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.

We are so thoroughly cooked.

BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq

Designing border carbon adjustments (BCAs) is complex Policymakers face consequential decisions about measurement, verification, coverage, revenues, crediting, offsets, exports, exemptions and more How can countries navigate this? And can the world avoid an unholy mess of contradictory regimes?

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... "Both coal and renewable energy in Asia are so much cheaper that U.S. gas would need to cost less than half its current price to compete"

Blocking renewables, as Farage and Tice propose, props up UK demand for imported gas Good for Putin, yes, but also very much in the interests of the US, the world's top gas exporter, which is massively expanding its LNG export infrastructure www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

"The overarching objective of China-EU energy cooperation is to expedite the global transition to clean energy, with full consideration for ensuring energy security, with the aim of addressing the challenges of global climate change" 🇨🇳 🇪🇺 energy.ec.europa.eu/news/joint-r...

🎉 A major milestone for China's Unified power market system China's two major grids: State Grid and Southern Grid, can now perform cross-grid power trading, approved by the regulator lately This paves way for a new National Power Exchange in China

My new paper making recommendations for UK China strategy is now published: www.chathamhouse.org/2025/07/what... It focuses on recommendations for UK resilience in the face of rising Chinese influence and China-US competition, covering malign influence, econ & tech policy, & relations with allies

NEW CHART: Trump's "big beautiful bill" & other efforts to dismantle climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement 🫠 www.carbonbrief.org/...

It's hard to decide what's most grotesque: The $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich The $930 billion in health and $287 billion in food benefit cuts for the poor The $100 billion for concentration camps The choice to accelerate catastrophic climate change www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's been fascinating to watch the discourse about the Spain blackout over the past month. So much of it predictable, but I'm glad all the people who think mostly about fossil fuels are having to reluctantly learn nerdy things about electricity and grids. It's clear where the future lies.

UK media is so wild. It is tough to properly convey how shockingly deceptive this article is. It's desperate I guess but a lot of people will still read this, and trust it bc it's coming from what looks to be a reputable media outlet. archive.ph/1z7Ie

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social lies about the causes of the electricity blackout in Spain on April 28th: It wrongly claims that the official report blames renewables when it does the opposite. It names negative prices as the main trigger instead of poorly controlled voltage fluctuations.

I'm sure the papers and pundits who were so quick to blame renewables for the Iberian blackout will review this report and inform their audiences of what actually happened... ...right? ...right?

The UK government is reducing its dependence on fossil fuels and cooperating with China on climate change while desperately trying to hang on to whatever is left of the vaunted 'special relationship' with the US. Can this hold? I wrote for the East Asia Forum: eastasiaforum.org/2025/06/16/t...

Surging output from solar farms has led to a rare decline in fossil fuel power production in India, and is setting the stage for a potential drop in annual coal-fired power output in the world's second-largest coal consumer. Reuters’ ROI column by @gavinjmaguire.bsky.social‬: reut.rs/4l2OPnh

The modern GOP is ideologically committed to smashing the clean energy revolution. Climate people need to digest this. We won't win climate stability w bipartisan deals. Lasting climate wins will require green economic populism: beating the right until it concedes. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Inestimable bravery and moral clarity www.democracynow.org/2025/6/4/gre...

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

Great thread The lesson here is that even well-designed, politically astute progressive policies will fall victim to corrupted information ecosystems

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

Good news! The UK and the EU have provisionally agreed to link carbon markets. This promises to make UK and EU efforts to fight climate change greater than the sum of their parts. www.edie.net/eu-and-uk-ag...

A potentially very big day for UK and EU climate efforts (but quite a few key details are TBC). www.businessgreen.com/news/4413788...

When the UK Brexited in 2020, it opted for a standalone carbon market entirely delinked from that of the EU With the arrival of the EU CBAM, that decision is coming back to bite it - with consequences for industry and energy My piece for @chathamhouse.org www.chathamhouse.org/2025/05/uk-g...

Failing to align with the EU on a key climate policy tool will be costly for UK industry and stifle investment in the energy sector, writes @chrisaylett.bsky.social (@chesc.bsky.social).

Wow. Reuters reporting that Xi 'expected' to attend COP30. Climate geopolitics flipping fast with China now clearly keen to take "lead" with US under Trump in retreat. "Xi is also expected to visit Brazil for [COP30], which officials expect to include some 1,000 Chinese business leaders."

Presumably they cherry picked prices from a point where they had diverged significantly? If you do 12 month low vs high the delta was closer to £35 vs £80? Doesn't suggest rigorous even-handed analysis now does it

Let's fag pack this for fun Carbon prices ~£50/t in UK ~£60 in EU Power… Carbon intensity of GB power ~150g/kWh Avg home 2,700kWh = ~0.5tCO2 So extra £10/t = extra £5 Other ETS… UKETS cap ~150Mt, of which 50 power 100Mt per 65m ppl = 1.5t So extra £10/t = extra £15 Total = £20 Ummmm…

UK and EU will discuss linking carbon markets at their summit next week MP cites 'analysis' claiming it will add £112/year to bills, repeated in Telegraph, GB News etc. Anyone know the source of this...? Emailed MP and Telegraph journalists but no response www.lbc.co.uk/news/cost-li...

UK and EU will discuss linking carbon markets at their summit next week MP cites 'analysis' claiming it will add £112/year to bills, repeated in Telegraph, GB News etc. Anyone know the source of this...? Emailed MP and Telegraph journalists but no response www.lbc.co.uk/news/cost-li...