UK's cheapest car is electric and costs £11,990

Chelsea and Westminster is the poster child for Palantir – the first NHS hospital to use its tech. Publicly it claims to have reduced waiting lists there by a whopping 183,000. But we found out its actual waiting list has skyrocketed by one of the highest rates in the country. So what's going on?

You should have to be older than a tree to cut it down

NEW analysis: to peak warming at 1.7ºC & get back to significantly below 1.5°C by 2100, global fossil fuel use must peak now, fall 20% by 2030, halve by 2035 & reach real zero by 2070. 🪨 coal effectively phased out globally by 2050 🔥 gas by 2060 🛢️ oil by 2070 climateanalytics.org/publications...

📣 Launching today at 1600 CEST 📣 We keep hearing abt "transition away from fossil fuels". But what does this really mean? 🌎 For the globe? 🚗 For sectors? 🇪🇺 For specific countries? Our new report dives into all this. Come to our presser (link below) to find out more! unfccc.int/event/climat...

News comes within 24 hours of the UK government proposing a weakening of its EV targets...

I see a lot of charts everyday. Few make me go: THIS IS CRAZY. www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...

Chart of the day. The energy transition is happening in real time! 😍

A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

Apt moment to reup this by @samalvis.bsky.social for @prospectmagazine.co.uk: "Blair cites technologies that are both expensive and uncertain" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/698...

Very little would convince me to support Starmer remaining in power in the UK. But 5600 words from Tony Blair criticising the Government (and calling to dig more oil from the North Sea 🤡) might just about do it 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ooof

Reform are wrong - not just slightly wrong but fundamentally wrong - on *the* most important issue of the 21st century. Could not be wronger.

Santa Marta has opened a new front for fossil fuel phase-out. If the process initiated there can catalyse greater political momentum to implement the Global Stocktake energy package, it would be a breakthrough. Read our full analysis: climateanalytics.org/comment/sant...

What will the global fossil fuel market look like once the closure of the Hormuz ends? In short, volatile and risky but oversupplied - terrible for fossil fuel investors, less so for clean energy investors. The UAE's decision to leave OPEC reinforced this.

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? 🧵

I am once again begging clean energy advocates to stop talking up Texas' current free-for-all approach to energy development as a model of success. Hasn't lowered emissions. Hasn't displaced fossil fuel use. Hasn't lowered bills. electricity.heatmap.news

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

team happy pollinators

Happy "Psalm Sunday" to Robert Jenrick Or maybe instead, let's remember the Palestinian Rabbi Jesus who calls us to welcome the stranger, comes humbly on a donkey, lays down his life for the sake of the world, preaches a radical gospel of economic justice? I know which Jesus I am following

🚨Reform could almost *DOUBLE* oil and gas imports by 2035 🚨 (by my rough estimates) The war in Iran has led to a million folks suggesting that we just need to drill in the North Sea a bit more, and the UK will be all fine again. Notably, that voice of reason, Reform UK, is keen on this

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today I learned about Secunda CTL, a coal-to-liquids plant in South Africa & the largest single emitter in the world. In 2023 it emitted 54 MILLION tonnes of CO2 🤯 The main site alone is ~9 km2, or more than 3x the size of the City of London district 🤯

If anyone had $ to try and tide Sublime over the next few years of utter carnage in the US / could help their work to continue elsewhere, that would be great... Losing momentum in the race of clean cement is such a bummer

And a bitter addendum. The £4 billion per year (0.2% of GDP) cost for the UK reaching Net Zero is about the same as the government currently spends annually to freeze petrol/diesel fuel duty.

Analysis also shows that new fields licensed over the 14 years of Conservative government have produced just over a month’s worth of gas to date and have the potential to produce - in their lifetime - less than 6 months worth of UK gas demand. Not to mention--if you're worried about crises now... /5

It's mad that we'll once again try to tackle inflation (caused by fossil fuels increasing the price of energy) by raising interest rates, which will in turn make the real long-term solution (not fossil energy sources) more expensive in the short term. Monetary policy is homeopathy.

There is no single “correct” path to decarbonise. There are six trillion. Our new paper in Science puts 36 climate solutions into one common unit, so you can build your own pathways. Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie... App: climatewedges.com What would your pathway look like?

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

It's fine the pentagon AND an AI company can both be bad

⚡ Not all electrification is equal ⚡ Lots of noise building around electrification, but what strategies give us the biggest impact? 🚗 Increasing elec by 1% of total demand & using this for EVs boosts global electrification rate by 1.2–1.7% 💻 Using that same elec for AI only gives you a 0.8% boost

The choice is stark. Reform are the party of foreign wars and high bills. The Greens want de-escalation and energy security through renewables. Solar and wind prices don't fluctuate when rogue US presidents launch illegal bombing campaigns.

I see the Allister Heath headline generator has branched out to cover all Telegraph opinion writers.

Rishan from my now cancelled Journeys project. She escaped religious persecution in Eritrea and travelled across the Sahara and through Libya aged only 15, eventually making it to Kent. She has now qualified as an NHS nurse to give something back to the country which gave her sanctuary.

*TAPPING THE SIGN*: People's "concern" over immigration doesn't track actual immigration levels, it tracks the level of media coverage we give to immigration

🚨🚨🚨 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...

After years of political failure, the world can still rescue 1.5°C – if countries pursue the “highest possible ambition”, starting now. New report from Climate Analytics and @pik-potsdam.bsky.social shows how it’s possible. Read more: climateanalytics.org/publications...

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social

Yeah I dunno, maybe if I was creating a government document I might hide the fact I’d used ChatGPT to find the information.

WATCH: #ProductionGap launch! Find out if the production gap to 1.5°C has shifted since governments committed to transition away from fossil fuels at COP28. 🎤 Keynote: Mary Robinson 📅 22 Sept | ⌚ 15:30 CEST / 09:30 EDT 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.se/e/production... @neilgrant.bsky.social

When we shift to active travel, we don't just reduce the emissions from our trips: we're more likely to also change the frequency and duration (destination) of the trips...

The Telegraph has become the paper of Correct the Record

I know this looks like climate nerd stuff but the stakes are actually massive for all of us: accountability on fossil fuel elimination is being wrecked by dodgy math that allows the pretence that trees are re-absorbing the carbon we dig up from underground and move to the atmosphere

Maybe there are a million things you can see and do this weekend. Yet there's only one place where you can experience The Museum of English Rural Life: The Museum of English Rural Life.

🌎⚖️🤝 We are thrilled to announce that @rueannahaynes.bsky.social has taken on the role of Head of Diplomacy at Climate Analytics! 🎉 A core part of our diplomacy team, Rueanna has been with us since 2016 as Senior Legal Adviser and Director of the Climate Analytics Caribbean office since 2021.

Anyone know why the UK Clean Power Plan has UK generation estimated at ~270 TWh in 2023 (see image), whereas other sources (e.g. Energy Institute) have it up at ~290 TWh in 2023 (see Ember link). maybe @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social? I find the UK generation in the NESO 2030 scenarios quite low

Today is #WorldBookDay2025 so we've all come to work dressed as library staff while knowing that in 2023/2024 there were 14.5 million physical visits to Scottish libraries - nearly 4 times the number of people who attended Scottish Premiership football matches. #LoveLibraries ❤️