The 2025 edition of the #ProductionGapReport by @sei.org et al. is out now! As Christiana Figueres eloquently put in the foreword: The clarity from the #ICJ Advisory Opinion that fossil fuel production and exploration could violate international law must translate into action as we head for #COP30.

To make up for lost ground and steer the world toward a Paris Agreement-aligned track, we must rapidly and steeply wind down #FossilFuel production & use to the lowest levels possible.

🚨 BREAKING: Governments plan to produce over 2x the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C, says the new #ProductionGap Report. Read the report here: productiongap.org 🧵 youtu.be/k7PkESU_1r4

📣 NEW: Former Irish President and member of @theelders.bsky.social Mary Robinson will join Monday's launch of the #ProductionGap Report. Register now to hear her remarks and learn how global #FossilFuel production plans steer us away from the 1.5°C warming limit. buff.ly/kXT0r4d #ClimateWeekNYC

🗣️ JOIN US: The 2025 Production Gap Report launches 22 Sep! Register today to be among the first to learn the findings of this year’s report. 🕞 3:30 p.m. CEST / 2:30 p.m. GMT / 9:30 a.m. EDT 📅 22 Sep 🔗 buff.ly/d5timKP @climateanalytics.org @iisd.org #ProductionGap

💡 New resource from @e3g.bsky.social -- How are countries' new #NDCs reflecting the GST-1 energy transition outcomes? 23 countries target domestic fossil fuel consumption cuts... No country has provided a quantified target for winding down oil & gas production. www.e3g.org/publications...

A risk-averse approach is holding back investment in African renewables projects, which need to be well-structured and supported by blended finance and guarantees, energy funders say www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/10/t...

NEW | China’s clean energy boom and rapid electrification are creating the conditions for a FOSSIL DECLINE at home and abroad⚡ Fossil use in end-use sectors plateaued in 2015--while electricity use grew 65%, becoming central to 🇨🇳’s energy system. https://loom.ly/psjqvhE

🏭 "Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year", reports @theguardian.com. Former SEI scientist @ploya.bsky.social, co-authored a study finding that marginalized groups face the greatest exposure to oil and gas-related #AirPollution and its health impacts.

"The solar panels imported into Sierra Leone in the last 12 months, if installed, would generate electricity equivalent to 61% of the total reported 2023 electricity generation" #EnergySky ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

My latest @insideclimatenews.org piece looks at a new tool from PSE Healthy Energy that maps the health risks of the #climate super-pollutant #methane. “Natural gas is not just methane. It's actually closer to a chemical soup,” said PSE's Seth Shonkoff /1 insideclimatenews.org/news/2608202...

⛽ A new @ScienceAdvances study co-authored at SEI by @ploya.bsky.social details the ethnic & geographic impact of #AirPollution stemming from the US #OilAndGas industry. Here's what the team found 🧵

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

🚨 OUT NOW! Our new @science.org study led by @kohrathefog.bsky.social is the first to comprehensively quantify the health impacts of and inequities in outdoor air pollution exposure across all stages of the US oil and gas lifecycle: extraction ➡️ transport/storage ➡️ refining/processing ➡️ end-use. 🧵

ICYM - ‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks - Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet #plastic Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Terrific new paper from @kohrathefog.bsky.social @ploya.bsky.social et al. Full oil & gas lifecycle air pollution impacts lead to: -- 90k premature deaths -- 10k pre-term births -- 200k+ childhood asthma incidences -- etc Reporting via @dharna.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More than 400 people suspected to have died from extreme heat so far this summer in Phoenix, Arizona, and surrounding county - Temperatures have at least 110F (43C) nearly every day in August #climatecrisis Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Repeal of clean energy tax credits and rescission of carbon standards for power plants will increase the amount of fossil fuel price volatility that households see on their electricity bills. From @rff.org: www.resources.org/common-resou...

New paper. I wish this wasn't the case, but most progress on reducing US greenhouse gas emissions is likely spurious. Why? EPA underestimates methane emissions from oil and gas. Relevant today as Repubs vote to gut IRA's methane monitoring/mitigation program. 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lL4K_6se4...

UN Secretary‑General António Guterres: "Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies – they are sabotaging them. Driving up costs. Undermining competitiveness. Locking-in stranded assets. And missing the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century."

'In relation to the #ParisAgreement, the court affirmed the 1.5°C target to be the only relevant limit and recognized that the climate treaty establishes “stringent” mitigation obligations for states to protect the climate and other parts of the environment from anthropogenic GHG emissions.'

ICJ Advisory Opinion: Climate Change Is an ‘Existential Threat of Planetary Proportions’, Says World’s Top Court

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social‬ writes.

Working on climate change can make it hard to stay hopeful most of the time, but over the past few months, working on the UN Secretary-General's #MomentOfOpportunity speech and special report has given me more hope than I expected... 🧵 www.un.org/en/climatech...

27/ 🌡️With regard to the temperature threshold relevant for today's ruling, the Court affirms, building on science and COP decisions, that the 1.5c temperature target must be understood as the internationally agreed objective of climate policies!

10/ 🔥Judge Iwasawa Yuji quotes straight from the IPCC: "Warming of 1.5°C is not considered 'safe' for most nations, communities, ecosystems and sectors, and poses significant risks to natural and human systems." - this is a very strong basis for the Court's legal conclusions!

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

Brazil’s environment minister told @mcivillini.bsky.social she has advocated for a roadmap to end fossil fuels to be agreed at COP30: “The worst possible thing would be for us to not plan for this transition.”

World on brink of climate breakthrough as fossil fuels ‘run out of road’, UN chief says www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thanks to @mcivillini.bsky.social @climatechangenews.com for a terrific coverage of the UNSG's #MomentOfOpportunity climate address and our special report on supercharging the transition away from fossil fuels to renewables -- www.un.org/en/climatech...

📣 Great to see all these points in the UN Secretary-General António Guterres' speech on #JustTransition in #Energy and beyond, on the eve of International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on State obligations on #ClimateChange 👉 #HumanRights Imperative to #Defossilize: shorturl.at/ZaHjM

I’m in New York for UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ special address on climate. He has a hopeful story amidst the chaos and loss of climate disaster. Stick with me to follow his speech, and check out the report his comments are based on! www.un.org/en/climatech...

NEW – UN: Five reasons why switching to renewables is ‘smart economics’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/eBw6exl

"Shell and other leading energy groups have abandoned a six-year-long attempt to define a “net zero” emissions strategy after being told that such a standard would require them to stop developing new oil and gas fields, according to documents seen by the Financial Times."

This was a fun albeit nerve-wracking experience to show the Secretary-General round the solar panels at UNHQ! Tune in at 9am EDT on 22 July for the UNSG's special climate address and our report launch on accelerating the just energy transition #MomentOfOpportunity www.linkedin.com/posts/antoni...

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

I'm excited to announce this new paper we have in The Lancet Planetary Health. We show that the world is not moving towards a just and ecological future for all.

A group of technical experts, consumer advocates, and policy communicators just launched the Reliable Grid Project, read more about it here. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20... 🔌💡 #energysky reliablegrid.org

An estimated 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa still live without reliable access to electricity. Off-grid solar is changing that, one home at a time. buff.ly/DCle8WL

De-fossilising economies key to course correction on #ClimateChange & #HumanRights protection, says UN expert @unsrclimatehrights.bsky.social in her report to #HRC59, calling on States to urgently phase out fossil fuels. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Positive cascades of social change are needed to address climate crisis, says tipping point expert Tim Lenton. My fifth and final interview for the Guardian series, Tipping Points: On the Edge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Missing a climate goal doesn’t mean we should give up. An illustrated guide to the concept of overshoot by @angela-morelli.bsky.social @tomgab.bsky.social & @andyreisinger.bsky.social for Scientific American. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... 🧪📊 #sciart

On June 5, 2022, British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were brutally killed in the Javari Valley region, in the Brazilian Amazon; Phillips was investigating illegal fishing in the region for his book. On the eve of the book release, @bykarlamendes.bsky.social writes.

Incisive and brilliant, an absolute must-read from Professors @joerirogelj.bsky.social & Lavanya Rajamani!

⚠️Global warming caused by humans is advancing at 0.27°C per decade – the highest rate since records began. This is one of the indicators updated every year by over 60 international scientists in the annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report – published today. doi.org/10.5194/essd... /1

📣👋 New paper from @sierraclub.org out today! It's been a long time in the making. It challenges conventional sustainable investing and urges asset owners to confront climate change as a systemic threat to the global economy and long-term portfolios. 👉 Full paper: www.sierraclub.org/systemic-cli...

Coastlines in danger from irreversible ice sheet melt even if 1.5C climate target is met, scientists warn www.bbc.com/news/article...

What's keeping UK power prices so high? (Gas) We thought about writing our shortest article ever: "Russia turned off the gas taps; they're still mostly off. The end." But where's the fun in that? Here's our deep dive:

If you're a meteorologist or climate scientist who has been supported by US federal funding at some point in your career (either now, or as a graduate student or postdoc) and you're available some time between May 28th and June 1st, 2025, sign up to speak! 🌊🧪

NEW – Guest post: How to apportion ‘net-zero carbon debt’ if global warming overshoots 1.5C | @setupelz.bsky.social @robinlamboll.bsky.social @wimthiery.bsky.social @gidden.bsky.social @cjsmith.be @shonali-p.bsky.social Read here: