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No10: 'Children should not protest for a habitable planet on a Friday because they should be in formal education.'

Also No10: 'About that. We can't afford to provide children with formal education on Fridays. Please make your own arrangements.'

theguardian.com/education/2019…
Seriously, how is this happening? Downing Street should face children protesting over climate catastrophe every third Friday of the month, and as @jessphillips suggests children dropped off by parents every other Friday of the month.
Also, children really should keep protesting against an escalating climate crisis. Their efforts have already made a difference. businessgreen.com/bg/blog-post/3…
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How's Green Brexit going? *lifts lid cautiously* businessgreen.com/bg/news-analys… BG+
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Is there a difference between "asking" parliament and allowing it to "consider" changes?

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Fuck knows tbh

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But seriously, there are 15 working days to go, and big chunks of future UK environmental governance are basically:
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New Offshore Wind Sector Deal finally arrives and it is pretty unalloyed good news (and not just for the obvious reasons) businessgreen.com/bg/news-analys… BG+
This is an industry that is less than 20 years old and has only been a serious player in the energy mix for 10 years. Now the goal is for it to deliver a third of all our power within a decade. That is a blink of an eye in infrastructure terms.
There's lots of good, co-ordinated stuff in the Sector Deal to help make that happen: skills, supply chain, co-operation, R&D, etc. Sure it would be nice to have a bit more govt funding and clearer auction timetable, but *gestures at everything*
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