Q&A: What Magyar’s defeat of Orbán in Hungary means for climate and energy | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here ⬇️

Britain’s first proposed “nationally significant” data centre would be powered by gas, putting the government’s ambition to create an AI superpower on a collision course with its net-zero goals. 👇 www.thetimes.com/business/com...

RATE MY “COAL COMEBACK” 🫵 8 government announcements are being repeated in the media as evidence of a “return to coal”. But how consequential are they.. really?!🧵

Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024 Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this

Glad to see our friends over the Irish Sea are having equally constructive conversations about the energy crisis

Like Chernobyl 🤦

NEW – Iran war analysis: How 60 nations have responded to the global energy crisis | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/oKflJ8n

India has withdrawn its offer to host the COP33 climate summit in two years time www.climatechangenews.com/2026/04/08/i...

Anyone else remember this?

Fossil fuels suffer from this little thing known as intermittency. You have to build a whole back-up energy system for when the little boats get stuck. Not many people know this.

NEW ANALYSIS: Plug-in solar panels could save a typical UK home £1,100 over their lifetime, after paying back the initial investment within 5 years By my colleague Ho Woo Nan

FACTCHECK: GB News / Spectator owner Paul Marshall got criticised by Christian leaders for his channel's attacks on climate action, so he made a rare public intervention But in his letter to the Guardian (pic) he makes 25 false, misleading or confused claims (!) Receipts etc in next post 1/2

I noticed the UK government's estimate of CO2 from future AI data centres was implausibly low. I asked for the methodology underpinning the analysis, but got nowhere. When I wrote an article about it they just... deleted the analysis. Now, @adamvaughan.bsky.social has covered this for the Times.

+NEW+ The UK is halving the climate aid it gives to developing countries, when inflation and the government's "creative accounting" are factored in 💰 📉 The UK has slashed aid to fund defence – and this analysis shows how those cuts have contributed to a less ambitious climate finance goal.

Analysis: UK is ‘halving’ its climate finance for developing countries ✍️ By @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read the new analysis here ➡️ bit.ly/4t91fxL

NEW: North Sea misinformation is rife in UK media, as the O&G lobby uses the energy crisis to push gov to issue new licences We tackle myths on emissions, tax, bills, jobs One key point is new drilling will barely change future output, as the basin is in decline www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-ni...

UPDATE: The government has deleted the (implausible) analysis of AI emissions referenced in this article from its website 🤔 It has replaced it with a note: "We keep analysis under routine review, and are updating this modelling to ensure it reflects the most up to date assumptions and analysis”

NEW – Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/zS91Rb6

UPDATE: The government has deleted the (implausible) analysis of AI emissions referenced in this article from its website 🤔 It has replaced it with a note: "We keep analysis under routine review, and are updating this modelling to ensure it reflects the most up to date assumptions and analysis”

NEW - I asked the UK government if they had assessed energy demand/emissions resulting from plans to make the UK an "AI superpower". The analysis they pointed me to seemed... pretty implausible. Just 0.1m tonnes of CO2 a year. My calculations suggest emissions could be 100s of times higher.

NEW – Analysis: CO2 from UK data centres could be ‘hundreds of times’ higher than thought | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here ➡️ bit.ly/4btjs3j

1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93. The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵

NEW – Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by more than North Sea drilling | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/7B0fLPB

NEW – Q&A: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition and climate action? ✍️ @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

I used the latest Debriefed to profile the Lawrence Weston wind turbine, which is bringing a sustainable income to one of Bristol's most deprived areas. I also illustrated the piece with a portrait of the turbine and Mark Pepper, part the team behind this community energy project ➡️ buff.ly/6f7S6bX

DeBriefed: Iran energy crisis | China climate plan | Bristol’s ‘pioneering’ wind turbine ✍️ Written by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/6f7S6bX Subscribe to our newsletters ➡️ buff.ly/J6uB9Kc

And public polling of Miliband shoots up as a result, presumably...

NEW – Analysis: Constituency of Reform’s climate-sceptic Richard Tice gets £55m flood funding | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/a5WoNj9

I spent several months trying to get access to FOI documents of Mayor Andrea Jenkyns' correspondence with fracking companies in Lincolnshire. Read about what I found in my latest piece for The Guardian! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Half of our agricultural land is used for beef that provides 3% of our calories. Nobody likes it when I bang my spoon on my high chair about this but eventually we need to grapple with it.

Two things to learn from this. 1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors. 2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

NEW – Q&A: What does Trump’s repeal of US ‘endangerment finding’ mean for climate action? | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/11Rtah7

NEW – Analysis: Trump has overseen more coal retirements than any other US president ✍️ by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/NeAAwNW

BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively. All due online by 2029.

ICYMI -despite promising just over a year ago to triple climate finance from developed world to poor and vulnerable countries, UK govt is now planning to slash climate finance by more than a fifth www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.

The Ed Miliband hate-fest in the UK press continued last year. Predominantly right-wing newspapers published an incredible 112 editorials attacking the energy secretary. That's two editorials a week, and more than twice as many as 2024, calling him a "crazed" "zealot" suffering with “eco insanity”

NEW – Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @sylviahayes.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/eAPkvkx

Truly wild that the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express & Daily Telegraph all covered false claims that net-zero will "cost" £7.6bn – or even £9tn – which assumes we could have free gas, free petrol, free petrol cars & free gas power plants if we scrapped net-zero More here: bsky.app/profile/drsi...

NEW – Q&A: What Trump’s US exit from UNFCCC and IPCC could mean for climate action | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/Mkjsh61

Met Harjeet just a few days ago at a climate justice assembly in Bangladesh where, as always, he was speaking about concerns of the Global South. The Indian government is now hounding him for associations with the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty like as though it is a crime

Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."

NEW – Analysis: UK renewables enjoy record year in 2025 – but gas power still rises ✍️ by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org and Ho Woo Nam Read here ➡️ buff.ly/YTa31NF

NEW – IEA: Declining coal demand in China set to outweigh Trump’s pro-coal policies | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/OoaWOf4

NEW – Analysis: Why COP30’s ‘tripling adaptation finance’ target is less ambitious than it seems | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/S4IJt8m

SCOOP: Carbon Brief has exclusively obtained a list of 84 countries "opposed" to adding a fossil-fuel roadmap to COP30 deal – but our analysis found a series of contradictions & likely errors For eg 14 on list are also roadmap "supporters" Read more➡️ www.carbonbrief.org/...

NEW – UK budget 2025: Key climate and energy announcements | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/unfZgrv

NEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3isyGpX #COP30

🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨 It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting… –Global mutirão –Adaptation finance –Fossil-fuel roadmap –China +Much more Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast www.carbonbrief.org/...