Josh Williams

Climate Finance Lawyer

[Reclaim Finance @ReclaimFinance]

🔴 @TotalEnergies attaque @greenpeacefr en justice ! 😱

L'entreprise 🇫🇷 ne veut manifestement pas que l'on s'intéresse à ses émissions de scope 3, c'est à dire les émissions liées à l'utilisation et la consommation de son pétrole et de son gaz 🔎

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

This is huge: Yesterday the German government confirmed plans to no longer allow stand-alone fossil fuel heating systems to be installed from 01 January 2024.

That’s in all buildings and will come into force in just 8 months.

https://t.co/MuRR2nWxXj

[Emily Gosden @emilygosden]

BP weakening its climate goals to keep pumping more oil has not gone down well with some investors

Nest, which claims to speak for one in three British workers, tells @HoskingTheTimes it's voting against the re-election of chairman Helge Lund in protest

https://t.co/ppgELfZn5N

[Reclaim Finance @ReclaimFinance]

🧐Les entreprises pétro-gazières sont-elles à la hauteur de l'urgence climatique ?

Pour le savoir, nous avons analysé les stratégies climat de 9 des plus grandes entreprises pétro-gazières 🇪🇺 et 🇺🇸.

➡️Aucune n'est alignée sur une trajectoire 1.5°C.

https://t.co/HODqZbMZqt

[BankTrack 🦋 @banktrack.bsky.social @BankTrack]

🚨BREAKING 🚨

#BankingonClimateChaos 2023 report finds the world’s 60 largest banks pumped $5.5 TRILLION into the #fossilfuel industry since 2016 & 673 BILLION in 2022 alone.

https://t.co/RZkaKA0Mog

@ran @BankTrack @IENearth @PriceofOil @ReclaimFinance @SierraClub @urgewald

[Sierra Club @SierraClub]

🚨 BREAKING: The annual #BankingonClimateChaos report just dropped, revealing that the world's biggest banks continue to pour billions of dollars into fossil fuel expansion each year #BOCC

Read the press release: https://t.co/CcByWVGLpi

Read the report: https://t.co/kWWSZ4zPu3

[The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @TBIJ]

🚨 A Harvard climate professor used her Ivy League connections to vouch for a giant oil and gas company currently trying to weaken new climate regulations

Jody Freeman, who earns $350,000 a year as a ConocoPhillips board member, lobbied the US regulator on their behalf

[PeterBosshard @PeterBosshard]

BREAKING: After @MunichRe, @Zurich is also leaving the Net Zero Insurance Alliance (#NZIA) and claims it will focus on supporting its customers on the net-zero transition. A full @InsOurFuture response will follow soon. Quick comment for now. 1/3

[Natasha White @ntashawhite]

On Credit Suisse's collapse and what it means for a corner of the environmental and sovereign debt markets where it had carved a niche

via @climate

https://t.co/0jJVqGTnjP

[BankTrack 🦋 @banktrack.bsky.social @BankTrack]

As Total is looking to restart Mozambique LNG, @eni & @ExxonMobil will likely follow & start looking for finance for Rovuma LNG. Who are the potential financiers?

Find out more in the new blog by @JA4change, @Recommon, @amisdelaterre & @BankTrack!

https://t.co/f7dVJtORMQ

[Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan_uk]

NEW

UK off track for net zero, finds @GreenAllianceUK analysis ahead of #IPCC report

Shows only 28% of emissions cuts needed for next UK carbon target are backed with confirmed govt policies

There is a LOT riding on @grantshapps "green day" this month

https://t.co/qmRNN5d2pI

[Josh Williams @williams_jmc]

@chaoticclubvids @livrtaylor

[Josh Williams @williams_jmc]

Great tool from @_wearepossible

Tell the govt to unblock wind power restrictions in less than 1 minute!

Deadline is tonight so you can do it watching #loveisland

https://t.co/AA511ulieI

[Bristol 🧡 Cycling @BristolCycling]

Help! 👋🙏
We're trying to promote our survey on facebook and instagram but it keeps breaching their advertising standards.

Each time a rule is broken it doesn't seem to link to how to fix it!

Please can someone who uses facebook ads a lot help us negotiate this? Send us a DM!

[Josh Williams @williams_jmc]

@OmazeUK @livrtaylor isn't this polruan?

[Josh Williams @williams_jmc]

Another reason why the anti-ESG brigade is monumentally ill-judged

@bmcushing

[Bloomberg @business]

California’s embrace of ESG and free markets has allowed it to borrow more cheaply than Florida and Texas, even though it has lower credit ratings — plus more of the week’s most popular columns from Bloomberg Opinion https://t.co/j2xFJZc9FG via @opinion

[Bank On Our Future @bankonourfuture]

NEW: Today @Barclays puts itself at odds with UK peers by failing to rule out financing for new oil & gas.

The bank is swimming against the tide of progress & now becomes vulnerable to increased activist, shareholder & legal pressures

📸 @fossilfreeLDN
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[Josh Williams @williams_jmc]

Would love to know who the corporate clients are involved in this!

Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections https://t.co/WkiQytsVad

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

NEW: An Edinburgh investment company which markets itself as sustainable and sponsors major cultural events in Scotland holds £50m worth of bonds issued by an Indian coal giant.https://t.co/CTTzVtYjt9

[Josh Williams @williams_jmc]

@kellyemitchell @bmcushing