Matt Finch

Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea' The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis".

Tory leader Badenoch says the party will remove all net zero requirements on North Sea oil &gas companies

Badenoch is to focus on "maximising extraction"

Like saying if there were a fight in a pub, everyone would have to repair the damage except those starting the brawl
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Make private jets and luxury flights pay for climate justice While many of us worry about our carbon footprints, billionaires are jetting around the world in private planes. And even worse, they're doing it tax free: aviation fuel isn’t taxed like the gas in yo

No brainer. Sign away folks!

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Conservative party to ditch commitment to net zero in UK by 2050 Break in cross-party consensus on issue to be announced on Tuesday

UK Tory opposition leader Badenoch to abandon climate change net zero 2050 target

This isn't a new direction but a craven failure, feeding not halting Britain's decline

Wrong in so many ways, it fails
• Morally
• Economically
• Socially
• Politically

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Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is back in the news. Before booking flights, there are 3 questions we need to ask:

1. Is it actually effective at reducing emissions?

2. If it IS effective, where/how should we produce it?

3. If 1 and 2 are sorted, are they enough to offset increases in air travel?

The irresponsible, environmentally dangerous and economically unfounded case for reopening Doncaster Sheffield Airport Mayor Oliver Coppard is preparing to pump vast amounts of public money into the project – but has refused to say how the supposed benefits were arrived at.

Great to contribute to @nowthenmag.bsky.social investigation into if Doncaster Sheffield Airport should reopen.

(it shouldn't, cos of many, many reasons)

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It’s with a heavy heart that I’ve been forced to write to Claire Coutinho again.

Sustainable aviation fuels are an industrial opportunity that could bring 10,000 jobs to the UK, @mattfinch00.bsky.social speaks to GB News.

#aviation #SAFs

Thing that most amazes me about these stats is the fact they are so out of date. 2022 stats at the end of 2024? C'mon DfT. You can do better than that.

STRIKING NEW DATA: More than a quarter of new cars sold in the UK in November were battery EVs (so much for "stalling sales")

📈BEV sales up 51% year-on-year
📉Petrol sales down 35% year-on-year (!)

Data from New Automotive

Stellantis’s problem is not the ZEV mandate, it’s China There’s one message for financial sophisticates and another for politicians and the media

This is good from the @telegraphnews.bsky.social.

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#ClimateChange #ZEVMandate

A thread on why the Government shouldn’t relax its targets on electric car sales

Ayayayyy what a week for EVs

News of the Stellantis Luton factory closure has been conflated with the ZEV mandate failing, but it's pretty clear to anyone paying attention that the two things are not really related...

2 big things to note on this:

The industry you’ve probably never heard of This post is by Celeste Hicks, policy manager at Aviation Environment Federation.  Depending on how you look at it, the structure of the international aircraft leasing market either suggests an ind…

Over to you #aircraft #leasing we'd love to see some leadership on decarbonisation on #aviation @green-alliance.org.uk @mattfinch00.bsky.social greenallianceblog.org.uk/2024/11/26/t...

Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...

No brainer. Sign away folks!

(and share this so others do, obvs!)

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#FossilFuels #ClimateChange

Hi Paul, why will it "trash" UK car manufacturing? When 80% of the cars we make here are exported, and 80% of the cars we buy are made abroad? Worth remembering that all the car manufacturers were supportive of the mandate, and most have declared combustion car phase out dates around 2030 anyway!

Britain gears up to relax EV sales rules Ministers are in talks with industry as factories are threatened with closure — and bringing back subsidies for buying electric cars is not ruled out

It's extremely disappointing to see continued doubt cast on the UK's ZEV mandate - one of our biggest carbon saving measures to date.

Weakening the regulation would put UK's climate goals at risk & the ability for the UK to keep drawing in affordable EV models.

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bird sounds

How proposed 'flyer tax' would work and why it could make your flight cheaper An environmental expert has revealed what a 'flyer tax' would really mean to Brits' holidays and the one secret that airlines like to keep hush-hush

"It is really really odd, it is down-right bizarre actually that airlines don't pay fuel duty [...] the aviation sector are very happy with no one knowing it because as soon as people hear it, they're like 'that just doesn't add up at all'- @mattfinch00.bsky.social.

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Jeremy Hunt hikes aviation tax in Budget - what it means for your holidays Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced a hike in the tax paid for those on "non-economy flights" - such as business class and first class as part of his 2024 Budget

"It's baffling that the Chancellor didn't do this years ago. But it's still completely unbelievable that airlines don't pay a penny in fuel duty when you and I have to pay every time we fill our car up. Where's the fairness in that?" - @mattfinch00.bsky.social.

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Some musings on #Diesel and #EnergySecurity. Hopefully it will interest you!

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Been in the papers again, this time talking about #SustainableAviationFuel (or how its not, in this case)

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Why tyre emissions are the ticking pollution time bomb This was the year we all learnt the word “Ulez”, as time, emotion and vast political capital were spent in an ill-tempered effort to clean the air we breathe. Yet what if in our obsession with exh...

"Pollution from tyre wear is a massive problem that no one is talking about. EVs are way better than their fossil predecessors because they don’t spew out a toxic cocktail from a tailpipe, but they are not perfect." - Matt Finch (@mattfinch00.bsky.social), our UK policy manager.