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Today we're launching a bold new masterplan for Waterloo station. It's going to be the hub of the neighbourhood with a new public realm as well as sustainable, beautiful streets and greenery all around.
Link: https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2024-03/WSM_Summary%20Vision%20Statement.pdf
BBC Dad content
Today is the 7th anniversary of the BBC Dad blooper.
So here it is again, with some recent family pictures in the thread below.
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@rivergecko @Tim_Oldland This is the problem with the Spring. It's a cheap car sold cheaply but a better car discounted or nearly new is often the better value proposition on a limited budget. I'd think it'd have to be £99 and £99 a month so it's bus pass level of ownership costs.
I like the design of the Rivian R3 but.. Rivian say it was inspired by the Audi Quattro Coupe and Delta Integrale but I just keep seeing a Yugo
Just me? Maybe the designer had one as a first car🤣
🚨NEW: Mercedes CEO says EU should *CUT* tariffs on Chinese EVs🚨
🔋"Let competition play out", Ola Kallenius tells me
🔋Carmakers "did not ask for" EU probe
🔋Must fight back with "better product, better tech, more agility"
W/@patricianilsson:
When you drove ICE or even if you still do, did you/do you achieve the quoted mpg?
UK emissions have now fallen in 25 of 34 yrs since 1990 – and pretty much every yr for past two decades
Latest 23MtCO2e (5.7%) reduction in 2023 takes UK territorial emissions down to 383MtCO2e, lowest since 1879 – when Queen Vic was on the throne
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https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-emissions-in-2023-fell-to-lowest-level-since-1879/
🚨BREAKING🚨
UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest since 1879, new @CarbonBrief reveals
💷Emissions now 53% below 1990, as GDP up 82%
❤️🔥Drop in 2023 largely unrelated to policy
⛰️Coal now lowest since 1730s (!)
🚗Transport is largest sector, then buildings
⚡️Power now likely…
This death of a Boeing whistleblower definitely seems odd. We aren’t at the Russian stage (“falling” out of windows, exploding aircraft or Palonium in your underpants) but it’s odd enough to warrant investigation and monitoring of other deaths related to testifying against Boeing…
John Stewart back on a roll, challenging the rather ridiculous assertion that “Trump backing Republicans” are the guardians of the US constitution when they want their leader to be above the law, abolish freedom of press, due process and independent judiciary and oh yeah make him…
I couldn’t help but ask this #Ikeadelivery driver what he thought of his electric van. Apparently it’s great to drive, and good for local deliveries… with 170 mile real world range. I say that’s a win over spewing diesel fumes ☠️
Gordon Brown, "It's a sign of the times that John Major and I find ourselves more on the same side, than on opposite sides"
"We're not trying to make Cameron-style comebacks"
"I'm too old for British politics and too young for American politcis"
"A few years ago, John, Tony…
A landmark waste reduction bill is gaining fast momentum — but lobbyists for major oil and chemical companies want to make sure it doesn’t cross the finish line.
Learn more in the article from @emdashsanders with @Exxon_Knew 🔗
I like it.. will it help convert the mainstream..we can only hope
#ClimateActionNow
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!
Good morning with good news: Fossil fuel generated electricity in EU fell to 28% in February 2024 from 38% in February 2023! Coal plunged to 10.6%!
Fossil Fuel % is:
February 2017 49%
Februaty 2019 40%
February 2022 35%
February 2023 38%
February 2024 28%
https://ember-climate.org/
Scenic drive📐🏔️
📍Western Sichuan, China
Per Capita is key here..but it also shows that total consumption may not always be a good indicator of the direction of travel.
Total matters more for addressing climate change but hides current and future trends in progress on transition away from #burningStuff
Things are about to get interesting on EV imports from China to the EU
Electric Viking reports that the EU claims to have found evidence that Chinese manufacturers are being paid a large cash per vehicle subsidy on each car they export.
No word on the evidence so far or whether…
China is installing a record amount of solar - including over 2.4 million homes being given a solar upgrade: https://buff.ly/3NfUh8r.
We have the solutions. Time to phase out coal and other fossil fuels and implement them. #ActOnClimate
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