Andrew Simms

Hear athletes say for themselves why sport has to stop being a billboard for major climate polluters. The Fossil Free Declaration is a brilliant new initiative from the @cooldownnetwork.bsky.social 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

It’s Easy to Hate Traffic Cameras. But They Do Save Lives. They raise issues of fairness, and critics claim they’re only about revenue. More speed and red-light cameras, however, would prevent a lot of deaths and injuries.

Yes, traffic cameras work, but it's a myth that people hate them!

Survey after survey shows that most people support automatic enforcement (and often want more of it).

This is a false controversy, fed by a minority of disgruntled drivers & journalists seeking narratives with conflict.

The Lionesses’ positive legacy risks being undermined by support for a fossil fuel profiteer — Cool Down England’s back-to-back Euros winners have inspired thousands of girls and young people in my generation to get into sport. The players are not only role models on the pitch but have stood up for inclu...

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗹 𝗳𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀

Football campaigners Peter Crisp and Rosa Simanowitz highlight the reputational risk of being associated with polluting profiteer, Chase. 🧵 1/6

👍 I reckon I regularly get around 2,500km out of my default, go-to trainer...

UK to recognise Palestinian state unless Israel meets conditions The PM announces there will be a shift in policy in September, unless Israel takes steps including agreeing a ceasefire in Gaza.

This is so bizarrely transactional. Surely if Starmer's government accept the case for Palestinian statehood they should recognise it regardless of what Israel does?

BBC News - UK to recognise Palestinian state unless Israel meets conditions
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A legal tipping point on climate The new normal – the legal obligation to act on climate.

🚨 𝗔 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲

Andrew Simms of Badvertising breaks down a major ruling by the International Court of Justice for the Ecologist.

Here's why the ICJ ruling marks a turning point for climate action. 🧵 1/8

A legal tipping point on climate The new normal – the legal obligation to act on climate.

The ICJ ruled states may be liable if failing to act on non-climate compliant fossil fuel industries. It is a very small step to the same applying to sectors co-dependent on fossil fuels, like aviation, SUV makers and, even advertisers... New for @theecologist.org
theecologist.org/2025/jul/29/...

And, did you catch Matt Rendell's piece on polluter sponsorship?

www.cooldownclimate.org/resources/it...

As the penultimate race passes through rain washed countryside, find out how big oil abuses the Tour de France to sportswash itself 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

UK ban on Palestine Action at odds with international law, says UN rights chief Volker Türk says the Home Office proscription restricts right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly The UK government’s ban on Palestine Action limits the rights and freedoms of people in the UK and is at odds with international law, the UN human rights chief has said. Volker Türk, the UN human rights commissioner, said ministers’ decision to designate the group a terrorist organisation was “disproportionate and unnecessary” and called on them to rescind it. Continue reading...

UK ban on Palestine Action at odds with international law, says UN rights chief

If you want to work on the nexus of an issue that directly impacts upon our collective future survival chances Scientists for Global Responsibility is recruiting a campaigner to focus on the militarisation of science education... @responsiblesci.bsky.social
www.sgr.org.uk/pages/vacanc...

Immigration and deprivation causing UK public to lose faith in politicians, says Rayner Deputy PM says government must show it is helping people amid concerns about potential for more riots in England

This is the direct opposite of the truth. Politicians - plus the media - are telling the public that immigration is the cause of their deprivation, which is at every conceivable level a lie.

My friend, the brilliant Matt Rendell reveals the cynicism of fossil fuel sponsorship - aka sports/greenwash - in elite cycling. It's everywhere in sport, like tobacco sponsorship once was, but feels worse in cycling that should pedal forward the green transition...👇👇👇

Tomorrow will see two very different types of protestors appear in court on criminal charges:

🇵🇸🫟✈️ The four Palestine Action members who spray painted some planes at RAF Brize Norton in protest at UK supplying arms to a genocide

📷💣💥The man who blew up a ULEZ camera in SE London in December 2023

David Lammy Shouldn’t Have Given a Spin Doctor for Planetary Death a Plum Foreign Office Job | Novara Media Is someone who has years of experience doing PR for fossil fuel companies wrecking the planet the best choice to oversee the Foreign Office? Obviously not, writes Adam Ramsay.

And the headline award for telling it how it is goes to... @novaramedia.com 👇

@badvertising.bsky.social @cultureunstained.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social

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Fifa Club World Cup criticised by player union Fifpro Players' union Fifpro criticises Fifa's Club World Cup and the world governing body's president, Gianni Infantino.

Fifa "...chose to continue increasing its revenue at the expense of the players' bodies and health" - a great failure of governance in sport, and we can add that it was at the expense of the climate too... @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social @cooldownnetwork.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth

Looks suspiciously like Labour has rediscovered finance-driven neoliberalism - because that's taken 'such' good care of people, the planet & the economy so far 🤦🏼

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"There’s one rule for the left and another for the right." 👈🏼 Very true...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly - Carbon Brief Reaching net-zero will be much cheaper for the UK government than previously expected – and the economic damages of climate change far more severe.

Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly, says Office for Budget Responsibility

#climatecrisis
Story by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org

www.carbonbrief.org/obr-net-zero...

Thousands meet their MPs to show huge demand for climate action Mass lobby in Westminster kicked off with giant image on white cliffs of Dover stating ‘89% of people want climate action’

“Sharing support for climate action with people we meet can play a key role in driving forward change"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Marseille airport cancels all flights as wildfire encroaches on city Authorities urge residents to stay indoors and say 720 firefighters battling blaze

Big worldly hint about the consequences of high carbon lifestyles, and not a subtle one...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

This! Easy ways to stop promoting our own destruction...👇🏼

The industry moving behind the call for a tobacco-style ban on fossil fuel advertising ahead of next week's parliamentary debate feels like a breakthrough moment... 👇

The new Climate Mobility Case Database: a new movement to advance the rights of climate-displaced communities - Free Movement Climate change, disasters and corporate driven-environmental harms are forcing communities to move - both within countries and across borders.

New from Free Movement: The new Climate Mobility Case Database: a new movement to advance the rights of climate-displaced communities | Bella Mosselmans freemovement.org.uk/the-new-clim...

Many climate challenges are hard, but stopping the active promotion of global heating should be a no-brainer easy step - one to push 👇👇👇

The issue has intensified since 2022, with global heating and major climate polluters Aramco in football and cricket, to Shell in cycling, Equinor and others all over sport... (not to mention the airlines and car makers using sport as a billboard to normalise high carbon lifestyles)...

🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: TotalEnergies to sponsor two teams in the 2025 Tour de France... and the Tour itself until 2028.

The Tour is becoming increasingly dependent on Total, a company with a violent and polluting reputation that it would like to distract from. 🧵 1/7

Yvette Cooper vows to ban Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws Home secretary to ignore warning from group’s lawyers that doing so would be ‘unlawful, dangerous and ill thought out’

An abuse of law & an abuse of language? Spraying paint in a self-evident peace protest neither intends to, nor actually terrorises anyone...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

What could a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty look like? As climate negotiations get underway in Bonn, an initiative set up to work on a pact against fossil fuels is discussing its structure and ways to promote the phase-out of coal, oil and gas

What could a fossil treaty look like? Article about our workshop in Bonn www.climatechangenews.com/2025/06/17/w... @fossilfueltreaty.bsky.social @suspol.bsky.social @sussexfss.bsky.social @sussexsrp.bsky.social