Today is #CleanAirDay

🫁 Air pollution is a health and environmental emergency in the UK.

🚗Transport is the UKs largest emitting sector, accounting for nearly a third of emissions in 2019.

🚚71% of the UK’s transport emissions come from cars and vans.

A thread 1/5 ⚡️🚗The UK cannot achieve its climate targets with electric vehicles alone, efforts must be made to cut the number of car journeys.

Read our report
➡️bit.ly/3N4mZWo

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🏦The @UKInfraBank bill is being discussed in the House of Lords today.

This is a clear chance for the bank to deliver on both the environment & levelling up.

✅The bill establishes a good climate objective
❌However, nature is not included

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bills.parliament.uk/bills/3158 🍃Nature was mentioned by almost all of the speakers at the second reading debate.

There is large cross party support for ensuring the @UKInfraBank will deliver for the environment💪

Read our briefing
➡️bit.ly/3aTui5I

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💥New report💥

Tax breaks for North Sea oil and gas extraction isn’t just bad for the climate, it's bad economics 🛢️🛢️🛢️

Our report out today explains why it doesn’t make sense to extract the last drop: bit.ly/3v7UG3W

A thread 1/7 The North Sea is an increasingly expensive place to drill for #oilandgas .

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Ahead of the crucial climate summit @COP26 in Glasgow, next week we're expecting the UK government to publish:

💼The Net Zero Strategy
🏦The Net Zero Review
🏘️Heat and Buildings Strategy

We've set out four tests for next week's announcements in this thread 🧵 Test 1⃣

A credible #NetZeroStrategy is a plan for how the UK will deliver on its National Determined Contribution & be an example for others ahead of #COP26🌏

It must outline expected emissions savings from each sector & provide a robust plan for the government to work towards

We're about to kick off our online #GAevent on what's next for #GreenFinance & #ClimateDisclosure

There's still time to join us👇

https://twitter.com/GreenAllianceUK/status/1448556006083076099

🗣️It may be a different scale to the UK, but he says: "I hope we can go first and help to show the way".

Speaking at our #GAevent, NZ climate change minister @jamespeshaw is talking about what New Zealand is doing on #GreenFinance

🗯️News that 30 #communityenergy projects, totalling 4GW of capacity, have failed because FiT cap has been reached, just days before it is due to end for good, calls for a recap on why gov needs to recognise the role of local, community owned energy.

Here are 5 reasons (thread): 1. Renewables are now the cheapest source of energy.
Falling costs + greater awareness of #climatechange will contribute to rapid adoption of distributed energy tech across public institutions, businesses and, increasingly, among households 2/

We have positive news today: reinventing house retrofits could cut UK head demand by 40% 🌍🏠 Our very exciting report on the Dutch ‘#energiesprong’ (energy leap) approach is out today. Read it here or follow this twitter thread for its main findings: bit.ly/2WGnbSt 1/12 The UK has some of the least heat efficient housing stock in Europe. In 2017-18, there were an estimated 50,000 excess winter deaths, a figure not seen in over four decades. Heating our homes, inefficiently or otherwise, is also a major source of carbon emissions. 2/12