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@stephenfarrant.bsky.social

Sustainability adviser & environmental optimist, helping business to re-think and re-purpose for the 2020s. Born 324.42ppm.

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Air France, Accor to Pay Bond Penalty for Missing Climate Goals Air France-KLM and hotelier Accor SA will need to cough up financial penalties to bondholders because they failed to meet greenhouse gas targets.

The financial costs of inaction are becoming increasingly clear

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

24.02.2026 11:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Climate action is the worldโ€™s cheapest insurance policy, study says Climate policy is not discretionary spending but collective risk pooling, according to a Vienna University study, who argue that as natural disasters proliferate, it acts as a public insurance system ...

The world's cheapest insurance policy....

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

24.02.2026 11:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Protecting Earthโ€™s oldest data system: the case for biodiversity Long before humans built computers, nature built a better one. Razan Al Mubarak sees biodiversity as the planetโ€™s original information network. In a commentary published on Mongabay, Al Mubarak, presi...

Extinction is data loss. Amid all the hype surrounding AI, let's not forget that the most valuable dataset is biological, not digital. "We are losing the libraries before we have read their books." @sscmarine.bsky.social @mongabay.com #nature #biodiversity #TNFD

news.mongabay.com/2025/10/prot...

15.10.2025 09:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. โ€˜Frugal techโ€™ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University

So many good points in this article, well said Eleanor Drage

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

02.08.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œWe need to align our laws with the laws of natureโ€ - great to hear Monica Feria-Tinta speak this morning at the Rights of Nature symposium #LondonClimateActionWeek

24.06.2025 16:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just been to see the new David Attenborough film โ€œOcean.โ€ Itโ€™s brilliant; powerful, urgent, awe-inspiring and alarming. Most importantly, it ends with clear hope. Go and see it.

20.06.2025 21:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wild Justice presses ahead with legal challenge against the government's Planning and Infrastructure Bill - Wild Justice PRESS RELEASE: Conservation campaign group Wild Justice has issued a legal challenge to the governmentโ€™s claim that the new Planning [โ€ฆ]

Hot off the press!

wildjustice.org.uk/general/wild...

12.06.2025 06:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 80    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Fabulous evening yesterday @rgsibg.bsky.social and thank you @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social for a truly brilliant and enlightening talk (expertly facilitated by @horatioclare.bsky.social ). Canโ€™t wait to get stuck into the book.

03.05.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

First sight of swifts over west london this evening! #swifts @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

26.04.2025 18:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Great first line-up @changenow2025 at Grand Palais, Paris with Laurent Fabius and Mary Robinson

24.04.2025 08:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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White's fundraiser for St Catherineโ€™s Hospice (Crawley) Help White & Sons raise money to support St Catherineโ€™s Hospice (Crawley)

Really looking forward to returning to this event in May after a couple of years away. Always great fun and St Catherine's Hospice an excellent cause www.justgiving.com/page/white-a...

19.03.2025 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It's gas that is making UK electricity expensive.

www.carbonbrief.org/...
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19.03.2025 12:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 234    ๐Ÿ” 81    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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St Pancras plans for direct trains from UK to Germany The London station's owner and Eurotunnel hope to expand routes to Cologne, Frankfurt and Switzerland.

At the end of a week of unremittingly bleak news, hereโ€™s a very welcome development to look forward to

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

21.02.2025 20:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How much in subsidies do fossil fuels receive? Estimates range from less than $1 trillion to $7 trillion. Where do these numbers come from?

Whether the figure is $1trn or $7trn, this is insanity in action and has to change
ourworldindata.org/how-much-sub...

07.02.2025 12:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Consultation on straw-man levy proposals | Global Solidarity Levies Task Force The Global Solidarity Levies Task Force brings together countries from around the world to advance options for international levelies that will raise much needed revenue for the fight against climate ...

How do we quickly ramp up the scale of investment needed in the global fight against climate change and injustice? Have your say on 16 specific proposals here:

globalsolidaritylevies.org/consultation...

07.02.2025 09:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Flailing around for growth: new roads and runways are not the answer Well, this is depressing. Rachel Reeves, who once wanted to be Britainโ€™s first green chancellor, now prefers to confect rows with her natural allies over new roads and runways. She briefs out her sโ€ฆ

Well said @shaunspiers1.bsky.social @green-alliance.org.uk

greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/01/23/f...

29.01.2025 15:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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