Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵

How can we accelerate coal transitions around the world? At #COP30, the Coal Transition Commission released two new reports: “From Flex to Phase-Out”, and “Growing the Pipeline of Coal-to-Clean Projects” to answer these questions. Read more here: poweringpastcoal.org/strands-of-w...

In this report by @theguardian.com, 350.org Indonesia renews its call for the Indonesian government to phase-out coal 🏭--and for rich nations to pay their climate debt and protect the world’s third-largest rainforests.🌳 #COP30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The latest Coal Transition Commission analysis highlights how governments, financiers, and partners can accelerate coal transitions together. Release at #COP30 on Wednesday, read the two reports here: poweringpastcoal.org/strands-of-w...

Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around #COP30 to send a message to #Japan: end financing of coal & LNG projects. “Japan is actually delaying the fossil fuel phase-out across Asia” by funding fossil fuel projects, mainly LNG developments: #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #NoLNG #NoPipelines

BREAKING: Guatemala joins the PPCA! The nation becomes the 65th national PPCA member, after the Republic of Korea and Bahrain joined earlier today. With Honduras joining earlier in the year, this is a sign the region is moving irreversibly away from coal ⏩

BREAKING: Republic of Korea and Bahrain join the PPCA 🇰🇷🇧🇭 This is a historic step for the Republic of Korea, with the world's 7th largest coal fleet. Find out about the country's new coal phase-out commitment, made official for the first time today⏩ poweringpastcoal.org/news/republi...

Coal giant South Korea agrees to ditch dirtiest fossil fuel #COP30 live blog #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Coal mines emitted ~40mn tonnes of #methane every year, EXCEEDING the global gas sector according to @iea.org Tackling CMM is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to slow global heating 🌡️⏳ Yet, CMM emissions could be much more than we think, urgently needing better reporting 📝🚨

JUST LAUNCHED: PPCA ‘Plan to Accelerate Coal Transitions’ at #COP30 Developed with 29 countries and other organisations, this new plan sets out concrete, actionable steps to speed up the shift from coal to clean power. Read it here: poweringpastcoal.org/news/concret...

Can the world quit #coal? #COP30 #energy #ActOnClimate #Brazil #China #India @matpaterson.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social theconversation.com/can-the-worl...

Young voices for a coal-free future 🌏 Students Xu Yazi & Wang Xuxin show how innovation starts with youth, driving China’s low-carbon future and echoing the goals of #COP30. Listen to their insights👇🏻 youtu.be/q3y8ORJYBbM?...

The last new coal plant proposal in Brazil - and the whole of Latin America - has now officially been archived and can’t proceed. Huge success from @arayaraoficial.bsky.social and others on the first day of #COP30 🎉 bit.ly/3XnYMBG

Now that China's new climate targets are out, here's a comparison to IPCC scenarios. The 2030 and 2035 targets are weak even compared to the median of 3-degree scenarios, which would entail devastating climate impacts, but the long-term 2060 target is in line with 2 degrees.

Clean air is a critical health issue. One in nine people around the world are breathing unsafe air. But this is a solvable problem. At #UNGA Clean Air side-event, stressed the need for collective action, with solutions across sectors and agencies, backed by finance: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

The world can move from coal power to clean energy, and our Solutions Bank shows how. Featuring 1️⃣7️⃣case studies from 5️⃣ continents, this Bank will contribute to the Action Agenda for COP30. Launching today at #ClimateWeekNYC. Find out more here ⏩ poweringpastcoal.org/solutions-ba...

It would be super cool to go back to 2014, find a rando and ask them whether a fall in EU coal use for power generation of 60% in 10 years feels possible or even likely ember-energy.org/data/electri...

⚡ Deep decarbonisation of the power sector is essential for the #netzero transition, & will require substantial financial support, market reforms, capacity building, technological innovation & more, analyse Vishwanathan, @chrisbataille.bsky.social et al. in study on 🇧🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇿🇦 ⬇️

The mass deployment of district heating for UK cities fed by the warm waters of old coal mines would be both practical and poetic. We can’t turn back the clock, but we can honour the past as we build a cleaner future. inews.co.uk/news/environ...

Driven past these vast monoliths many times. Gone now. All gone. Bye bye coal.

🧵 What makes fossil fuel emissions "abated"? Our 🛑 new paper 🛑 in Energy and Climate Change tackles this crucial but dangerously vague concept.... 1/10

NEW – Guest post: Why China is still building new coal – and when it might stop | Qi Qin @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/0KFqDho

Great new data viz from @globalenergymon.bsky.social showing progress to date (+ distance still to go) on coal power transition: globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...

‘Had it not been for football, I would probably be stuck in corporate law reading contracts. It was a massive moment of luck.' John Mousinho long read on his unconventional route into football at 19 and rise to become #Pompey boss. What a man!

#climateflation graphic of the day, via @financialtimes.com

The New South Wales court of appeal has overturned the approval of the largest coalmine expansion in the state after a community environment group successfully argued the planning commission failed to consider the impact of all of the project’s greenhouse gas emissions.

In just 10 years, the UK's electricity sector has gone from #1 emitter to #6 emitter... what a transformation 👏🇬🇧 Now to see what clean power can do to help cut the other sectors..

Coal produced just 6% of EU electricity in June 📉 Germany and Poland – the EU’s biggest coal users – also saw record lows in June amid solar and wind’s strong performance 🇩🇪🇵🇱 ember-energy.org/lat...

You know what's cool? Solar energy surpassing dirty coal across the EU! Almost like the sun 🌞 and wind 🌬️ provide everything we need, and we don't need fossil energy of the past to power our homes 🧐 #Solar #GoodClimateNews 🔗

In the early 1990s, Ireland was getting more than 40% of its electricity from coal. Last week it closed its last coal plant: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Cheaper batteries mean near-24/365 solar is now economic☀️ We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get. The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵

A slightly more positive perspective: The three largest power sectors are cleaning up their electricity supply in lockstep. Different levels, same trajectory... Carbon intensity of electricity generation has fallen a lot in China, the US and the EU in the last two decades.

RTÉ reporting this morning that the coal-burning units at Moneypoint will become emergency-only oil units starting today 🙌 With Kilroot in Northern Ireland - along with all other coal plants in the UK - having shut down in 2023, it looks like the end of the coal era in these islands.

Ireland shutters its last coal-fired power plant

End of coal fired electricity generation in Ireland www.rte.ie/news/2025/06...

Even better news? Spain 🇪🇸 and Italy 🇮🇹 are set to follow suit in the coming months! With 15 European countries now operating coal-free power systems, #coal in Europe isn’t just in retreat, it’s a power source of the past. beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/06/20/i...

Ireland 🇮🇪 is kicking off a summer of European #coal plant closures and has officially eliminated coal from its electricity mix with the closure of its Moneypoint plant! Wind energy now powers more than a third of its electricity and is central to Ireland’s coal phase-out.

EPA proposes scrapping power plant greenhouse gas limits and repealing stricter mercury and air toxics rules for coal and oil plants. “The critical protections that EPA now seeks to undo exist because science and the law demand that EPA act.” - Jill Tauber, Earthjustice VP of climate & energy

A pleasure to be in Tylorstown today. Mae'r gwaith maen nhw'n ei wneud yma i gynnal tomenni glo yn bwysig iawn. I’m pleased that the UK Government will continue to match our investment in coal tip safety, taking our joint investment to £220m to date.

🌏☀️📈 Repurposing the 5,800-plus square kilometres of coal mines closed or closing this decade into solar farms could boost global #solar capacity by a whopping 15% by 2030—creating more jobs "than the number of workers the coal industry will shed by 2035", finds a new Global Energy Monitor analysis.

Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind

A reminder that Oil & Gas companies lobbied hard against this CO2 storage requirement. O&G interests love to hide behind the idea of future CCS, but fight against regulations that would make it a reality in the here and now. Look at what they do, not what they say!

🚨ICYMI: yesterday the EU ordered that 44 oil and gas producers must capture and store geologically a specified quantity of CO2 by 2030. This is pretty significant stuff, and could be regarded as a practical "polluter pays" rule. I'll put the relevant annex in the next post.

A 'Coal in India' explainer for @drilledmedia.bsky.social. Historical roots to nationalisation & back to privatisation, worker issues, Adani & state favour, resistance by Adivasi communities & police action & underground mining. Context: non-existent energy transition drilled.media/news/india-c...

Coal produces less than half of Poland’s power for first time Until 2008 it was still at 90% Poland is phasing out coal just like the rest of the EU, just starting from much higher levels then most of the EU notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/13/p...

Big good news 🎉 : NO new #coal across #LatinAmerica! 10 years ago when the Paris Agreement was signed, 18 new coal plants were planned. Last year, 2 were left. Now, entire #SouthAmerica plans 0 (zero!) new coal plants. Remarkable given these are not rich but emerging & developing economies 👏

One should neither anthropomorphize energy technologies nor revere them as gods. They are either fit for purpose or not, to greater and lesser degrees.

Please please please can we step away from a technology literalism that attributes motives or strategies to technologies themselves. This hides the role and agency of the actors who are using technologies to distract and delay. We need to focus way more attention on *the scammers*!