Working for a climate just future, FF phase out & just transition. @Uplift, formerly @IIED Intersectional feminist 🌱🌈 #CeasefireNow🇵🇸 Views my own.
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Anna Carthy (she/her) retweeted
There has rightly been a lot of focus on the Green surge at this election & the failed attempt to use climate as an electoral wedge. In Scotland, where there has lately been an explicit focus on climate action & oil & gas policy, the message is at once clearer & more complex
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Anna Carthy (she/her) retweeted
Today's decision by the Supreme Court in the Finch case is genuinely historic. It marks a turning point towards more sensible planning-related decision-making in the UK, and crucially towards a safer climate.
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Anna Carthy (she/her) retweeted
Labour's manifesto includes a commitment to stop issuing new licences to explore for more oil and gas.
This is a much-needed acknowledgement that new licences are fundamentally incompatible with a safe climate & won't do anything to ensure secure energy or jobs.
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Anna Carthy (she/her) retweeted
It has been widely quoted that a windfall tax and removal of incentive allowances for North Sea oil and gas would result in 100,000 job losses. Some said Scotland alone could face this. Is this accurate? In short, it’s misleading. But let’s delve into the statistics 🧵
The fate of the oil & gas workforce is as contested as ever - check out our blog exploring the numbers on Uplift's new website 🔎 upliftuk.org/post/the-truth-… tl;dr After 50yrs of drilling, the North Sea basin & its jobs are in decline, so workers are right to demand a transition plan
Anna Carthy (she/her) retweeted
EXCLUSIVE
SNP under fire for 'exaggerated' oil jobs claims
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Anna Carthy (she/her) retweeted
Unsurprisingly, this is a wilful distortion of what’s happening in New Zealand. It also does nothing to advance the case for new oil and gas licences in the North Sea.
Here’s why:
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Labour’s energy policy is a mess. Their proposal to ban new oil and gas licenses was tried in New Zealand.
They struggled to keep the lights on and have now had to reverse it.
Climate policy can’t come at the cost of our energy security or it will fail.
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Anna Carthy (she/her) retweeted
It’s not just the extreme violence that Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians, it’s what western countries from the USA, Netherlands, Germany & France are willing to inflict on their own children to protect the apartheid regime being held accountable nitter.gq/Kahlissee/status/17904…
Anna Carthy (she/her) retweeted
BREAKING: Following a strong student mobilization, the University of Barcelona has passed a motion to end ties with Israel.
Anna Carthy (she/her) retweeted
📢Brand new from Uplift:
We need a proper plan to secure a just transition for the North Sea's oil & gas sector i.e. a New Deal for the North Sea
thenational.scot/news/242729…
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It was great to join MPs from the @ClimateAPPG this week and see them push for greater ambition at #COP29 and #COP16 later this year
This morning @ClimateAPPG MPs met with @RichardHRBenyon to discuss:
🇺🇳UK priorities for @UNFCCC #COP29 and @UNBiodiversity #COP16
🇬🇧@FCDOGovUK’s work related to climate, energy and the environment
🤝Political consensus on climate and nature action.
And more!
Anna Carthy (she/her) retweeted
Hundreds of thousands of us are nauseated, sickened, angered & broken by what is happening in #RafahMassacre . Failed by all our governments & strutting politicians capable of nothing other than glutinous hypocrisy & poisonous double-standards. I really don't know where we go.
Anna Carthy (she/her) retweeted
It's hard to breathe. I am checking my feed this morning as every morning, and the few Palestinian voices left are silent. What horrors happened during the night in Rafah under cover of superbowl, @JoeBiden . What horrors.
Anna Carthy (she/her) retweeted
Rafah is one of the most densely populated places on earth, teeming with children and families, some already displaced many times by war in Gaza.
Of the 1.3 million people seeking shelter, 600,000 are children.
They have nowhere safe to go.
They must be protected.