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...

The main threat to democracy today isn't military coups, it's elected leaders who systematically dismantle democratic institutions from within. This is what Susan Stokes argues in her latest piece for the Journal of Democracy, 'Why Elected Leaders Subvert Democracy'. muse.jhu.edu/article/986019

Climate deniers and delayers are going to start saying "sorry but we can't start reducing our emissions, what about the US"

Als Vater zweier Kinder kenne ich diese Gefühle allzu gut. Beim Lesen kamen mir die Tränen. Nicht nur ein Verkehrsunfall, sondern unterlassene Hilfeleistung von Kersten Augustin www.taz.de/!6168170

In just over a decade, Chile went from no utility-scale wind or solar at all to having more electricity from these sources than from all fossil fuels combined: In 2000, wind+solar provided 0% of Chile's electricity, fossil fuels 45%.By 2025, wind+solar had risen to 36%, fossil fuels fallen to 28%.

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

Our traditional annual @wuppertalinstitut.bsky.social #COP report is now also out as peer-reviewed version. cclr.lexxion.eu/article/CCLR...

"Considerable political resources were squandered for something that could have been achieved via a far less strenuous route“, a useful and to the point summary of the fraught genesis of the so-called #climateclub

EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra is being refreshingly blunt: there is “no workaround” for Europe’s energy price crisis. Hoekstra’s message? The only way out is through: more electrification, more solar, more wind, more storage, more grid interconnection — and all of it faster.

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...

That Iran "coal comeback" in full

Diese Bundesregierung scheint wild entschlossen - jegliche Chance für sozial-ökologische Steuerung ungenutzt zu lassen. Ich kann gar nicht soviel trinken, wie ich weinen möchte

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

BOOM! South Australia's power prices have plummeted as they near 100% renewables, proving to the world that relying on wind and solar with battery back-up is possible, more reliable and costs people less. THIS is how we avoid the next oil crisis. #EnergyRevolution

"The only way to get energy independence is to go even more quickly to renewables because we are not going to get it on the international markets." Here's the full clip of Keir Starmer's interview with ITV News where he discusses UK energy, including renewables and North Sea

... Just to put this in perspective, China added in two months almost half of the total capacity of Germany (i.e. another leading country in renewables) bsky.app/profile/ener...

For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

From the #EuropeanCentralBank, no less: "the real question is no longer whether Europe can afford to make the #energytransition. It is whether it can afford not to. From a central banking perspective, the answer is clear.“ www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...

Was struggling this morning, thinking on whether to talk with my daughters over breakfast about what had happened yesterday, but just couldn't... So this really resonates strongly with me. Thank you, @michaelfdubois.bsky.social and perhaps you want to use your account here more in the future...

The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching. Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher. That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).

👀 Wow ! The #EuropeanCentralBank just declared #fossilfuels a threat to the economy of #Europe. Not about what, but ❗ who ❗ says this. Yes, obvious. So this isn’t new. But hearing it from the ECB is. Energy transition isn’t only about #climate anymore. www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...

The logic of the Trump regime is grounded in the right-wing’s desire to establish the US as a petro-empire that manages the impacts of climate change w fascism: fake elections, disinformation as common sense, concentration camps for migrants, & the destruction of blue states by extreme weather. 1/n

In just over a decade, Chile went from no utility-scale wind or solar at all to having more electricity from these sources than from all fossil fuels combined: In 2000, wind+solar provided 0% of Chile's electricity, fossil fuels 45%.By 2025, wind+solar had risen to 36%, fossil fuels fallen to 28%.

#Fossilflation is here #US inflation will surge to 4.2% on #energy shock, warns OECD giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...