Rapid Transition Alliance

Need some hope for a fairer future?🤔 Our first ever #HopeTales chapbook was co-created during live events by a range of artists, writers and thinkers, who came together to create street literature on the topic of AIR. Download it now for free👇 rapidtransition.org/resources/hope…

Against the backdrop of high-carbon sponsors headlining the Winter Olympics, the Alps are facing heavy industrialisation. 🗻 In his latest Winter Olympics report, @mrendell explores the ramifications behind the development of this iconic landscape.🧵 youtu.be/l_yF9TPXEdk

As the Winter Olympics comes to a close, the town of Cortina seems to be enjoying the fanfare of the games. However town councillor Roberta De Zanna tells a very different story🧵 youtu.be/VKshLTGl-Rs

In his third report from Italy’s Olympic and climate frontlines, @mrendell explains how a huge amount of construction has gone into the 2026 Winter Olympics, much of it entirely unnecessary. 🏗️ youtu.be/sfhWLPQUeDA

The Opening Ceremony of the twenty-fifth Olympic Winter Games starts tonight at 8pm. But instead of being held at a winter sport venue, the event will take place at the San Siro football Stadium - a site not without controversy. 🎿🔥 youtu.be/katuNyQJSEY

Welcome to the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics; a festival of international sport in the middle of a global climate crisis that puts athletes, fans and sport itself at risk. 🏂🔥 youtu.be/ynH09MP2xg0

🏂 Our report on the environmental impact of the Winter Olympics partnering with major polluters has been hitting the headlines!  theecologist.org/2026/jan/18/sa…

🚨 𝗢𝗹𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 🚨 ❄️ In a new report, The New Weather Institute reveals the climate impact of the world's leading snow sports event - the Winter Olympics. Background and full story. 🧵 Full report 👉 newweather.org/wp-content/upl…

🚨 Campaign win! 🚨 Mayor Sadiq Khan pledges to review Transport for London's ad policy on polluter ads. 🎉 Here is the brilliant @CarolineRussell's question for the Mayor along with his commitment. Scroll on for other key moments from Mayor's Question time. 🧵

BREAKING! 🚨 📢We’ve taken over the @TfL ad space at Southwark tube station, calling on the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to end adverts that promote pollution. ✍️ Join the campaign: actionnetwork.org/letters/time-t…

Polluter and 'cyber' elites - is AI just going to worsen patterns of pollution and inequality? Find out what the tech bros & big polluters are planning, next Weds 15th Oct at 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET. Its free with great speakers. 👇👇👇 @ResponsibleSci tickettailor.com/events/scienti…

Fascinating piece from ⁦@AndrewSimms_uk⁩ for ⁦@ResponsibleSci⁩ on the origins of the connection between disarmament treaties & growing calls for a ⁦@fossiltreaty⁩ treaty sgr.org.uk/resources/carb…

📢 Badvertising has asked the UK advertising regulator, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to investigate its own ads for allegedly breaching rules around misleading advertising, which it is charged with enforcing: theguardian.com/media/2025/sep…

‘Ad regulator asked to investigate its own ads’ To combat climate misinformation we need a regulator as strong as the ASA claims to be in its own ads, but they're badly misleading so we’ve asked them to investigate themselves @badvertising11 @adfreecities theguardian.com/media/2025/sep…

🚨 Out today: "The Starmer Symptom" In a book documenting the precarious rise of Kier Starmer's Labour party, Badvertising's Andrew Simms outlines an alternative to the dead end of growth politics. Here's an overview of the chapter. 🧵 📖: plutobooks.com/9780745351094/…

Hear athletes say themselves why sport has to stop being a billboard for major climate polluters. The Fossil Free Declaration is a brilliant new initiative from the @cooldownnetwork 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

🚨 𝗔 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 Andrew Simms of Badvertising breaks down a major ruling by the International Court of Justice for the Ecologist. Here's why the ICJ ruling marks a turning point for climate action. 🧵 theecologist.org/2025/jul/29/le…

The ICJ ruled states may be liable if failing to act on non-climate compliant fossil fuel industries. It is a very small step to the same applying to sectors co-dependent on fossil fuels, like aviation, SUV makers and, even advertisers. New @the_ecologist theecologist.org/2025/jul/29/le…

@mrendell does a powerful job calling out the pervasive and toxic, yet normalised sportswash by big, polluting fossil fuel sponsors in elite cycling (as in sport more generally). Important broadcasting and proper journalism where it is needed... 👇

My friend, the brilliant Matt Rendell, reveals the cynicism of fossil fuel sponsorship - aka sports/greenwash - in elite cycling. It's everywhere in sport, like tobacco sponsorship once was, but feels worse in cycling that should be pedalling forward the green transition...👇👇👇