THIS! www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/22/i...

Great work here from @carbonbrief.org , debunking common myths about solar power. The reason that solar power makes so much sense is fundamental physics - it takes energy in its most useful form, as soon as it arrives on Earth, before it's "taxed" in entropy. Making use of it is a slam-dunk win.

Very glad to have this piece with @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social published - even several months after me leaving Carbon Brief! This article was more than a year in the making, and very timely now given the ongoing heatwaves. Read more below ⬇️

"climate realism" reading a lot like "sacrificing the global south and just shooting for 3 C" www.cfr.org/article/our-...

🚨Personal News: As of today, I have started as the Impact Research and Evidence Manager at SBTi. I will be working at the intersection of research, comms and strategy, evaluating SBTi’s impact on reducing emissions. Thanks to everyone at @carbonbrief.org for making my time there so memorable!

Another year, another (territorial) emissions drop for the UK See our analysis below ⬇️

Trump's aid cuts are bad news for international climate finance. I looked through the available data to work out how bad... Around 8% of the climate finance pledged to developing countries by rich countries last year came from the US. Those funds are now under threat. ➡️ buff.ly/BuxwfSL

I enjoyed writing this week's #DeBriefed newsletter for @carbonbrief.org! As part of this, I wrote a piece that takes you behind the scenes of how @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social and I went about doing our recent analysis on UK airport expansion. Find the full newsletter below. ⬇️

In the past two years, floods ruined soybeans growing in Brazil, a hurricane destroyed millions of $$ worth of crops in Jamaica and drought hit Sri Lankan rice This new interactive map gives a snapshot of how extreme weather is damaging crops, feat. 100 news stories from 2023-24 buff.ly/42Rqf2D

NEW: Just 10/195 countries signed up to the Paris Agreement met the UN’s 10 Feb deadline to submit their 2035 climate pledges UN climate chief Simon Stiell said latecomers must submit by September

In light of the Guardian's front page today, just reupping my story from August reporting that Labour could approve up to *13* new oil and gas projects like Rosebank These are projects that have a license but still need to obtain development consent from gov www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

New runways at London airports would result in cumulative emissions of around 92m tonnes of extra CO2e by 2050, if the number of flights increases in line with their operating company targets. Carbon Brief’s analysis covered by Anushka Asthana on @itvpeston.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/3WJ9Ut1

Overtaking what looks like a Formula 1 car is really making the point

Our new analysis on UK airport expansion! Note: the comparison to forests is very much a hypothetical comparison that is meant to highlight the scale of these expansions. We cannot just tree plant our way out of any potential expansion of fossil fuel use (although more trees is always nice!).

NEW ANALYSIS - With the UK government poised to back the expansion of Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton, we crunched the numbers on the climate impact of these plans. The UK would need to plant a new forest 2X the size of London to offset the emissions from all the extra flights 🌳✈️ ➡️ buff.ly/4hsYYrt

This one sounds like a cool job!

Solar and wind growth in the EU has pushed fossil fuel power to a 40-year low in 2024, with solar alone overtaking coal generation for the first time, according to our analysis of new figures from energy analysts @ember-energy.org

Now you see why @carbonbrief.org estimated that a Trump presidency would add an extra four billion tonnes of CO₂ₑ to the atmosphere by 2030.

I assume most people know this, but seems important to point out basic truths at this moment in time. There is no energy emergency in the U.S. The U.S. is the world's top producer of oil and gas at the moment, and the top exporter of gas, and U.S. oil and gas producers are making record profits.

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Brilliant documentary - would also recommend everyone to watch this. It's only 25 minutes long and will likely leave a much longer impression on you. Fardowsa is such an inspiration!

A few years ago, my friend, outspoken climate scientist Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social, moved his family out of LA because he could extrapolate from the data. This week the house where he raised his kids burned down. His words for us all (gift link): 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

Britain’s electricity supplies were the cleanest in history last year as fossil-fuel power generation sank to its lowest since 1955, the year Rock Around the Clock topped the charts www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

+++NEW ANALYSIS+++ UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade Highlights: 🏭end of coal power after 142yrs 🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share 🌄renewables at record-high 45% www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/9

Our NEW analysis - just released! The carbon intensity of UK electricity was only 124gCO2/kWh in 2024, down 70% from 419gCO2/kWh in 2014.

One word: Plastics. www.carbonbrief.org/five-charts-... h/t @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org and the excellent @carbonbrief.org team

Is a plastic production reduction target on the cards at #INC-5? The PSIDS group submitted a proposal on Tues that calls for a 40x40 target (40%⬇️ on 2025 levels by 2040): https://buff.ly/4eUAXrs We show that 40x40 could cut plastics cumu. emissions between 2024-50 by half* wrt to BAU. 1/

To understand global south anger at the COP29 climate finance goal it's crucial to understand two key numbers. 1️⃣ "At least" $300bn/year - developed nations agreed to "take the lead" in mobilising this for developing countries 2️⃣ $1.3tn/year - a wider, vaguer goal They sound pretty big! But...

Amidst #COP29, you might have missed it but, the most important environmental treaty since the #Paris is being negotiated THIS week! At the #INC-5 in Busan, countries are hoping to strike an agreement on a global treaty to reduce #plastic pollution. But why is this relevant for climate? A 🧵 1/

I'm so proud of the Carbon Brief #COP29 team for finishing our big summary of the talks It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting… –NCQG –Stocktake –Article6 –China +Much more …delivered in record time after a brutal fortnight of sleep deprivation! www.carbonbrief.org/...

Evidence, if it were needed, that I work with AMAZING colleagues. Less than 16hrs after the gavel came down on COP29, they have published a 20,000-word omnibus article summarising EVERYTHING you need to know about the two-week event in Baku 👏👏👏

A modest $300bn in climate finance, no explicit mention of transitioning away from fossil fuels (only an indirect reference via a decision of last year), but an explicit shoutout to the importance of transition fuels aka fossil gas. Disappointing 2/2

🚨NEW from me: Developing Nations, NGOs Reject 'Disaster' COP29 Deal.

To put the just-agreed New Collective Quantified Goal at COP29 in some context... $300,000,000,000 - NCQG "by 2035" $2,440,000,000,000 - global military spending in 2023 That's EIGHT TIMES larger

Pretty happy with my guess of 06:00am local time on Sunday, 29 mins off the actual #COP29 closing time.

+CLIMATE FINANCE TARGET AGREED AT COP29+ Several draft texts swirled around last night, and a day of fraught negotiations resulted in this: 💰 Core goal of "at least" $300bn/year for developing countries 💰Developed countries "take the lead". Developing can contribute voluntarily

If you want to nerd-out over #COP overrun statistics, @jjgoodman.bsky.social is your man.

NEW TEXTS DROPPED AT #COP29 * NCQG: Draft finance target of $250bn * UAE dialogue: clear ref to GST para 28 * UAE dialogue: Options on taking GST fwd * MWP: GST remains absent www.carbonbrief.org/...#COP291/3

Carbon Brief is on the ground at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The COP negotiation process can be quite complicated even for participating delegates and experienced journalists. To help you navigate the COP and keep on top of what’s happening, we have published some handy resources. / a thread

Important new investigation by the excellent @emmahoward.bsky.social at @unearthednews.bsky.social (follow her)🙏 It finds Exxon, Total, Shell, Chevron Phillips & Dow, members of a plastic pollution alliance, made 1000 times more plastic than they cleaned up👉 unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

The @carbonbrief.org sweepstake on when #COP29 will formally end now has 112 guesses. Lots of people going for Sunday morning! Enter your exact day/time here if you want to join in: bit.ly/CBCOP29Gavel... No prizes, just bragging rights!

Climate Change: It's real. It's us. It's serious - and already dangerous. But there are solutions. The science is clear: the faster we cut emissions, the less suffering we will cause, and the better off we'll all be.

FOSSIL FUELS mentioned! #COP29 The first draft negotiating text on the UAE dialogue dropped this morning! And the #COP28 outcome wording on 'transition away from fossil fuels' is in there! PROGRESS! Follow our text tracker to keep up to date on new docs: www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-...

Check out this awesome animation that my colleague @jjgoodman.bsky.social made for our new @carbonbrief.org analysis! More details on analysis here: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Our new analysis on historical (+ potential future) emissions! The analysis suggests that China's cumulative emissions might never reach those of the US* and the US will remain the largest contributor to climate change. *under the IEA's STEPS scenario (WEO'24) projected to 2100 Read more below ⬇️

Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution. The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies. interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-... THREAD 1/10

Presented without comment from COP29: Natural Gas for Sustainable Development

And the new draft texts keep flying in as #COP29 is in full swing! The tracker has now been updated with automated page, bracket and option counting. Explore below to get into the weeds of the negotiations ⬇️ And follow @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org for insights as new key texts drop!

You can now follow the whole @carbonbrief.org team in one go, using the starter pack below ⬇️ go.bsky.app/6X95R1T