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The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) @cast-centre.bsky.social · 12h

Almost 9 in 10 people felt more motivated to act on the climate and nature crisis after watching a screening of the People's Emergency Briefing, according to a large-scale academic study by CAST with the National Emergency Briefing. 📽️ Read the briefing: cast.ac.uk/wp-content/u... Key messages 🧵

Cover page of CAST Briefing 48 (October 2026) featuring a large photograph of a People’s Emergency Briefing event inside a cathedral-like venue, with attendees seated facing presentation screens. The headline reads, “How the People’s Emergency Briefing turns environmental concern into civic action.” Key messages are summarised in bullet points below. Logos for the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST), University of Bath, University of Gloucestershire, and National Emergency Briefing appear at the bottom.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is there a 'war on the countryside'? Yes - but it's the one being waged by the landowners who unleash 50 million pheasants each year... Step forward 'Lord' Christian Brighty to explain, in this devastating (and hilarious) video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFi8...

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The Real Threat to Britain’s Countryside

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trade bodies lobbying against regulation to green their industry is a feature not a flaw. SMMT end up representing the industry of the past at inflection points like this, but it's still not easy for govt to ignore their calls to slow down...so they should design policy that exposes the laggards...

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📣 The first screening of the People's Emergency Briefing in a national parliament! The film was shown at Holyrood last night. Grateful to First Minister John Swinney for committing to helping ensure it is “shared and understood very widely within Scotland”. #TimeToStepUp #NationalEmergencyBriefing

The First Minister John Swinney with Gillian Martin msp cabinet secretary for climate and rural affairs, and Prof Mike Berners-Lee

The First Minister giving an address next to a large screen about to show the Peoples Emergency Briefing

A packed room of MSPs and staff watching the film

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Stephen Leahy @stephenleahy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Billionaires are funding climate-denying misinformation. “They do it because they don’t want people to act collectively; they want people to feel powerless,” said one of 1,250 invitation-only attendees leahy.substack.com/p/an-uncomfo...

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An uncomfortable look at where we are headed--and what can be done

Highlights from the UK’s National Emergency Briefing

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is very addictive......I am going to bow out at 14.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am sure AI has some uses...but if you can't express your own thoughts maybe politics isn't for you!

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rachel Kyte, UK Special Representative for Climate, just on the Today Programme talking about the food and national security risks from climate change and nature loss, said "this goverment..is very much thinking about how to engage the public in a conversation abour our safety and security". Yes!

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW: How did the summer heatwaves and wildfires change attitudes to climate and Net Zero, if at all? A short thread on analysis of tracker polling now summer is winding down. 🧵 (for @persuasionuk.bsky.social with @yougov.co.uk)

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am fascinated to see what agreement the EU and Canada (and maybe now Australia) come to on food and farming standards. After years of dispute does the safe haven EU provides mean those countries wanting to get closer see the benefit of aligning?

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Comparing organic and conventional farming is redundant. We know producing same food with zero chemical pesticide or fertilizers or hormones would need more land and worsen the environment impact! Useful comparison would be regen farming of plant rich diet with conventional farming of current diet.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's that time again, National Trust members. Please use the QuickVote or make your own choices but avoid Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani. Hopefully one day "Restore Trust" will give up trying to Restore Empire and deny our full and honest history as a nation.

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@RestoreTrustNT Sep 10
"The National Trust, too quick to bend in the wind of fashion, is making historical mistakes and confusing visitors."

Lawrence Goldman on Dyrham Park.

Vote Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani. Leave the Quick Vote unticked.

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Watch this! Tessa Khan brilliantly sets out why we need to take this opportunity to build the UK energy system and industrial policy around renewables. Despite what the oil and gas lobby say, there is no industrial or economic benefit from delay, only more costs and risks youtu.be/IUBc1fDySqg?...

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The Next Economic Shock Is Coming. Green Energy Is The Only Way Out | Aaron Bastani Meets Tessa Khan

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Idk but the hype around AI makes it look, walk and quack like a bubble. The AI models that we need are the cheapest and most energy and water efficient ones, rather than ones that rely on a fantasy of abundance. So happy to read this and hope it is another thing that helps burst this bubble early

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

All the focus on displacing the bit of gas we import that is more carbon intensive than the UKs, that is the 20% of what we use, rather on driving down demand so we don't need to use it at all, is angel on the head of a pin stuff. More production is not a solution it is just a distraction.

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Great summary of Labour's electoral calculation. I'd add - 'jobs vs climate action' is really 'jobs that won't be around for long vs jobs that will' and salience is a bad metric for a 25 year transition, what matters is support for climate action and knowing that it helps economy, health, security.

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Video of the PEB in South Norfolk. Worth watching as Isabelle Sparrow is a model of thoughtful facilitation who also expertly captures the aims and challenges of this campaign in her chats with Nick Oldridge and the local MP who attended but doesn't want a NEB (20.59) carboncopy.eco/podcasts/a-l...

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A Local National Emergency

How can the People’s Emergency Briefing help to create more local - as well as national - action for climate and nature?

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I am great according to Jennifer Saunders...and now Matt Green. Incontrovertible evidence. No further questions thank you.

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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

⚠️ NEW EPISODE ⚠️ The hellish reality of climate change was laid bare this summer. Can ordinary people really do anything about it? Green economist @angelaisfranc.bsky.social, @mattgreencomedy.com, @jasonhazeley.bsky.social and @hannahfearn.bsky.social weigh in. 🎧 Full ep: linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I joined the amazing OWGN team on Wednesday to talk about how the economics of transition and people's belief in need for climate action play into political decision making as consesus breaks down in UK. Episode is now out and you can listen here - linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

Cover for Yes, you can do something about the Climate Emergency episode on Oh God What Now?

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Carbon Brief's fact check on the Cons/Onward Alternative Policy Pathway is devastating. The report itself shows the 'cheap electricity' route does not turn out to be the best way to electrictrify or lower emissions...but the holes in the analysis mean it is not cheaper either! Wow shorturl.at/v0iLG

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Factcheck: 10 flaws in the Conservative report on ‘cheap power’ - Carbon Brief

In a new report, the opposition Conservatives argue that UK electricity prices are too high and that it would be…

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

To take this further and make it less fun...as some coastal areas get more flood and winter storm surge, this could take up homes that need to be re-zoned summer use only. But it would still mean less housing overall and summer residences idea might fall apart if AMOC collapse makes UK like Iceland!

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The new guardian crossword app is awful ... @theguardian.com please change it back! This is a subscription cancelling worthy issue and ruining my lunchtime.

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Unpopular opinion? Let's see! Devolution is a good thing but mostly about delivery. Yes, that delivery will have distinct local flavours but we need a national framework of targets and principles for how much and what kind of housing, waste, renewables, transport we need.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We need to urgently scrap the Dept. of Agriculture as well as Teagasc, replacing them with a new Department of National Food Security, as I explore in the Irish Times today. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Why is it so easy for lies, partial truths and propoganda to set the agenda? We deserve more than 5 minutes collective memory from our media...to weigh claims based on, say, history of them falling apart under scrutiny or them disproportionately spotlightling minorities or the most vulnerable

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/08/2026

I wrote a thing. I'll try not to make it a habit but it was either start typing or keep furiously pacing. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/listening-...

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Listening to the Monsters

A scream into the void about Professor Arday and flawed institutions in a bad faith ecosystem.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This petition has jumped to over 93,000 signatures in the last few weeks and 100,000 will trigger a debate in parliament on a National Emergency Briefing on the climate crisis, televised and fronted by the PM. If you support please sign and share.

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Want to get politicians to take climate crisis seriously, sign this petition and share it in your networks.

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

various African countries have been figuring out ways to navigate the 2020s geopolitical landscape with all its the challenges. Being able to orientate towards new green industries, unsurprisingly, helps New essay w/ @70sbachchan.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

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Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay | Green Strategy in Africa

On the continent’s industrial development agenda for the twenty-first century

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Interesting results from the Clacton By-election: 1) Reform win at 63% underperforms their own estimate of 70%+ 2) A Cons candidate not toxic to Lab-Lib-Green could win there next time 3) Scandal, grievance and brittleness not decisive in Clacton but do hurt Farage's reputation nationally

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Shows on enjoying the weather and on fear of climate change need a follow up on the huge economic and health benefits of acting and why we still aren't doing enough! @mrjamesob.bsky.social we need the full journey from fear to hope to furious and doing something about it youtu.be/vCwpGjZU074?...

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Food security will be shooting up government agendas - and trade policy should be part of that - but this approach, which is trade without any sustainability criteria, will not support the climate and nature friendly farmers we need to protect soils, water supplies and forests.

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Totally agree with Robert, consumers will vote with their feet (or wheels) and the transition to EVs is now unstoppable. But the mandate was important in getting us to that point, so how can we design policy incentives that are less vulnerable to lobbying by slowest movers...

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Public understanding is the precondition for more ambitious government action

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

'Food security' could be met by UK producing more of the same but 'nutritional security' focuses us on resilient practices of farmers at home and overseas producing nutritous food - not feed, biofuel or more meat - in ways that support diverse supply chains for the future www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Prolonged drought could cause shortage of some foods, farmers' union head says

NFU president Tom Bradshaw calls on the government to take action to prevent extreme weather affecting the UK's food supply.

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My favorite response to 'let's just adapt' is 'What do you want to adapt to - 2, 3 or 4 degrees?'. And, 'mitigating is adapting - healthy forests and regen farming make us resilient, heat pumps are most efficient source of ac, renewables work when gas, coal and nuclear's cooling systems overheat

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If you are despairing about the volume of climate denial and bad takes in response to European and UK heatwaves and wild fires in our media support the call for a National Emergency briefing 👇🏽

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Badenoch doesn't seem to understand that it was the Climate Change Act that gave us the policy architecture to innovate, build markets and competition that made wind one of the cheapest form of power in the world! Something the UK should be very proud of and building on not tearing up.

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Glad to see these statements from UK-Spain and UK-France. It is not yet action, but it positions action as protecting prosperity and competitiveness and starts with reduced dependence on fossil fuels, all precursors to action, esp when done with allies who have a record of standing up to Trump.

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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I generally try to avoid listening to anything Elon Musk says but I watched the full Economist interview to see if Zanny Beddoes did as good job as I read...she did and no wonder he is now lashing out youtu.be/8TjK-s0468w?...

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Elon Musk The Economist July 23rd 2026 - FULL Interview

YouTube video by Automation with Wilt | Software & AI

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thank you to the 103 MPs who have joined the Parliamentary Call for a live government-led televised emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis. It's time to level with the public about the threats and opportunities. Link in comments to check if your MP supports. #NationalEmergencyBriefing

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