Shaun Spiers
@ShaunSpiers1
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Executive Director of @GreenAllianceUK. Now mostly using @shaunspiers1.bsky.social. Some tweets are personal.
London and Rochester
Joined August 2011
New analysis: If four UK airport expansions including Heathrow are allowed to go ahead, they will cancel out the carbon savings of this government’s clean power plan IN JUST FIVE YEARS. This government must cancel these planned expansions.
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We’re delighted that Libby Peake, senior fellow and head of resources at Green Alliance, has been appointed to the government’s Circular Economy Taskforce. 1/2 https://t.co/DCCY8tZJgi
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The Circular Economy Taskforce is an independent expert advisory group established in November 2024 to support the government in creating a circular economy strategy for England.
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"Labour was elected on a mandate to get Britain building again while also restoring nature. The two can go hand in hand " - there are loads of details to be worked out, but this is a good start. The cross departmental collaboration is also very welcome.
The Tories failed on housing and nature. Labour will deliver for both. Read my piece with @AngelaRayner in today’s @thetimes👇🏼 https://t.co/May8GOx7Wi
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Today, the government is setting out its plan for Clean Power 2030. Response from @ShaunSpiers1, executive director, also quoted in the press release: https://t.co/7NY0Gv0MsZ
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Today the @HLEnviroClimate have published their methane inquiry report. Green Alliance’s contributions were used throughout, alongside evidence given by our head of research @LiamKHardy. Here’s what we’re excited about 👇 1/6 🧵
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🚨BREAKING NEWS// Government green lights M&S Oxford Street demolition proposals. SAVE early comment: 🗣️What a missed opportunity! The government has chosen the easy option – business as usual - when it had a real chance to show leadership and ambition on this urgent issue. 🧵1/4
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Great news today: the government has announced it will publish a new strategy for critical raw materials in 2025. 🎉 We’ve long advocated stronger leadership in this area. Here’s our response and why we think it’s so important. 1/5
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YIMBYS BE WARNED: The government needs to soften its rhetoric around planning if it wants to encourage more people into the profession and meet demand for new clean energy projects, argues @GreenAllianceUK @ShaunSpiers1 More in our newsletter @POLITICOEurope
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.@jreynoldsMP is right, "the push to electric vehicles is not about a culture war", however hard the usual suspects try to make it one. The fact is that car manufacturers are struggling across Europe & beyond. The hope for the UK industry is to invest in the future - ie #EVs!
Excellent sentiment from @jreynoldsMP, but the execution details will be key. 🚗🔋 Regulations must be enforceable to guarantee compliance from manufacturers. Overly generous concessions could hinder our climate targets and favour foreign manufacturers. https://t.co/NoT48UEdZo
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Ayayayyy what a week for EVs News of the Stellantis Luton factory closure has been conflated with the ZEV mandate failing, but it's pretty clear to anyone paying attention that the two things are not really related... 2 big things to note on this:
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And they ignore the fact that car manufacturers who prepared for the ZEV mandate are exceeding their sales figures, while the laggards cry foul & climate sceptics who spread disinformation about EVs rub their hands with glee. The government should stick to its guns!
What these critiques never explain is what happens to UK industry if you do what they say and abandon net zero. The answer is you get a few more years selling 20th century tech (and higher emissions with it) and then your industrial base gets destroyed by clean tech imports.
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The govt will soon launch a taskforce to co-design a #CircularEconomy strategy for England. In anticipation, we released a series of explainers detailing how a circular economy will benefit people, businesses + the UK. Emily Carr summarises for the blog: https://t.co/kBCPD4yPof
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Keats, Yeats & the rather important point that the COP29 "clamjamfry" has made inadequate progress on methane. As the UN has stated, "cutting methane by 45 per cent by 2030 could prevent nearly 0.3°C of warming by the 2040s". Good blog.
"There is a gulf between signing a pledge and delivering change". As #COP29 draws to an unsatisfactory close, Lord @IanDuncanHMG of Springbank, deputy speaker in the House of Lords, discusses what's next for #methane mitigation on the blog: https://t.co/K9gbCfRRVP
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The UK relies almost entirely on imports for all 24 critical raw materials. We should reduce our dependence by reusing, remanufacturing and recycling these materials domestically, creating jobs in the process.
To achieve the aims of the UK-led Global Clean Power Alliance, we need to grapple with the elephant in the room that is critical raw materials and how to ensure fair access to them. More from Emily Carr, policy adviser, on the blog: https://t.co/xUWd3U6ZRX
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While some global powers turn their backs on the environment, it's crucial that the PM holds strong on this government's commitment to show climate leadership. Opening remarks from exec director @ShaunSpiers1's new blog below, and full post here: 🔗 https://t.co/ObnCSYeQvp
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"Why the [UK] government needs to hold fast on the green agenda" - @ShaunSpiers1 via @GreenAllianceUK
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These are difficult days for UK environmental politics. It is only a few months since 85 per cent of the electorate voted for parties committed to net zero by 2050. In that election, the Conservati…
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If the UK is to decarbonise its power system by 2030, planning must evolve. A new report from @AldersgateGrp, @RenewableUK, & @CPRE offers key recommendations to speed up approvals. @RachelSW99 explores these findings in our latest blog🔗 https://t.co/WRIvVpiSNl
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What sort of planning reform do we need? This @RachelSW99 blog for @GreenAllianceUK suggests we need a stronger, better resourced system - more & better planning, not less. https://t.co/PWwgA3Utzz
greenallianceblog.org.uk
This post is by Rachel Solomon Williams, executive director of Aldersgate Group. The UK government has set out a mission to achieve a fully decarbonised power system by 2030, with a commitment to d…
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I've voted for Jan Royall to become Oxford Chancellor, not (only) because it's about time, after 800 years, that the university had a woman chancellor, but because I know she'll do a great job.
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Why have policies to improve resource use faltered? In this policy insight for our #CircularEconomy week we’ve surveyed those involved with the previous administration, to understand what went wrong and what this government can learn from them: https://t.co/jZhtzXu0N2 1/4
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