The idea *suppliers* of fossil fuels are neutral meeters-of-demand remains one of the worst lies Their job is not just digging up fossil fuels: their job is bullying, pushing, fighting, lying and lobbying to ensure fossil fuels get burned as much as possible www.rigzone.com/news/wire/ch...

Unpacking some of the science and nuances behind UN Secretary-General António Guterres' recent remarks on 1.5°C and #overshoot in the lead-up to and at #COP30... www.linkedin.com/pulse/notes-...

UNEP’s latest #EmissionsGap Report shows global temperature rise has only slightly fallen, leaving the world on track for escalating climate risks. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges countries to step up now and cut planet-warming emissions: www.unep.org/resources/em...

How can #COP30 build on the first global stocktake outcome to "transition away from fossil fuels..."? I explore why the Para 28d consensus language was, in fact, historic from scientific and equity perspectives — and what could come next, at COP30 and beyond... www.linkedin.com/pulse/notes-...

A must-read for anyone at #COP30 and beyond thinking about how to rescue 1.5°C and limit #overshoot!

Ten years on, the Paris Agreement is working—just not fast enough. Our new report tracks 22 ways it’s changing the world: uniting countries behind 1.5°C and net zero, and cutting projected 2100 warming by ~1°C (≈3.6°C → ≈2.7°C). climateanalytics.org/publications...

🚨🚨🚨 NEW REPORT ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 @climateanalytics.org has a new report out today that I’m really excited about. It’s all about 1.5ºC... ▶️ Is overshooting 1.5ºC inevitable? ▶️ Can we still get temperatures back below 1.5ºC? ▶️ If so, how? If you’re interested in our findings, buckle up for a mega thread...

What are the five things we need to do to rescue the goals of the Paris Agreement? @billhare.bsky.social explains.

NEW – Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org and @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/yPWMH59

"As an Indigenous man, I know very well the pain of the forest, because its body is an extension of ours." Why don't we all listen to those like Wajã Xipai who are still connected with this incredibly unique #Earth? Thank you @jonathan-watts.bsky.social #COP30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Indigenous voices ‘indispensable” to avoid climate catastrophe, UN secretary-general tells Sumaúma in world exclusive. António Guterres says humanity must change course because 1.5C overshoot is now “inevitable”. And with that comes “devastating consequences.” sumauma.com/en/secretari...

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres before Cop30 Story by me and Wajã Xipai. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Which new #NDCs are "1.5°C-aligned" and which may simply be "1.5°C-washing"? Sharing some insights, lessons learned, and challenges encountered from questions I’ve had to grapple with while navigating the nexus of science and diplomacy between COPs 28–30... www.linkedin.com/pulse/notes-...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As a major emerging economy, Indonesia's clean energy transition is key to keeping global climate goals alive. A new CGS report outlines how Indonesia can achieve 46-49% GHG reductions by 2035 through high-ambition, economy-wide actions: go.umd.edu/Indonesia2035Ambition

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down www.ft.com/content/5ba8...

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."