Part of the eco-system. Director at @ClimateCentreUK
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Sometimes you have to just look on in awe at the talent of youth.Thank you 🙏 Anais Daly-Gourdialsing, Sophie & Robert Adoo-Kissi-Debrah - & of course - @EllaRobertaFdn for beautifully commemorating the short, brilliant and influential life of Ella Roberta.
It takes guts to set out your own experience of an issue when that account is still confronting to the wider public. 👏🏼 @davidwoode @thetimes I’ve been stopped and searched by the police since I was 16
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“Are you guys the Navy? “Na, we’re just three Mãori boys.”
The heroic story of the rescue of my UK neighbour’s family. Caught in @cyclonegabrielle they were forced to hide in a roof cavity as their furniture knocked against the ceiling.
i.stuff.co.nz/national/13125…
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The word ‘just’ tells you everything you need to know about these guys, on a night when NZ’s emergency sefvices were overwhelmed. i.stuff.co.nz/national/weath…
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Delighted to launch @ClimateCentre23 officially this week. Bringing plain speaking on the big climate and environment issues to mainstream media in 2023.
Happy New Year!!! To celebrate our official launch this week, we've chosen our top five fave examples of plain speaking on climate and environment issues in 2022.
First up is @darrenpjones MP, chair of the UK Parliament's Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee.
Vivienne Westwood was the most defiantly uncompromising, radical person I ever met or had the pleasure to interview. Her genius was subverting society at every level. Thoughts with Andreas.
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What’s the point of energy price support that lets heat pour out of our homes.
In Germany, the average home loses 1°C of its indoor temperature after 5 hours. In Sweden, Denmark, Austria & Italy its 1.5°C or less.
In Britain, we lose double - a draining 3°C heat. HT @tado
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Come down and make your case for keeping common land open to everyone. This is the last chance to make the case to government planners. This Monday night at 7pm. The Woodfield Pavilion, #TootingCommon #TootingEnclosure #Balham # Wandsworth #Tooting
A thrill to see the irrepressible Peter Seabrook celebrated so widely at the Chelsea Flower Show today. His sparkling wit hid a great intellect and a talent for inspiring young people and communities. Always finding the extraordinary where others saw ordinary. #floralfantasia
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Delighted to be part of the team who put this together.
COP26. The most important meeting in our planet’s history. Earth takes centre stage. Time for our leaders to listen to its voice and act. #EarthToCOP #ActionThisDay #COP26
How will the UK hosts approach the hugely tricky problem of getting a climate deal at #COP26?
The Times’ columnist James Forsyth outlines an interesting theory.
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The UK is president of both the G7 and #COP26 this year. Why not try to get the G7 to agree, through a working group, an overarching set of climate principles, then work with the WTO, and its exciting new Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to lead a multilateral solution.
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Just over a 11 years ago James Murdoch appointed me as an Environment Editor because a vital issue was being ignored by MSM - he was right then - and he is right now. Despite many obstacles, his actions have always been key to rebalancing the climate debate.
1/ This is a story about #tooting common in #london But more importantly it is about #integrity and who is defending our #common land. To defend public spaces we have to make our voices heard. So buckle up. #tootingcommonplan
2/ Last week, I heard that my local council in #Wandsworth would be ruling in five days time on whether to put a commercial football facility on an area of hardstanding on our common. #tootingcommonplan
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Is the #newnormal? @wandbc will decide on Tuesday whether to build pay to play astroturf pitches on one of London's only public commons not bordered by roads. #Naturecomeslast
bit.ly/3bxZPVA @dpcarrington @bwebster135 @Jonathan__Leake #tootingcommon #nature
@LynnFauldsWood was one of my earliest interviews in the UK, she was funny, savvy, gracious and encouraging. The model of what a great journalist could be.
What a joy to read. Freed to embrace the space, #sports pages are blossoming with extraordinary and vivid writing. @SBarnesRugby @Athersmike
Was #UniversityChallenge guilty of a snide, smirking stunt tonight. Certainly looked like it.
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Whether it is in being prioritised, protected or policed, our environment almost always ranks as a political afterthought. @thetimes
