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What's next for cutting the UK's carbon emissions? This week the government's independent climate advisors will suggest how emissions could be cut between 2038 and 2042 when the Seventh Carbon Budget is published. Our beginner's guide to carbon budgets 👇 #CB7

Movie time again 😊 thanks to our friends at the Climate Centre 🎥 🎞️ 🎬 📺 and their team Ben Jackson, Gemma Watson, Alexander Nicolaou, Skye Kobos #CommunityHeating #NetworkHeating #EnergyPoverty #GSHP #Geothermal #EnergyTransition

😔 This week's been pretty gruelling for everyone who cares about climate and environment issues - and there are a lot of us. So it was inspiring to film one of the thousands of innovative and upbeat stories of change that seldom get reflected in our feeds. 🛺 This is what's been called the 'world's first electric buggy trial'. Meet Yo-Go, the bright yellow pay-as-you-go EVs zipping around London in a less polluting way. youtu.be/3K167UrJqIU

Every year, we pick our five most influential climate and environment voices. Today is the last of our top five for 2025. The Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Dr Fatih Birol recently told the world: We are moving into the Age of Electricity. He has called the rise of clean energy "unstoppable." The agency's most recent forecasts also predict renewables set to increase by 2.7 times by the end of the decade, (slightly below the tripling nations agreed at COP28), while oil demand is meanwhile set to peak by 2030. Despite criticism from all quarters. Dr Birol has shown international leadership in a period of political turmoil. He has consistently campaigned for action on coal calling it “the single biggest source of CO2 emissions from energy worldwide." Under his leadership, the role of the IEA has been a fundamental one as the world's most authoritative and comprehensive source of global energy data. While in a chaotic world, Dr Birol is our 2025 influencer of the year for his unflinching ability to speak truth to power.

Each New Year, we pick the most influential climate and environment figures of the year. Here’s the second of our five for 2025: Olga Malinkiewicz, PhD Olga isn’t a household name - yet. But recently she made a discovery that could change how the world makes energy. The brilliant Polish scientist and her team created an extraordinarily light, printable solar cell. This new generation of thin, flexible solar panels can be manufactured by an inkjet printer and has the potential to revolutionise solar power, which is already advancing internationally at lightning speed. The work of Olga and her team has won two European Inventor Awards and the results have been called “a visionary idea” for a “technology that can change the world.” It's a significant advance that will mean cheaper and more efficient #perovskite solar panels that are already expected to overtake silicon panels in the near future. Experts say the opportunities are extraordinary: enough sunlight falls on Earth in just ONE HOUR to meet a year’s worth of global power needs. 💡 ☀️ 🌎 European Patent Office Saule Technologies Inc.

Each New Year, we pick the most influential climate and environment figures of the year. Emma Pinchbeck is the third of our five for #2025 Just 20 years ago, with media commentators braying in outrage at low educational standards, Channel 4 set up a tough 1950’s style boarding school to see how modern students would cope. As it happened, one pupil coped exceptionally well. Acing all the challenges and later receiving one of the top five marks in the country for Politics and English A Levels. In 2024, that star pupil was appointed CEO of the Committee on Climate Change, where she will again be required to face down outdated attitudes. Emma’s position at the nexus between science and politics is crucial with government’s 7th Carbon Budget to be announced within weeks. But if culture wars become central to climate conversations in the coming weeks, then former Energy UK boss Emma has already passed all the first tests with flying colours. 

Each New Year, we pick the most influential climate and environment figures of the year. Here’s day two of our five for 2025. If there is an episode that sums up the colossal erosion of public trust in government and the private sector, it is the actions of the UK water industry. Our collective desire to protect our rivers and beaches is non negotiable. Yet the industry - and its regulator continues destroying our environment at will with its profit for pollution model. This year Feargal Sharkey has been the voice of the UK’s collective conscience. He has pioneered a new frontier with citizen journalism for LBC and Global that documents the atrocious record of our rivers. The industry take note: We need ER not PR. River Action UK

Each New Year, we pick the most influential climate and environment figures of the year. Here’s the first of our five for 2025. Laura Young, also known as Less Waste Laura, has led the campaign to ban disposable vapes since noticing the rapid spread of vape litter while walking her dog in Glasgow in 2022. Her influence prompted 28 out of 32 Scottish councils to join her call to action for the Scottish Government to #BanDisposableVapes. Today more than 13 vapes - each bristling with toxic chemicals - are thrown away each second in the UK. Over eight million a week! In October 2024, as a direct result of Laura’s campaigning efforts, it was announced that single use disposable vapes will now be banned in England and Wales from June next year. Laura has meantime also grabbed herself a First Class Honours from Dundee University and is completing her PhD climate resilience work. She is our first influencer of the year. Laura Young Marine Conservation Society University of Dundee University Of Abertay

Thanks to the doers. #2024Wrapped https://lnkd.in/eD2X_nUs

Is bigger better? Astonishingly, SUVs made up half of all new car sales worldwide last year. But not everyone agrees... In fact, a number of innovative carmakers are increasingly happy to champion being small-minded. In recent weeks, we were lucky enough to film in busy central London with one of a number of new bubble cars now hitting the streets. Built by an actual toymaker, (the maker of the best-selling Micro scooter), the Microlino is a retro-inspired gem that's not much bigger than a bathtub and gets about the same reaction as driving around town in one. Huge thanks to the brilliant Ben Macdonald for taking time out to explain the joys of a modest motor. #EVs #electriccar