American taxpayers may soon be spending billions and billions of dollars enabling the massive scale theft of oil by some of the richest corporations in human history Oil which will, when burned, contribute to rendering the planet uninhabitable Quite the deal www.ft.com/content/84e0...

Trump's dream of an economic bonanza from the Venezuelan oil he has asserted American control over is likely to remain just that One underappreciated reason is that electric vehicles are set to strangle oil demand, pushing down prices Me for @chathamhouse.org www.chathamhouse.org/2026/01/pres...

"Crude oil prices fell in 2025 amid oversupply" Nice bit of trolling in today's US Energy Information Administration update Just the sort of news that will encourage the likes of Exxon etc to plough billions into developing Venezuela's decrepit extraction infrastructure

Historians may look back on the 2022-2025 period as the beginning of the end for gas By weaponizing gas exports, Putin and Trump pushed importers towards alternatives... ...just as renewables were becoming seriously competitive www.oxfordenergy.org/publications...

Fight democratic recession with electric public transport 🚋⚡ Courtesy of Crich Tramway Village www.tramway.co.uk

Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

"This is the clearest signal yet that the Trump team is negotiating a spheres of influence arrangement with China." www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Republicans can deny it all they like but climate change is coming for the US power sector www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

Fight democratic recession with electric public transport 🚋⚡ Courtesy of Crich Tramway Village www.tramway.co.uk

On the lack of a ref to fossil fuels in the COP30 text: "The fact that petroleum producers are now balking more aggressively at naming the problem we all face is a sign not of the failure of the energy transition, but of its success" @davidfickling.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

(With apologies for my typos) Reminder that we should judge COPs for what they are — instruments to bring countries together to discuss how to coordinate climate policies, which will always be glocal (globally minded, locally bounded). They aren’t magic substitutes for lack of domestic govts.

Fantastic resource from @ember-energy.org Tracking exports of solar wafers and cells, as well as assembled panels, allows us to see how China is sharing the 'green tech pie' www.scmp.com/opinion/chin...

An underappreciated good news story in climate over the last few years has been the development of attribution science, enabling us to link specific extreme weather events to the burning of fossil fuels 👏👏👏 @wwattribution.bsky.social @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Completely preposterous. Surely no one anywhere in the world actually believes this "What's going to save the planet is winning the AI arms race" subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Insights from @teevrat.bsky.social in @hindustan-times.bsky.social on how the energy transition is intertwined with the future of 🇮🇳 🇨🇳 relations: "India and China’s expanding clean-energy trade has the potential to define Asia’s decarbonization trajectory" www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/c...

Such an intensely Australian image

Old: Climate investments are about emissions reductions New: Climate investments are a growth and prosperity plan Brazil has made it clear that transition is moving forward without the WH. The open questions are how fast it will go—& which countries will benefit foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/13/c...

I shudder to think what the UK's political culture would be like without the BBC If you've ever worked for or with the BBC, as an employee, contractor, or a freelancer, you should absolutely sign this www.defendthebbc.org

China has little incentive to position itself as a climate leader and risk assuming 'climate finance' obligations But China is still channelling large sums into climate-relevant projects around the world @katelogan.bsky.social + Lily Hartzell explain backchannel1.substack.com/p/chinas-del...

this is just such a stark contrast to the general Western mood that climate politics is dead. THIS is what climate politics is about (the political economy of decarbonization). Everything else follows.

India, Brazil and China "can turn clean-tech manufacturing, renewable exports, green hydrogen and nature-carbon markets into strategic assets for other emerging economies to follow and ensure that the COP process remains relevant" www.thehindubusinessline.com/specials/cle...

"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..." China's oil demand is entering structural decline.

Elon Musk Is repsonsible for the deaths of 600,000 human beings and yet is being rewarded by capitalists with 1000 billion dollars bsky.app/profile/newy...

6 Strategies Behind China’s EV Rise in Africa 🇨🇳⚡️🌍 China is not just shipping electric vehicles to Africa, it’s building the ecosystem. In @hakeenah.bsky.social ’s latest analysis, he breaks down 6 plays shaping Africa’s EV market. Watch: tinyurl.com/4cups9u2

Good that the EU did manage to agree its NDC ahead of COP30 But the concession to revise the 2040 target if climate policy is deemed to be 'bad for the economy' is worrying Who gets to define that? Will it be possible to make robust causal links? www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

People are quietly rejecting the fully digitized utopia and retreating to the physical world (hurrah for this) But citing slowing US EV sales as an example of this is ridiculous The parallel makes no sense An EV is as physical as an ICE car, just with less environmental damage on.ft.com/3Ld9xnT

Sasha Mudd with a compelling characterisation of Trumpian 'governance': "A fantasy of excretion without consequence, of the unfiltered id released from every restraint" A ruler who "dominates not by persuasion, but by discharge" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

The developing world that could not afford green transition is doing it; the world that had all the money and alleged industrial policies for greening is back to fossil fuels and militarization.

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed. 🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US

"Wright said it would be preferable for Europe to get its supplies from “its friends.”" For the current US administration, Europe is an enemy, until there is an opportunity to sell more fossil fuels, at which point it becomes a friend

"Welcoming a potential war criminal to Downing Street is another demonstration of how Keir Starmer and the Labour government are implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza." @zackpolanski.bsky.social calls for the arrest of the Israeli President ahead of Herzog's visit with Labour ministers.

Much of the world is reliant on American fossil fuels, billed in America's currency. Is it any wonder that today, many countries are keen to move to machines like solar, batteries and EVs which together can mitigate this brutal double exposure? The always brilliant @thepolycrisis.bsky.social duo

It's important to assume that Reform in Government would indeed try to do this. The right thing is not to tell the public that this won't happen - so they can therefore vote for Reform without guilt - but rather that a vote for Reform is a vote for the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people.

It's deeply depressing that our government feels it can only oppose this on practical grounds - 'it's an unworkable plan!' - and not by calling it out for the brutal, dystopian and dehumanising horror that it is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This isn't a policy proposal - it's ideological virtue signalling, directed squarely at Washington Fracking is deeply unpopular in the UK, and extremely challenging to do, certainly at a profit - but Tice claims it can be done with zero public investment! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

Think climate change is already a political hot potato? Just wait until people clock what's behind the cost of food going up up up "In the five years to July, food prices increased by around 37%. That compares with a rise of 4.4% over the previous five-year period" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Does Xi Jinping care about climate? It's complicated. I unpack new @asiasociety.org research into where climate change ranks in Xi's policy priorities for @carbonbrief.org's DeBriefed newsletter Also this week: 🌡️ Heatwaves and wildfires in Europe 🔍 Factchecking Trump's climate report Read more⬇️

Tune out the noise and it's clear that we're heading towards a future with a lot more renewables and lot less oil www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces. 🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Trump admin is altering previous National Climate Assessments. These were produced by hundreds of climate scientists and mandated by Congress. (1/2)

The man arguably most to blame for the dismal state Britain finds itself in today is now lobbying to sign us up to a MAGA pyramid scheme www.ft.com/content/2b55...

The global energy investment landscape has undergone major changes in the past decade – responding to the rise of new energy technologies and shockwaves from the pandemic & the 2022 energy crisis. World Energy Investment 2025 examines the shifts in detail 👉 iea.li/40JSiPX

"If Europe pumps the brakes on decarbonization, Chinese assets could be stranded, whereas China could face retaliation if it refuses to collaborate or align with global norms. The question now is whether they can constructively shape their interdependence" www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...

Must-read on Europe, Russia, and American LNG "Oil and gas industry officials have begun warning the White House that normalizing relations with Russia would contradict Trump’s energy and economic agenda that centers on shipping more fossil fuels overseas" www.politico.eu/article/euro...

The EU's commitment to buy $250 billion of American fossil fuels a year is so extreme, so impractical, and so spectacularly bad for the EU's energy security, that it's difficult to see it happening. I spoke to the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.