What happened on energy and climate in China this year? A summary of the data, mostly drawing on the latest report from Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (by @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social & team). My latest Substack: www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/chinese-em...

China, the world’s largest carbon polluter, announced at the UN on Wednesday that it intended to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 7% by 2035. It was the first time Beijing has made such a strong commitment to halt global warming. Follow live updates from the UN General Assembly.

Registration for the inaugural conference of the European Association of Climate Law on 22-23 September in Berlin is now open! We have an exciting conference programme, and we're delighted to have @christinavoigt.bsky.social give the keynote talk. usercontent.one/wp/www.ikem....

#Klima & #Wohlstand – das geht zusammen. Ambitionierte Klimapolitik (1) mindert wirtschaftliche Verluste, (2) mindert Sicherheitsrisiken, (3) hilft bei Strukturwandel. Analyse von #Edenhofer @ckilimann.bsky.social @cleisinger.bsky.social in @politischemeinung.bsky.social www.kas.de/de/web/die-p...

NEW: Democracy is alive in Philly! Amazing scenes in Philadelphia as thousands hit the streets for the anti-Trump protest. #NoKings #50501Movement

Come work with us – on whatever you like! One year to focus entirely on your own research project in a stimulating and supportive environment. Open to any aspect of #climatepolitics. Apply within. hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs... @hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiesustain.bsky.social

Most Germans doubt country will meet own 2045 climate neutrality target – survey Two in three people lack confidence in achieving German target, optimism clearly linked to party affiliation www.cleanenergywire.org/news/most-ge...

Das 1,5-Grad-Ziel von Paris ist noch nicht überschritten & weiterhin hoch relevant für die internat. #Klimapolitik! Das neue UBA-Positionspapier plädiert für mehr #Klimaschutz, denn jede noch so kleine vermiedene Temperaturerhöhung zählt: www.umweltbundesamt.de/dokument/das...

Unsere dazugehörige neue Themenseite zum 1,5-Grad-Ziel gibt einen Überblick über die Geschichte, wissenschaftlichen Fakten sowie die politische Bedeutung des Pariser Klimaziels: www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/klima...

KI für saubere Luft – Open Source für bestmögliche Nachnutzung! Gemeinsam mit Luftqualitätsexpert*innen des UBA hat das KI-Lab ein statistisches Tool entwickelt, das die Effekte verschiedener Maßnahmen des Umweltschutzes KI-gestützt und datenbasiert quantifizieren kann: opencode.de/de/software/...

Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.

A huge loss, indeed. He will be missed by many. R.I.P. Steve

Die Sektorziele gibt es ja noch. Nur die nachsteuerung anhand der Verfehlung nicht. www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikatione...

The #Greens seem to have won. CDU and SPD agree to make any investment fund "additional" to current investment. 100 of the 500bn will go into a climate fund. www.rnd.de/politik/live...

Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany? Bombshell fiscal package—currently under negotiation—represents more than just the start of deficit spending on defence. It is the beginning of a new European growth model.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Orders Thousands of Federal Workers Reinstated www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Am Mittwoch, 5.2: Veröffentlichung des Zweijahresgutachtens vom @expertenratklima.bsky.social. Das Gutachen ist dann ab 10 Uhr hier verfügbar: expertenrat-klima.de. Worum es geht: Trendentwicklung, soziale & ökonomische Verteilungswirkungen, Investitionen und die Ausrichtung der Klimapolitik 👇

The outlines from the IPCC AR7 Scoping Meeting are now public. For WGIII, the draft outline (WG-III: 15th/Doc. 2) & background (WG-III: 15th/INF. 1), with Ch2 & Ch3 below (my areas). Comments? These are draft documents, potentially modified, then agreed by the IPCC: www.ipcc.ch/meeting-doc/...

The most likely range for 2025: 1.45C - 1.55C above pre-industrial levels. The broad range forecast by the various models: 1.20C - 1.60C

"We show that uniform carbon dividends (...) receive substantially more support than a carbon dividend that favours poorer people, than earmarking revenues for climate projects and especially than using revenues for the general government budget." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Trumpification of German politics: FDP head Christian Lindner wants Germany's federal environmental agency (UBA) to be abolished. Apparently as part of a 'radical reduction in bureaucracy'. What does the UBA do? Measure env'l quality, give scientific advice, help implement env'l laws.

Thanks Robert for the Naumann Foundation document. Yet another pivot by the party leader, further distancing the liberal democrats from their important role they had in German policy and institution building.

Excited to announce a new @pnas.org publication on the Social Cost of Carbon. We integrate evidence from the literature and expert survey to provide an SCC distribution inclusive of both parametric and structural uncertainties. Our mean 2020 value is $283 per ton CO2 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Some thoughts on where German climate policy could & should be headed for in 2025👇

The planet is heating up. Meanwhile, the geopolitical landscape is freezing over, EU climate chief Wopke Hoekstra warned in an interview with us. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

Emissions outcomes under a wide range of emissions trading systems and overlapping policies, from Carolyn Fischer, Chenfei Qu, and Lawrence H. Goulder https://www.nber.org/papers/w33197

Die #COP30 in Brasilien wird vom 10. November bis zum 21. November 2025 stattfinden. Das wurde eben auf der #COP29 beschlossen.

Die wichtigsten Emittenten sind bereits in den #G20 anzutreffen. Wo ist der Mehrwert also?

Article 6.2 and 6.4 decisions adopted at #COP29, ending long-standing negotiations. The main issues of the NCQG and GST follow-up remain to be decided, however. Draft decision texts can be found here: unfccc.int/event/cma-6?...

At the finance COP, about 2% of party delegates are from a finance ministry. #COP29 So little flexibility in mandates on finance.

Cop29: wealthy countries agree to raise climate finance offer to $300bn a year #Climate

NEW TEXT at #COP29 confirms we won't get a decision on who hosts COP31 in 2026 until June next year, at the earliest Seems neither Australia nor Turkey are willing to step back from their bids www.carbonbrief.org/...

The 'X'odus continues while Bluesky keeps on growing... The image is from this FT article: www.ft.com/content/3051...

Now confirmed by a senior German policy-maker: The #JETP with India is not going to happen.

Additionally, when taking into account CO2 embedded in imported goods – or overseas emissions under colonial rule – the EU27 would remain ahead of China (for now) www.carbonbrief.org/... 7/12

+++NEW ANALYSIS: China’s CO2 emissions have now caused more global warming than EU+++ Our new analysis comes as the "principle of historical responsibility" is being cited in #COP29 talks on a new climate finance goal THREAD with details, caveats + bonus chart www.carbonbrief.org/...#COP291/12

Trump selects Chris Wright to run the Dept. of Energy. "Wright is the chief executive of oil and natural gas fracking services company Liberty Energy and sits on the board of a nuclear reactor company." He's a climate skeptic but supportive of geothermal, solar, nuclear: www.npr.org/2024/11/16/n...

What a chart. www.economist.com/interactive/...

So werden die Treibhausgas-Projektionen erstellt. Was auch immer wir nun mit der aktuellen Situation machen🤷🏻‍♂️ www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/klima...

🌍 Call 4 Papers ECPR2025: Strengthening Integrity of Voluntary Climate Action Looking for papers on non-state, subnational & transnational #ClimateAction & accountability & integrity; polarization; supportive policies Express interest by 27Nov @thisislauri.bsky.social @achieveproject.bsky.social

Important intervention by @economist.com.web.brid.gy in the Net Zero debate: most models overestimate the costs of the green transition, and understate technological innovation. Past predictions of renewable energy growth have been reliably, well, wrong. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Next level of the #ClimateClub: a workaround in times of weakened multilateralism #COP29 #Trump #decarbonization

Interested in #COP29? @enb.iisd.org is holding a Halfway Webinar with yours truly. Register here us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#COP29 NEW TEXT Anyone who told you that Article 6 carbon trading had been "finalised on day 1" was, sadly, very wide of the mark We now have a trio of new drafts to prove it, clocking in at 51pp, with disagreement around 499 bracketed passages and 130 "options" (!) www.carbonbrief.org/...#COP291/5

BREAKING: Donald Trump confirmed he will nominate Republican Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State

Trump Chooses Lee Zeldin to Run E.P.A. as He Plans to Gut Climate Rules www.nytimes.com/2024/11/11/c...

Made my first starter pack! These are the climate journalists I know and love and highly recommend following on BlueSky so far. Please tell me who I'm missing (and apologies in advance if I've missed you, I swear it's not intentional!) go.bsky.app/1ivUnG

Here’s a link to search for starter packs by topic blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...