History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes, a #climatefinance story: After the $100bn climate finance goal was agreed in 2009, the UN Secretary General created a High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) to study potential sources of revenue to meet the new goal, led by the PMs of 🇪🇹&🇳🇴

Europe urgently needs to shape a credible, politically viable response on adaptation finance at COP30, where climate finance-particularly for adaptation-poses a major risk to global cooperation. This is what a credible response looks like.

This is powerful research showing that the UK has saved over £100 Billion on our energy bills due to the roll out of wind power. That is the saving after accounting for green subsidies. This shreds false claims by Reform that renewables drives up energy bills. They are lying. The reverse is true

The fundamental risk to the IMF's core mandate - global financial stability - is climate change. encompass-europe.com/comment/the-...

Europeans are going to have to grasp the mantle and take global leadership on climate finance. This is how they can - and why they must. www.e3g.org/news/how-the...

The Global Gateway Forum starts today in Brussels, a key moment for #Europe to align its #climate and development finance ambitions. In a new E3G blog, @franklinsteves.bsky.social sets out priorities for coherence, accountability and private finance mobilisation. www.e3g.org/news/how-the...

Europeans are going to have to grasp the mantle and take global leadership on climate finance. This is how they can - and why they must. www.e3g.org/news/how-the...

Ed Matthew, E3G, UK programme director: "This is a new low point for Kemi Badenoch as she blows up the Conservative party’s credibility for protecting nature and the climate in her quest to ape the far-right policies of Nigel Farage." https://bit.ly/4gT1l7G

Kemi Badenoch has now aligned the Tory party on climate with Trump and the far right parties of Europe. Tragic. It shows that she is more interested in the profits of oil and gas companies than the security of the country. The Tory party can no longer be trusted on the environment or the economy

At #UNGA80, leaders must treat #ClimateAction as the defining test of political will ahead of #COP30. Delivering ambitious NDCs, closing the finance gap and driving a clean, resilient energy transition are vital for global security and prosperity. See press release: www.e3g.org/news/cwny-un...

NEW – Q&A: Will China and the BRICS fill the ‘leadership gap’ on climate change? | @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @yixiansun.bsky.social Jennifer Allan @jamesnorman.bsky.social Beatriz Mattos @katelogan.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/WVyH1Y0

In London, hate will never win.

Yesterday at Africa Climate Week (#ACW2) in Addis Ababa, we, alongside Talanoa Institute & Institute for Climate and Society convened senior leaders from the @cop30brazil.bsky.social, developing countries & donors for a high-level dialogue on scaling adaptation finance. 🧵 👇

What Could a New Adaptation Finance Goal Look Like? At COP30 countries should set an int'l adaptation finance goal. Here is analysis of the 7 potential scenarios that have been proposed. www.nrdc.org/bio/joe-thwa... from @joethwaites.bsky.social @adellethomas.bsky.social

Very much looking forward to #ACS2 in #Addis Ababa- a vital opportunity for African political & civil society leaders to again demonstrate the continent's leadership on climate finance and the measures needed for deep-rooted reform of the international financial architecture #IFA for climate safety.

Voices promoting coal are increasingly marginalised as real-world trends show that coal power is on its way out 📉 "Clean" coal is unproven, unscalable, and unaffordable: countries pursuing that risk falling behind in the energy transition My blog for @e3g.bsky.social: www.e3g.org/news/the-end...

I am once again saying that clean energy is inherently cheap, and the reason we don't benefit from that is because the energy market doesn't let us. Great stuff here from my colleague @chrisgalpin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... - our latest E3G report showing that with policy reform, running a heat pump could be half the price of running a gas boiler. The future is electric !

Motherfucking wind farms…

I will need to read the full report, but this thread totally neglects to address some obvious (to those who study net wealth taxes/NWTs) points, which refute these simplistic arguments against NWTs: * the q is not effect of raising £24bn from NWT but comparison with raising £24bn from other taxes /

2025 feels like being awake during surgery

Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo. Trump’s “Big Beautiful” budget bill took a serious blow. Democrats held onto key seats. And the Kennedy Center turned into a venue for queer resistance. If you’re wondering whether there’s still fire on the left, this week answered with a resounding Yes!

Beyond Bretton Woods and E3G are organising an #LCAW2025 roundtable on 'Reimagining the Global Financial System for Planetary Resilience: Proposals for the 21st Century'. Long-term thinking about deep structural reform to the international financial system. Details here:

Fortune published my piece on the @e3g.bsky.social report showing 97% of execs support a transition to renewables. This maps onto the fact that we underestimate how much appetite there is for climate action globally, with 89% of people favouring stronger climate action. @coveringclimatenow.org

Disappointing to hear @andrewhunterm.bsky.social on #NSTAAF extol the brilliance of the Silvertown Tunnel - even if he's focused on the engineering aspects of TBMs - w/o understanding how bad it'll be for road congestion and air quality for local residents. silvertowntunnel.co.uk/what-is-it/w...

"Another thing you learn when you work in energy is the sheer ferocity of the oil and gas lobby..." Great explainer from my @e3g.bsky.social colleague @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social of why electricity prices in the UK are so high, even if you use a renewables provider.

🌍💸 Climate impacts are hitting harder and financial systems are responding. From stress tests to capital buffers, momentum is growing across Europe, the UK, and Asia-Pacific. Explore where action is accelerating and where more is needed in our latest blog👇 www.e3g.org/news/financi...

The spring statement ignored climate and net zero—raising concerns, but also some relief that green investment escaped public spending cuts. Missing the clean economy means missing a major growth opportunity. Read more in @theguardian.com, incl. insights from E3G’s @edmatthew.bsky.social:

The drastic aid cuts will shatter the UK’s ability to deliver on its international climate finance obligations for years to come, just as climate change is causing untold damage to the lives and livelihoods of millions of the world’s poorest people and leading to growing political instability.

@franklinsteves.bsky.social, E3G Senior Policy Advisor, warns: 📢 “The climate crisis presents serious global security threats, but Labour is prioritising short-term fixes over a long-term strategy for both security and economic growth.”

🚨 In Today’s spring statement, UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has left a “huge open goal” by neglecting the clean economy as the primary driver for growth in the UK. Meanwhile, devastating cuts to overseas development aid undermine UK security. Read our rapid reaction👇🧵

Millions of renters are stuck in cold, damp homes, paying the price for weak enforcement of housing standards. E3G's @jamesdyson.bsky.social's new report makes the case for better council funding to fix this. 📅We'll be discussing this further in a webinar on 8 April. More in the post below 👇

The talk in Europe is “how to get a seat at the table.” Respectfully, that’s the wrong question. The right question is, “how can Europe build a new table.”

fast work everyone 😃 xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

This is really shocking: and true. I discovered I'd just been upgraded without consent to an AI-enshittified package that was about £30 a year more expensive. Strongly recommend anyone who has an Office 365 follow the below advice to get rid of it

It is hard to find the climate material from the Biden-Harris Administration WH now. It is all archived here (but isn't easy to search) in case you need links to the things that were revoked, etc they are all here (the WH archived page): bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/

📢 New report: How can the UK hit its 2030 clean power goal and cut bills? ✅ 2030 clean power target is achievable. ✅ Clean energy shields 🇬🇧 from gas price spikes. ✅ Our Electricity Bills Charter of reforms could save billpayers over £200 per year. 🧵👇

At some point, everyone is going to have to accept that growth may not always be available as the magic bullet, and start to think about what policy looks like when GDP is flat. NB, this is not an endorsement of 'degrowth' etc., which is a different conversation. It's just facing reality.

This is the most important message you will read today, likely this year. And it applies not just to democratic institutions in the US, but to what remains of the international rules-based order.

This is the most important message you will read today, likely this year. And it applies not just to democratic institutions in the US, but to what remains of the international rules-based order.

COP29: Key Outcomes Signal Need to Deliver Greater Climate Action (our final take on the COP29 outcome with more detail) with @joethwaites.bsky.social (1/8)

Hello everyone, The Brussels skies might be grey, but I'm thrilled to join Bluesky from today on. Follow my journey here, and stay tuned!

The World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) provides climate & development finance to the world’s poorest countries. But the recent 3-year replenishment of the fund has fallen short of what's needed. Read on for why this matters & what needs to happen next👇🧵

We all know that we're living in difficult geopolitical, political and economic times. There's still no excuse for having cut IDA in real terms. Indeed, exactly the opposite - difficult times call for brave measures. The rich world is failing this challenge.

Happily own this. But gonna need to post more to up the Thought Leadership rating!

The UK government made a major downpayment on its declared strategy of returning to global leadership on climate and development today.

📢After years of cuts to international climate and development spending, the UK has delivered a 40% increase in its commitment to the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) triannual replenishment. 🧵👇

The other day, I was giving a ride to an Azov guy I know. And he was like... "Sometimes, I find myself praying that the next shell comes for me and delivers me from this hell on earth. Sometimes, Russians on comms don't get it why we laugh as we repel their meat grinder assaults...