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Today we helped deliver over 700K signatures to Rachel Reeves at the Treasury, calling for higher taxes on the super-rich in her upcoming #UKBudget.

We joined forces with partners to send a clear message: TAX THE SUPER-RICH 💰

Time for Rachel Reeves to pick a side: billionaires or ordinary people?

The government lost YOUR rail consultation responses - take action It is crucial for passengers that our voices are heard and that the bill delivers on the hopes and expectations of passengers. But this has not happened.

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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.

Please sign and share 🙏

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Disrupt the deal: Shell and Equinor's £1.3 billion tax grab Two of the biggest climate villains of our time have teamed up to pull off what could be a £1.3 billion tax dodge. Demand Rachel Reeves intervene, investigate this deal, and plug this massive hole in ...

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Disrupt the deal: Shell and Equinor's £1.3 billion tax grab Two of the biggest climate villains of our time have teamed up to pull off what could be a £1.3 billion tax dodge. Demand Rachel Reeves intervene, investigate this deal, and plug this massive hole in ...

NEW 🚨: Two of the biggest climate villains of our time have teamed up to pull off what could be a £1.3 billion tax dodge.

Shell and Equinor are forming a new joint venture, Adura, which will be the new owner of the Rosebank oil field 👇
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The assumption is wrong because leaders aren't in the job of doing the right thing

But they do respond to pressure, and can be made to do the right thing

Sign the petition: Strip Boris Johnson of his annual former PM allowance 23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today:

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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

“COP recognised the fossil fuel man starting the fire in the bedroom.

COP recognised the fossil fuel man is burning the baby.

COP recognised the man starting another fire in the other bedroom.

COP recognised the other children are now also burning.

COP recognised that this is fine”

Is there life after COP? And is UNFCCC reform even possible? With so many COP 30 eulogies, we need to ask if our toxic relationship with the climate change negotiations system is part of the problem.

Yesterday, I read a quick note by @michaelemann.bsky.social on the problems of UNFCCC rules on consensus that keep derailing COP after COP. It led me to organise a few thoughts on whether UNFCCC reform is still possible and what other pathways are/could be available.
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I listened to this conversation the other day, and it's *brilliant*.

In a time that can often seem very dark, we're seeing stirrings that give real hope for another way of doing politics, based on integrity and people power: Mamdani in New York and the UK Greens being among the best examples.

Too late. Marco Rubio already spilled the truth. The so called peace plan was Russia’s wish list, not something the US drafted. He’s trying to walk it back but the damage is done.

He’s scrambling.

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Don't bother then

The world is watching @cop30brazil.bsky.social. Show leadership and add the fossil fuel phase-out roadmap to the #COP30 agreement. Listen to @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social and follow the 80+ countries that want justice!

Coca-Cola has increased its use of virgin plastic by 10% (despite having promised to reduce it by 20% 🤫)

Coca-Cola is failing miserably when it comes to plastic reduction, new numbers from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation show. #greenwashing

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BREAKING 🚨: campaigners halt felling of iconic Trafalgar Square UK-Norway Christmas Tree.

Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field.

#StopRosebank

Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris

“Our greatest natural hazard is flooding, and we don’t prepare people for it.”

Our government’s approach to the immediate effects of climate crisis looks a lot like its approach to the causes:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/16/uk-flood-water-wales-cornwall-rescue

Not eating animals is a very robust rule of thumb when it comes to reducing your environmental footprint and the amount of suffering your diet may be producing.

New York bill would make Big Oil pay for the home insurance crisis | Center for Climate Integrity Senate Bill 8585 would keep insurance affordable and available by holding oil and gas giants accountable for damage from extreme weather disasters

Extreme weather disasters are driving up home insurance rates nationwide, and New Yorkers have had enough.

Senate Bill 8585, introduced this week by New York Senator Brian Kavanagh, would empower insurers in the state to take Big Oil companies to court for fueling climate disasters.

At a certain point a wider use of the term “fossil fuel bribery agents” should replace “fossil fuel lobbyists” to more accurately reflect the transactional content of what “lobbying” means.

Lobbying is the act of meeting a politician in a lobby and bribing them to do something against their voters.

"[1] Aufgrund der Rindfleischquoten würde das EU-Mercosur-Abkommen die Entwaldungsrate in der Mercosur-Region um mindestens 5% pro Jahr beschleunigen.

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Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin

It's always the ones you most expect...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Disrupt the deal: Shell and Equinor's £1.3 billion tax grab Two of the biggest climate villains of our time have teamed up to pull off what could be a £1.3 billion tax dodge. Demand Rachel Reeves intervene, investigate this deal, and plug this massive hole in ...

actionnetwork.org/letters/disr...

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BREAKING: Banner drop on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage JOIN ACTION: Write to Glastonbury’s organisers, calling on them to boycott their insurer Allianz, an underwriter of genocide in Gaza and climate collapse. Brave climbers just scaled the main stage at...

Brave climbers just scaled the main stage at #Glastonbury festival, so I just wrote to Glastonbury’s organisers, calling on them to boycott their insurer Allianz, an underwriter of genocide in Gaza and climate collapse. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
#BoycottBloodyInsurance

#TaxTheBanks Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...

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At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

Probe announced by Thames Water after 1,000 fish die in pond The UK's largest water company Thames Water has said it is investigating after over 1,000 fish were found dead in an Oxfordshire pond.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2563254...

3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.

If we don't rapidly phase out fossil fuels, we can say goodbye to coral reefs, the Greenland and Antarctic icesheets, and permafrost. The results will not be pretty.