John Murton

Passionate about renewable energy. Senior Sustainability Advisor, Standard Chartered Bank. Former UK #COP26 Envoy and Ambassador.

[John Murton @JohnMurton]

Those with an interest in #blendedfinance and the #JETP programmes might be interested in my LinkedIn post below and the little paper we produced (access through the link) https://t.co/srLbUdYiq3

[John Murton @JohnMurton]

@AmbPeschke Hongera!

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@CorinRobertson @UKinJapan Congratulations! You’ll be brilliant.

[Dave Throup @DaveThroup]

Bit of context for the “we used to call it Summer” brigade.

[John Murton @JohnMurton]

@SarahLudford @fionaharvey @metpoliceuk Sarah, that’s nonsense and you know it. Statistically you’re far more likely to get hurt by a car or other vehicle. Are too many cyclists rude? Yes. (And I say that as a cyclist). But your baby/bathwater approach does you no credit.

[Rob @RobinJPickering]

@SarahLudford @metpoliceuk The number of pedestrians injured by pedal cyclists (even on pavements) is a rounding error compared to those injured by motor vehicles.
I'm sure you know that, but I guess resorting to facts gets in the way of your silly agenda.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Very cool, entertaining and with high production values: if I were @Nigel_Farage, I’d consider dipping into that £5 million to try to get out a video that can compare to it.

[John Murton @JohnMurton]

Ever so slightly conflicted loyalties today… #ENGDRC

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.

They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.

Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

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@JuliaLongbottom @UKinJapan Happy memories of Chuzenji!

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@CorinRobertson @AlistairBurtUK This made my day happier. Many many congratulations! So pleased for you and for the team in Tokyo. You’ll do a great job.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

London murder rate falls to lowest on record:- https://t.co/BD9cSETpuG

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@RnaudBertrand @theJeremyVine No, the cheese crown belong to the UK 🇬🇧

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

NEW: 93 murders in London (pop: ~9m) in 12 months to October.

The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades; perhaps centuries. https://t.co/T0o7Q0bgVw

[John Murton @JohnMurton]

Always useful to be reminded of this. Also, thanks to innovations in time-of-use pricing, those fortunate enough to have access to home charging can charge cars very cheaply, too… c£4.50 for 300 miles.

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel. Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.

[Ed King @edking_I]

Not sure this is right @SebastianEPayne... what power source is cheaper than renewables?

@IEA says utility scale solar + onshore wind are cheapest. We can argue about UK govt policy + cost shifts but that fact hasn't changed, I think?

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

A question for Times columnist Sebastian Payne:

What is this cheaper source of "energy" that you speak of?

The world's energy experts would like to know…

[John Murton @JohnMurton]

Every business owner with a flat roof should watch this…. 👀. Solar often pays for itself far quicker than you might think. @RSymonsLTD - how do you see the economics of adding more? (If your roof permits it). My 2nd battery has almost paid for itself in a year….

[AukeHoekstra @AukeHoekstra]

Fastest car in the world (496 km/h) is now electric.
It uses a cheap lithium iron phosphate battery.

[Jordan - The EV Guy @JordanEVGuy]

The reality of ELECTRIC cars 🤬

Repost & Follow if you agree 👍🏼

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