Read this. Spot on. And so scary

Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India

NEW RESEARCH: One German tabloid coined one word. "Heizungshammer" spread to 1,100+ articles and helped to effectively kill Germany's heating law. We analysed 333 BILD articles to trace how tabloid framing became legislation. Out today, open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

We are suffering in the European heatwave now. And we *should* have all the tools and policies in place to not suffer under this heat. People are drowning in France in an effort to cool off. Students are unable to learn in schools. We must not let climate change slip from our political priorities!

Indeed an all-star team of authors

Africa is becoming an EV growth story. The FT reports that the energy crisis has supercharged African demand for electric motorbikes and buses. Start-ups rolling out charging infrastructure are raising record sums. The transition isn’t just a Europe, US and China story anymore.

If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.

Scoop: The Trump administration is backing off its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system crucial to understanding climate change, after a bipartisan backlash in Congress. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

Well, at least they‘re honest: Screw the planet, screw your children‘s future, our loss-making, billions-burning business model is more important. Quick! More gas! Like a con man creating time pressure. Meanwhile the heat is escalating like never before. #AI #Climateemergency

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

It must be so cool to live in a functional republic.

📍Call for papers - Constructing futures through climate modelling. Submission deadline: 30/6 This special issue invites short communications (up to 3,000 words) on how climate models shape futures, policy, and public debate. More info 👇

The Paris Agreement is about "well below 2C" & pursuing 1.5C, it is not about avoiding 4-5C. This is somewhat lost in the RCP8.5 debate. The science said keep well below 2C, & RCP8.5 is not needed to make that case. Other scenarios were. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our latest @climateactiontracker.org briefing: current energy crisis can tip transformation over the edge, but many governments so far cling to the past and let opportunity for change pass. The market has decided for cheap, reliable, secure renewables and electrification. When will all governments?

Like taking the batteries out of a smoke alarm that keeps sounding.

The German AfD is meeting Kremlin associates and pushing to reopen Nord Stream. This is what is often missed about the backlash against net zero: It is about who controls Europe's energy and vested interest groups want to drive us back towards dependency on Russian gas.

📍 The ACCLIMATE Project Meeting and Summer School are officially underway in Paris, hosted by our colleagues at IDDRI! All 20 partners from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas have come together to review our latest scientific results, exchange ideas and map out the next steps!

You want to do yourself a favour, you watch this video.

NEW @iea.org data: clean energy investment is now more than double fossil fuels. $2,155bn vs $1,008bn in 2025. The crossover happened around 2016. Since then the gap has only widened. What was a narrow lead a decade ago is now a >2-to-1 split.

As the #Iran war disrupts #oil and #gas supplies, the #fossilfuel crisis has become a development crisis. That is why #COP31 matters and here is what they need to do. My new piece for @climatechangenews.com www.climatechangenews.com/2026/05/29/c...

Cambridge University has started pulling hundreds of millions of pounds away from institutions that finance fossil fuels.

"What is insidious about the 'technology will save us' narrative is not that it underestimates the scale of the problem - it does - but that it politically disarms us with regards to the struggles to come"

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

📢 New publication featuring ACCLIMATE colleagues: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞-𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲-𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬. It explores the limits of climate modelling in assessing equity and justice. 🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328726000923

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

Germany is conducting a nationwide experiment on whether austerity and neoliberal reforms really fuel the rise of the extreme right. So far it’s confirming the state of the literature. A new poll has the AfD at 28 percent, a comfortable 6 percent ahead. Chart via @patrickkaczmarczyk.bsky.social

Had a chat with a taxi driver last week - as you do - and it was striking how he spent whole journey singing praises of his EV. Since Iran conflict started, his fellow drivers who still drive an ICE have all been asking him for monthly cost comparisons. They are now desperate to switch, he said

#Climate politics in the US is often presented as: Republicans = oil Democrats = climate action Then you look at the production data and realize that whoever is in charge, oil keeps winning. We’re not going to get anywhere on climate until liberals are willing to confront that reality too.

After 4 years of work on this book — countless hours of discussion, endless rewritings — and after 20 years of collaboration with Amy Dahan, first as her PhD student and later as co-authors, it is finally here: yesterday we presented La Mutation Climatique at the Sciences Po bookstore in Paris.

ACCLIMATE at SB 64 as part of a side event at the Bonn Climate Change Conference - The Pulling Power of Paris: Raising and Safeguarding Climate Ambition in a Fragmented World! 🗓️ Monday, 8 June 2026 🕒 15:00 – 16:15 📍 Berlin more info: seors.unfccc.int/reports/even...

Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

#UNFCCC #COP reform: Very useful new analysis of reform options and how they might impact democracy and effectiveness of the process in @globalpolicy.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1758...

This is really grim. Imagine a different world. @tninstitute.bsky.social

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

ANALYSIS: Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7bn since Iran war began 😎 Record-high wind+solar output 🔥 Record-low gas generation ❄️ First ever winter with wind+solar out-performing fossil fuels 🏆 Wind+solar beating gas for 15 straight months 1/5

🚀 Heat pump sales are surging across Europe and high fossil fuel prices appear to be a key driver. Q1 2026 data from the European Heat Pump Association shows: 🇩🇪 Germany: +34% 🇫🇷 France: +21% (300,000+ units in just one quarter - the largest market in Europe) 🇫🇮 Finland: +71% in March alone

That is a pretty obvious conclusion. If you first dilute your emissions to the ppm level and let them spread around the entire planet, then sucking them up again is obviously going to be costly.

Poland is often seen as Europe's coal stronghold. In 2000, coal generated 94% of its electricity. But something remarkable is happening: Coal's share has fallen to 50%. Wind+solar, non-existent 15yrs ago, now generate 1/4 of electricity. More in my newsletter. Sign up here: janrosenow.substack.com

“What they’re doing is saying to my children, and your children, and their children: ‘tough luck’” “The first role of any government, in my view, is to leave something better for the next generation than your generation inherited”

The 1st Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels concluded in Santa Marta 🇨🇴. Three workstreams will now focus on NDC-aligned roadmaps, financial architecture & debt constraints, and producer–consumer alignment for a just transition. See key takeaways 👉 shorturl.at/c7ipS

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"When I started writing about the climate crisis in the 1980s I was in my twenties, and I didn’t fully comprehend that there could be a force on this planet so steeped in greed & power that it would sacrifice the earth & its inhabitants for its own narrow interests. But there is, and it’s Big Oil."

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.

#France launched a roadmap to phase out #fossilfuels. Imperfect but more countries should do this. Shared thoughts with DowntoEarth: "France has officially moved past vague decarbonization to embrace an explicit fossil fuel exit strategy" www-downtoearth-org-in.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.down...

The growing inaccessibility of science that you can understand by paying €27.99

#Climate policy is #energy policy is #industrial policy.

We @wuppertalinstitut.bsky.social have been honored to write a briefing on the first-ever Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels #TAFF for the European Parliament's ENVI Committee. I hope it will be useful for the MEPs going to the conference www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...

🌍Our Power, Our Planet! This Earth Day, we highlight the importance of connecting global ambition with actionable strategies that protect both the planet and the people who depend on it. Because Earth Isn’t a Backup Planet. This IS Plan B. #OurPowerOurPlanet #EarthDay2026 @earthdayorg.bsky.social

Great to see Neus Escobar featured by the @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu. At ACCLIMATE, she contributes via the Basque Centre for Climate Change, advancing AFOLU (Agriculture, Forestry & Other Land Use) work on emissions and carbon sinks. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/fellow-of-th...