Can #bottomtrawling ever be sustainable? nice read by Catherine Early for Dialogue Earth in the follow-up of Our Ocean Greece

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Our Climate Watchdog investigation in The Ecologist.

Don't forget - Oil knew climate risks from '50s

Oil knew climate risks from '50s theecologist.org/2024/feb/01/oi…

Catherine Early

The High Court has dismissed a case bought by government lawyers against a retired social worker holding a sign displaying the principle of jury equity, Catherine Early reports.

Read more: theecologist.org/2024/apr/26/cl…

Mickey Carroll Tom Bawden Harry Cockburn Emma Gatten Justin Rowlatt Matt McGrath Emily Beament Adam Vaughan Ben Webster Madeleine Cuff Catherine Early Helena Horton Ros Coward 🍃💚🍃 Rosie P 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧 Samira Shackle Cheshire East Council basing irreversible decisions on inaccurate data

Wheat down 15% Rapeseed down 28% Winter barley down 22%

This is just the beginning, but no serious planning for a future wherein #climate breakdown drives ever falling yields - both here and across the world

This will end up being society-busting

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Read this amazing insight by Catherine Early via Reuters

The heat is on: Ensuring women in supply chains are climate resilient:
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#ChangeThatMatters #SustainableSupplyChains

One year ago today, our beavers arrived at Heligan and what a year it's been.

In the past 12 months, they have changed the landscape of their enclosure by making dams, gnawing down trees and vegetation, and improving the area for other wildlife species.

Despite rising antimicrobial resistance meat industry under little investor pressure to wean itself off antibiotics. Read Catherine Early feature for #Ethicalcorp talking to @FAIRR ShareAction #AMR Liam Dowd @Revents_sustbiz NRDC 🌎🏡 reuters.com/sustainability…
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🚨 ENDS has just launched The PFAS Files - a series looking at England's problem with the 'forever chemicals' almost certainly in your blood.

It features some great investigative journalism, top-notch analysis, hard graft, & you simply must take a look ⬇️
endsreport.com/article/185913…

Absolutely outstanding work here on PFAS #foreverchemicals by my ENDS Report colleagues Tess Colley, Pippa Neill, Shosha Adie and contributors Catherine Early and James Fair

🧪 Read the PFAS Files here⬇️

River rewiggling - a nerdy wet day update

If you hate this kind of thing you’ll hate this - go dredging instead

This is a little upland floodplain on a very wet day - doing what floodplains are meant to do - flood

.The Continent lists climate negotiator Madeleine Diouf Sarr as one of its Africans of the year

Your UK water bills - 28% of your payments go on debt interest, in some areas. These companies were handed to private investors debt free. Now look at them. Angry? You should be. Excellent reporting by my colleague ⁦Sandra Laville⁩ and colleagues theguardian.com/money/2023/dec…

Highly commended! Very chuffed given the strength of the competition and well done to the BBC team who pipped us to the post. This is just year one for us! There will be MORE. Press Gazette leanahosea watershed_investigations #bja2023

Here are my thoughts on the latest #COP28 text.

On fossil fuels:

For the first time in three decades of climate negotiations the words fossil fuels have made it into a COP outcome. We are finally naming the elephant in the room. The genie is never going back into the bottle &…

#COP28 update 2000 GST 12 Dec

We're still waiting for the next (final? penultimate?) drafts of key texts on the stocktake (inc fossil fuels), adaptation, just transition, carbon mkts etc

We do at least now have text on all items!

Here's the latest:

carbonbrief.org/interactive-tr…

The protest at COP28 by Licypriya Kangujam, a 12-year-old climate-justice activist from India, leads the frontpage of the Financial Times

Neatly illustrates why these stunts can have so much impact

Will be one of the defining images of this COP

#COP28 new text!

Draft decision on post-2025 climate finance target, the so-called 'NCQG'

➡️agrees to start drafting text in 2024:
➡️3x technical dialogues
➡️3x ad-hoc work prog meetings to work on drafts
➡️co-chairs write draft before COP29

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Today we're announcing Six Inches of Soil's first #globalscreening at #COP28 in Dubai, on Saturday 9th December 2023.

The film will be screened as a main feature in the  #ActionOnFood  hub in the #bluezone , a UNFCCC managed site open to accredited party and observer delegates

There is no law of physics that says poorer people must bear the cost of transforming world energy systems to clean, away from fossil fuels. That is down to choices made by governments. Me on BBC Radio Wales talking #Cop28 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…