Paul Brannen 🇺🇦 @PaulBrannenNE@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Working to decarbonise built environment
Director Public Affairs @CEIBois, EOS & @TimberDevUK
Former MEP, Agri & Envi Committees
Joined Apr 2022
Re @masstimbergroup @mistygonzalez1 Here’s another one going up in Brussels very near the European Parliament @CEIBois https://t.co/1KCMGQaypF
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1675247465568653313
RT Hillary Clinton
The Supreme Court's recent rulings were sadly predictable for anyone who understands the hard-right agenda. Their goal has always been to install Justices whose job is to turn back the clock on our freedoms, on decades of constitutional decisions, and on our continuing struggle… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1674883903675310080 https://t.co/AgZitQvCli
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/HillaryClinton/status/1674883903675310080
Silvija Aile asks 'How do we make our resources more targeted?' One of the answers is agroforestry allowing farms to maintain food production at current levels while at the same time increasing the amount of biomass produced. @Agroforestry
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European State Forests: In Panel IV Silvija AIle @EU_ENV Sven Walter @FAO Nicolas Robert @euenvironment Marion Picot @_CEJA_ Johan Elvnert @ForestETP discuss environment and sustainability in #bioeconomy. Consensus to not just use, but work with the ecosystems we are part of. 🌍 https://t.co/TSBA2mNNr1
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1674764072221392897
From niche to norm. It’s ten years since the publication of the first EU bioeconomy strategy. There’s a general feeling that we need to push it higher up the agenda hence this event in Brussels today @CEIBois @EUSTAFOR @COPACOGECA @CEPF_EU https://t.co/nu38N7GS6r
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1674692136581701633
By bringing in young people you bring in people who grasp the bioeconomy quicker (if they haven’t already) than the older generations who may understand their industries very well but are yet to, or struggle to, grasp the bioeconomy. Good observation at today's event in Brussels. https://n.respublicae.eu/LRFBrussels/status/1674717150446010369
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Swedish Farmers: Today we joined the seminar on how to take bioeconomy from niche to norm!
With the help of the Swedish presidency’s council conclusions on bioeconomy, we hope to see holistic approaches that allows farmers and foresters to develop our contributions to the sustainable EU-agenda. https://t.co/XsjPzBngjr
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1674721369110478849
A major impediment to the bioeconomy in Ireland is legislation preventing building in wood above 4 storeys. Within 500m of today's conference on Rue Montoyer in Brussels, Belgium is building in wood to 8 storeys @CEIBois @coilltenews @SeanKellyMEP @ciarancuffe @SCC_Ireland https://t.co/DBBaXek7K0
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1674729943320735744
Re @EUSTAFOR @coilltenews While here in Brussels we have the second eight storey timber build well underway on Rue Montoyer next to the European Parliament. The structural timber substituting for CO2 creating concrete & steel and instead storing carbon safely well into the future. @COPACOGECA @CEPF_EU https://t.co/GkLC5vuFmr
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1674731546815635457
A correct observation from Marco Rupp of the Bio-based Industries Consortium "We need a biomass strategy" Essentially because the demand is going to be huge going forward as we seek to replace fossil fuels with biomass to make nature based materials @biconsortium @COPACOGECA https://t.co/Li7A5c8gsG
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1674734944805847040
An 8 storey engineered timber build well underway very near the European Parliament in Brussels. The timber structure is substituting for concrete &/or steel both of which have big carbon footprints. Instead wood stores carbon something concrete & steel can’t do @CEIBois https://t.co/VBSDYTNixs
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1674494990951542803
An off the scale problem needs off the scale solutions. Think big, act fast. Climate breakdown demands it. Good to see the @TheProgressives explaining in the European Parliament how we can finance the Green New Deal. https://t.co/fBSJwY6oXm
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1674340079177703424
RT Chris Stark
Today we publish @theCCCuk annual report on progress in reducing UK emissions.
We reflect on policy progress in a year that brought the UK’s first recorded 40C day and spiralling fossil fuel costs.
And there’s a reality check on the acceleration needed for 2030 and beyond.
🧵 https://t.co/aDAa1Zw53t
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ChiefExecCCC/status/1673965230500577281
In tackling climate change & biodiversity loss there’s no silver bullet. But I’d struggle to suggest a single change that we could do now that would contribute more than most farms converting to a minimum of 10% tree cover in an agroforestry setting https://www.agforward.eu/
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EURAF: 🗓️Mark your calendars, folks!
Exactly one year from tomorrow, we will be kicking off the 7th European Agroforestry Conference in Brno (May 27th - 31st 2024) #EURAF2024
1/3 https://t.co/Pw5RDGr8nz
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1673770748559728640
RT Chris Stark
Today is the fourth anniversary of Net Zero becoming law, under the UK's Climate Change Act.
Tomorrow we publish our 15th Annual Report on UK progress.
The report will be on our website at midnight. You can also tune in tomorrow for a video launch:
https://youtube.com/@TheCCCUK https://t.co/Nxgd5rhOOd
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ChiefExecCCC/status/1673653397726150656
RT Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦
#NorthEast foresters, wanderers and wood lovers... @royal_forestry Society NE branch extends an invite for non-members to join an evening visit to Thistle Wood, near Medomsley, followed by buffet meal and talk by @woods4thetrees Max Adams on July 27th 2023.
See 🧵below for info: https://t.co/bN7KPsRQ12
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lwhemmings/status/1673022945038401536
RT Marc Palahí
Reconstructing the Future: cities as carbon sinks is now out.
Chapter on forests written by myself with @fredric_mosley and @VWallius
Introduction by @vonderleyen
Congratulations @BauhausEarth for the coordination and editorial work!
Available at: https://birkhauser.com/books/9783035627015 https://t.co/933oHk0LYb
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Marcpalahi/status/1670792910923612160
Re @annietrev may well have had Foreign Office business to attend to & hence couldn't vote tonight on the privileges committee report. But if she had been available can she please tell us how she would have voted? I see Guy Opperman voted for the report.
https://n.respublicae.eu/BBCPolitics/status/1670896796413878273?s=20
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BBC Politics: MPs back, by 354 votes to seven, a report finding Boris Johnson del…
Re @thisisconcrete @Hanson_UK @Hub4com Two problems. One, global concrete use is increasing. Two, I'd question your 53% figure, even if accurate that leaves 47% of an immense C02 emissions figure. Consequently I don't think you are disputing the fact that concrete remains responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions? https://t.co/ZHkq8TpcAz
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1671072870099722242
This is happening in the North East region near Morpeth and being led by Newcastle University @UniofNewcastle Willow can have many uses including biomass for energy & chips to boost agricultural production.
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Agricology: .@NUFarms manager James Standen introducing variety trials for willow during the farm tour - looking at disease and pest resistance for best species for biofuel https://t.co/w5LpCJx…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/16711116328129
Warming warning stripes.
How many more dead canaries before governments finally decide to take climate change seriously and make it their number one priority?
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Ed Hawkins: BREAKING: the White Cliffs of Dover have been illuminated with the UK 'warming stripes' for #ShowYourStripes day!
These stripes represent the UK average temperature from 1884 to 2022 with blue colours for colder years and red colour…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/16714074505897
Yesterday I attended in London at the House of Lords the launch of the All-Party Parliamentary report on 'Timber Construction: Barriers & Solutions' with a forward by Labour's Baroness Hayman & Tonia Antoniazzi MP @TimberDevUK @SueHayman1 @ToniaAntoniazzi
https://timberdevelopment.uk/the-appg-for-the-timber-industries-launched-its-latest-report-timber-construction-barriers-and-solutions/ https://t.co/0WdPONzFxM
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1671823162252709891
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Working to decarbonise built environment
Director Public Affairs @CEIBois, EOS & @TimberDevUK
Former MEP, Agri & Envi Committees
Joined Apr 2022
