COPs were a backwater of diplomacy until 2007, after that they have gone mainstream: @alisterdoyle.bsky.social medium.com/@alisterdoyl...

Government participation lends credibility and certainty www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

“Just like people feel empathy for Anna Karenina or Ned Stark despite knowing they are fictional characters, they can also feel aroused by virtual model” www.economist.com/internationa...

Challenges were likely not made easier by picking a company name that echoed Star Wars’ “Project Stardust” — the codename the bad guys in the Galactic Empire used for the Death Star www.politico.com/news/magazin...

A debate over carbon permanence – how long CO2 must stay stored to count towards offsetting emissions – is reshaping global carbon markets and could determine whether nature remains investable www.forbes.com/sites/felici...

Tropical Forest Forever Facility doesn’t pay the farmer not to cut; it finances the state’s political will to police itself. “The TFFF isn’t for the farmer; it’s for the finance minister” www.forestsnews.org/152894/the-u...

Voluntary carbon market contribution claims are not (yet) very attractive for buyers. They look too much like charity - for which funds are limited: report www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“It's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. All of these predictions made by the UN and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong”: Trump www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Without UN climate cooperation, we were heading for +5C of heating – an impossible future. Today we are closer to +3 degrees. Still too high – but bending the curve. Later this year we will see how much closer the next round of plans gets us to +1.5: UNFCCC chief unfccc.int/news/un-clim...

EU is considering measures including a system under which CBAM goods are given a fixed CO2 emissions value per country or per company rather than calculating specific emissions per shipment ca.news.yahoo.com/eu-drafting-...

Brazil wants to use the COP30 presidency to push for a different international carbon pricing framework — one based on multilateral agreement, rather than with the EU as the de facto sole standard-setter #CBAM www.ft.com/content/21b8...

AI's per-prompt energy impact is equivalent to watching TV for less than 9 seconds. Google says that energy and total carbon footprint of the median Gemini Apps text prompt dropped by 33x and 44x, respectively over the past 12 months cloud.google.com/blog/product...

“Climate change is a challenge – not a catastrophe": US energy secretary Chris Wright www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Few centrists openly question the fundamental importance of fighting climate change, as many on the hard right do. But they are trimming their sails regardless—quite dramatically so, in Friedrich Merz’s case www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Energy transition is considerably more advanced than its detractors would like us to believe: Liebreich about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

If AI is effectively applied in key impact areas - power, food, and mobility - the estimated emissions reductions “would outweigh increases from global power consumption of data centres and AI”: paper www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

ETS2 prices will be felt in transport fuel costs especially in those countries where fuel taxes are low, such as Hungary, Poland, Spain, Germany and Italy. In these countries petrol and diesel prices are expected to rise between 11-14% in 2027 and 17-22% in 2030 as a result of the ETS2: Veyt

While the EU’s road transport and heating emissions nudged down only 2% over the past 10 years, the cap of the bloc’s upcoming ETS2 is designed to force down emissions by 69% over the market's first 10 years: Veyt

Hungarian oil group MOL is one of 44 oil and gas producers that the EU Commission requires to contribute to achieving the EU target of 50 million tonnes of annual CO2 injection capacity into geological CO2 storage sites by 2030. MOL needs to achieve 1.56m climate.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...

"California punishes carbon use by adopting impossible caps on the amount of carbon businesses may use, all but forcing businesses to pay large sums to “trade” carbon credits to meet California’s radical requirements": White House www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Fewer trees hugged, more data and coherent solutions: ex-HSBC Stuart Kirk www.ft.com/content/9b9c...

Draft @sciencebasedtargets.org standard revision means that SBTi members in 2030 could need around 2m tonnes of CDRs. It's not a game changing amount. But it's not nothing. It's roughly equivalent to having another Frontier or two enter the market: Isometric's Lukas May isometric.com/writing-arti...

Amazon today launched a service offering partner companies the possibility to invest in "science-based carbon credits" sourced from 'reducing deforestation', 'restoring forests' and 'technological carbon removal' projects www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustain...

"We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion": US EPA head Lee Zeldin www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

Logs are piled high in the cleared land which stretches more than 13km through the rainforest into Belém www.bbc.com/news/article...

Using a multitude of AI models in concert @cuspai.bsky.social is looking to generate gigantic, sponge-like molecules called ‘metal-organic frameworks’, or MOFs, that can remove CO2 from the air cleanly and cheaply via the @economist.com economist.com/science-and-...

Silence risks damaging trust and could confuse consumers who have watched companies go from making frequent and enthusiastic pledges and disclosures to saying very little via @cocojournalist.bsky.social @oliviarudgard.bsky.social #greenwashing #greenhushing www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Magnitude of energy-transition costs = 5% a year of global GDP between now and 2050. If global South countries are largely exempted from these financial burdens, global North countries would have to spend 10% of annual GDP—for the US = >3X of defense spending www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

At the moment, almost half the population of the developing world—three billion people—annually uses less electricity per capita than the average American refrigerator does: Daniel Yergin www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Up-front investment needed for the UK to reach net-zero is 73% smaller than thought in 2020, bringing the net cost down to just £108bn over 25 years (0.2% of GDP) via @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-reducing...

Giving up 2 doner kebabs’ worth of meat a week will be enough to keep the UK within safe climate limits by the end of the next decade www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Clean Industrial Deal will make our industry great. Not great again, but even greater than what it used to be: Teresa Ribera Europe knows how to reform itself. We don't have a chainsaw, OK, but we have competent people leading the charge: Stéphane Séjourné audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-2...

NEW: Official advisers CCC say UK shld cut emissions 87% by 2040 ⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought 💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP) 🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400 🔌Electrification is key THREAD + charts www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/10

The 2040 target “will be presented soon, but not as part of (Wednesday’s) Clean Industrial Deal package”: EU Commission www.politico.eu/article/comm...

US airline United’s sustainable fuel investment vehicle has invested in US direct air capture developer Heirloom, and secured the right to procure up to 500,000 CO2 removal credits #DAC #CDR www.heirloomcarbon.com/news/acceler...

5% of the world's "critical raw materials" are in Ukraine including 19m t of proven reserves of graphite (used to make batteries for electric vehicles), a third of all European lithium deposits (key component in current batteries). Titanium and rare earth metals as well www.bbc.com/news/article...

A less-connected world due to growing geopolitical tensions could make the fight against global warming <30% pricier in Western nations, but a restoration of energy trade between the EU and Russia could cut European cleaner power production costs by 20%: Goldman Sachs www.qcintel.com/carbon/artic...

Global carbon markets can close the finance gap to reach Paris climate goals if host countries introduce nationwide holistic climate mitigation plans: report www.nature.com/articles/s44...

An earlier draft of the omnibus had included scrapping the so-called "double materiality" rule in the CSRD. The leaked section of the draft bill makes no mention of double materiality, however www.politico.eu/article/brus...

UN's Green Climate Fund at its last meeting this week approved investments totalling $686.8 million for 11 projects in 42 countries. New projects include first-time single-country investments in Serbia aiming to enhance forest resilience @greenclimate.fund www.greenclimate.fund/boardroom/me...

‪EU is on track to reduce its collective net GHG emissions by 49% under 1990 levels by 2030, 6%points short of its -55% Paris goal. And removals will only amount to 224-240m tCO2e vs the 310m t targeted level for 2030: @eea.europa.eu www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...

"Net Zero 2050 is a sinister goal. It's a terrible goal...The aggressive pursuit of it has not delivered any benefits, but it's delivered tremendous costs": US energy secretary Chris Wright www.reuters.com/world/us-ene...

Full return of Russian gas supplies might crush prices, meaning that many drillers in the US would become unprofitable. But Trump would very much like a Nobel peace prize - the return of some Russian gas as part of a peace deal might seem like a price worth paying www.economist.com/finance-and-...

End to the Russia-Ukraine war could lead to a 0.5% rise in European GDP, with most of that coming from cheaper gas: Goldman Sachs www.economist.com/finance-and-...

In separate letters to the Commission, Spain and Italy urged Brussels not to weaken the due diligence law, which from 2027 will require companies to check human rights and environmental issues in their supply chains. via @kateabnett.bsky.social www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

HSBC, Europe's largest bank, has delayed its 2030 climate target by 20ys, blaming the "insufficient pace" of the global energy transition which would make the bank too dependent on buying carbon offsets www.hsbc.com/investors/re...

Selfie with @stockholmexergi.se’s power plant which will soon be turned into a #BECCS facility with 0.8m tonnes of CO2 removed per year, making it the EU’s largest engeneered CDR project

In the 5ys since its inception, the European Green Deal has faced opposition and criticism from all sides. It has never, however, faced a serious prospect of being severely weakened or reversed — until now via @karlmathiesen.bsky.social and his team www.politico.eu/article/insi...

Shell's Energy Security Scenarios cover a +1.2-2.2°C global warming by 2100, far lower than the genuine concerns just a decade ago that the range extended beyond 4°C. Final temperature outcome rests to a large extent on the world’s success in deploying CO2 removals www.shell.com/news-and-ins...

"Canada will continue to explore the possible use of cooperative approaches under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement as a way to help meet Canada's targets": Canada NDC unfccc.int/sites/defaul...