a few nice updates from Boris on Anthropic's fossil-fuelled chatbot www.linkedin.com/posts/bgamaz...

2025 was a muted year for peak power demand in India, with a wetter year pulling temperatures down. But 2026? ▸April set a new all-year record, and that's already been broken again in May, and we have 9 days left in the month ▸High temperatures and growth in air conditioning are straining the grid

Obviously Donald Trump is not an expert in refrigerants, but you can be, and understand why these decisions can be hugely consequential for climate change, if you read this quick 🧵:

If you're interested in more about energy and climate in #India, check out the latest edition of our monthly "India Energy and Climate Pulse"!

India has built a lot of solar in the last few years, and it's making a real dent in daytime generation. ▸More batteries are needed to store the excess and time-shift it to nighttime, when loads are still high for air conditioning ▸Already storage discharge is half as much as natural gas at night

India’s energy security is being stress-tested at the intersection of geopolitics and climate change. Check this thread 👇

This shows how energy security and food systems are closely interconnected---and why resilience planning is becoming increasingly critical.

India imports about half of the natural gas it consumes, and the government has responded by directing shortages to industry, while maintaining supplies to households ("City Gas").

We're aiming to publish these snapshot reports monthly. Here's a direct link to April's snapshot about why emissions growth slowed so markedly in India in 2025. Check it out! #Energy #EnergySky #ClimateSky #Renewables #Solar #India

🇮🇳 India's grid planning is not keeping up with fast-moving renewables – a mismatch leading to costly delays and curtailment Synchronisation between generation and grid buildout works as the Southern grid's ZERO transmission-related curtailment shows. ember-energy.org/lat...

Measuring poverty used to mean flying data collectors to remote villages every decade. A satellite AI model just mapped every 6-km area of Africa for 36 GPU-hours total, which is roughly the cost of a tank of gas. Cool paper by @marshallburke.bsky.social, et al.: arxiv.org/abs/2604.23166

It's not just about energy, because natural gas is a key feedstock in fertiliser production. At the start of the important Kharif cropping season, natural gas shortages have led to a 25% drop in production of fertiliser as well as massive price spikes for imports.

India has held retail fuel prices fairly constant since the 2022 energy crisis, but with costs mounting quickly through March and April, the government has finally conceded that it cannot absorb these costs forever, and raised prices on the 15th of May.

LPG plays a central role in India's kitchens, but the shift from traditional biomass to imported LPG has left India vulnerable to geopolitical shocks. Domestic production was pushed up, but this was far from sufficient to close the gap left by supply constraints, and consumption has dropped sharply.

📢Today we launch the second of our snapshot reports "India Energy and Climate Pulse" this time with the title "War and Heat: India under pressure" Here's a short thread on what we cover. 🧵

Please read the full report, available here, co-written by my colleague @shivmit.bsky.social as part of our research project Emphasis.

Make America Healthy Again: "Mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants rose by 9 percent in 2025 after years of declines." 🎁🔗

France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.

India’s emissions story just took an interesting turn. Check out the first snapshot from our EMPHASIS project www.ecpulse.in Despite ~7.5% economic growth, CO₂ emissions rose only 1.1% in 2025 — far below the ~4% decade average.

#india We're launching a series of brief monthly snapshots providing an overview of recent developments shaping India’s climate and energy landscape. The first issue is out now! "An Unexpected Slowdown: Why India’s Emissions Growth Stalled in 2025" Check it out :-)

Climate deniers and delayers are going to start saying "sorry but we can't start reducing our emissions, what about the US"

This is one of the key reasons the data centre boom is sucking resources away from power generation construction as well, btw ->

It's crazy how reliant the world's entire energy system is on one body of water, the Strait of Hormuz, just 20 nautical miles across at its narrowest, and situated in one of the most volatile regions on Earth. Here are the countries most dependent on oil&gas through the strait.

WOW! As of this morning only about 350 letters had been sent out urging our Delegates to hold data centers accountable and lower our energy costs. BUT after we blasted this call to action, we hit our goal of sending over 1,000 letters to our Delegates. Keep going! actionnetwork.org/letters/shif...

Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, has disclosed that 140 data centres want grid connections, requiring **50GW** of power capacity at peak Britain’s peak demand on a recently was 45GW Can this amount of energy be provided cleanly? Even if it can, is it worth it? www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

this is a top @stuti.bsky.social piece and I also find the headline so interesting - 'proof the green transition isn't dead'. I cannot imagine how anyone could even really formulate the idea that it *is* dead? I guess because they hear about it less; therefore assume it just died??

Fascinating figure from the EIA. The part at the bottom highlights the repeated patterns of policies reaching end of life, and being renewed again. Over and over again. A consequence of this was that EIA's projections, based on current policy, kept saying that US wind installations would stall.

While our best estimate is that US fossil-fuel CO₂ emissions went up about 2% in 2025, the EIA is currently forecasting a drop of 2.2% in 2026. robbieandrew.github.io/USA/

2025 was the third-hottest year on record, coming in behind 2023 and 2024 and making it clear that climate change has arrived.

Interesting to note that the end of 2025 did not see the usual surge in sales. There have been policy changes and pressure from the government on the industry to rein in the steep discounting we've seen previously. Dec 2025 sales were 14% lower than Dec 2024. www.cpcaauto.com/newslist.php...

Not just any researcher. Rob Lempert!

Inefficient Jet Engines Repurposed for AI Data Centres. Rising electricity demand from AI is pushing tech firms to use repurposed jet engines for data centres. Only about 40% efficient, they burn far more fuel than modern power plants as grids struggle to keep up. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

🧵 1/3 ☀️ A big story from #India: The Indian state Rajasthan just rejected a 3,200 MW #coal power plant because #renewables are cheaper. www.downtoearth.org.in/energy/rerc-...

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

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The carbon market is not the way to do CO₂ removal (CDR). If we're serious about this, it has to be a government-led effort.

When any government receives negative information about their inflated base year emissions due to improved methodologies, they should correct their course and increase mitigation efforts instead of maintaining the reduction target in the revised NDC. Here is one example from Nigeria NDC.

"Here is the graph, which is so wild, the climate scientist had to call a colleague & check it" It is true actually! In the Global Carbon Budget we do not usually show the LUC like this, because of interannual variability & uncertainty. But it is what the data says! politiken.dk/klima/art106...

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%. This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. www.unep.org/resources/em... 1/

Interesting climate/energy policy developments in China.

When tennis becomes a metaphor for all life on Earth. www.wsj.com/sports/tenni...

New paper with @glenpeters.bsky.social in Nature Communications today. We show how models and studies with a lot of scenarios in the IPCC scenarios database have a large impact on key findings, including emissions reductions, net-zero GHG year, and coal, gas, and oil consistent with 1.5°C.

📢 Out now in the September 2025 issue of #JAERE! 📢 "Industrial Water Pollution and Agricultural Production in India" by Nick Hagerty ( @hagertynw.bsky.social ) and Anshuman Tiwari. Read it here: buff.ly/oAalYIW 📈📉 #Econsky

India more than halved a tax rate on domestic sales of renewable-energy equipment, as part of a raft of measures to shore up local consumption and shield the economy from punitive US tariffs

It’s not just fossil fuels at risk of becoming stranded — without good policies, even decentralized renewables could be left behind. We have looked at this issue in this paper.

#LowCarbon #MiniGrid assets face risk of asset stranding, with the expansion of or improvement in reliability of national grids. Good #Policy to ensure these assets can interconnect can reduce this risk, + improve reliability, #emissions and costs! Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The study uses #energy system #modelling to explore different scenarios of national grid/mini-grid reliability in #India, and how under different #scenarios, national grid connected mini-grids can offer a promising solution providing clean, affordable and reliable power. ‪@powerforall.bsky.social

Sharing our new paper in #NatureCommunications on solar-based mini-grids interconnecting with national grids can boost reliability, cut costs + emissions, and reduce the risk of asset stranding, co-led by @benwinchester.bsky.social & with @shivmit.bsky.social, + others! @natureportfolio.nature.com

The DIAMOND project has made an important milestone: the first draft release of six open integrated assessment models (IAMs) that are emblematic in both scientific and policy processes. Now is the chance to contribute and provide feedback! preview.mailerlite.com/y7x9l4x1r1