Worthing Climate Action Network

An actual just energy transition needs two things: a clear plan to get rid of fossil fuels, and serious money for climate adaptation. COP30 ended weak on both.

We do have the Belém Action Mechanism (BAM), but what is a just transition mechanism w/o the money or political will to make it happen?

The #COP30 Mutirão decision is here. On the one hand, we had the COP30 President speak in the closing plenary about the need for a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels.

On the other hand, no such roadmap appeared in the final text.

A few takeaways from Belém in 🧵

Video from today’s #stoprosebank demo in #Worthing with @xrbrightondrummers.bsky.social and @rachelmillward.bsky.social speech.
“Rosebank is climate vandalism”
Thanks to everyone who braved the freezing wind on the prom!
@worthinggreens.bsky.social
@extinctionrebellion.uk
@stopcambo.bsky.social

Great news!

Two people holding a banner saying laboir must stop rosebank

People on the steps holding Banners and placards

Drummers and people holding placards

Woman speaking into orange megaphone

Great demo today in #Worthing - despite the cold many of us turned out to say #StopRosebank
Thanks to @rachelmillward.bsky.social deputy leader of @greenparty.org.uk for speaking & the brilliant @xrbrightondrummers.bsky.social
@stopcambo.bsky.social
@xrbrighton.bsky.social @xrhorsham.bsky.social

🦇 Those who harm wildlife are also likely to harm people 🚨

The @wclnews.bsky.social Wildlife Crime Report this year highlights that 59% of people who commit crimes against wildlife are also associated with other violent crimes

Read more 👇
www.wcl.org.uk/wildlife-cri...

Photo of protestors in black and black and red text

Today in #Worthing!!
Wind and rain won’t stop us from saying #stoprosebank
@stopcambo.bsky.social

Join civil society from around the world who are ramping up the pressure to say that COP30 must deliver real ambition, real finance, and a real fossil-fuel phase-out — not symbolic gestures.

TAKE ACTION 👉
bit.ly/LulaActCOP30

Johan Rockström, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research👇

The Orange Plague

op30: a new sculpture titled 'The Orange Plague' depicts Trump as a self-proclaimed king of justice, sitting atop a frail man armed with a golf club next to an Earth-shaped golf ball.

Cop30: a new sculpture titled 'The Orange Plague' depicts Trump as a self-proclaimed king of justice, sitting atop a frail man armed with a golf club next to an Earth-shaped golf ball.
Danish artist/activist Jens Galschiøt "highlights America’s failure to share responsibility for Earth’s future.”

Cop30 live: summit president warns ‘everybody will lose’ if countries fail to cooperate André Corrêa do Lago issues plea to preserve Paris agreement with countries far from reaching agreement on scheduled final day

It will shock few that the Cop30 draft deal 'does not align with science, with law, with the legitimate demands of children, youth, frontline communities...or ultimately with the very objective of the UNFCCC,' @unsrclimatehrights.bsky.social says
Read more reax www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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

Good news!

At #COP30, 🇨🇴 Colombia has announced the “Belém declaration on the transition away from fossil fuels,” a coalition of 24 countries calling for a plan to phase out coal, oil & gas. 🇨🇴

Learn more on the #ThinkLandscape live blog: thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org/98831/cop30-...

Cop30 live: summit president warns ‘everybody will lose’ if countries fail to cooperate André Corrêa do Lago issues plea to preserve Paris agreement with countries far from reaching agreement on scheduled final day

#COP30 - “Our elementary school kids are reading textbooks that are more science-based and in line with reality than the [draft] text we have here, where we are supposed to fix this problem” says Juan Carlos Monterrey, climate envoy for Panama

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is climate breakdown She was sure that there would be warnings if there was any danger. But then the floods came. This is Toñi García’s story

‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is climate breakdown

Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷

Not long to go.
One of our #Worthing MP’s, Tom Rutland, has confirmed he won’t be attending - what will Beccy Cooper do?
Constituents need this up to date information on the #climateemergency @worthinggreens.bsky.social

COP30 BREAKING NEWS

The presidency has just dropped a new package of texts including the "global mutirão" cover, which makes no mention of fossil fuels or roadmaps

Here's my snap analysis (pic)

unfccc.int/sites/def...

Cop30: dozens of countries threaten to block resolution unless it contains roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out Exclusive: The Guardian understands Brazil had been planning to drop a roadmap to a transition away from fossil fuels amid opposition from petro states

“We cannot support an outcome that does not include a roadmap for implementing a just, orderly, and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.”
#phaseoutfossilfuels
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog

And the UK's most autocratic government removes yet another human right from British citizens

Forget Reform, it seems to me we already have a populist right-wing regime in charge

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

Good move! 💚 #brighton

Home secretary unveils plan to create the ‘most controlled and selective’ system in Europe for permanent migration – UK politics live Shabana Mahmood reveals plan for legal migration, including a 20-year wait to gain permanent residence for migrants on benefits

This Labour Govt is vile. 😡
The proposals will make “Britain’s settlement system by far the most controlled and selective in Europe”.

We need to find ways to welcome those coming to this country.
#climatemigration is just beginning.
#nohumanisillegal

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Beaver-engineered habitats are outperforming ours Two studies find that beaver-engineered wetlands attract twice as many hoverflies, nearly 50% more butterflies, and a richer variety of bats compared to human-made ponds or free-flowing streams.

Beaver-engineered habitats are outperforming ours.


Two studies find that beaver-engineered wetlands attract twice as many hoverflies, nearly 50% more butterflies, and a richer variety of bats compared to human-made ponds or free-flowing streams.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/?p=239258

UK – don’t block the BAM! ACTION HUB: UK – don't block the BAM! At COP30, taking place right now in Belém, Brazil, the UK government is standing out as a blocker in critical just transition negotiations. With the world watchin...

At COP30, the UK government is standing out as a blocker in critical just transition negotiations.

With the world watching, we must raise pressure from the UK on our government to act. Take action now to call on Ed Miliband to support the Belém Action Mechanism: climatejustice.uk/cop30/uk-don...

Headline: Fly-tippers dump 'mountain of waste in Oxfordshire field', subheading: 'Area's MP says it would cost more than local council's annual budget to remove the 10-metre high pile of waste' by Sammy Gecsoyler. Opposite picture of our Watershed Pollution Map showing historic landfill sites in flood risk zones on the Cherwell.

Illegal waste dumps are a growing problem. This one's located in a flood risk zone, raising the spectre of harmful chemicals getting into the river + floodwater. It's not only illegal waste sites - along the Cherwell, there are historic landfills, many unlined, in flood zones.
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Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘ The Arsenal and England forward is backing new global campaign because talent and teamwork should decide the game – not the climate

Great to see #BethMead, England footballer, talking about the #climateemergency
When droughts, floods or extreme heat hit, we are all impacted, but it’s the most vulnerable communities that pay the price. Farmers lose crops. Kids miss school. Families lose homes.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm One expert says he is ‘starting to visualise the point where all we have left of corals and reefs is memories’ * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Almost two out of three corals across popular tourism spots at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo reef died after an unprecedented marine heatwave hit the Western Australia region, scientists have said. The areas in Ningaloo’s northern lagoon had undergone a “profound ecological simplification” with coral species that were keystones to the habitat among those killed. Continue reading...

‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm

Taxpayer-backed funds pump millions into Scottish ‘floating’ wind farm that will power 70,000 homes “We are leading the way in the floating wind sector but are ambitious to go further” – Kate Forbes

Floating offshore wind farm to power 70,000 homes and support 1,000 jobs.
www.scotsman.com/business/tax...

How the rich world is fortifying itself against climate migration Climate change is already linked to mass deportation – and the worst is still to come.

Good article about #climatemigration
Keir Starmer said: “We need an approach with a stronger deterrent effect and rules that are robustly enforced.” Previously-supportive MPs from his own party have warned this will mean “Ice-style raids” to deport asylum seekers.
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...

How Labour Negate Progressive Ideas Through ‘Divide and Rule’ | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski Podcast Episode · Bold Politics with Zack Polanski · 19/11/2025 · 40m

I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...