Paul Brannen 🇺🇦 @PaulBrannenNE@respublicae.eu
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Director Public Affairs @CEIBois, EOS & @TimberDevUK
Former MEP, Agri & Envi Committees
Joined Apr 2022
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
Goldsmith resigns accusing prime minister Sunak of being ‘uninterested’ in environment. In the same week the UK's independent committee on climate change in its annual report concluded that the UK government has given up its climate leadership role. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/30/zac-goldsmith-resigns-accusing-government-of-apathy-over-environment?CMP=share_btn_tw
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1674706123729915905
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
Re @horton_official @ZacGoldsmith @RishiSunak It's a gross generalisation, I realise, but the richer you are the less likely you care about climate change because a) you think (mistakenly) that your wealth will protect you b) the lifestyle changes that caring about the climate demand are much greater ie no helicopter trips.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1674736534002577414
As a former staff member at the Anti-Apartheid Movement I’ve been following this inquiry. It’s findings to date are shocking. More to come? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/29/spy-cops-operations-against-leftwing-groups-unjustified-judge-finds?CMP=share_btn_tw
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1674678925522358272
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
Plant more trees - one of the report's recommendations. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66032607
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1673920011310706689
Re @policies4poland @BBCNews Boots are adept tax dodgers too, if my memory serves me correctly.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1673765555973529611
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
Agree re the beaver & likewise with agroforestry which can reduce heavy rain water run off from farmland considerably & instead taking more water down into the soil for subsequent ‘release’ in drier weather. Work with nature https://www.agforward.eu/
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Craig Bennett: We are probably going to be facing #drought in parts of the country this summer
And yet @DefraGovUK could not be moving more slowly in allowing the return of a key ally that would help make England more resilient to drought
We have to move faster...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0b7716e4-1393-11ee-8fcc-23dc1e6b4441?shareToken=004e57b304a57b1a6ba5d427cbd781f5
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1673776533482110978
RT Soil Association Scotland
Integrating trees on farms delivers for climate & nature while maintaining & often enhancing food production. Read more about our policy position with @NFUStweets & @WoodlandTrust calling for @scotgov to support tree planting & remove barriers to uptake.
https://www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/joint-call-for-government-to-enable-tree-integration-with-fo-318395/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/SoilAssocScot/status/1673694241111900165
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 Ian Birrell
MPs who abstain or dodge voting to condemn Johnson's lies deserve utter contempt since this is a fight for the soul of our democracy - my @theipaper column https://inews.co.uk/opinion/mps-abstain-vote-boris-johnson-partygate-report-deserve-our-scorn-fight-democracy-2420472
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ianbirrell/status/1670471782640283663
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
