Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report ‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank

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#trainsnotplanes harder than it should be

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Only visited once back in the early 90s. But loved it back then.

‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate Constituents’ frustration with Richard Tice reflects growing problem for party and its leaders’ climate-sceptic stance

Our study into Reform led councils dismantling the fight against climate change is referenced in this article about Lincolnshire residents dealing with floods.

‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands A project on Dartmoor to reprofile the landscape aims to return the springy bog – and carbon store – to its natural condition

‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands

Global ideas for global challenges: a panel in honour of Nick Stern 6.30pm Weds 22 April | Kristalina Georgieva, Christine Lagarde, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Professor Larry Kramer | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

We're excited to announce this free, public event to celebrate the 80th birthday of GSoS Chair, Nicholas Stern... on 🌍#EarthDay no less!

🎟️ The ticket line will open on 14 April!

What can be done to reduce Britons’ energy bills and accelerate decarbonisation? - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment The time to reform energy bill structure is now, before rising policy costs associated with the clean energy transition make the problem harder to solve, write Shefali Khanna and John Cui.

Environmental levies fall disproportionately on electricity bills rather than gas bills, so electricity is artificially expensive relative to gas.

In this commentary, Shefali Khanna and John Cui argue it's time to reform energy bill structure.

Climate Science in Legal Contexts Scientific and legal communities often use similar words differently. This resource is designed to help lawyers navigate scientific concepts that frequently arise in climate litigation.

Scientific and legal communities often use similar words differently.

Research Fellow Noah Walker-Crawford was part of the team that created a glossary to clarify the scientific concepts that frequently arise in climate litigation.

@nyulaw.bsky.social

We’re launching a new National Heat Risk Commission, chaired by Emma Howard Boyd to investigate how to improve efforts across the UK to tackle the wide-ranging impacts of high temperatures
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Marginal pricing is the "worst approach to clearing markets apart from all the others", Jon Ferris at LCP tells me

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.

A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

Very pleased to be part of one of the teams, with @granthamlse.bsky.social's @aliceleibian.bsky.social, our project is looking at "Strengthening the Resilience of Food Supply Chains Through International Cooperation", focusing on the climate-food-health nexus.

Lei Zhang, Co-founder of GSoS and Founder and CEO of Envision, awarded 2026 Energy Institute President’s Award | the Global School of Sustainability at LSE Lei Zhang, Co-founder of the Global School of Sustainability at LSE (GSoS) and Founder and CEO of Envision, has been awarded the 2026 Energy Institute President’s Award.

👏 Our warmest congratulations to GSoS Co-founder Lei Zhang on receiving the Energy Institute’s 2026 President’s Award!

Read our new report, based on expert roundtable with stakeholders from unions, local gov & gov agencies, academia, private sector, charitable sector, chartered professional bodies. Co-creating evidence-based, practical next steps to
better protect workers from the effects of high temperatures

That would be awesome! I love my regular London-Venice train route, but would be great to have an overnight option.

Super excited (and slightly nervous) to be at at my first @ipcc.bsky.social Lead Authors’ meeting. We are starting our journey to synthesise and evaluate the latest scientific evidence for AR7.

@profejzrobinson.bsky.social #CMCC #EIEE @granthamlse.bsky.social

What is the sixth mass extinction? #COP30 #ClimateChange #LSE YouTube video by LSE

🦏🐅 Are we living through a sixth mass extinction?

Dr Ganga Shreedhar from @lsepbs.bsky.social delivers a stark reality check about the urgent need for climate action.

@dannyquah.bsky.social will be @lseid.bsky.social next week. I’m out of the country else would have been there.

Drax Shares Surge on Data Center Hopes Drax Group Plc shares surged to their highest level in over three years as investors bet that UK utilities could become major beneficiaries of the country’s rapidly expanding data center industry.

Coal-fired data centres at least sound a bit steampunk. Wood-fired data centres just sound deranged. finance.yahoo.com/news/drax-sh...

Climate action is the key to innovation and economic growth Nicholas Stern reveals how tackling the climate crisis isn't just urgent—it's a transformative opportunity for global prosperity, innovation, and sustainable development. His new open access book, The...

"As a significant player on the international stage, the UK has both the opportunity and the responsibility to lead.”

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern spoke with #RftW Magazine following the publication of The Growth Story of the 21st Century. 🩹 🌍

Read more here: www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

COP30 and beyond: what was achieved in Belém? - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment Join us for an assessment of COP30 with insights into main issues, achievements and challenges.

On November 26th we're hosting a post-COP30 online event to reflect on the outcomes of the climate summit which took place in Belém, Brazil.

Delegates who attended COP30 will offer their assessments of the challenges and achievements on the key issues, and look ahead to COP31.

LSE academic wins award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists Dr Francisco de Melo Viríssimo of LSE’s Grantham Research Institute has been honoured with the 2026 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists, recognising his impactful research.

Congratulations to our wonderful @granthamlse.bsky.social colleague Dr Francisco de Melo Virissimo
www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Working on climate & ocean phenomena, & climate adaptation

*Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists*
www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...

@gsos-lse.bsky.social

Scientists criticize ‘straw man’ arguments in Bill Gates climate memo Tech billionaire relying on ‘false binary’ with call to focus less on emissions and more on aid for poor, experts say

“The memo from a ‘very influential person who controls a lot of money’ hinges on ‘inarguably a false binary’ between a world where everything is fine and ‘literally the end of the world,’ said @weatherwest.bsky.social, a climate scientist at UC ANR.”

A statistic that continues to live rent free in my mind: half of all international shipping is just moving fossil fuels around.

"In this book, Lord Nicholas Stern articulates the incredible opportunity for global development enabled by climate action."

— Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States and Environmentalist

The Growth Story of the 21st Century is out tomorrow #OpenAccess.

➡️ doi.org/10.31389/lse...

🎉"This book is most welcome at a time when climate policies are being denounced as being overly punitive by some... An absolute must-read for economic scholars and policy makers working on climate and on economic development."

— Philippe Aghion, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Good morning with good news: New solar plus storage in India is more than 25% cheaper than EXISTING coal plants. It's also much cheaper than new coal plants!

Indian solar plus storage costs $33–41/MWh
EXISTING coal costs $54/MWh
New coal costs $67-83/MWh

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
#energysky

Dr @shourodasgupta.bsky.social & I track the impact of increasing frequency of heatwaves and droughts on access to food (Indicator 1.4), compared to 1981–2010 baseline, estimated to have resulted in an additional 124 million people in 124 countries being food insecure.
lnkd.in/e5j-5wZj for details

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :

Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn

Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**

Don't believe the wind power haters

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Chris Hadfield and Barenaked Ladies | I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing) YouTube video by CBC Music

Some out-of-this-world joy for your morning, with the
@barenakedladies.com and Wexford Gleeks.
youtu.be/AvAnfi8WpVE

Thank you for sharing. Made me smile.