IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO): 'Faster adoption of renewable energy can strengthen resilience to energy shocks, improve energy security, and support the climate transition.' www.imf.org/-/media/...

Buried away in the IMF GFSR, acknowledgement from its directors that quitting oil, gas & coal = security: 'Accelerating energy transition would also support energy diversification and security' www.imf.org/-/media/...

The big #climate deals & treaties have now been signed. The late 2020s + 2030s are now about coalitions of countries getting on with the transition. Decent read this via @UNFCCC head of strategy Joanna MacGregor backchannel1.substac...

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One to keep an eye on --> UK-Turkey 'Strategic Partnership Framework' will 'cover shared work on combatting climate change and increasing collaboration on energy security' www.gov.uk/governmen...

'Türkiye has no plans to phase out of fossil fuels. Instead, it plans to increase its reliance on fossil fuels, casting doubt on the government’s climate ambition' Not a great look for the #COP31 hosts this - via @climateactiontr climateactiontracker...#COP31

'ICS, BIMCO, the World Shipping Council, Intertanko, Intercargo, Interferry and the Cruise Lines International Association say they are committed to the IMO’s #climate strategy' Impressive unity from shipping industry...

Feels like the debate in India on energy security + renewables is shifting - in a good way...

Why would Putin want to trash clean energy? Mysterious...

Climate Diplo Brief - Santa Marta Fossil Fuel Phaseout Conference Special

So hard to know what's driving UK inflation TBH. Bit of a mystery. That and what to do about it...

It will be the law of the jungle. Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South. Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...

Japan's car giants are in trouble. They ignored / lobbied against electrification - and now it's come back to the bite them in the exhaust pipe @TheEconomist economist.com/busine...?

China's strategy to invest heavily in clean tech (while keeping its coal fleet running) 'embodies strategic wisdom' and 'fosters a trillion-yuan-level industrial chain' says Beijing's National Energy Agency. Mitts being rubbed as rivals fret & fray... www.nea.gov.cn/20260...

'Australia is not taking serious action on climate change' - blunt charge against #COP31 co-hosts from @TheAusInstitute - which adds: 'tax concessions account for the largest part of overall fossil fuel subsidies'. australiainstitute.o...

It's time for an EU #climate diplomacy reset, argue Linda Kalcher, Anne-Sophie Cerisola & Norbert Gorissen @StrategicEU backchannel1.substac...#climate

If China lands this what odds it hosts #COP33 too - cementing its grip on the clean tech narrative

Of all the energy related graphics I've ever seen, this by @EIAgov is up there as one of the odder / more confusing ones... www.eia.gov/todayine...

US @EIAgov expects solar to generate '17% more electricity than it did last summer' rising to 22% in 2027. www.eia.gov/outlooks...

By 2050, the adoption of EVs in Saudi Arabia is expected to reduce oil consumption in the road transport sector 'by 20.2 % in the high-growth scenario, 15.4 % in the moderate-growth scenario, and 11.0 % in the low-growth scenario' www.sciencedirect.co...

'The oil shock has handed progressive leaders a major opportunity. The question is whether they will seize it' - the team @amprog lay down the challenge to leaders / communicators. Worth a read.

For now, the war in the Middle East hasn't led to increased coal burn relative to last year's level. Solar and wind continue to increase their share in the global mix. energyandcleanair.org/fossil-power...

'CATL’s battery factories are vast and highly automated, stretching as long as six football fields laid end to end. The company is building them at a rapid clip to keep up with the surging demand.' Some read this... www.nytimes.com/2026...

The only lasting way out of the fossil dependency is shifting electricity generation to renewables and nuclear. And electrifying the economy as rapidly as possible. We will present our electrification strategy before the summer. Electrifying Europe means making Europe more independent.

Somehow the gas lobbyists @ GECF reckon a #COP30 deal on adaptation (such as it was) = green light for 'natural gas to expand its role in the global energy mix' - which seems a somewhat generous interpretation... www.gecf.org/Portals...

More countries have plans to quit fossil fuels than you think (50+ have power sector phaseout plans, for a start) - via @ClimaInfoNews backchannel1.substac...

Bloody Leftist chatterati

'At the end of the Tet Offensive, both sides had endured losses, and both sides claimed victory. The U.S. and South Vietnamese military response almost completely eliminated the NLF forces and regained all of the lost territory' Feels oddly familiar... history.state.gov/mi...

Merz losing patience with his climate trashing / oil & gas loving minister Reiche, reports @derspiegel

Looking forward to Pakistan throwing its hat into the #COP33 UN #climate summit hosting ring now India has pulled out - would also enhance Islamabad's desire to be seen as a diplomatic player... CoolBreeze#COP33

UK EV sales having a shocker www.bloomberg.com/ne...

Shakespeare for a Tuesday... prescient 'I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall--I will do such things,-- What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep No, I'll not weep'

LNG: not as 'clean' as they'd have you believe. Cracking investigation into US methane leaks here... not a good look for BP

Correlation between a council declaring a climate emergency and actually doing something useful > minimal

Saudi Arabia, Russia and others yet again blocking progress on climate science ... > IPCC: ‘Frustrating and disappointing’ meeting leaves AR7 timeline in deadlock #climatecrisis @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/ipcc-frustra...

'The most fossil fuel-friendly government in recent U.S. history has shown us all just how risky reliance on oil and gas can be — and taught the world that true energy security lies in accelerating toward a cleaner, electrified future.' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

Good stat this: 46 countries already have power sector fossil fuel phaseout plans. Fewer have clear transport, buildings, heating and cooling proposals (via @IISD_news) but many appear to have single-sector proposals... www.iisd.org/system/...

A thread -- which world leaders are calling for a shift to clean energy as a security investment in light of Iran War? First up, French President Macron: "...everything we do to more toward the transition is also about reducing our dependence.." (1/x) #cleanenergyisnationalsecurity

Govt / biz energy policy responses to Iran war over past 2-3 weeks - turning into quite a list climatediplobrief.su...

**Climate Diplomacy Brief - April 2026** Is Trump in line for a Nobel #climate prize as Iran war batters global fossil fuel markets?

South Korea's President on energy crisis: 'It’s a situation so serious that even I can’t sleep. South Korea needs to transition to renewable energy quickly. If we rely on fossil energy, the future will be extremely risky.'

Quite a read this from oil & gas HQ Houston: 'The shift from oil isn't just about being 'green' anymore. It's a massive power move for national security.'

India's rhetoric on the energy transition appears (to me at least) to have shifted considerably since COP30 in Belem. Take this i/v by minister Yadav: 'NDCs central to India’s economic transformation' - links wind / solar to growth / competitiveness

US also co-hosting 'the most polluting World Cup' in 2026. Truly a year of glory. 'England fans following their team through the group stage alone could travel more than 1,760 miles between host cities.'

'lithium-ion battery research was initially publicly funded in the 1970s, and the first patent was funded by the UK Government in 1981, before policy support fostered markets that drove further improvements.' via @IEA - I did not know that...

“America is aligning itself with petro-states... undermining support for the climate agenda and actively trying to destroy jobs in the renewables sector ... an extraordinary, ideological campaign.” Good piece on Miliband / global #climate politics...

India says it met its 2015 goal for '40% share of non-fossil resources based electric power installed capacity' 9 years ahead of the committed timeline... currently 52% - new target is 65% by 2035. So maybe we take datelines with a pinch of salt... www.pib.gov.in/Press...

'US oil majors are set for a $63.4 billion windfall from oil at $100 a barrel' via @TheNationalNews - war in the Middle East isn't bad news for everyone...

Larry Fink making the case for #solar in his annual letter... 'one of the fastest sources of new power to deploy, and over the past decade its costs have declined substantially' www.blackrock.com/co...

I can't quite believe that right in the middle of an energy crisis the @LibDems in Oxfordshire are running under a manifesto to stop new solar... 🤦🤦🤦 - to think @EdwardJDavey used to be UK #climate minister