Fiona Harvey

Writing about the environment full-time since 2004. Seen a lot of environment since then. All tweeting is personal. In the Woman's Hour Power List 2020.

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

Another bomb from @Annaisaac who reports the NCA examined other transactions exceeding £1m involving Richard Tice, George Cottrell and Cottrell’s mother, Fiona.

She also reveals the below was leaked to the Telegraph yesterday as a spoiler designed to thwart public interest journalism.

Significantly her report relates to Tice’s network of companies, which, we’ve previously reported, unlawfully failed to pay six-figure sums of tax — and avoided hundreds of thousands more using highly unusual means.

Enclosed below are our three previous reports on Tice’s tax affairs. They relate to £100k, £92K plus, and £609K of tax that should have been paid or was avoided, and which benefitted a company that donated to Reform.

The latest disclosures add context to why he may have been so determined to forestall our reporting.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

“Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book.” This is just unimaginably bleak.

[Prof. Paul Brown, PhD @pbrown4348]

France’s June heatwave caused more than 2,700 heat-related deaths. The analysis by two climate scientists also shows how France’s extreme temperatures in June exceeded projections from climate models. https://t.co/bCtXkrofm8

[Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts]

In any other European city, Soho would have been pedestrianised long ago. However, due to a lack of vision from @CityWestminster & the world's worst NIMBYs @sohosocietyw1 people are forced to mix with cars. All parking should be removed, timed deliveries,+ no private car access

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

My term "electrofficiency" just showed up in ZEIT as "Elektriffizienz."

What does it mean? Electrification isn't just a fuel swap. It cuts how much energy we need in the first place avoiding a huge amount of waste heat.

https://t.co/ZTVk1zylKH

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The entire reason NYC is fun is that it's built around trains. That's it. If other American cities built themselves around trains they'd be equally fun.

[Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey]

Study shows there is still all to play for on climate: preventing devastating AMOC shutdown still possible, though window rapidly closing. AMOC shutdown will end life as we know it in UK/Europe. UK and EU politicians aiming to ditch net zero must answer: is that what they want?

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

New study estimates the risk of triggering an #AMOC shutdown as >10% if the world ramps down emissions to net zero by 2060, and 80% for a high emissions path.
It’s based on one model, but is plausible based on overall knowledge on how fragile AMOC is.
https://t.co/aA0Aj1vY8t

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

New study estimates the risk of triggering an #AMOC shutdown as >10% if the world ramps down emissions to net zero by 2060, and 80% for a high emissions path.
It’s based on one model, but is plausible based on overall knowledge on how fragile AMOC is.
https://t.co/aA0Aj1vY8t

[Vicki Hird MSc FRES 🐝🦋 🍃💚🍃 @vickihird]

Costs and climate drive regenerative farming shift - @Barclays latest survey of its agricultural customers found that 56% of respondents have already adopted regenerative farming practices, while a further 24% plan to do so. @FarmersWeekly https://t.co/MQmxs5rJVu

[jonathanwatts @jonathanwatts]

Fuel on the fire

As the world swelters in ever more dangerous heat, why are oil companies being allowed to turn up the gas instead of paying for the consequences of their greed?

My column on Big Oil’s mad, bad plan to increase production.

https://t.co/XdyvIogvbg

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

This Tuesday at 9.30am in a cavernous hall in York, a parliament older than parliament will vote on a motion that could decide the future of nature across a vast swathe of England. 

That parliament is the General Synod – the ancient decision making body of the @churchofengland – and they'll be voting on whether to restore nature on 30% of the Church's huge holdings of land by 2030. The Church is a top ten landowner in England, owning land three times the size of Birmingham. But only 3.5% of it is managed with nature in mind, which is a huge shame. Even worse, large parts sit on lowland peat, releasing unjustifiably high amounts of carbon.

The Church leadership and @ArchbishopSarah claim that a fiduciary duty to keep farming every square inch intensively, even in the areas which are not really productive farmland. But a landmark legal opinion from a top ecclesiastical KC says this is nonsense - there's nothing legally stopping them from joining the global push for ‘30x30’, the goal of restoring 30% of land and sea to a healthy state of nature by 2030, (https://t.co/y1s11bCfDA).

As so many farmers and investors are showing up and down the country: rewilding does offer a pathway to social and economic renewal in our less productive landscapes. Let’s hope the Church Synod recognises this and votes yes to 30x30 for the sake of the Church's future and for the future of nature in Britain. 

Great work @wildcardrewild 👏

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

The U.K.’ s environmental performance is marked third in the world after Estonia and Luxembourg (up from fifth since Labour came in) by Yale University, while adding it has much more to do. The US under Trump falls to 27th

https://t.co/w4tpm7JHuz

[Anna Isaac @Annaisaac]

Millions of pounds and many, many questions here’s the untold story of why Reform figures face NCA scrutiny…

A detailed read that goes behind the financial transactions that bankers have flagged up to the National Crime Agency & party funding:

https://t.co/S4ils0KUaI

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

At 12.14pm BST on the 8th July (today), approximately 98% of the world’s population is in sunlight.

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Britain’s deep regional income divide has barely changed in 30 years despite promises of successive governments to narrow the gap. - @resfoundation https://t.co/zkEpKWipO9

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

The government is suppressing a terrifying report which says the U.K. is in imminent danger from ecosystem and biodiversity collapse.

People may laugh and ignore this but we’re talking about not being able to produce enough food.

What do you think will happen to all of us when that happens? To relationships between people, for social cohesion and prejudice and hatred.

We really are not taking any of this seriously enough and what they’ve warned about for decades is coming through right in front of our eyes.

Thank goodness for the @guardian @guardianeco and journalists like @fionaharvey pushing these stories that are ignored almost everywhere else.

https://t.co/aLDGOEmiVH

[Dr Jill Belch @JillBelch]

Govt promised £8.2bn AI #datacentre in Lanarkshire – built by US firm CoreWeave/Scottish DataVita – would be powered entirely from on-site renewables.
But documents obtained through freedom of information requests & public records show it has no prospect of meeting that goal.

[Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta]

If countries kept growing the share of clean power at the same rate as in the past 6 years, when would they have 100% non-fossil power? By this simple measure, 13 developed countries are on track to clean power by 2035, and 7 developing countries by 2050. Others need to speed up.

[Anna Isaac @Annaisaac]

Exclusive: More Reform UK transactions worth millions reported to National Crime Agency

https://t.co/QpVhwFYgUg

[Anna Isaac @Annaisaac]

Tice, via lawyers, threatened to injunct the Guardian to stop it publishing these details.

Without responding to any of the questions put to him, Tice then appears to have shared the allegations contained in the Guardian’s requests for comment with the Telegraph, which wrote them up without credit or contact ahead of publication.