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Brendan Curran
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Visiting Senior Policy Fellow (Sustainable Finance & Just Transition) at the London School of Economics. Views are my own
Katılım Ekim 2021
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Protecting households from the surging price of natural gas cost £78 billion of taxpayers' money when you were Energy Secretary...
@ret_ward tells @Jacob_Rees_Mogg following a report claiming Labour's plans to decarbonise the grid will cost £116 billion.
@GBNEWS | @GRI_LSE
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Belfast still has only 2 miles of segregated cycle lanes, according to new Sustrans report - Belfast Live. Massively disappointing figures indicating the utter failure of @deptinfra to support active travel. belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-n…
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This terrifying FT chart paints my lifetime in the inexorably rising colours of global warming
Eyeballing, it looks like, what, 0.75C of warming since the 1980s?
And just look at the way the coolest months in the 2020s are mostly hotter than the hottest of the 1980s!
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Following the tragic death of two LSE colleagues last year, staff and students at @GRI_LSE have teamed up with other London universities to send a letter to London's Mayoral candidates.
Staff members or students at London unis can sign the letter here 👇🏾
forms.office.com/pages/response…
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We must stop cycling deaths in London. If your’re a member of staff or a student at one of London’s universities, please sign this letter and make this a big issue for the #London mayoral campaign. Thanks
Grantham LSE@GRI_LSE
Following the tragic death of two LSE colleagues last year, staff and students at @GRI_LSE have teamed up with other London universities to send a letter to London's Mayoral candidates. Staff members or students at London unis can sign the letter here 👇🏾 forms.office.com/pages/response…
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Did you know that the beaver 🦫(which happens to be LSE's official mascot) could play a key role in the UK’s adaptation and resilience to climate change? To find out more join our panel discussion next month hosted with the @nationaltrust & @ClimateLondon
lse.ac.uk/granthaminstit…
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If you study or work at a London university, please sign and share this letter calling on mayoral candidates to make cycling in London safer
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Quite staggeringly confused debates about fiscal rules and the @OBR_UK "boxing the Chancellor in" over the last few days. A few clarifications as the Budget looms 🧵
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Pleased to share my latest article on @Forbes detailing the important launch of the @jtf_lab @GRI_LSE which will advance the #justtransition through research, advocacy, stakeholder engagement & solution design: forbes.com/sites/amynguye… #netzero #energytransition #socialjustice
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I thought this must surely be a typo, but no, the French really do charge €60,000 tax on cars emitting more than 194 g CO₂/km. Incroyable. And there's more... 1/n
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🧑🌾🌳🐞Very happy to share our new programme of transdisciplinary socio-ecological research: The #FlourishingLandscapesProgramme. We will be working with communities and food system actors to explore biodiversity driven benefits for livelihoods and food system resileince 🇪🇨🇬🇭🇻🇳
Nature-based Solutions Initiative @UniofOxford@NatureBasedSols
📢Delighted to announce our #FlourishingLandscapesProgramme was awarded a @gcbc_org grant. FLP is a consortium (industry, civil society & academia) working to empower communities & food system actors to enhance #biodiversity driven benefits of #NaturebasedSolutions. 🌍🌱
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To all those celebrating George Galloway “sticking it to the establishment”, a little reminder of which supposedly ant-establishment side he’s on:
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I'm late to this but worth noting that @OBR_UK committee member David Miles argues here that:
- Net zero investment unlikely to boost overall productivity growth
- Higher net migration unlikely to benefit the public finances in the longer term
#_ftn1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
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The Just Transition Finance Lab is working with @CumberlandCoun and @CityWestminster on attracting investment into local climate transitions.
Today we are at the Cumberland Economic Summit discussing clean and green growth👇
@Ed_Miliband @NVJRobins1
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‘We have $500 trillion in the global financial system & over $100trn wants to do #NetZero” says Rhianydd Griffith @jtf_lab at the @CumberlandCoun Economic Strategy ‘The challenge is how to attract capital that serves the needs of place’
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‘Please build from what is positive’ says the passionate Prof John Fyfe @CumberlandCoun Economic Summit ‘Energise the green economy with jobs as well’ & ‘make it bloody work’
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