What is the ECO scheme that the government wants to scrap? 💰 An explainer by @mashley.bsky.social on the programme that isn't working well, but could be key to bringing low income households along on the green transition and lowering bills. www.nesta.org.uk/project-upda...

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

This week's big win 🎉 of the International Court of Justice ruling could change the way states approach NDCs. What did ICJ say? ⚖️ States are obligated to protect the climate under international law ⚖️ They must adopt ambitions NDCs ⚖️ Failure to do so can trigger reparations to affected countries

There's been a lot of talk about Labour's £13.2bn Warm Homes Plan, which may or may not be confirmed in the spending review tomorrow. But what is the £13.2bn for? My colleagues @tomleach.bsky.social and @martinakavan.bsky.social have written a nice explainer... www.nesta.org.uk/blog/what-co...

We've just published our work on reforming energy levies. Current levies inflate electricity bills by ~20%, and favor fossil fuels over clean energy. We project impacts of levy reform on a range of households and show that it's possible to make them both fairer and more climate friendly.

I wrote a blog on the role of electricity prices in helping people in fuel poverty. These are two illustrative scenarios I used to describe the long-term effects of cheap/expensive electricity on public spending and fuel poverty: 🧵

What if we had no electricity and everything ran on fossil fuels? This ad keeps making me chuckle. Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold!

Moving levies from electricity to gas would protect decarbonisation efforts from volatility in gas prices. 📉 This chart shows the future electricity-to-gas price ratio (key metric for incentivizing electrification) under wholesale price scenarios with (full lines) and without (dashed) rebalancing.

Fixing electricity pricing is urgent. Without it, decarbonisation stalls and gov will need to spend billions more on subsidies. I wrote a blog explaining the role of energy levies in the total cost of heat pumps. 🧵🔽 This chart shows the projected annual costs over 15 years under status quo:

Thank you to all reporters who call out anti net zero bullshit. A great cheat sheet for the likes of "UK is only responsible for 1% of global emissions and so can slow down". ("A @carbonbrief.org analysis in 2021 found that the UK was the eighth largest country in terms of cumulative emissions.")

The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. Oh, this will age so, so badly: "The DOD does not do climate change crap. We do training and warfighting."

A nice clear and simple piece from @energy-uk.org.uk: "How to cut bills". Doing nothing on energy bills now means: - continued levels of fuel poverty - slow decarbonisation because of expensive electricity - households exposed to more gas price shocks

I've got a new Nesta blog up: What does the Seventh Carbon Budget tell us about decarbonising home heating? I've made* a load of charts for it too... (*ok, actually mainly stolen them from the CCC) www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-sev...

Fresh out the CCC oven – the Seventh Carbon Budget sets out a new trajectory for heat pumps. The new Balanced Pathway pushes back heat pump installations into the 30s – more realistic given current progress, but still ambitious.

I generally like David Gauke's writing, but this is really poor on energy prices and net zero I'm afraid. Not going to rebut the whole thing, but a couple of quick points... www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

On the 12 days of Christmas, my heat pump gave to me: 🦃 Enough energy to roast 2,900 turkeys 🥦 5 tonnes of brussels sprouts cooked to perfection 🍮 1,500 gallons of custard warmed and ready-to-eat 🎁 Let's unwrap the numbers on heat pump savings over Christmas ⬇️

We've been thinking about levies on energy bills a lot at @nestauk.bsky.social, and looking at what can be done about them to make electricity cheaper. We've just published an analysis by @mashley.bsky.social of the effects of levies on different types of households. --> 🧵

With all the talk about energy prices, I'm sure you're all asking yourselves how much households other than yours pay for energy. Surely not everyone spends £[insert price cap] a year. Ask no more. Here we explain and chart how things like heating tech, house size and lifestyles affect bills:

"McKinsey is 'turning huge profits at the expense of the climate and the energy transition, thanks to its lucrative contracts with many of the world’s biggest climate criminals, including BP, Shell and Koch Industries.'" 🤡

Ofgem announced today a new energy price cap that'll be in effect from January. Here's a helpful explainer for anyone wanting to understand what the energy price cap is – and what our energy bills pay for: www.nesta.org.uk/report/whats...

New @nestauk.bsky.social blog by me: the UK's COP29 pledge to reduce emissions 81% by 2035 is great, but we are not going to meet it without much faster action to decarbonise heating www.nesta.org.uk/blog/cop29-t...

Genuine question, how difficult is it to ban private jets in the UK? And does this government have a view on it? 🙏 www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Reminder: Victory for Trump is likely to all but end global hopes of staying below 1.5C, our analysis found in March www.carbonbrief.org/...