China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB Photo: Eyevine

Belém must be the COP that delivers. Delivers on tripling renewables & doubling energy efficiency by 2030. Delivers for the countries vulnerable to climate change. Delivers robust climate finance and carbon pricing. Europe will play its part ↓ link.europa.eu/Wv479K

I’m afraid I’ve heard enough to take this seriously - No.10 is thinking of abolishing ECO, the main source of funding for upgrading fuel poor homes. There’s no way to sugar coat this: it would be a disaster. And it would mean this government spending less on upgrading homes than the last one

A reminder of what happened last time a UK govt tried to reduce bills by "cutting the green crap" Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 www.carbonbrief.org/...

NEW – COP30: What does the ‘Baku to Belém roadmap’ mean for climate finance? | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/ comment from @jalokaje.bsky.social Sarah Colenbrander @rebeccathissen.bsky.social Rebecca Newsom Read here: buff.ly/X0lKbny

Obv very different, but with COP30 approaching next week, I can't help seeing these numbers and thinking of the "Baku to Belem roadmap to $1.3tn" for climate finance…

Govt and Drax have now finalised this contract, with a slightly lower price of £110/MWh in 2012 prices (£153/MWh) Key points remain as below www.drax.com/press_releas...

The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

No high-level US representatives will go to UN climate talks, Trump officials say - "I think most countries would prefer there to be no US,” a former State dept official said #COP30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

High-level US representatives are staying away from the UN climate negotiations in Brazil, even as President Donald Trump seeks to influence energy policy globally.

If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really! It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line. And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

BREAKING: Govt has published a new plan to hit UK climate goals out to 2035 (Unlike prev govt's plans) it says it'll deliver **100%** of required reductions under the sixth carbon budget 2033-2037, 96% of the 2030 NDC and 99% of the 2035 NDC We'll have full details tomorrow 1/2

FACTCHECK: The frontpage of today's Daily Telegraph has a very confused story about offshore wind, which is all sorts of wrong It says a technical change means higher subsidies & fewer new windfarms from the upcoming AR7 auction Oopsie! This is the opposite of the truth 🧵

Is it just me or is the UNFCCC website even more awful than usual at the moment? Simple pages can take several seconds to load. PDFs even longer…and then if I try again later, it's totally fine…?

To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!

Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane: STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification

Last year, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social and Jim Kossin made the scientific case for a Cat6 cyclone. This week, Hurricane Melissa became the 6th storm in recorded history to smash through that threshold, with max winds of 216mph. And conditions leading to these storms are on the rise. Read more:

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

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Interesting study from researchers at UCL on how wind power has held down energy costs in the long term. The key argument is that it has lowered gas prices in Europe by reducing demand for gas. And actually most of the savings are on gas, not electricity bills www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AR7 analysis: How much offshore wind will the govt be able to contract at the upcoming CfD auction? It depends on the "strike price", but roughly… 6GW at £70/MWh 5GW at £80/MWh 4GW at £90/MWh THREAD 1/6

NEW: UK govt issues "budget"* for the upcoming AR7 auction for new renewable energy capacity Up to £900m a year for offshore wind Up to £180m a year for floating offshore wind * NB the budget IS NOT the impact on bills, it is only 1 part of eqn 1/2

Hurricane Melissa looks, as Marco says, truly staggering Our house in east London nearly flooded a few years ago after 120mm of rain – and I remember the fallout of the "great storm" in '87, top speed 135mph… …but I can't even begin to imagine the impact of 1,000mm of rain or 200mph gusts

I am not sure the NRK Debatten on costs of climate policy was that helpful... tv.nrk.no/serie/debatt... In simplified terms, the IPCC is clear, mitigation costs less than impacts, & more mitigation leads to more benefits (with high confidence). The IPCC text is hard to pass, so a thread... 1/

Bonne nouvelle ! Les chefs d'État et de gouvernement donnent leur feu vert pour l'adoption de l'objectif climatique pour 2040. Ils envoient enfin un signal clair aux entreprises et aux investisseurs : l'UE reste dans la course mondiale à la transition. #EUCO

The European Council just held an in-depth discussion on how to make sure that Europe’s climate ambitions and the competitiveness of our economy go hand in hand. We reaffirmed our commitment to the Paris Agreement and stressed that we need to be pragmatic and flexible in our strategy.

I'm thrilled to be shortlisted for the British Journalism Awards 2025 "Energy and Environment Journalism" category I'm up against stiff competition from the Times, BBC News, i newspaper and the Indy, among others… Congrats to all on the shortlist! pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...

Slight problem with these headlines in that the report literally recommends keeping the clean power target. institute.global/insights/cli...

This is similar to Nick Robinson’s failure to challenge Claire Coutinho’s claims the UK’s net zero strategy was not really cutting emissions. Big media figures are sane-washing radical right wing policies and completely failing to recognise the seriousness of the current moment.

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Have started listening and right from the off we have claims from Coutinho that she was the first Energy Secretary to question net zero and that net zero is 'making emissions worse'. The UK has delivered the fastest emissions reductions in the G20.

@elpinchbeck.bsky.social: "Over 80% of the rise over the last 10 years in energy bills has been about the price of gas" @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org interview here www.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-b...

INTERVIEW: I sat down with @thecccuk.bsky.social chief @elpinchbeck.bsky.social to talk UK progress in cutting emissions, attacks on the Climate Change Act, media misinformation, talking to kids about global warming & more Full transcript + vid + recording: www.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-b...

Ed Miliband says his govt's "clean energy superpower" mission is going to help create 400,000 jobs by 2030

Great to speak at the @energy-uk.org.uk conference just now, about the tenuous relationship between many media headlines & reality Here's a taster #eukconf25

Liberal Democrat Ed Davey says the Conservatives and Reform have a message on energy bills that is "simple, beguiling and terribly, terribly wrong" Calls for the sector to take on their "lies" and says "the Farage/Badenoch plan would fail".

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the ELEVENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 14 separate articles). I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

What could possibly go wrong

Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries, saving hundreds of billions of dollars, report @iea.org - including UK, Germany and Chile etc Story by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

NEW – IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @iea.org Read here: buff.ly/moV7Tge

FACTCHECK: Claire Coutinho claims UK gas power only costs £55/MWh… …but she is ignoring a few small details: 🤫 Gas prices always rise in winter 🤫 Gas plants cost money to build 🤫 CO2 causes economic damages THREAD with receipts 1/8

So have I got this right? 1️⃣Conservatives want to scrap UK Climate Change Act 2️⃣They claim to believe "climate change is real", but won't say what they'd do about it 3️⃣ They'd scrap CO2 pricing, economists' favourite option 4️⃣Dissenters are ideological "fools" 1/2

A brilliant piece on what the UK's Climate Change Act does, why it's inspired action around the world, and how the Tories were key to creating it - despite their current leader now wanting to destroy it bsky.app/profile/drsi...

This is really good. Nothing about the CCA has obliged the Government to go down the centrally planning route the Conservatives now decry. Moreover, the Conservatives were in office for all but two of the first 17 years of the CCA. /1

FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act Feat. OG authors of the Act & more www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

*gasp*

This article by Sebastian Payne, Times columnist, leader writer and wannabe politician, is so very revealing * does not know last auction got >6GW of wind * thinks AR5 issues included grid constraints * invokes cheaper-than-renewable energy, but won't name it Mere details! 1/2