£1.1bn for UK renewables this year (AR7) vs £1.5bn for renewables last year (AR6). The message to developers is to not take the mick on pricing - but the reality is that this isn't the final number, and everyone knows that. 🔌💡

This isn't going to happen. What car manufacturer is going to bet their market share on selling cars that go slow after the 100km PHEV battery dies?

Kudos to @faisalislam.bsky.social on drawing the link between climate and food prices in this piece www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... A shame it took him til word 1,882 (or 1,963 words) to do so.

Pleased to be talking about the future of UK wind power in light of the loss of political consensus on climate - alongside Andrew Bowie, Conservative energy minister.

"climate impacted products alone added almost two percentage points to the 5.1% rise in the food and drink basket — roughly 4x the inflationary impact of the rest." www.ft.com/content/ced8...

imo, the obliteration of of the IRA Waste Emissions Charge (the "methane rule") is an underdiscussed loss with global ripple effects. the EPA had a solid framework for identifying & abating cheap, high-impact GHG emissions in up/midstream gas. it's all gone now. the EU methane reg stands alone.

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This is the quiet, but slowly getting louder horror story taking place across the northern hemisphere

Nice bit of journalism here on a potential 5x rise in the farming inheritance tax threshold. I tend to agree that it buys no goodwill: news.sky.com/story/damage...

Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory If the world didn’t win, has it lost? We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...

Claire Coutinho would scrap carbon/renewables costs to save £126/y on bills. What might go? - Carbon Price Support: £26/y (main loser is the taxpayer) - Renewables Obligation: £86/y (retrospective change- v bad for investment) - Small scale FiTs: £20/y (retrospective- bad for small solar investors)

Another politician saying don't invest in Britain. 🤦‍♂️

Grid battery prices fell by 40% last year. Evidence is mounting they falling by around ANOTHER 40% THIS YEAR🤯🤯🤯

I'm looking forward to tea production stats from English tea growers (shout out to www.dartmoorestatetea.com, tregothnan.co.uk, and peterstontea.com) that look like this chart...

Why are food prices still on the up? Come on BBC - it’s global heating. Those droughts and heatwaves that raise food prices are 10x to 100x more likely because of the carbon emissions we’re putting into the atmosphere.

Faithful reporting but I'm a bit sceptical that uranium is the key constraint for nuclear. The problem for the industry is still construction cost: www.ft.com/content/0d6c...

"In almost every area of the energy transition, one country dominates: China. Wind power, where the People’s Republic still has less than half the global market, is a rare exception. President Donald Trump is doing his best to change that." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Very interesting CCS study: www.nature.com/articles/s41... The headline is a large reduction in potential storage, but there's still plenty of carbon storage to keep warming well below 2c. It does pour a bit of cold water on European storage - only the UK and Norway are major players.

Important article to read in advance of #COP30: "We should prohibit deforestation in the Amazon because it is very close to the point of no return.” #Brazil #Amazon #Survival apnews.com/article/braz...

Antarctica is undergoing abrupt changes which most likely will significantly intensify in the future. Caused by climate change, they span ice sheet, sea ice, ocean & life itself . These changes are a clarion call to all of us, ‘cause what happens in Antarctica affects us all. 1/

NEW: I wrote about engineered wood! Including a new, ultra strong version. Using more timber in construction - rather than concrete and steel - could help reduce the carbon footprint on buildings. (Am happy that my editor used my headline, at the top of the article!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For the £49bn cost of a 3rd runway at Heathrow, the Spanish could build more than 3 high speed rail lines. - London-Glasgow in 3h (linked to HS1 to Paris) - Bristol-Newcastle in 2h - London-St Ives in 2.5h Plus they'd be near zero carbon. Explain to me why a 3rd runway is good value?

A 'don't invest in Britain' message from Reform. Two problems: 1. Nearly 1m people now work in the UK's green economy. This promises them unemployment. 2. AR7 allocates contracts. Reform won't honour contract law, which underpins private property. If you thought Liz Truss was bad, just wait 💡🔌

It was already hard to be a young scientist. Trump is making it almost impossible. Must-read by @smallthoughts.bsky.social, in his last @thebulletin.org article as our climate fellow: thebulletin.org/2025/07/trum...

The OBR report you should be reading- excellent from @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org. Mitigation costs are down to ~0.5% of GDP and are *way* cheaper than avoidable damage costs. Plus, damage costs will rise - economics is a long way behind climate science. www.carbonbrief.org/obr-net-zero...

"The life-cycle emissions of BEVs in the European Union are estimated to be 73% lower than those of gasoline ICEVs." @iccteu.bsky.social's latest report: theicct.org/publication/...

🎉📢 Excellent news for climate action: The government has committed to a methane action plan - and in time for #COP30 this year! Last night, we attended a reception where we heard encouraging words from Ed Miliband MP, @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu , the COP30 President, Kerry McCarthy MP + more. 1/3

Uh these are most definitely not idiosycratic drivers of inflation for the 21st century, Mr Bailey. Climate risks are the inflation megatrend of this century. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Worth reading from @transenv.bsky.social on the parlous state of EU EV manufacturing: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too. This isn't over, but this is a huge win. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

The problem with the datacentres need SMRs hype is that Las Vegas, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Muscat can all do high uptime with kit (batteries and solar) that takes less than 12 months to build.

This is a problem for EV uptake in Europe: high electricity prices mean EVs are no longer always cheaper to run than petrol. Time-of-use pricing avoids this problem, but it's near impossible to find public chargers in the UK that are the same price as petrol.

What is populism? It's suggesting it's possible to reopen outdated blast furnaces, power them with the wrong sort of the coal & waste a £500m investment in modern, cleaner electric arc furnaces that can use the scrap metal (British scrap metal!) we too often export. shorturl.at/xsaPM

The odd current means-test on free school meals (£7,400 in take-home pay) is both extremely mean & (due to lack of inflation-adjustment) getting ever-meaner. V welcome, hunger-relieving news that it’s now going to be eased & automatically linked to Universal Credit

“The idea that we must choose between a strong economy and protecting our environment is outdated. The future I believe in is one where these two aims go hand in hand, driving innovation and opportunity" - well said James Cleverly! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hats off to the marketing genius who has rebranded ‘we lack the infrastructure to check EU food imports, despite 4 years of delays’ into this press release: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fruit-and-veg-import-checks-scrapped-ahead-of-uk-eu-deal

The UK grid looks v clean for the next 48h. There's enough power to switch all fossil fuel generation off, but is there enough inertia? 4.9GW of nuclear, interconnectors, batteries and synchronous condensers are are due to be ready this year. But will NESO dare, given the recent Iberian blackouts?🔌💡

Here's an #upshift since we really need one right now: Sublime just signed a deal with Microsoft to sell up to 622,500 tons of electrochemically produced cement over a period of 6 - 9 years. Sublime says "for scale, that's enough to build roughly 31 NFL stadiums." 🔌💡 www.linkedin.com/posts/sublim...

Coal produces less than half of Poland’s power for first time Until 2008 it was still at 90% Poland is phasing out coal just like the rest of the EU, just starting from much higher levels then most of the EU notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/13/p...

Just one university - UCL - employs almost twice as many people as there are working in fishing boats.

This should be front page news: "Worryingly, the observed energy imbalance is rising much faster than expected." Real-world translation: this is extremely alarming, with more energy in the atmosphere we should expect (even) worse storms, floods, droughts etc. and knock-on food/water impacts.

A 2.4GW offshore wind farm paused - multiple editorials explaining how offshore wind and Labour's clean power plans are doomed. Two days later. Plans for 4.7GW of offshore wind farms advance - *crickets* www.businessgreen.com/news/4413398...

Katherina Reiche, Germany's Economy Minister, kills off the prospect of German nuclear restarts, but signals a lot of demand for gas - not quite a zeitenwende but definitely a change. 🔌💡 www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...

How is this extra £3-£4k figure for solar on new homes calculated? Panel costs themselves are maybe £750 for a (big) 5kw system. I can't imagine that the incremental additional cost for electrics at newbuild stage add the rest. www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/plans-f...

Another attack on a pillar of climate science in America www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Why are we not doing this? Never seen a more "no brainer" policy. Even people who are the most strongly opposed to immigration tend not to object to top scientists coming here.

Oh, for a functional UK forest risk commodities regime with due diligence requirements

Kevin was incredibly generous in sharing his work with us at the UK's national food strategy review - his latest (draft) study is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how ultraprocessed food harms health. Anyone at a European university/research department want to offer him a job?

The article is a little vague, but it sounds like OFGEM is considering income-graduated fixed charges to cover some network fixed costs. As we have learned in California, implementation is very challenging. www.ft.com/content/3482... 💡🔌

Bit of a niche question, but have others found that Eurostar wifi / mobile signal has got worse over the past few years? Any experts know why we can't beam 5g straight down the tracks?