William Earle A'Hern

[William Earle A'Hern @W_EarleAHern]

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[William Earle A'Hern @W_EarleAHern]

Walmart hits supplier emissions goal 6 years early https://t.co/7n0IIwTw5i via @RetailDive

[William Earle A'Hern @W_EarleAHern]

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[Cheddar @cheddar]

Alisha Fredriksson, CEO and co-founder of Seabound, discusses the carbon capture company’s successful maiden voyage and its plans for growth. https://t.co/xZzf2HpUgf

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

There's been a lot of nonsense spouted about Labour's £28bn green investment plans. And doubtless there'll be lots more nonsense spouted in the coming months.
With that in mind, here's my primer on the plan - and its affordability.
No nonsense. But maybe one or two charts...

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

A genuine astonishing scientific breakthrough - 👇Happy New Year all

[Sam Altman @sama]

what i wish someone had told me:

https://t.co/1nEaYimzXG

[William Earle A'Hern @W_EarleAHern]

Remarkable interview.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

She is a remarkable woman with a remarkable back story and this is an interview not to miss. @Angelarayner on @restispolitics LEADING - please listen and never again say “all politicians are the same!” Candid, moving, clever - @rorystewartuk impressed too https://t.co/ieQTcj6vQh

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Kind of obvious this is where it was going to end up

[William Earle A'Hern @W_EarleAHern]

Ten problems with Rishi Sunak’s Network North announcement

https://t.co/66GpJWmh1F

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

This is a complete farce from a Tory government that literally does not know what they are doing day to day.

13 years of failed energy policy has led to an energy bills crisis, weakened our energy security, lost jobs, and failed on the climate crisis.

https://t.co/bEQeuXN4Wd

[Rt Hon Lord Alok Sharma @AlokSharma_RDG]

The 🇬🇧 has been a leader on climate action but we cannot rest on our laurels

For any party to resile from this agenda will not help economically or electorally

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Horrific. The selfish society. Are we really as bad as this?

[William Earle A'Hern @W_EarleAHern]

@RoryStewartUK @RoryStewartUK I agree, but it’s better to focus on quality and impact of nature restoration (inc. in urban setting) than headline numbers of trees. Otherwise schemes will have wrong incentives. @Zulu_forest have been working with cities/infra developers to do just this.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Leaked No. 10 response letter to Nadine:

[William Earle A'Hern @W_EarleAHern]

New name, same mission.

[Zora Ecosystems @ZoraEcosystems]

We are now Zulu Ecosystems! Here's why 👇

TLDR; we believe that our #natureregeneration efforts are most effective when we take an #ecosystem approach to creating a well-functioning ecology.

Read more: https://t.co/NkNw3MBIep

[William Earle A'Hern @W_EarleAHern]

Highly recommended reading from @EdConwaySky - thoroughly enjoying this important book.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Bullshit by Sunak well exposed here

[William Earle A'Hern @W_EarleAHern]

The only sensible thing to come out of Sunak’s mouth today. Ridiculously low quality of media questioning not much better than quality of government policies.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 | NEW: Rishi Sunak angered by question over *private jet* to Scotland

Sunak: “If your approach to climate change is no one should go on holiday, no one should take a plane”

GMS: “No there’s a diff between”

Sunak: “I think you are COMPLETELY and UTTERLY wrong”

GMS: “Am I?”

[William Earle A'Hern @W_EarleAHern]

Political short-termism at its worst.

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

Periodic but important reminder that for all the noise devoted to it, new oil & gas exploration in the North Sea will make next to no difference in UK oil & gas output.
It’s a sideshow!
Like it or not, North Sea is a mature basin.
As far as we know there’s not a lot oil/gas left.