Having the UN Secretary-General open London Climate Action Week proves our city is leading the global fight.
While others talk, we act. We have built the world’s largest clean air zone, rolled out 3,000 zero-emission buses, and we are not stopping here. This is how you deliver.
Have our climate mitigation efforts failed?
With #COP30 just round the corner, adaptation is a major talking point.
@GreenRupertRead & @DrSimEvans go head-to-head in a special episode of the #podcast
https://t.co/emvVkfZwu0
For too long, climate adaptation has been the unmentionable. But no one can credibly pretend any longer that we don't need to take it seriously.
Check out our new report, with @theglaciertrust - We Need to Talk About Adaptation.
https://t.co/OMgvP6zjzJ
I am with @AOC in Arizona, standing together with working people to say:
NO to the greed of Trump and his oligarchs.
NO to the greed of Wall Street.
NO to the greed of the fossil fuel giants.
NO to the greed of the health care industry.
Join us LIVE! https://t.co/ni2o9WSfrm
People who have an abundance of money (more than £10m) won’t have to give anything up if we have a tiny 2% wealth tax (just £200k on £10m) they won’t out on anything. But we could raise a shed load of money to spend on the stuff that needs it - hospitals, schools - even tanks and bombs. And we could do it without taking any money from those that have the least, that barely get by. £24Bn a year from a tiny tax (2%)on a tiny number of people (20k)
Yay!! So the Govt *will* go ahead with #NaturalHistoryGCSE 🎉 We have to get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again. If we know & love nature, we’re far more likely to protect & restore it. Big shout-out to @curlewcalls for her vision🙏 https://t.co/iJ6jCUibyd
How many more times? *Austerity doesn’t work*. More cuts to public spending is economically illiterate & morally indefensible. People didn’t vote Labour to get more Tory austerity. Tax extreme wealth, don’t slash public services @PatrioticMills https://t.co/AEVrzbL5z5
Insane. 15,000 in Tempe last night.
Trump visited this same space 12 days before the 2024 election. He couldn’t fill it.
@AOC and I had overflow crowds.
Americans will not accept oligarchy and authoritarianism.
Onto Greeley, CO now.
Denver tonight, HUGE crowds expected.
Climate action is under threat. It’s URGENT we seize initiative from rightwing populists. We need to change up: start by building climate resilience in communities, where people feel tangible benefits – Call it climate popularism.
By me & @carolinelucas
https://t.co/r4G6qnRxBM
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
And they’re right.
For climate advocates across the country, the outcome of this election means that all of us must find ways to redouble our efforts and find bipartisan solutions to the climate crisis that create jobs, promote prosperity and safeguard the future of humanity.
In a moment such as this, it is important to remember that all major reform efforts, from civil rights to the climate movement, suffer dark days. And this is surely one. We can mourn a loss, but we can’t linger in despair. Our planet doesn’t have time for that. Now more than ever, this movement needs engagement and leadership from all corners of the country.
During a down moment in the struggle for civil rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. said something about overcoming days like this: “If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.”
We know the line to solutions is never straight or easy. But we have won major victories in tackling the climate crisis and reducing climate pollution in our country, and we will again.
My greatest source of hope comes from the courage and commitment of grassroots leaders and advocates in the U.S. and around the world who are relentlessly pushing for progress. Onward.
First of all, gratitude to so many here, who have been illuminating, entertaining and educational. I've enjoyed much of my time here since 2009, and I've done my best to be a good citizen of this space
Trump's apparent victory has 5 big implications for the UK: 🧵
1️⃣ It can happen here. He will back Farage, the Musk propaganda machine will crank up against Labour; the Tories will remould themselves into Trump-lite Islamophobes ...
How could Trump possibly win this election, you ask?
Here is how… 👇🏼
By selectively targeting vulnerable people – the poor, the grieving, the addicted – to radicalise them for far-right politics and turn out to vote.
#Project2025