Damien Gayle
@damiengayle
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Guardian environment correspondent, covering climate action across Europe and beyond. All opinions my own and no doubt totally wrong
London, England
Joined November 2009
“If you can read that list without the hairs on the back of your neck beginning to stand up, then maybe #journalism is not for you.” David Randall in The Universal Journalist, 1996.
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Magne Tony could not get inside the #Cop30 climate talks. Here he explains why he came to Belém anyway
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The Mexican climate activist Maria Reyes on the militarisation around Cop30 in Belém, Brazil.
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What is Bam, a key civil society ask at #cop30 in Belém? Ayshka Najib, a young activist, explains it in words even a journalist can understand
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🟥Tomorrow, Friday 14 November, Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc will appear at The Old Bailey, London EC4M 7EH in relation to five counts brought under the Terrorism Act, arising from her long-standing advocacy for Palestinian human rights. This hearing matters not only for Sarah,
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Leaving aside the nasty bullying attitude of these plastic patriots, what really annoys me with these videos is the way they quote the ‘law’ to intimidate polite & law abiding local residents whilst getting the legal position completely wrong. Although it’s hard to tell if they
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Gen Z has invented meditation
🚨 GEN Z IS PUTTING THEMSELVES IN “TIMEOUT” - AND CALLING IT HEALING No phone. No TV. No music. No food. Just silence. They’re calling it “raw dogging boredom.” 15 minutes of sitting completely still with zero distractions. Some say it’s weird. Others say it’s genius. Is this
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It is actually insane that @wesstreeting is trying to claim Mamdani
Inspirational campaign and victory for @ZohranKMamdani in NYC. Lessons for progressives the world over.
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It’s completely unnecessary, polluting and dangerous. SUVs benefit nobody but the car manufacturers who figured out they could make higher profits through car-obesity, ignoring the impacts on safety and environment.
Why does almost everyone have such a big car these days? Every other car it seems is an SUV now And half the time the drivers of them can’t handle the size of it!
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This is an important investigation by @damiengayle. I should have thought of this issue, but it is new to me. https://t.co/LhUBIq8euM
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Parents question if synthetic fabrics, one of the most significant environmental pollutants, are suitable for children
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Story by @damiengayle
Why have I put down an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and School Bill to ban #microplastic shedding uniforms? It is about #PublicHealth - the health of our children #PlasticPollution
https://t.co/LTpTtI3lal
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West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory. https://t.co/c5dxs9GuNi
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Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands
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Recommended read: A feature in the @Guardian said “tougher laws” are said to be “inspiring clandestine attacks [by climate protesters] on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy”. 📝 @damiengayle
https://t.co/7TjGUfmGlF
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I am calling for a full, public, independent inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Gaza. We deserve to know the full scale of our government’s complicity in genocide.
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BREAKING: We just disrupted a major UK oil conference on the same day that it was announced that OUR energy bills will rise to £111/yr while BIG OIL keeps profiting. Their profits, OUR loss
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Important reporting by my colleague @damiengayle Extreme weather expected to cause food price volatility in 2025 after cost of cocoa and coffee doubles
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Trend towards more extreme-weather events will continue to hit crop yields and create price spikes, Inverto says
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Environmental organisations “are still very white, especially at the top”, the co-director of Greenpeace, Areeba Hamid has said as research showed little to no improvement in the ethnic diversity of their workforces. @damiengayle
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Greenpeace co-director responds to report finding fewer than one in 20 working in sector identifies as non-white
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Wet morning fighting the derecogition of the @RMTunion at Unipart rail this morning #standingstrong
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#ExtinctionRebellion activists arrested for chaining themselves to the gates of the #Telford Arms Fair go on trial this week. “The global arms trade is a significant driver of environmental harm - greater indeed than many nations” #WarCostsTheEarth 1/3
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Current status in Riesa: The venue of #AfD convention is still empty. The blockades are successful. Protests are going on. #rie1101 #riesa1101 #widersetzen
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