protect retirement savings from climate-related financial risks.

Class action lawsuit launched against real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield for failing to protect their workers' retirement funds from climate financial risk.

Great summary in @fastcompany.com

#greensky #retirement #pensions

www.fastcompany.com/91503468/you...

Rising #SeaLevels due to #ClimateChange threatens tens of millions more people than previously thought. New research found about 90% of 385 scientific studies underestimated baseline coastal water height by average of 30cm with some discrepancies up to 550-760cm
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

nature Article Open access Published: 04 March 2026 Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments Katharina Seeger M & Philip S. J. Minderhoud M Nature (2026) | Cite this article

“Measured coastal sea level is higher than assumed in most hazard assessments…the measured values suggest that with 1 m of relative sea-level rise… 48–68% more people (increasing estimates to 77–132 million) would fall below sea level.”

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@andrewdessler.com on huge govt subsidies for #FossilFuels. US spends over $81bn every yr to protect oil supply🛢! Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) calculates about 1/5 of US Dept of Defense base budget exists at least partly to keep oil flowing via vulnerable choke points like #StraitOfHormuz

State TV in Iran reports a bombed oil tanker is sinking in the #StraitOfHormuz. 20-25% of global oil supply & 1/5 of liquified natural gas goes via the strait, connecting Persian Gulf & Gulf of Oman. Environmental impacts of #OilSpill could be devastating
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle...

Starmer not prepared to join a war ‘without lawful basis and viable plan’, he tells PMQs – UK politics live PM says country must act ‘with clarity, with purpose and with a cool head’ amid Middle East crisis and Trump criticism

"The sprint to clean energy is the only way to get off the volatile international fossil fuels markets, cut bills & deliver energy security"

Fair play to Starmer - this is exactly right. Meanwhile, Badenoch & Farage would have us hooked on more fossil fuels

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Last year Jessica's son got ill after playing in the River Thames. Her message to Environment Minister? Don't let our children get ill. Stop the illegal sewage.

If you agree sign our petition: vist.ly/4txpt

⚠️ Important London air pollution update for Friday 6 March.

⚠️ I’ve triggered a high pollution alert due to a forecast of particulate levels mainly caused by Saharan dust.

⚠️ Protect the most vulnerable by avoiding unnecessary car trips, engine idling and burning garden waste.

17 March Prince Charles Cinema.
London premiere of documentary film on the environmental impact of US military. Exempt from international #climate agreements the Pentagon is the world’s single largest institutional polluter—spewing carbon, poisoning water, and scarring landscapes across the globe.

With director Abby Martin. Book tickets here www.eventbrite.com/e/earths-gre...

South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak Firm admits supplying water unfit for human consumption after nearly 150 people fell ill

South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak.

Water unfit for human consumption, 150 people fell ill.

SWW already has nearly 200 criminal convictions. Licence not cancelled, no exec prosecuted, record high customer bills, sewage dumped in rivers.

Privatisation is a scam.

Bottles of water thrown away by South East Water in Tonbridge South East Water says the water was from bottled water stations or returned by customers.

What a terrible waste!💦

South East Water dumped DOZENS of shrink wrapped packs of plastic water bottles, full of water 🤯

30,000 homes in Kent had NO water before Christmas.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

South East Water fined £22.5m for ‘repeated supply failures’ in Kent and Sussex Regulator says failures that hit nearly 300,000 customers made worse by utility’s failure to maintain efficient supply system

South East Water multiple fails costs £22.5m fine

They left 286,000 without water across Kent and Sussex, some multiple times between 2020 and 2023.

They failed to plan or to learn from 2018 “beast from the east” freeze and to maintain their own network.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

As the ‘growth agenda’ is increasingly dominating UK research funding, we scientists also need to push back against this drive to line the pockets of the super rich

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments - Nature Meta-analyses on a global scale show that the measured coastal mean sea level is higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments.

More coasts at risk ⚠️

Some areas of the oceans are sitting several metres higher than previously realised.

Up to 132 million more people could be underwater with 1m of sea level rise than current estimates suggest.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great news from Wales! Environment (Principles, Governance & Biodiversity Targets) Bill creates new legal framework for environmental protection & reversal of wildlife loss. Ministers can set legally binding biodiversity targets & an independent watchdog will be set up
www.gov.wales/wales-streng...

Write to your MP Ask your MP to act on the Nature Security Assessment’s findings and press for a meaningful response.

The breakdown of nature and ecosystems overseas threatens the UK's national security. I've written to my MP asking the #UKGov to debate the new Nature Security Assessment and publish their response. Will you join me? action.zerohour.uk/nsa

Surpressed UK govt report warns #ClimateChange risks ecosystem collapse, water & food insecurity - loss of arable land, severely reduced crop yields, fisheries collapse - & novel zoonotic disease, driving mass migration, political extremism & even nuclear conflict
theconversation.com/a-uk-climate...

“Most revealing of all is the report’s own estimate that nature-loss could cost roughly 12% of UK GDP by 2030”

#TheTruthIsOut

There’s a sinkhole in our bread basket…

‼️ BAN OCEAN DUMPING ‼️
Hartree Partners are financing the #Nussir copper mine in #Repparfjord, Northern Norway, a project that will dump 30 million tons of toxic mining waste into a nationally protected salmon fjord.
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@naturogungdom.bsky.social
#reddrepparfjord #HartreePartners

Fires and Fascism’ – a documentary from Pete Knapp : European wildfires, capitalism, crime, and community responses

•⁠ ⁠⁠Trailers:
fires-and-fascism.co.uk

•⁠ ⁠⁠Film review: felixonline.co.uk/articles/fir...

•⁠ Podcast interview with Pete:
www.mixcloud.com/Air3Radio/th...
list of tour dates

Locals transform Bury St Edmunds 'bin alley' into garden Volunteers say the alleyway has been an eyesore blighted by fly tipping and anti-social behaviour.

I’m a sucker for a “we saw a problem, we fixed it” story. Even on a small scale a community taking a stake in the space outside their homes gives me a top up of hope.

We need a global assessment of avoidable climate-change risks To understand the urgency of emissions reductions, policymakers and citizens need a full analysis of what is at stake.

We need a global assessment of avoidable climate-change risks. To understand the urgency of emissions reductions, policymakers and citizens need a full analysis of what is at stake. www.nature.com/articles/d41... from @eunicelo.bsky.social @climatedann.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @nature.com

Grant boost to cover almost half the cost of installing EV chargers for households and businesses Flat owners, landlords, renters and businesses will be able to get grants of up to £500 per charge point.

"Renters, flat owners, homeowners without driveways and businesses will be able to save up to £500 when installing EV charge points, with an over 40% increase in chargepoint grant amounts."

A green announcement before the byelection (no doubt a while in the making tbf)
www.gov.uk/government/n...

People need to read Ruth Wodak’s work on the language of populist extremism - including how saying incendiary things and then apologising for them afterwards is an absolutely central populist technique. When they say these things they mean them, and the apology is a sham.

Cosy charms conceal hidden harms: the uncomfortable truth about woodstoves Woodburning directly affects air that we breathe – its pollution now has greater impact than that from vehicles

Cosy charms conceal hidden harms: the uncomfortable truth about woodstoves

Woodburning directly affects air that we breathe – its pollution now has greater impact than that from vehicles

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

DESTROYING WATER
Argentina's glaciers protect life itself, a proposed reform could open them to destruction. Argentina faces a new attempt to weaken its Glacier Protection Law, a key regulation that safeguards the country’s water sources amid climate crisis and expanding extractive industries.
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Argentina has nearly 17,000 glaciers covering more than 8,400 km², sustaining about 40% of the nation’s water basins and providing essential water to over 7 million people, especially in arid regions where glacier melt is the primary water source for communities, agriculture, and ecosystems.
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