*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...

A bleak dystopia where Sharia law predominates, while economic and cultural divisions mean that the different communities live parallel, segregated lives. Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …

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.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

🌎⚖️🤝 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 ❤️

Times: "BP chief's big reset wipes nearly £1bn off the shares"

New from us: clean energy technologies contributed more than 10% of China’s GDP in 2024 for the first time ever, with sales and investments worth $1.9tn. Clean energy sectors drove a quarter of the country’s GDP growth and have overtaken real estate sales in value.

Last week's IEA Electricity 2025 report confirms we are squarely on pace to conform to the Additive model of energy transition, in which clean energy forms a new layer on top of fossil fuels. Can the trajectory change? Of course. But that would require something close to radical action. 🔌💡

It is really wild how the fossil fuel industry in Aus has managed to spread the false perception that the Aus economy relies on fossil fuel sector jobs + cash www.industry.gov.au/publications... australiainstitute.org.au/report/clima...

Wind power is getting a lot of hate Trump vows to ban new farms that "drive the whales crazy" Germany's AFD want to "tear down all these windmills of shame" Misinformation is running wild. So let's cut the crap and review the real barriers facing wind power www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's hard to imagine a more brutal illustration of climate injustice and a failed society than indentured teenage slaves being used to protect the homes of wealthy Americans.

Now that more countries have submitted national GHG inventories in the latest format, I'm starting to write a bit of code to compile it all. Initial impressions: these sheets are better organised, but there are still so many quality of life improvements to make... unfccc.int/ghg-inventor...

This was a hard one to read. As a CFA vol, we are often tasked with protecting human assets over natural environments. Personally I find that one hard. 'We found that people valued one human life more than the extinction of an entire non-human species'. theconversation.com/fascinating-...

The IEA is now saying that global coal demand isn't expected to fall in the next three years, after predicting a fall last year. What changed? THREAD

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

At a global GDP of $150 trillion by that time, that'd be a transfer - partly loan - of 0.2% of global GDP by 2035.

Indonesia vows to retire all coal plants within 15 years theprogressplaybook.com/2024/11/21/i...

I go back and forth between "but the model says we can't solve the whole intermittency problem with batteries" and "maybe the intermittency problem just gets solved with capitalism and batteries". This is evidence for the latter.

Softening the definition of Net Zero won’t stop global warming. As authors of the 2009 “Net Zero Papers” we call on countries and companies to recognise the need for Geological Net Zero, balancing flows of carbon into and out of the Earth’s crust. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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2024 #climateactiontracker Global Update: the combined global effect of government climate action has flat-lined over the last 3 years: a critical disconnect between the reality of the climate emergency and the lack of urgency on policies to deal with it. 🧵 bit.ly/CAT_2024_glo...

That said, I think we could do a better job of war-gaming with IAMs to map out more diverse, and perhaps realistic futures. It's kind of crazy that we don't really have any relevant scenarios which represent the climate impacts of pretty much any of the dominant geopolitical dynamics of this decade

Some thoughts on why it looks like emissions are continuing to grow through 2024

Good thread on the US election implications

Hi EnergySky GreenSky! A question from someone ignorant of the US context. How possible is it really for the IRA to be "repealed"? - How much of the $ / tax credits have already been given vs. still to be spent? - Can Trump cancel $/tax credits which have not been spent but had been allocated?

Ooft, UK petrol car sales fell 28% year-on-year in October 2024, with year-to-date sales down by more than 100,000 Meanwhile, strong EV sales mean the ZEV mandate "has been met", says New Automotive, which is odd bc I'm sure I've seen lots of scare stories saying it'd never happen

It's simply not defensible to be active on X now. If you are posting, you are supporting and enabling a disinformation machine.

Poster child of Carbon Capture & Storage over-reported by 30%, for 5 years, emissions it captured & buried If this can happen at flagship project, in well-regulated country, how likely is it this kind of 'mistake' could happen all over the place if CCS gets going? www.desmog.com/2024/10/28/n...

Google’s use of AI is going GREAT

Scenarios from Integrated Assessment & energy systems models are an important part of the policy discourse for getting to net-zero. IIASA, IAMC and the Earth Fund are starting a new initiative to make these scenarios more accessible and actionable! #ScenarioCompass scenariocompass.org/news

This is a rather provocative figure of IPCC WG3... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@robbieandrew.bsky.social I love this pulling out of EIA short-term forecasts for the USA! See latest forecast is forecasting a small (~0.6%) drop in fossil emissions. Do you have any data on how previous predictions for e.g. 2022/2023 have compared with reality? robbieandrew.github.io/USA/

As damage from Milton emerges, another day to ponder how literally no major economies have climate policies in place that are compatible with the Paris Agreement

I have been building up a collection of monthly new car sales data broken down by 'fuel' type, highlighting the road-emissions transition, currently 18 countries, with downloadable data and links to original data sources: robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

Today, the UK becomes the first G7 country to phase out coal power Since opening world's 1st coal plant in 1882, UK coal fleet burned through 4.6bn tonnes of coal, emitting 10.4GtCO2 – more than most countries have ever released Here's how it all ended: interactive.carbonbrief.org/coal-phaseou...

SO excited to see these numbers out in the world getting some sun-shine! ☀️💨 Have a look here and read the briefings...

IRENA, documented in a 2022 report that there are now *SEVEN* forms of renewable energy generation that are competitive with or cheaper than fossil fuels based on LCOE. 🧪🔌💡source: www.irena.org/Publications...

Join us at 11:45-13:00 on Friday 7 June 2024 for our side event at #SB60 on NDC implementation and turning the Global Stocktake into action. @neilgrant.bsky.social will speak on how the COP28 goal to triple renewables can work on a regional level. climateanalytics.org/events/bonn-...

This is SUPER interesting! Earlier this month from we heard that power sector emissions will likely peak this year... Now signs that China *could* have peaked in 2023 also There's still a lot to play for, 2024 is hardly over yet, but ensuring that global emissions fall in 2024 is still possible!