Putin is a far more successful manipulator of Western psychology than he is a conqueror of Ukrainian defensive positions share.google/t4tDq7zXBj7o...

EU strategic autonomy in practice: ‘The fossil fuel companies, aimed to “divide and conquer in the Council”, sideline “stubborn” EC departments, and push the EPP in the European Parliament “to side with the right-wing parties as much as possible”. www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...

Really inspiring story of how anti coal protests in Australia are changing the energy landscape in Asia thepoint.com.au/news/251126-...

Uruguay’s power grid runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules. Emissions reductions were a valuable side effect

I really, sincerely hope that S/D and Renew lawmakers think of something they can do about it, at the very latest before the next elections when they need to explain to their voters why they should bother voting for them again

There were plenty who wanted it initially (same ones who usually decry EU bureaucracy) until they realised how silly it made them look

This is particularly stunning because the sheer number of times we demonstrated Bjorn Lomborg was just flat-out lying grew so large that it almost became literally pointless to keep doing it, because he just ignores it and keeps on going

Only a Pyrrhus win if at all; choice with exiting fossil fuels is one between managed/fair and messy/brutal, the less it’s talked about the messier it will be for major producer countries, not a single EV will be sold less as a results of this #COP30 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

Divide over fossil fuels phaseout can be bridged, Cop30 president says

Razom We Stand and 30+ European organisations have sent a joint letter urging #EU leaders to finally close the loopholes that still allow Russian fossil fuels into Europe and to uphold a strong, loophole-free Regulation: razomwestand.com/ukrainian-ca... @caneurope.org

Stellantis chair wants every European to pay more for their electricity. (EVs are batteries on wheels, they charge on renewables that might otherwise be curtailed thereby lowering overall system costs.)

South Korea’s 2040 coal phase out plan threatens Australias 2.3 billion export industry, isolates Japan www.afr.com/world/asia/s...

The domestic cost of China's global ambition www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...

Gonna use that line next time I mess up something specularly

Remarkable but also begging the question when Poland stops behaving like a climate laggard politically when it’s economy is clearly cleaning up

Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines. Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context. I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.

This is good news, both EU and UK already have incredibly ambitious plans for offshore wind in the North Sea that need them to work together to succeed also on things like security, it would have been an enormous act of self harm not to reach a deal, avoiding it not exactly a given these days

Incredible graphic here: showing the huge potential for coal-to-gas switching in Asia in 2030 ON THE CONDITION that gas becomes so cheap that gas producers operate at a massive, crippling loss when they produce, liquefy and ship it to Asia Also see: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...

How Spanish conservatives are driving forward the cooperation between centre and far-right forces in Europe, targeting a policy that Spain has been doing really well from domestically (clean energy/climate) elpais.com/espana/2025-...

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

Generally careful with historical parallels but think this one has relevance (would just note that it wasn’t only the Italians getting poorer back then but Dutch also got a lot richer)

Essential context to this years IEA WEO launched today You need to believe some *really* implausible things to happen in the next 10 years for the FTs headline to be correct. Clear why the US wanted the underlying scenario in, but a lot less clear why anyone else should take it seriously

If that case is winnable, and there is good reason to believe it is, the BBC should fight it.

This 💯💯💯 Do our European leaders ever stop to think about the deep humiliation of constantly allowing the US to dictate our policies here in Europe? Or they are incapable of shame?

Dunkelflaute weather in Berlin since yesterday and still to see a first post of the local energy mix, trolls are really letting up

In yet more 'why is Britain pursuing net zero when no one else is', India's electricity capacity is now over 50 per cent low carbon and it just saw peak renewables generation deliver half the country's power. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521481...

Lulas statement here says a lot about Brasils problematic relationship with Russia and is deeply misleading about the impact of Russias war on coal and the energy transition (it sped things up)

Next week,🇪🇺President von der Leyen's centre-right EPP group is preparing to ally with the far right in order to pass the 1st of her deregulation packages. A Commission official says these #Omnibus proposals are being sold as "concessions" to Trump. Our leadership are going down 2 dangerous paths.

The thread I was looking for!

I note that concern about the second China shock to Europe is going mainstream. Good piece from ING bank: "While stronger Chinese competition can potentially mute eurozone inflation and GDP growth, it is also likely to aggravate problems in key industries" think.ing.com/articles/eur...

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

Title is slightly misleading as it is less so about NGO's dying and more about European civil society being re-shaped in a MAGA image but it describes the playbook being deployed chillingly well euobserver.com/eu-political...

It’s bad but its a feature of EU deciding climate ambition by consensus, backtracking is certainly happening and it has something to do with Trump but this is just old fashioned unanimity holding EU back

But also the level of Chutzpah when enacting policies that, certainly in hindsight, were first critical steps towards the loss of global hegemony

Denke auch das das die richtige Lehre ist wobei es natürlich vor allem darum geht das es nach eine stabile Regierungszeit wieder gelingt. Auch ist die PVV sehr wohl Putin/Russland nah, nur weniger offen darüber

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Slowly getting back from a Gruner Veltliner Kur in Lower Austria with family and friends, social media included, and glad to see that Dutch voters had second thoughts about experts after all

My take on the new TBI report published today: "Cheaper power and clean power are not competing priorities. The diagnosis underplays the root cause of the UK’s energy cost challenge: dependence on imported fossil fuels and the volatility they bring." www.sustainableviews.com/tony-blair-i...

Da es manchmal untergeht, Tennet ist ein Staatsunternehmen, es gehört den Niederländische Staat

Spain poised to lead advanced economies in growth for a second year in a row, with the IMF raising our forecast to 2.9%. Investor confidence is surging, fueled by strong performance and a bright outlook. Our bold bet on green energy and digitalization of our firms is paying off.

Should correct: German conservatives seem to have realised how bad a look this is, mostly votes against and are now speaking out against it One needs to acknowledge every win of sanity these days, no matter how small

This is from a very prominent conservationist from Kenya

Not entirely without a stake myself here either but as summarised here by Brussels’ eternal optimist, nothing of what biofuels proponents argued has come to pass. What I hadn’t quiet expected then is that it’s major agri producers in the tropics now pushing this most strongly, despite all drawbacks

Really useful chart for when oil and gas companies say they are part of the solution

In fact the votes seems to be one of those rare moments where almost everyone seems to agree how stupid and pointless it is. Massive own goal for a party and lobby that otherwise makes a name against proscribing people how to call things

‘Do conservatives think consumers are stupid’ is the surprisingly candid headline this station covered the EP vote to ban meat names for veggie products

Sounds like a risk worth taking to me

My fantastic colleague @julietphillips.bsky.social has co-written a briefing with @bramclaeys.bsky.social of @regassistproj.bsky.social on how to improve Europe's grid governance. A quick summary with links below 👇

Yet more evidence Trump will not derail the global clean tech boom, but he will push the world further off track to meeting climate goals it is set to badly miss. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520056...