🧵 NEW blog by me on *methane* @ConversationUK "How methane policy will make or break the climate crisis" There’s no sign that methane emissions are declining globally. Oxford analysed methane policies across 32 jurisdictions.. theconversation.com/how-meth…

Put succinctly, climate policy is working so the worst scenarios are not longer likely

🔥 For every 1°C increase in average global temperatures, we are seeing up to a 6% decrease in yield for the four major crops – maize, rice, soy and wheat – that provide 60% of global calories. More in @FAO-@WMO report👉 doi.org/10.4060/cd9394en #ExtremeHeat

This is utterly heartbreaking- what is wrong with developers? The swifts are seen trying to return to their nests and the nests are no longer there theguardian.com/environment/…

1/ NEW: The net zero economy is now supporting: ✅Over 1m jobs ✅£105bn in GVA ✅22,000 small businesses This analysis from @CBItweets is a reminder that net zero is a great British success story. And exactly why this Government is doubling down. theguardian.com/environment/…

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core. The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old. It had fewer than 50 employees. And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it. Here is the part the administration tried to bury. Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast. One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done. Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion. A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son. This is public money. Your money. Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for. And there is more coming. A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review. This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer. propublica.org/article/donal…

Generative AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on massive data pipelines built on privacy violations by design. Our new @Amnesty report exposes how big tech’s AI systems are powered by surveillance, data extraction, and abuse of people’s rights, at scale. We researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. This is not innovation at any cost. It comes at a high price: our human rights. Read the report: amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…

Honoured to take part in the launch of the River Wye charter, a landmark recognition of the rights of our beloved river and the urgent need to do everything possible to protect and restore the Wye catchment💚

Pope Leo warns AI revolution driven by ‘idolatry of profit’ ft.trib.al/UGP9H8b

Attenborough's new documentary "Secret Garden" points out that some wildlife-friendly gardens can be almost as diverse as a patch of rainforest #gardens #wildlife #nature #restoration #diversity bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sth…

Great news! Also - in this heatwave - does London need more free splash parks for children? Also more shaded playgrounds... It is only going to get hotter #climatechange #heatwave #children #playground #splashpark #playgrounds

Kudos to Carrie Johnson for her work on this and for speaking out on this #justice #crime #safety

Interesting business audience reaction at @UKREiiF conference in Leeds. Do they want @Keir_Starmer to stay or go … 85pc stay. Much yearning for stability. Great to be on a panel with @TracyBrabin - we do have some good Mayors and need more!!