Andy Allen

Barclays follows HSBC in exit from banking industry’s net zero alliance US banks have already pulled out of NZBA, the UN environment programme’s finance initiative

Barclays follows HSBC in exit from banking industry’s net zero alliance #Climate

AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.

Generative AI runs on a paradox: it relies on content creators - artists, journalists and coders - whose work trains its models while eroding their incomes. The fix is to treat creative knowledge as a public good and fund it collectively.

Read piece by Fausto Gernone and me.

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Cropped | EU deforestation law pushback; Agri emissions; US lobster disease

✍️ @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social Ushika Kidd

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Spending Review - which way now for nature recovery? The results of the #SpendingReview are in – Defra appears to have fought off the worst of the doomsday predictions - and early indications suggest it is allocating its resources wisely. But there is n...

#SpendingReview - #defra dodged the worst of the doomsday predictions - But there is no escaping how meager its resources are, nor the challenges ahead for nature www.linkedin.com/pulse/spendi...

NEW: 'State of Woods and Trees' report
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/state-of-uk-...
- Woodland cover up but wildlife loss accelerating
- Urban trees make heatwaves more bearable
- Introduced pests cost a fortune: £920m pa on just 6 pest
- Trees are good for people but poorer areas have the least access

Could going hard on environmental issues help the Liberal Democrats retain the Blue Wall at the next election?
Our new report, based on one of the most in-depth analyses of Lib Dem voter attitudes to the environment, suggests it could.

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Our next episode will focus on climate change, with panellists @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, @kathryn-brown.bsky.social, @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social and Myles Allen.

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NEW – Forests taking longer to recover from severe ‘megafires’ since 2010 | @orladwyer_ w/ comment from Prof Guido van der Werf and Dr Bernardo Flores

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Defra, cuts and the Spending Review Cutting Defra’s tiny budget would save very little and come with huge downsides. As we head toward the Spending Review, the Government should show that it understands the economic benefit of a properl...

Why consider cuts at your Environment department when (1) you're facing major climate and nature challenges (2) Said Environment department hardly spends a bean? ... I wrote some words
www.linkedin.com/pulse/defra-...

GCSE Natural History - brilliant news that there's finally movement on this. But the battle's not over. You can technically do GCSEs in Astronomy and Classical Civilisation but good luck finding somewhere which is teaching them.

Maybe limiting what you can do by delaying Budget for months, SR by almost a year, not doing things that big business doesn't like & saying you won't do anything that sounds like telling people what to do limits your freedom and speed of movement.

NEW - With China's "two sessions" mega policy event over, I dug into the signals 🇨🇳 leaders sent around energy and climate policy

A weak energy target and continued focused on coal power show that climate is on the backburner in favour of the economy

www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-wh...

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Rethinking the role of state institutions in nature recovery In England there has been a long-term trend towards the retrenchment of direct state spending and the role of government in nature conservation policy – what could an alternative vision for the state ...

Finance team at Leverhulme - naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/projects/exp... interesting and varied thinking - Sophus and colleagues did a good job for Woodland Trust on the Leading from the Front research

Public opinion of Putin and Trump I'm Spain, France, UK and Italy.

For some peculiar reason the graphs look better on their side.

Emissions from agriculture overtake electricity for first time:… Comment on data showing agriculture overtakes electricity in share of emissions

Final UK greenhouse gas emissions statistics for 1990 to 2023 reveal that agriculture now accounts for higher percentage of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions than electricity supply.

Comment by @tommlancaster.bsky.social

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Allocate yourself a brief period of time in your schedule to catch up with the news. Decide your trusted sources. Stick with them. Resist following it 24/7.

DEFRA has published a draft land use framework for England. Can it work for nature? www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

Don’t delay natural history GCSE, conservationists urge Labour Caroline Lucas, the former Green Party leader, has joined ecologists in appealing to the government to not delay a natural history GCSE

Leading environmentalists including @carolinelucas.bsky.social have urged Labour to implement a natural history GCSE immediately amid fears a shake-up of the curriculum will delay it until 2030
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Flailing around for growth: new roads and runways are not the answer Well, this is depressing. Rachel Reeves, who once wanted to be Britain’s first green chancellor, now prefers to confect rows with her natural allies over new roads and runways. She briefs out her s…

New runways and roads aren't a consequence-free magic wand for growth- excellent from @shaunspiers1.bsky.social greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/01/23/f...
Without immediate action on climate 50% of global GDP is at risk (research co-authored by a Government actuary) actuaries.org.uk/news-and-med...

Bloomberg to fund UN climate agency after US exit from Paris accord Billionaire former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday that his foundation would fund the UN climate change agency after President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agre...

Not every oligarch is a complete ass.

It is a sad day when we need to rely on the beneficence of well-intentioned billionaires.

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the UK government has approached consultancies about taking the role of special administrator in a sign that ministers are bracing themselves for the imminent renationalisation of Thames Water

Like many this week, I’ve been reckoning with some strong emotions. How do we think about hope and despair in a moment where the argument for despair does seem to have a lot going for it? Tried to make sense of my own conflicted feelings in this piece for @newrepublic.com

New analysis: If four UK airport expansions including Heathrow are allowed to go ahead, they will cancel out the carbon savings of this government’s clean power plan IN JUST FIVE YEARS. This government must cancel these planned expansions.

neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp...

Toward a Transpersonal Ecology: Developing New Foundations... - Fox, Warwick 9781870098571 | eBay Width : 13.8 cmHeight : 2.8 cmLength : 21.2 cmAuthor : Fox, Warwick. Genre : Applied ecology. ISBN : 1870098579. Binding : paperback. DVD'S & FILMS.

First time I saw this image was on the front of an ecology textbook from 1990. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/13549054... Sadly, for Warwick Fox (and anyone else who thinks a common understanding of the environment might be useful) things have rather gone the other way.

A graph showing the chances of a collision with a pedestrian killing the pedestrian. Speed: 35 mph Median pickup: 42% Median car: 15%

New study out by IIHS:

"New pedestrian injury risk curves calculated by IIHS show that vehicles with taller front ends begin to cause serious injuries at lower speeds."

www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

An average pickup truck travelling 35 mph is ~3x more likely to kill someone than a standard car.

Why public sector leadership is vital for nature recovery - My blog for @green-alliance.org.uk - greenallianceblog.org.uk/2024/12/19/d...

Read the full report on the Leverhulme Centre website naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/projects/exp... @naturerecovery.bsky.social

Rethinking the role of state institutions in nature recovery In England there has been a long-term trend towards the retrenchment of direct state spending and the role of government in nature conservation policy – what could an alternative vision for the state ...

NEW REPORT: Are commitments to a healthy, resilient natural environment matched by the policy and investment to make them a reality? It was great working with @naturerecovery.bsky.social on Leading from the Front: public sector's role in nature recovery naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/projects/exp...

Green Alliance granted permission to intervene in legal case threatening environmental principles » Green Alliance Green Alliance is an independent think tank and charity focused on ambitious leadership for the environment

We have been granted permission to intervene in a legal appeal that will set a precedent for how government ministers take account of environmental issues when developing policy.

Read the press release:
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