Kevin Anderson

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YouTube video by We Don't Have Time Kevin Anderson - Professor of energy and climate change - National Emergency Briefing 2025

"We can not expect people who are poorer, already struggling to heat their homes & use their cars, we can't expect those people to be cutting their energy use. We have to expect that from the wealthy of us." @kevinclimate.bsky.social speaking at @nebriefing.bsky.social

It's awfully ironic that this was Lord Whitehead's answer, as at the @nebriefing.bsky.social Prof. @kevinclimate.bsky.social told the attendees in no uncertain terms that the 1.5C goal was now out of reach and 2C will soon be too!

That many dont know this yet shows the need of a government briefing

"Vi behöver ett djupgående skifte i våra sociala normer. Det är för sent för icke-radikala framtidsalternativ." @kevinclimate.bsky.social om hur Storbritannien (och alla andra länder) måste ta sig an klimatkrisen.

Kevin Anderson - Leader or Laggard? Norway, oil & gas, and climate change - Brave New Europe Norway is predestined to lead stopping climate breakdown but is blocked by greed Kevin Anderson is professor of Energy and Climate Change at The University ofBergen (Norway), the Universities of Manch...

Exactly. Here’s something I wrote about Norway as a nation trying to wean itself off drugs but making its income from flogging drugs abroad. The Saudis have MBS, while Norway has JGS; similar moral codes, though journalists are probably safer in Norway.
braveneweurope.com/kevin-anders...

Kevin Anderson - Leader or Laggard? Norway, oil & gas, and climate change - Brave New Europe Norway is predestined to lead stopping climate breakdown but is blocked by greed Kevin Anderson is professor of Energy and Climate Change at The University ofBergen (Norway), the Universities of Manch...

Exactly. Here’s something I wrote about Norway as a nation trying to wean itself off drugs but making its income from flogging drugs abroad. The Saudis have MBS, while Norway has JGS; similar moral codes, though journalists are probably safer in Norway.
braveneweurope.com/kevin-anders...

Absolutely; we’ve left it far too late to rely solely on technology. Yes tech is a prerequisite of delivering on Paris, but it is now far from sufficient. We also need urgent & profound changes to the social norms of us hi-emitters - & that means stringent & fair legislation to cut our energy use.

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So well thought through, psychologically, power-savvy, dynamically not to let it die a quick death in doom scrolling but giving the event its own future compost on which to branch out into all corners of UK.

YOU guys saw what the job of govt and BBC was, and YOU organised AND do THEIR job!
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I now watched the whole briefing and Nick Breeze's interview with one of you.
I am utterly flashed! Not by the information. But by the briefing's intent and execution, incl. next year's action, the targeted audience in Westminster, the letter to BBC & govt., the call for WW2 mobilisation.
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National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

There were over 40 journalists there, including I believe from the BBC. I know of at least one from a major media outlet who filed a report, that was then ignored by the editor, something I find deeply disturbing.

Please sign the open letter calling for a televised briefing.
www.nebriefing.org

Today - 07/11/2025 - BBC Sounds News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Short interview on the BBC Today programme with Amol Rajan, discussing the upcoming Brazil COP and how the so-called “cost of living crisis” is being (mis)used by leaders and high emitters to avoid taking meaningful action on climate change.

Starts at 2.36.30. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The National Emergency Briefing The National Emergency Briefing was held on in Westminster Central Hall on the 27th November. Eight leading experts, chaired by Professor Mike Berners-Lee, gave a concise, high-level briefing on the e...

Yes - we’re working on it, with slides edited in. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel and we’ll get them out as soon as we possibly can. Hopefully next week.

m.youtube.com/@nebriefing

True, and problematic as: a) it’s our national broadcaster and so should be covering the breadth of important news topics, b) it’s still one of the most trusted news sources in this age of fragmentation and disinformation.

YouTube video by GBNews WATCH: National Emergency briefing on climate and nature by UK experts

Thanks Kevin. Very kind of you.

For anyone else, the talks are all in this video but there are no time stamps so just dive in (I might post some later if I have time)…

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2-PF...

UK Security, Food And Economy At Risk Without Climate Action, Experts Say Experts at the U.K.’s first national emergency briefing on climate and nature shared risks in a world being rapidly destabilised by climate and biodiversity breakdown

Wow, top article on UK National Emergency Briefing! By Claire Pool <notes name>.
"food supply crisis cd cause civil unrest in the U.K. within the next decade, food security experts say". 👍
Mentions WW2 and mobilisation twice. Very good! Establish this image so itemised rationing is the logical next.

My next-to-last report from ten years ago at #CoP21 Paris focused on scientists, including Johan Rockström, stressing the importance of cutting livestock emissions versus Ireland's claims of 'feeding the world' with dairy and meat.

Some things just don't change.

www.antaisce.org/news/john-sw...

Lots of journalists attended, tho’ I don’t think from the BBC. Prior to the event the Today programme did discuss it with Chris Packham. My experience has been that that the BBC has long run scared of tackling climate mitigation issues head on, generally preferring more saccharine pseudo-journalism.

Lots of journalists attended, tho’ I don’t think from the BBC. Prior to the event the Today programme did discuss it with Chris Packham. My experience has been that that the BBC has long run scared of tackling climate mitigation issues head on, generally preferring more saccharine pseudo-journalism.

Thanks Kevin. It was an honour to have you speaking at the event. We've had so many comments from people overcome with emotion at the relief of hearing a frank, honest assessment of the interconnected climate/nature crisis - the essential first step towards genuine emergency action. 🙏

Yes. 8% is the global reduction rate from the start of 2026 &for an “83% chance of not exceeding 2°C” (based on Lamboll et al 2023 budgets). Include a relatively weak interpretation of international equity & the UK reduction rate would be nearer 13%pa; similar to that for most ‘developed’ countries.

Yes. 8% is the global reduction rate from the start of 2026 &for an “83% chance of not exceeding 2°C” (based on Lamboll et al 2023 budgets). Include a relatively weak interpretation of international equity & the UK reduction rate would be nearer 13%pa; similar to that for most ‘developed’ countries.

“The choice is between deep, rapid fair decarbonisation of modern society, and an organised-ish technical and social revolution;
or ongoing rhetoric and delay as temperatures [rise].

And then we’ll have a revolutionary style change that will be both chaotic and violent.” @kevinclimate.bsky.social

Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster

Thanks to @sioldridge.bsky.social @nickoldridge.bsky.social & the team for their monumental efforts in pulling together yesterday’s National Emergency Briefing www.nebriefing.org on climate change. Thanks also go to those MPs, journalists & others who attended.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The choice is between deep, rapid and fair decarbonisation of modern society, and an organised-ish technical and social revolution; or ongoing rhetoric and delay as temperatures [rise]. And then we’ll have a revolutionary style change that will be both chaotic and violent” @kevinclimate.bsky.social

Ten years ago at #COP21 Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social was making climate reality very clear :
'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action'
www.antaisce.org/news/report-...

Kevin Anderson speaking to the audience

Climate scientist @kevinclimate.bsky.social says “we need to eliminate fossil fuels”.

Societal and ecological collapse at 3-4C warming.

For <2C, the UK has 7 years of current CO2 emissions.

Drax and CCS are delay tech.

Heat pumps, good public transport, and deep cuts of aviation are essential.

Professor Kevin Anderson delivers some granite hard truths @kevinclimate.bsky.social

"We need profound shifts in our social norms.

It is too late for non-radical solutions.

The UK is emitting far more than its fair share of greenhouse gases.

We need deep cuts in energy use."

Key point from the brilliant Prof @kevinclimate.bsky.social at the National Emergency Briefing, the UK's climate plans are based on the wildly untenable assumption that the country can have 3x its equitable share of the remaining global carbon budget for meeting the 1.5C guardrail.

Panel discussion

Question from @fionaharvey.bsky.social about rise of populist politics.

@angelaisfranc.bsky.social says we need to force responses on climate from them.

@kevinclimate.bsky.social says there is no cost of living crisis, there is an equity crisis from locked up wealth.

It was good you spoke truth to the R4 audience. It was disappointing that Amol failed to dig into the ideas you put forward regarding the centrality of equity. That last bit felt rushed. I think were he to interview you for his "Radical" podcast, there could be time to elucidate the reality we face.