At this point you expect more outrageous stuff every day. But this is a whole new level of outrageous.

Republican lawmakers' smokescreen: "The smoke you're choking on definitely has nothing to do with climate change. The real culprit is criminally negligent foreign forest managers." bit.ly/45tXeKj

Hey fellow Canadians. Cost of living more important to you than addressing climate change? Here's a 10-year graph of my home insurance costs, following on recent years of monstrously costly floods, wildfires, storms. Just 1 of so many ways in which we're paying for *not* addressing climate change.

On her dream of doubling Alberta's oil production, as on most things, Danielle Smith is in complete alignment with Alberta's separatists. Here's why they're both going to be proven badly wrong. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/10/o...

Six US Congressmen complain to Canada’s Ambassador that Canadian wildfires are wrecking their constituents’ summer holidays, ask us to do better at forest management and preventing arson. How about this for a deal? (1/2) bit.ly/3TArY6K

Your years of waiting and yearning are over! 😁 Deep-detailed guidance on best practice in border carbon adjustment -- the product of dialogues that brought together over 20 global experts from a wide range of backgrounds.

Breaking: European Commission has proposed that CBAM-covered producers of steel, aluminum, cement & fertilizers will be relieved of the EU ETS carbon price for exports. Some thoughts. (1/4) bit.ly/4knZmZl

The economics version of "It doesn't count if it's not on Strava"

This isn't surprising, in that the emissions cap has for a while seemed an obvious sacrificial lamb. But if Ottawa sees it as potentially a straight-up trade-off for Pathways (oil-sands carbon capture) finally happening, I think it's missing a step. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Thoughtful coverage of our new report calling for a new Canadian industrial strategy. We lay out specific recommendations, based on the lessons of successful Canadian and international industrial policies. carboncompetitiveness.ca/wp-content/u...

Chinese HSR does Beijing-Shanghai – which is about the distance as NYC-Atlanta – in just over four hours, and gets six times the ridership of airlines. $1.8 billion in net profit last year. scmp.com/economy/chin...

“Climeworks’ [direct air capture] energy needs: … It would take up to 72 terawatts to fully offset Iceland's carbon footprint each year … equivalent to almost four times Iceland's electricity production.” Something very wrong with this equation. bit.ly/4drzWbA

Have you ever wondered what things we’re doing today will be shocking to folks 20 years from now? The “kids dancing in DDT fog” test? In my top 10: cooking by burning fossil gas inside our homes. bit.ly/4kmHZbG

Trump to scrap billions in DoE support for industrial decarbonization. Terrible for climate progress, jobs, investment. But also: condemns US industry to be dirty & uncompetitive in the global green markets of the future. Threatens the manufacturing base that GOP claims to cherish. bit.ly/452NbNv

Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) deserves all the shade that gets thrown at it. But it also can be used to protect renewable energy investments like Equinor's. Expect the Trump admin to get slapped with billions in claims for arbitrarily shutting down approved projects. bit.ly/4lRBDCZ

"On Friday, the WFP said it had distributed the last of its stocks to the approximately 50 kitchens where hundreds of thousands of people line up daily to take food back to their families." US cuts to WFP -> 40% drop in its budget & 60m people at risk worldwide www.ft.com/content/c947...

Facebook consistently offers up misinformation/scamming content, is unwilling/unable to address the problem. Do we just throw up our hands? Or do we mandate that they (and any others) will be shut down in Canada if they don’t meet reasonable standards? #OnlineHarmsAct bit.ly/3YQWgFh

Why it makes no sense to subsidize oil production. As demand for oil begins secular decline, it will be increasingly difficult for OPEC+ to assert discipline. Low prices, low profits/royalties, declining jobs, amplified cyclical swings. Oil is going into a messy and painful sunset. bit.ly/3RvFckj

Conservative election platform now released, contains the zombie climate pledge that refuses to die: Canada should use Paris Agreement Article 6 to get credit for clean LNG exports. I can play the resurrection game too. Here's my 2024 piece debunking that proposal. bit.ly/40By0Zy

@economist.com: Spanish businesses booming, standing out from rest of EU. Why? First big factor: cheap electricity. Massive build out of renewables in the grid, now @ 65% of generation = a 20% drop in prices. So: Renewables at high levels are feasible, and are an economic enabler. bit.ly/3GiaUPw

This is such a great group! Stand by for our guidance on border carbon adjustment, coming later this spring/summer.

Trump considers ignoring ongoing negotiations on deep sea mining code for international waters, greenlighting environmentally destructive US operators. In other news: Trump finalizing plans to commission American privateers on open seas, to improve US trade balance. bit.ly/4iVrZgA

Even in the worst bad news cycle there are small comforts. bit.ly/3FNPucO

Canada has axed its carbon tax on fuels. May have been politically necessary, but what does it mean for our climate targets, the incentives for uptake of EVs, heat pumps, renewable energy? The incomparable @bsaxifrage.bsky.social breaks it down as only he can. Spoiler: it's not good. bit.ly/4chsqiP

Canada's consumer carbon tax is dead. Now what? Writing in Canada's @nationalobserver.com, @aaroncosbey.bsky.social unpacks options to replace the levy and help achieve the country's climate targets. But it won't be easy, he warns. Read ▶️ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/25/o...

Canada's new PM Mark Carney has scrapped carbon pricing for consumers. Can the industrial carbon tax bridge the gap? IISD expert @aaroncosbey.bsky.social speaks to CBC Radio about what policy levers could be pulled next. 📻👂 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

To paraphrase Zelensky, 'I don't need reposts, I need bullets'. Please join me in donating to Ukraine. Please give any amount that you can. There are multiple options for which specific cause to support at the link below. war.ukraine.ua/donate/

Such excellent research/analysis from @jimbostanford.bsky.social at the Centre for Future Work, on the true roots of the affordability crisis in Canada: 👉Primarily, dependence on fossil fuels for industry, electricity, heat, and transport. Recommendations almost write themselves. bit.ly/3FAfo3w

Had a great chat with Kristin Hayes on the @rff.org podcast Resources Radio, on the subject of Canadian climate policy, and carbon pricing in particular, in this moment of dynamic political change. bit.ly/42bYuRE

Remember how the nuke nuts claimed for years and years that when Germany shut down its nuclear fleet (the last unit retired in 2023), they would rebound to coal and gas? It didn't happen. (Source: www.energy-charts.info/charts/energ...)

🇨🇦 oil & gas companies plan to spend more than $600bn expanding #fossilfuels over the next decade. IISD's @aaroncosbey.bsky.social warns "the more you expand that sector the more you set it up for a sector in distress when demand goes sour.” @woodsideful.bsky.social | @nationalobserver.com

I keep hearing grudging admiration for the speed and effectiveness of Trump/Musk's evisceration of democracy in the US, even among those who are horrified. Remember: it is 10 times easier to break things than to build things.

So China is eating US manufacturing’s lunch, and the answer is to increase costs by tearing up established supply chain relationships with Canada, Mexico and other allies? Helluva plan.

Failing to fall in line: The little blue dot in the upper right is a La Niña January, which should be cooler like all the other little blue dots.

Because why should the richest country in the world want to help the poorest countries in the world? (The irony is that so much US aid was accused of being self-interested) bit.ly/411uaZD

We are now over 20,000 strong. I need every proud and determined Canadian to reach out to their family, friends, colleagues to sign the pledge for Canada. Each one reach one. Each one teach one. Donald will not break us. True. North. Strong. Free #strongasfuck actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

Cory Doctorow: Canada shouldn't respond to Trump tariffs with retaliatory tariffs. Should renege on the USMCA obligation against breaking digital locks. This provision makes massive profits for US tech oligarchs, and breaching it actually benefits Canadians (unlike tariffs). bit.ly/40ZypVz

One of those "what am I doing on this panel?" occasions: Excellent high-level meeting on the future of CBAM, Feb 12, organized by the French Ministry for the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty. Registration link at: evenium.events/evenement-ma...

We propose a ‘climate contribution’ to complement the EU ETS. It would be levied on carbon-intensive basic materials like steel & cement. With @karstenneuhoff.bsky.social, @misatosato1.bsky.social, @harrovanasselt.bsky.social, @jrichstein.bsky.social & many others. www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

If you think it’s perfectly ordinary for Russia to launch ballistic missiles at civilian targets in the heart of Kyiv, but regard Ukraine targeting individual war criminals in Moscow as a dangerous escalation, you might want to give your head a wobble

Here's @enveco.bsky.social + CBAM expert @aaroncosbey.bsky.social on border carbon adjustments www.cbc.ca/news/science.... "Canadian products might get disadvantaged if there's no more regulation to decarbonize or to encourage companies to decarbonize"

Why are Border Carbon Adjustments a 🔥 topic in global trade? @aaroncosbey.bsky.social unpacks 🔑 questions and implications of these new policy tools. 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnqK...

Glad to have worked on this piece with the one and only @aaroncosbey.bsky.social !

For the last time: *heat pumps work in cold climates*. www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/forget-what-...

Some insight into the complexity of Canadian climate policy: Alberta Premier Smith announces she’ll make GHG data from AB oil and gas firms the property of her government, so it's impossible for those firms to comply with the O&G GHG emissions cap proposed by the Federal government. bit.ly/4gj1oZ5

Who could have predicted? 🤔 Responding to new US export controls, China bans exports to US of gallium, germanium, antimony, superhard materials, graphite. The raw materials of stuff like integrated circuits, laser diodes, LEDs, solar cells, autonomous vehicles, EV batteries, ... bit.ly/3ZfLDvf

For all the hype about AI & data center energy demand providing a lifeline to more fossil fuels, here's IEA's 2024 WEO showing that it is a *tiny* fraction of near- and medium-term load growth. We should be focused on meeting industrial demand, EVs, & increasing energy efficiency in buildings.

re-posting, because I can't believe it didn't go viral