Did you hear the news? We've just defeated the government over its UNLAWFUL CLIMATE PLAN 🙌⚖️

'What we now need to see is a climate plan which is robust, which is comprehensive and which is fair.' - Tony Bosworth, lead campaigner at Friends of the Earth. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Interesting and positive! Business groups asking politicians to reduce emissions! Belgian 🇧🇪 insurer urges politicians to strengthen low emission zones. ⁦C40 Cities⁩ ⁦Our Common Air⁩ #breathelife2030 theguardian.com/environment/20…

Abrdn’s annual general meeting has been interrupted by climate activists accusing the investment firm of “driving us towards climate collapse”.

Read more on our live blog here:

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LOOK 👀 climate activists derail Abrdn AGM in #Edinburgh demanding the asset manager ditch fossil fuels Tipping Point UK Extinction Rebellion Scotland abrdn Investments UK abrdn plc
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All Ali wanted was for his community to be free from big oil's pollution.

Before his death, he said: “I hope in the future that these companies go away. That the emissions stop, so children can live in peace.”

This is a future worth fighting for.

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Ian Hislop, 'Three British aid workers have been killed, whereas 30,000 Palestinians have been killed.. It's grim but true. If you kill people who aren't Palestinians, then it suddenly becomes unacceptable'

Clive Myrie, 'How has Netanyahu explained the deadly strike?'

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Krishnan Guru-Murthy, 'Secret recordings obtained by #C4News shows that the Post Office boss Paula Vennells was briefed about allegations of a covert operations team that could remotely alter sub postmasters accounts from Fujitsu's HQ without them knowing.. That was in 2013'

Even breathing air below the WHO recommended levels isn't safe. Yet the UK's legal #AirPollution limits are still far higher than WHO guidelines. BUT, 'We don’t have to choose between economic or health gains. We can have both & we should have both.”

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Great to see this leadership from abrdn plc and Stephen Bird. For investors to have confidence in green bonds it must be absolutely clear that they are used to finance and drive the #transition from fossil fuels to renewables.

Alarming that Africa hosts major NO2, SO2 and air pollution hotspots, as revealed by Greenpeace Africa’s new report act.gp/MajorPolluters…. Dirty fossil fuels are harming the health of the people and driving the #ClimateCrisis . Africa needs urgent climate action.

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We might all be victims of our past, some even casualties of the here and now but it will be fatal for us all if we don’t secure the future for our children.

🚨 BREAKING: The United Nations Refugee Agency has concluded that Rishi Sunak's new Rwanda treaty violates international law

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‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Japan says reason behind 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore is unknown theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

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 &

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WOW: Major sting operation & leaked documents expose massive corruption of COP28 president, who secretly used UN climate talks to push oil & gas deals with foreign governments.

Bravo to Centre for Climate Reporting in collaboration with Justin Rowlatt & Channel 4 News. bbc.com/news/science-e…

BIG story breaking ahead of COP28

Undercover investigation reveals Saudi Arabia plan to drive up fossil fuel use in Africa - so oil producing nations can continue to sell their fossil fuels.

Just as nations discuss a fossil fuel phase out date.

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It is profoundly shocking to stand on the ice of Antarctica and hear directly from scientists how fast the ice is melting.

The cause is clear: fossil fuel pollution.

Leaders at #COP28 must not let the hopes of people around the world for a sustainable planet melt away.

Five minute interview for CGTN Europe on the importance of the first ever COP health day COP28 UAE .

COP delegates have been negotiating with human lives for 27 years - they just didn't realize it until now.

(hat tip Dr Maria Neira )

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Cop28 host UAE planned to promote oil deals during climate talks theguardian.com/environment/20…