It would be a massive blow to the government’s environmental integrity if it broke its promise.
We need evidence-based decision making, not a reckless gamble with our future.
The government wants expansion because it will bring growth – but it has yet to win this argument.
The government has pledged that Heathrow expansion will only go ahead if it meets tests on climate, growth, noise and air pollution. There’s a huge job ahead to demonstrate this.
The government’s plan for expanding Heathrow is the equivalent of bolting an airport virtually the size of Gatwick onto the existing airport.
It isn’t compatible with our climate commitments, even if we meet our hugely optimistic targets for sustainable aviation fuels.
The UK government is still considering whether to support this project.
It's a carbon timebomb and linked to horrific human rights abuses and accusations of war crimes.
The government must say no.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It must be my turn to be prime minister of France soon.
🎊 This week French MPs passed a new law to #BanPFAS in several consumer products.
📢Now, it's the EU's turn to protect people and nature across Europe by taking decisive action to restrict #PFAS in a much wider range of uses.
More in our news story: https://buff.ly/4bb9Vfb
#foreverchemicals
If anyone needs some good news about Rachel Reeves' expected but depressing announcement about Heathrow yesterday....
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
My colleague Niall Toru is spot on about the government's attempts to restrict legal challenges
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Bold actions needed from the Prime Minister on #netzero says the Guardian
Today's the anniversary of the world's first legally binding climate targets.
🎈Happy sweet 16 to the UK Climate Change Act.
But despite early progress, climate action has stalled - and we're at a crossroads. Action has never been more important.
New video here: youtu.be/gEdsSExUCpI
Screengrab from Guardian Cop blog. Text reads as below: Mike Childs, head of policy at the UK Friends of Earth, gives credit to the UK delegation for playing a productive role. “But these latest international talks failed to solve the question of climate finance - instead they have again kicked the can down the road. Developing countries are being hammered by climate extremes now, predominantly fuelled by the current and historic polluting activities of rich nations, like the UK. The problem of how to provide the trillions needed to support the countries being hardest hit by a crisis they’re least responsible for remains. Without this investment, which must be unlocked by wealthy countries stepping up to do their fair share, there can be no climate justice.
Been watching COP29 with grim fascination. It’s like a cross between a fossil fuel trade fair and a gathering of officials whose objective is to avoid committing to a level of climate finance that would leave us with a fighting chance of tackling climate breakdown.
Official FoE view from Mike C:
The government is launching the Global Clean Power Alliance to speed up the global transition to clean energy - but it's still considering funding the Mozambique LNG project, a carbon timebomb linked with horrific human rights abuses.
It's not just groups like
@friends-earth.bsky.social
who say that the best way to avoid volatile global energy prices pushing up UK domestic bills is to build more renewables - this is respected consultants Cornwall Insight
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/n...
COMPETITION: I’ve got three copies of Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors to give away.
RT this before 10am on Monday.
I’ll randomly pick three people from the RTs, and I’ll sign and post a book to the winners. Perfect 🎁
General environmentalists or just Green Party people? If the former then I'm happy to be added. If the latter then no worries.
Congratulations Estelle!
Well said Albanian prime minister Edi Rama at COP 29:
Huge congratulations to my estimable former colleague
@sarahfinch.bsky.social
on being named one of Time magazine's 100 leaders driving climate action
time.com/7172514/sara...
The per person cost is more than twice what someone under 25 gets in universal credit for a month. Maybe James Cleverly could donate the equivalent of what was paid for him to a local foodbank?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The project is a carbon timebomb linked with horrendous human rights abuses and if the UK wants to show global climate leadership, we should have nothing to do with it.
Recent court judgments mean the legal basis for government financing of the Mozambique LNG project is now much weaker and potentially unlawful, says a letter to UKEF from Friends of the Earth's lawyers.
www.politico.eu/article/uk-g...
The current government can set right the wrongs of the past administration by refusing to approve UK public funding for this carbon timebomb that’s linked to horrifying atrocities and human rights abuses in #Mozambique
t.co/SRNWOAsXXZ
