Woth noting that John Swinney is no friend of local democracy or Parliament 1/4

Reuters may have pulled Aramco-sponsored content, as reported by Joey Grostern Matthew Green & Amy Westervelt in DeSmog , but Reuters is still hosting Aramco & other #bigOil reps at 2024's Reuters Event, Data Driven Oil & Gas. 1/3🧵
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Odd decision.
Brewing giant Heineken fells orchard to sell land
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If the Greens vote against or abstain on SLab's VONC on the assumption that Swinney will be the new FM, & then Kate* gets in instead I will laugh my feckin head off.

*This is not an endorsement of Freeports Forbes.

A Scottish election now please

The coronation of another SNP leader as First Minister is not tolerable nor democratic

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The Welsh Way Forward

Dr Craig Dalȝell bemoans the lack of ambition shown by the Scottish Government, content with devolution, in contrast with progress in Wales: commonweal.scot/the-welsh-way-…

Meanwhile in Westminster, Sunak wants to replace disability payments with vouchers.

This is patronising, demeaning, and WILL result in a bung to Conservative patrons chosen to be the 'acceptable recipients' of the vouchers as they gouge the vulnerable.

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We’ve often said that while the consequences of climate change are global, the causes of that climate change are hyper-local.

Causes of damage to the planet can be identified down almost to the centimetre: thenational.scot/politics/23928…

'Washout winter’ spells price rises for UK shoppers with key crops down by a fifth
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No one can say they weren’t warned 🤷🏼🐑

Gilles Billen – Nitrogen, Agrochemical Corporations and International Trade: A Perilous Mix

GPEnewsdocs GPEnewsdocs

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Giorgos Kallis Mikael Salo Occupy London Svein Tveitdal Richard S O'Rourke akis_env grünspecht 🕊️ lucy saye Ana Vukoje Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾…

There are millions of premature deaths just from #fossilFuel air pollution every year. As #Elsevier helps #bigOil find ever more hydrocarbons, @theLancet's publisher is contributing to these #humanRights harms. This is a health & human rights crisis. Doctors for Planetary Health — West Coast Green at Barts Health

“There’s a need to break down the existing silos over land management to achieve more integrated land use and multiple outcomes from any one farm, forest or landscape.”

Professor Davy McCracken reflects on the recent series of SEDA Land events in The Press and Journal.

The Scottish Government originally cut the budget by £196m. Whilst it's welcome they've partially restored a bit of this, it pales in comparison to what we've lost.

👉In contrast with NASA's observations, this new #Elsevier paper finds 'anthropogenic CO2 increase on Earth's climate is merely a hypothesis rather than a substantiated fact.' The same thing its #fossilFuel partners & customers have told us for decades. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

EXC: Anas Sarwar tells LBC Rebecca Brady that S ottush Labour will lodge a vote of no confidence in the Scottish Government
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Today is Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day, marking 38 years since the human & environmental tragedy of the nuclear disaster.

History is at risk of repeating itself.

Read our update on Zaporizhzhia, Europe's largest nuclear plant threatened by war.
sgr.org.uk/resources/nucl…

I mean this in the nicest possible way bcs I have a lot of time for her.

If I was Alison Johnstone I'd be seriously considering coming down with a really bad tummy bug on VONC day.

UK cash-for-bottle deposit scheme delayed until 2027
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