COP president André Corrêa do Lago floats the possibility of "two packages" at #COP30: - one for finance, trade measures, transparency and 1.5C in consultations: "four themes that are very important to COP" - package for the "main COP themes", including adaptation, fair or just transition.

Labour’s contribution to the field of “least surprising opinion poll results” continues to to be very strong.

The type of person that checks chatbot outputs before using them in a critical function is also the type of person who's never going to be using a chatbot in the first place. We have no idea how catastrophic the chatbot-driven info collapse is going to be www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Good round up of the state of the talks at COP30. It's the hope that kills you, but could a deal be taking shape? www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

NEW REPORT: Three Provocations for the Future of the Power Market. How do we reduce constraints on our power network? /1

Government confirms Great British Energy backing solar installations at 250 schools. Includes interesting initiative to promote renewables careers to students at sixth form colleges. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521929...

ICYM Cutting heat pump and energy efficiency funding is a bad idea. Doing it while attacking middle class climate action is a really bad idea. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

Really interesting report from @adambell.bsky.social et al at Stonehaven on how government might bring rising constraint payments under control. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521919...

Still early days, but the electric HGV market is starting to move. Was only a few years ago when serious people were arguing this technology would never work. It is now being deployed at scale by some of the world's most successful businesses. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521910...

Your periodic reminder that climate change means levels of migration will increase sharply in the coming years and we either find an effective and humane way to manage that or we invite ever more chaos and suffering.

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Fascinating that the cause of collapse of both major parties has not just been basically identical (cost of living and service failings creating unpopularity, chasing radical right tail on immigration fuelling in-bloc schism), but that doubling down has persisted long after failure became clear.

Yeah, I think this is right. Also this was what clicked it into place for me is when a couple of weeks ago I went “I don’t really get why he inspires *strong* feelings”’and @edjefferson.com said “it’s because presents as their manager”.

Quick story on an eventful middle weekend at COP30, which sets the scene for a huge tussle between the key negotiating blocs over the coming days. Could a credible fossil fuel phase out be on the cards? www.businessgreen.com/news/4521898...

A Sunday afternoon read on how mooted cuts to energy efficiency and heat pump funding would undermine one of Labour’s only decent growth stories, jeopardise climate targets, and anger its base. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

Environmental Audit Committee is none too impressed with the government’s narrative on nature protection hampering house building. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521895...

Miliband: "I want to warmly welcome the roadmap idea. ... The most important thing this COP can do is stand up for multilateralism. ... This is a fundamental test of whether we can find ways forward together."

Good morning #COP30 watchers! It's day 6 of COP30 and here's what I'm keeping a close eye on today:

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

Blaming Resolution Foundation for anything related to the UK's ills, when there's Brexit, Johnson's rule, the GFC, actual Truss government, etc etc to hand, is so absurd that you can understand the editor agreeing to it only if it's not a particularly convincing take. It looks and is tribal

BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

“Investing in adaptation isn’t a luxury or an act of resignation. It’s a sober act of realism & responsibility”. Powerful article from @rupertread.bsky.social on the urgency & transformative potential of #climate adaptation👇

Blog post on how with the plans to shake up heat pump grants the Treasury is at risk of undermining one of its only growth stories, jeopardising climate targets, and handing attack lines to its political opponents. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

Truly perfect day for a report explaining how the UK remains badly at risk of winter droughts. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521868...

This looks increasingly true. And if Farage were to win you can bet he would be a damn sight more ruthlessly adept at blaming his inheritance and pursing a radical, if truly terrible, agenda.

Cute. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521834...

Ultimately it comes down to what you're going to say at the next election. Would you rather say "we broke our pledge but at least things are better" or "everything's still shit but at least we kept our pledge"?

This may well be right, but I feel like the ongoing collapse of the state and the impending market meltdown will probably do that for Labour anyway? They're stuffed regardless, but this way they're taking everyone else down with them.

'The electrification of everything' - our best chance of avoiding catastrophic global warming and a deadly threat to petropower - hence the tide of lies and populism, designed to slow change. www.ft.com/reports/elec...

A very real and dangerous feedback loop: rising temps spur new energy demand, which in turns spurs worse emissions

This this this. This is what I've been saying all along about the biggest problem with AI

While this budget psychodrama is playing out, my LinkedIn feed is full of heat pump engineers worrying their business is doomed because of an HMT briefing yesterday, and there’s a prominent story about the imminent collapse of the SEND system. Bad fiscal policy has real world consequences

Whatever it doesn’t take

God help us, it looks like utter chaos in there.

It's the hope that kills you, but there are early signs COP30 might just deliver some progress on phasing out fossil fuels. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521841...

Very easy for Treasury to characterise heat pump grants as being kickbacks for middle class families, but they are primarily a mechanism for catalysing a market that will then benefit everyone. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A good example of someone using "economically inactive" to mean "available for work but choosing not to" and forgetting it covers students, early retirees, carers, severely disabled people, parents with very young children etc...

The answer to the question 'will Wylfa ever get a new nuclear power plant?' has now gone from 'yes' to 'no' to 'yes' again. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521761...

I was 13 years old when governments agreed to start bending this curve I'm 46

The more you look into the Prescott memo, the worse it gets

A day of missfeelings ✔️Good news: we count on a climate law 90% target by 2040 ❌ Bad news: on due dilligence & reporting, the new right alliance waters down sustainability and transparency parameters while others work to adopt similar indicators.Better in the dark? 😱🌍 www.politico.eu/article/epp-...

It is crazy that there is no testing or licensing regime for these things, dozens of deaths later. A drug which had such serious mental side effects would have been withdrawn instantly

The disastrous category error of treating social media as a platform or conversation rather than publishing or broadcasting and then regulating it appropriately is now being repeated on steroids with derivative AI tools.

Fantastic piece by @chrisbaraniuk.com on heat pumps in churches: www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...

Alan Whitehead is back. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521808...

Actual genuine bona fide good news. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521786...

This is very cool from Sky (and further evidence fossil fuel demand destruction is happening). www.businessgreen.com/news/4521735...

This is really bad, but it will also resonate with lots of people. So many organisations are run in this way with a praetorian guard around the top figures to insulate them from conflict. It's deeply dysfunctional, but also remarkably common.