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No more crumbs from the corporate table. We need to scale-up community and public ownership. Read & share the full report: platformlondon.org/socialvalue

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Or look at the Garth Community Wind Farm in Shetland. It generates 90x more wealth per MW than the massive Viking Wind Farm — despite being 100x smaller. Community-owned projects are punching above their weight.

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Take Tiree. Their community turbine, “Tilley,” is 1% the size of a nearby corporate wind farm, but it returns 100x more economic value to the island.

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Platform @platform1983.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms. But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?

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📢 JOIN US outside parliament to demand a workers' transition! We can't rely on private companies to safeguard energy jobs or protect our communities. Rachel Reeves must guarantee investment. 📅 14 May ⏰ 8:30am 📍 SW1P 3SE 👉 actionnetwork.org/events/rally...

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Platform @platform1983.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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Platform @platform1983.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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Platform @platform1983.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Current proposals - like consolidating smaller pension funds into “mega-funds” - focus on risky short-term growth. Now is the moment to push for a pensions system that invests in a just transition, accountable to workers and communities.

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Platform @platform1983.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Last year, the government committed to a landmark Pensions Review - the first opportunity in two decades to overhaul the £3 trillion private pension system. 🤔 So what does this mean for the divestment movement? 👇👇

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Platform @platform1983.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

40% of UK workers have a pension with Nest - that's £45billion of investment. Nest says they're committed to Net Zero, but their default fund invests in fossil fuel companies like BP and Shell.

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Platform @platform1983.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Billions of pounds from our wages are contributing to deforestation, displacement, and extreme weather globally, making every worker’s job harder to do.

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(10/10) The interests of fossil fuel companies and other big polluters have been disrupting climate policymaking for decades. We need to #KickBigPollutersOut and start amplifying the voices on the frontline of the climate crisis. #FossilFreePolitics #FossilFreeParliament

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(9/10) Finally, 2 delegates from Unilever joined the UK's party overflow. Ben and Jerry's are currently suing Unilever for silencing them over their pro-Palestine stance.

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(8/10) 🤔 Does CLG help these mega polluters greenwash their reputations? Amazon's emissions have only grown since it made its Climate Pledge back in 2019, and CocaCola is the largest known contributor of branded plastic waste...

(7/10) 4 representatives from multinational logistics company DP World, with oily ties via its owners, came along in the UK delegation too.

(6/10) Check out this brilliant article from @desmog.bsky.social for more details about AVEVA and some of the other questionable sponsors of the UK's COP29 pavilion. 5 reps for AVEVA joined the UK's party overflow to COP. desmog.com/2024/11/07/u...

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(5/10) If investing billions in the world's most polluting industries doesn't disqualify you from being described as a "climate innovator", we don't know what will. Standard Chartered has 7 delegates in the UK's party overflow.

(4/10) 🤔The UK government says these companies have an 'outstanding reputation for addressing climate change through enterprise and innovation'. But a closer look complicates that story... National Grid has 8 delegates in the UK's party overflow.

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(3/10) Some of the delegates are from companies sponsoring the UK's COP29 pavilion - like multinational energy company SSE, which has 8 delegates in the UK's party overflow.

(2/10) As part of the “party overflow” these lobbyists have access to negotiating rooms and government-only spaces.