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Climate policy correspondent at Carbon Brief 🐸
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SLOW CLAP "AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China" Congratulations to US AI Tech Oligarchs
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Carbon Brief
about 18 hours ago
Q&A: How UK’s seventh carbon budget will deliver ‘£865bn’ in economic benefits ✍️
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Chelsea Harvey
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I worked hard on this story, it's important, & I want to share it. I'm also finding it difficult to put it out there without this context: Just as I wrapped up final edits last week, I got word that a friend vacationing in Arizona had died after overheating on a hike.
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Deadly heat is coming. But funding to save lives is not.
Emergency officials are searching for loopholes to save lives as President Donald Trump slashes programs.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/deadly-heat-is-coming-but-funding-to-save-lives-is-not/
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Tom Heap
6 days ago
Are we entering a new energy age and seeing the beginning of the end of fossil fuels?
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, Prof Helen Thompson, radical farmer Stuart Oates and
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BBC Radio 4 Rare Earth today
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Carbon Brief
6 days ago
NEW – AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China |
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Leo Hickman
6 days ago
"EM-DAT’s small team of researchers require just €300,000 ($350,000) a year to maintain operations" Important story by
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- would be tragedy if this important and unique data was lost for such a relatively small sum
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Carbon Brief
7 days ago
Media reaction: UK and Europe’s ‘mind-boggling’ May heat and climate change ✍️
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Media reaction: UK and Europe's ‘mind-boggling’ May heat and climate change - Carbon Brief
Europe has been hit by a searing heatwave this May, which has shattered temperature records across France, Spain and the UK.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/media-reaction-uk-and-europes-mind-boggling-may-heat-and-climate-change/
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Blair may not think he's a "climate denier" but he is essentially reading from a list of climate denier talking points to make his case for abandoning net-zero.
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan
8 days ago
Telling Labour to abandon net zero implies that trying to stop climate change is something governments are just doing for fun
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NEW INVESTIGATION: I sent FOI requests to 162 NHS trusts in the UK, asking whether they have been forced to close down facilities due to flooding. They sent details of maternity units, surgical theatres and entire hospitals that have been disrupted by heavy rainfall or floodwaters since 2021.
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Hetan Shah
14 days ago
‘Malawi has exhausted its strategic fuel reserves and is selling part of its gold holdings to raise foreign currency, as the economic shockwaves from the Iran conflict deepen an existing fuel crisis in one of Africa’s poorest countries.’
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Protests spread in Africa as fuel crisis deepens
Sharp rises in diesel and petrol prices spark violent clashes in Kenya and Comoros and strikes in Mozambique
https://www.ft.com/content/273aee17-25ee-4608-9be2-88433e28270e?shareType=nongift
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Carbon Brief
9 days ago
Revealed: Floods have forced at least 67 closures at NHS hospitals since 2021 ✍️ written by
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Adam Bienkov
14 days ago
Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling
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"Net-zero is killing our economy" – Richard Tice, MP for Boston and Skegness
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Akshat Rathi
15 days ago
Reform UK won the most seats in May local elections and is polling at the top across the UK. If it gets into government, it will upend decades of climate and energy policy. On Zero, I asked deputy leader Richard Tice what evidence shapes those stances. Listen: 🎁🔗
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Reform Deputy Leader Tice ‘Fundamentally’ Rejects Climate Science
In an extensive interview about climate change and energy policy, Richard Tice dismissed the threat of global warming and doubled down on fossil fuels.
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Carbon Brief
15 days ago
NEW – CCC: Investing in ‘urgent’ UK adaptation action ‘cheaper than climate damages’ |
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com
18 days ago
No matter what do you think of his craziness, did you ever think you’d see any president post about a CO2 emissions scenario?
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Lauri Myllyvirta
18 days ago
The Financial Times ran an entire story of coal shipments "jumping" that is based on an algorithmic artifact in shipping data.
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Carbon Brief
20 days ago
NEW – Analysis: UK no longer top UN Green Climate Fund donor after latest aid cut |
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Carbon Brief
20 days ago
To keep track of the rapidly growing field of attribution research, Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has influenced extreme weather. Explore the interactive map here ⬇️
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Leo Hickman
22 days ago
A letter published in the Plymouth Herald: "Have you noticed that the authors of articles against net-zero offer opinions, but rarely solid evidence to back up their claims? But where do they get their ideas?" Good question...
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Carbon Brief
30 days ago
NEW – Q&A: How countries got the global ‘net-zero’ shipping deal ‘back on track’ |
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Q&A: How countries got the global 'net-zero' shipping deal ‘back on track’ - Carbon Brief
At the Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting in London, UK, nations tried once again to reach an agreement on a net-zero framework
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As part of its effort to block the new "net-zero framework" for shipping, the US is distributing flyers at the IMO meeting claiming that the proposal will mean hundreds of millions of dollars in extra costs for individual countries. Shipping analysts say the figures are deeply flawed.
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DeSmog
about 1 month ago
🔴 NEW - Inside the Plot to Cover Europe with Gas-Powered AI Data Centres Gas turbine manufacturers are confident they will win the battle over whether Europe’s AI boom will be powered by fossil fuels. 📝
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Inside the Plot to Cover Europe with Gas-Powered AI Data Centres
As the UK and EU debate how to source the vast quantities of electricity they’ll need to power their grand visions of home-grown artificial intelligence (AI), the gas turbine sector is confident that ...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/29/inside-the-plot-to-cover-europe-with-gas-powered-ai-data-centres/
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Nations are at the International Maritime Organization trying to agree on a "net-zero framework", after talks were torpedoed last year by the Trump administration (and others). They are currently discussing various compromise proposals from different countries. What ideas are on the table? ⬇️
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Dave Jones
about 1 month ago
Is The Philippines about to be the next Pakistan of solar? There was 10GW of panels exported from China to The Philippines in the last 12 months... 10GW would generate 11% of total national consumption.. and quadruple the country's 2025 solar output🤯 So how real is this? 🧵
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Amy Westervelt
about 1 month ago
oh shit this was a year ago
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After commentators predicted an energy crisis-driven "return to coal", some
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analysis shows how much coal power could feasibly increase in 2026. In short: likely not that much – and in some countries such as 🇯🇵🇵🇭 🇹🇭 hardly at all. ➡️
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World ‘will not see significant return to coal’ in 2026 – despite Iran crisis - Carbon Brief
Clean-energy projects are emerging as more appealing investments during the fossil-fuel driven energy crisis.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/world-will-not-see-significant-return-to-coal-in-2026-despite-iran-crisis/
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Carbon Brief
about 1 month ago
NEW – World ‘will not see significant return to coal’ in 2026 – despite Iran crisis |
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Donald Campbell
about 1 month ago
Great work by
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forces uk govt to admit its figures on data centre emissions were hopelessly unrealistic.
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had raised this problem with ministers on multiple occasions.
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Ketan Joshi
about 1 month ago
The UK government has finally revised its data centre greenhouse gas impacts upwards by x100 (from a low base!), thanks to
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A few weeks ago, I published some analysis showing that the UK government had massively underestimated the emissions from the data centres driving the country's "AI revolution". Now, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has published some new numbers and they are... a lot higher.
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Carbon Brief
about 1 month ago
NEW – Iran war: EU strategy sets out 44 actions to limit ‘fossil-fuel price shocks’ |
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Isabella M. Weber
about 1 month ago
It will be the law of the jungle. Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South. Link:
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Peter Geoghegan
about 1 month ago
🚨 NEW: Inside Big Oil's campaign to push Labour to drill the North Sea Oil & gas lobbyists have met UK and Scottish ministers more than once a week since Labour took office MPs have asked questions in Parliament after meeting lobbyists, and more 🧵
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Revealed: How Big Oil is pushing Labour to drill the North Sea
Oil and gas lobbyists have met ministers 96 times since July 2024 as industry pushes to overturn Labour's North Sea drilling ban and scrap energy windfall tax.
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Daisy Dunne
about 1 month ago
Buenos Dias from Colombia! 🌺 Around 50 nations will meet here to discuss fossil-fuel transition. They have already been circulated a draft report recommending that they “halt all new expansion”, according to an exclusive by me for
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Revealed: Scientists tell Colombia fossil-fuel transition summit to ‘halt new expansion’ - Carbon Brief
Around 50 nations will gather in Colombia to debate ways to “transition away” from fossil fuels, in the face of worsening climate change and high oil prices
https://www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-scientists-tell-colombia-fossil-fuel-transition-summit-to-halt-new-expansion/
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Carbon Brief
about 1 month ago
Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ |
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Miliband was announcing plans to "delink" the price of electricity from gas – a policy with the potential to cut bills far more than new drilling in the North Sea Yet Robinson didn't ask a single question about the former and devoted most of the interview to the latter, citing the need to cut bills
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Lots of people commenting that this misrepresents local Greens and all they're doing is calling for more community solar That's disingenuous imo: They're objecting to "industrial scale schemes" because the main criticism of these projects – in Norfolk and everywhere else - is that they're "too big"
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Carbon Brief
about 2 months ago
Q&A: What Magyar’s defeat of Orbán in Hungary means for climate and energy |
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Q&A: What Magyar’s defeat of Orbán in Hungary means for climate and energy - Carbon Brief
The right-wing populist Hungarian government led by Viktor Orbán has suffered a landslide electoral defeat...
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Adam Vaughan
about 2 months ago
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. 👇
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UK’s first major AI data centre on collision course with net zero
The developments will add to fears that the government’s push to make the UK a leader in AI will fly in the face of its attempts to hit climate targets
https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/gas-supply-data-centre-net-zero-7s7kqzpr0
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Dave Jones
about 2 months ago
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?!🧵
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Ketan Joshi
about 2 months ago
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
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Glad to see our friends over the Irish Sea are having equally constructive conversations about the energy crisis
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about 2 months ago
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David Higham
about 2 months ago
Like Chernobyl 🤦
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Carbon Brief
about 2 months ago
NEW – Iran war analysis: How 60 nations have responded to the global energy crisis |
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Joe Lo
about 2 months ago
India has withdrawn its offer to host the COP33 climate summit in two years time
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India withdraws bid to host COP33 climate talks
The government gave only a brief explanation for its change of heart on the climate summit, saying it had reviewed its commitments for 2028
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/04/08/india-withdraws-bid-to-host-cop33-climate-talks/
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Anyone else remember this?
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about 2 months ago
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Zoe Avison
2 months ago
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.
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