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Paul C

@paulclondon.bsky.social
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Climate/energy policy, currently head of heat pump delivery at UK's department of energy security and net zero. Nature, sustainability and circular economy. Dad and cyclist. Canadian born, raised in Indonesia

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 02/10/2026
Cargo bike use in London is booming - up 126% since 2022. This week I joined 50 businesses - from Royal Mail to delivery firms, waste companies & tradespeople - to celebrate & raise awareness of this clean, green & economical alternative to diesel vans. #CargoBikeCruiseLDN
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Marcus Shepheard @mashley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Miatta Fahnbulleh announced that the Government plans to devolve the Warm Homes Plan funding earlier this week. We broadly think this is a good idea (although we look forwards to more detail). The only sticking point is BUS, as @acjsissons.bsky.social points out. www.nesta.org.uk/blog/devolvi...
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Devolving the Warm Homes Plan to local government makes sense - but the Boiler Upgrade Scheme should stay
Three implications of devolving the Boiler Upgrade Scheme.
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ECIU @eciu.net · 24/09/2026
ECIU comment>> eciu.net/media/press... Latest data>> www.gov.uk/government/...
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Record heat pumps under Boiler upgrade Scheme (BUS) in August: comment
Figures published by the government today show that August saw the highest ever numbers of heat pump vouchers paid under the BUS.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How big is Indonesia really? [🇮🇩 geosagaofficial] Original post
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Paul C @paulclondon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Love this: super important work by Power of Mama, even more so in this El Niño year. At the heart of every environmental problem is a hearts and minds challenge and who better to win over their community than these amazing women www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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The women saving Borneo: battling fire, patriarchy and super El Niño on Indonesia’s peatland frontlines
Fire threatens Kalimantan’s rainforests. On the peatland frontlines, a group of local mothers is defending their community
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/
Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 04/09/2026
My latest for Technosphere Earth. I eagerly awaited @unep.org new Overshoot report. It delivers in many respects & should serve as an important reference. But it missed a major opportunity to frame the overshoot moment. www.technosphere.earth/overshoot-sh...
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Overshoot should mark the end of the road for supposed 'policy relevance'
But UNEP's Limiting Overshoot report keeps plodding along the same timid route
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Indonesia having already destroyed many millions of acres of forest now to log another 50 million acres of forest to be converted to grow food and biofuel crops, or an area twice the size of South Korea. They are killing the life blood of the planet news.mongabay.com/2025/01/indo...
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Indonesian forestry minister proposes 20m hectares of deforestation for crops
JAKARTA — An Indonesian government plan to clear forests spanning an area twice the size of South Korea for food and biofuel crops has sparked fears of massive greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversit...
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 13/08/2026
Temperatures provisionally reached 38.1°C at Kew Gardens, making it the hottest day of the year so far. This is the second time this year we have reached 38°C. The only other time this has happened twice in one year was in 2022. It also makes it the 5th hottest day on record.
A map showing 38.1°C recorded at Kew Gardens. This makes it the hottest day of the year so far.
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Orangutan Land Trust @orangutanlandtrust.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Choose #SUSTAINABLE #PalmOil and Save #Orangutans and #Tigers!
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
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Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
rule #6
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WildCRU, Oxford @wildcru.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Would you like to study for a degree in human-wildlife conflict and coexistence at the University of Oxford? Help us shape the new course by letting us know your thoughts in this very short survey 👉 forms.gle/HGZc9Ar1SWyy... Thank you! @biology.ox.ac.uk @mplsoxford.bsky.social
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Make Electricity Cheap Again! Power needs to be cheap, clean, abundant and resilient. Here's my 8-point plan to turn the current Power Price Doom Loop into an Electrification Virtuous Circle. mliebreich.substack.com/p/make-elect...
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Make Electricity Cheap Again!
Electricity needs to be cheap, clean, abundant and resilient. Here's my 8-point plan to turn the current Power Price Doom Loop into an Electrification Virtuous Circle.
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Bo Vagner Hansen @bovagner.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026
"Let me be as clear as I can be. You cannot keep average power bills down through the course of the transition unless you deliver time-of-use and locational price signals to consumers."
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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Excellent Sankey diagram from @hannahritchie.bsky.social showing country-level contributions to deforestation via their imports. Interactive version and other years here: hannahritchie.github.io/deforestatio...
Deforestation embedded in global trade in 2023. Production of beef, oilseeds (soy, palm oil), and stimulants (coffee, chocolate) are the largest causes.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Indonesia’s native hornbills hammered by online and offline trade More than 500 of the birds, including chicks, were sold online for the pet trade. Facebook was the main marketplace Hornbills rapidly losing their homes as large swaths of Indonesian forests cut down news.mongabay.com/2026/06/indo...
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Indonesia’s native hornbills are being hammered by online and offline trade
Among the many inhabitants of Southeast Asia’s dense rainforests are hornbills — a group of birds that stand out with their raucous call, large, ostentatious beak and colorful feathers. Indonesia harb...
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Killing the lungs of the Earth Indonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025, reversing years of decline 433,751 hectares (1.1 million acres) of forest, an area more than twice the size of London, were lost in 2025, the highest level in eight years. news.mongabay.com/2026/04/indo...
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Indonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025, reversing years of decline
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s deforestation surged in 2025, rising 66% from the previous year, marking a sharp reversal after several years of decline, according to new data from the NGO Auriga Nusantara. Bas...
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Paul C @paulclondon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Now this really would be expensive electricity- about 10000 times a typical retail tariff (from the front page of the UK's Times newspaper) - is it so hard to understand the difference between power (kW) and energy (kWh)?
A newspaper clipping with headline saying "Paying £2700 for each kilowatt-hour of electricity generated by new nuclear power stations, double the cost of projects in France.
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Paul C @paulclondon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Brixton Market is at risk from private equity developers who could push out independent traders and bring in chain stores. Locals are launching an emergency counter-bid to bring it into community ownership by June 22. Add your name to help keep it independent: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bu...
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Back the community bid to keep Brixton Market independent
Private equity developers are trying to buy Brixton Market. Support the local traders' emergency counter-bid to keep it in community hands before the June 22nd deadline. Add your name to the petition:
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Sad to learn of Robert Ricklefs passing. I was fortunate to have the chance to have dinner with him once in Edinburgh - one of the most fascinating conventions of my life. I have returned to his foundational text book often over the years. #Ecology
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Relying on private investors to deliver coal phase-outs may be the wrong model." Alternatives exist, from proposals for much larger grant-based financing to an initiative which would use IMF resources to support investment. More radical proposals call for publicly-owned, worker-led transitions..👇
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Why the world’s most ambitious coal phase-out deal has failed – and what it means for climate finance
The $20 billion climate flop: a flagship plan to phase out coal in Indonesia hasn’t shut a single power plant.
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Paul C @paulclondon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If there is anything deserving of pure cold rage it should be this scandal
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Labour are exploring a new proposal to cut energy bills: communal batteries. Lauching a call for evidence, they want to see how community batteries can be rolled out at to support working people, including renters or those living in flats, to save money... 1/2
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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 27/05/2026
Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.
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Paul C @paulclondon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Good to see an impactful PSDS project come to fruition: www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/uks-l...
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UK's last coal-heated hospital completes switch to clean energy | New Civil Engineer
The two-phase decarbonisation programme has brought coal-fired heating to an end across the UK’s NHS estate, with the completion of a major energy
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is big: Dutch Court rules the government cannot keep allowing #BottomTrawling in (so called) Protected Areas, specifically the Dogger Bank, without license or impact assessment. Gives it weeks to comply. It's the same situation in virtually every European country.
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Paul C @paulclondon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Hugely significant if this process can be made to work at scale
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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 04/05/2026
Good morning from the Stourport Manor Hotel, from where around 30 of us will shortly set off for the fourth and penultimate day of riding in this year’s #HerneHillWhooshSevernSource2Mouth ride. Today we’re cycling 55 miles to Newent, near Gloucester.
The Stourport Manor Hotel, with a flowering rhododendron outside.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/04/2026
Adjoa Andoh on Shakespeare, Bridgerton and DEI: ‘I don’t have to be the only one in the room’
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Adjoa Andoh on Shakespeare, Bridgerton and DEI: ‘I don’t have to be the only one in the room’
Acclaimed stage and screen actor has taken part in Washington DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library residency program during a troubling time for the Capitol
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Indonesia biofuels program targets 5.7 million acres of protected forests Absolutely criminal - these wonderful animals will be left homeless, without food, with no future other than a miserable death This is what bio fuels fanatics call green news.mongabay.com/2025/02/indo...
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Indonesia targets 2.3m hectares of protected forests for food & biofuel crop production
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government is targeting protected forest areas as part of its plan to convert 20 million hectares (50 million acres) of forest into “food and energy estates,” a move that coul...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
If you read one thing today ... An essential article by the great @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-br...
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Big Oil Breaks Everything
The planet, our democracy, our courts...
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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
⚡ Energy efficiency (buildings, transport, industry) In an aggressive scenario ~5 mb/d could be achieved. We have the technologies but the sector is not glamorous. Building codes/industrial efficiency programs save money but is never prioritized. It's boring. It works. It's being underfunded.
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Will cycles slower than you 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.eurosky.social · 14/04/2026
On #WillCycle, I have the best, most detailed traffic-free cycle route guides for the UK that there are, but the site is still very unknown. By 2028, I want WillCycle to be everyone's default choice for such route information. Will you help me get there? Please post links to the site everywhere?
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Make no mistake, the fake "back to coal" narrative is being peddled by oil&gas interests to suggest that if you don't buy fossil gas you end up with an even worse option.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in #airpollution - Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20% www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution
Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/03/2026
This is the story of Weda Bay – and how nature is being sacrificed for mining
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This is the story of Weda Bay – and how nature is being sacrificed for mining
Analysis has found more than 3,000 mining operations within the most naturally precious areas of the planet – a much bigger footprint than previously thought
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Paul C @paulclondon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
As someone born in Canada and raised in Indonesia I don't often get to see those two next to each other in any charts!
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The study found that beef has driven about 120M acres of forest destruction globally between 2001 and 2022, mostly in the tropics. This is an area larger than California. Oil palm was in a distant second place between 20-30M acres, followed by soybeans, corn, rice, cassava...and others.
Graph with heading that says: Beef caused at least 4 times more deforestation than any other food in the last two decades

The top 15 most forest-destructive foods, ranked by the scale of deforestation they caused 2001-2022, in millions of acres.

Beef ~120 M acres
Oil palm 20-30 M
Soybeans 15 M
Corn 15 M
Rice 10 M
Cassava 10 M
Cocoa, sugarcane, beans, sorghum, coffee, plantains, peanuts, wheat, bananas, all 0-10 M.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Paul asked us to wait to publish this until he was out of Cuba and safe from harm Well, he’s safe from harm now forever, god love him
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South East London Community Energy (Selce) @seloncommenergy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Our latest share offer is now live & we have our 1st 2 investors! Our last reached its target in record time, so don't risk missing out: 1. Read the share offer doc 2. Complete the online application form 3. Enable one Lewisham school to save £79,000 over 10 years & 71k kg CO2e. buff.ly/qqDA8FQ
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/02/2026
‘Magic beneath the surface’: pioneering geothermal plant launched in Cornwall
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‘Magic beneath the surface’: pioneering geothermal plant launched in Cornwall
A new mini power station and lithium extraction facility near Redruth are set to bolster green energy and create jobs Just outside the perimeter fence stand the hulking remains of grand stone engine houses, a testament to Cornwall’s proud tin and copper mining history. But inside is a shiny new mini power station and lithium extraction plant that is once again accessing rich underground resources in the far south-west of Britain. Continue reading...
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SE24 Community Energy @se24.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
To help us support more schools, please consider investing in our share offer! se24.co.uk/welcome-to-t...
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Welcome to the 2026 SE24 Share Offer
Now open! SE24 has embarked on our biggest ever finance raise: £250,000 through a community share offer followed by £500,000 via a bond issue. Hot on the heels of completing our 2024 projects with…
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SE24 Community Energy @se24.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Interested in how we help schools? John Hunt, CFO of our partner trusts LSEAT, describes their experience working with us. schoolsweek.co.uk/how-trusts-c...
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We can still meet our climate goals in spite of recent cuts
Green skills and decarbonisation funding have been slashed, but our project shows we can plough on to net zero
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 06/02/2026
A new all-electric double-decker Climate Stripes bus has started taking passengers around Reading today. The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers. #ShowYourStripes
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C40 Cities @c40cities.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Jakarta's leadership shows how megacities can take action to eliminate pollution. With the support of the UK, Jakarta is transforming its skyline through new Green Building regulations: a blueprint for systemic change and urban innovation. c40.me/3O7Rtg8
A photo of the Jakarta skyline with bold white text which reads "JAKARTA"
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Why is no one talking about the IPBES Plenary in Manchester? The British Ecological Society explains www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/a-be...
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
New from us - captive coal power plant projects linked to energy intensive industrial plants keep proliferating in Indonesia, jeopardizing the country's targets for coal phase out and net zero emissions, while also messing up energy planning.
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#indonesia #coal #nickel #cleanenergy #cleanair | Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)
🇮🇩 NEW | REPORT - Out of sight, out of control: 31 GW of captive coal is jeopardizing Indonesia's economic and emissions goals 🚨Indonesia’s operational & planned captive coal now triples 2023’s capa...
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