🔥The CEO of #oil giant TotalEnergies offers free fuel to fight #EuropeanWildfires - feels like Malboro offering chemotherapy vouchers with cigarettes.
Andreas Sieber
@andreassieber.bsky.social
Energy & Climate Geopolitics Head of Political Strategy @350.org Energy Co-Lead, International Climate Policy Hub. Views = my own
The #fossilfuel Industry makes record profits while Europe burns. These fires came after record breaking #climate change induced heat. Who should pay for the damage?
The horrific #EuropeanWildfires come after a period of extraordinary high temperatures. #Climatechange did not strike the match but loaded the landscape with tinder.
Important topic that doesn't get the attention it deserves. What exactly is causing these massive wildfires and floods? Scientists say burning fossil fuels is the number-one contributor to climate change. That should be in every news story about these disasters.
Andreas Sieber@andreassieber.bsky.social · last wk.I spoke with @cnbc.com, Indias largest business channel how the #fossilfuel industry laid the tinder for the horrific #EuropeanWildfires.
I spoke with @cnbc.com, Indias largest business channel how the #fossilfuel industry laid the tinder for the horrific #EuropeanWildfires.
#EuropeanWildfires are horrific - but not a disaster without culprits. #Climate-induced heat created the conditions for the scale of devastation - details in the link. The #fossilfuel industry didn't strike the match, but spread the tinder. www.linkedin.com/pulse/fossil...
The Fossil Fuel Industry Didn’t Strike the Match. It Laid the Tinder.
The fires raging across France and Spain are horrific and unprecedented. They also come after record-breaking heatwaves and are part of a pattern of increasingly devastating fires.
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We aren’t just dealing with “inflation”, we are facing a systemic fossil fuel dependence crisis, and that crisis has a name: #fossilflation. 🧵⤵️
#Trump wants FIFA boss #Infantino as the next United Nations Secretary-General 🤪. Now that I have your attention, Carbon Brief reviewed the actual candidates and their stand on #climate + #energy - which I ll link instead. www.carbonbrief.org/qa-where-do-...
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
theguardian.com
No #WorldCup was so affected by #climatechange with dangerous temperatures, hydration breaks and now this - of course, these horrible climate change fueled #wildfires have much worse consequences.
Wildfire smoke threatens the World Cup final. FIFA still doesn't have a plan.
The biggest game in soccer is set for Sunday, when Argentina and Spain will meet in the World Cup final, held just outside of New York City. There’s just one problem — wildfire smoke now threatens the...
grist.org
Burn baby Burn says Carney Just one of massive fires in Canada West Coast Pipeline: A pipeline transporting over 1 million barrels of bitumen a day from Alberta oilsands to British Columbia Ontario Pipeline: A 500,000-barrel-per-day route to carry crude to refineries in southwestern Ontario
Wildfire smoke threatens the World Cup final. FIFA still doesn’t have a plan. #Climate
Wildfire smoke threatens the World Cup final. FIFA still doesn't have a plan.
The biggest game in soccer is set for Sunday, when Argentina and Spain will meet in the World Cup final, held just outside of New York City. There’s just one problem — wildfire smoke now threatens the match and FIFA, the sport’s governing body, doesn’t appear to have any plan in place to protect player […]
grist.org
#European businesses demand #electrification and a transition from #fossilfuels to #renewables in the Financial Times today: "Sunlight travels 93 million miles to the Earth, none of them through the Strait of Hormuz."
The coming #ELNino is likely the most devastating in human memory fuelled by the #climatecrisis: My @350.org colleague summed up the basics what you need to know and whats happening 👉 350.org/el-nino-2026...
El Niño 2026: what’s happening?
Scientists are now warning that a massive El Niño, the periodic warming phenomenon, is forming in the Pacific and it could rival or surpass the previous worst ones on record.
350.org
It’s the summer of climate shocks (the first of many if we don’t do something)💔💔
Morgan Fairchild@morgfair.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 We are wildly unprepared for this years climate fuelled #ElNiño! For context, the gap between the strongest and the fifth strongest El Niño of the past 150 years is only about 0.5C - this one is 0.8C hotter than the record until this day.
A new horrific total: #Europe suffered over 10.000 excess deaths during its record-breaking #heatwave. 9,000+ of the 10650 excess deaths (roughly 85%) were among people aged 65+, showing how vulnerable elderly are to extreeme heat. The heatwave would have been impossible without #climatechange.
Europe recorded 10,000 excess deaths during late-June heatwave, data show
The vast majority — more than 9,000 — were among people aged 65 and above.
reuters.com
Amid the record-breaking heat over the last few weeks, a culture war has broken out over the rollout of air conditioning But lots of the claims are missing some key bits of context - not least that it hasn’t really been an issue in northern Europe previously, because it just hasn’t been this hot
#Electricity bills in #Germany & #France rose by €700 million during record #heatwave These extra costs come on top of elevated #oil & #gas prices due to the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz shipping route.
Exclusive: Electricity bills in Germany and France rose by €700 million during record heatwave - AOL
File: A store employee fills the store shelf with summer air conditioning products, in Marseille, southern France, July 3, 2015.
aol.co.uk
Interesting development as more countries provide #climate finance - this does not eradicate historic responsibility of rich countries but clearly indicating rising multipolarity (and South South cooperation)
$102 Billion in Climate Finance Beyond the “Usual Suspects” Reveals a Growing Multipolar Reality
The new collective quantified goal (NCQG) for climate finance sets a target of $1.3 trillion annually by 2035 to support climate action in developing countries. Reaching this number will require a sig...
wri.org
Our new @350.org analysis in @euronews.com: Electricity bills soar 700 million during the #heatwave - these #climate heatwaves are not only dreadful, at times tragic and deadly but also immensely costly for people and businesses already strained by an ongoing #fossilfuel crisis.
Germany and France energy bills soared by €700 million during heatwave
Exclusive: Heatwaves are showing up on Europe’s energy bills – should fossil fuels face a windfall tax?
euronews.com
🥵 Breaking: The current record-shattering #heatwave in Europe would have been impossible without #climate change, says the World Weather Attribution. 45% of cities analysed across 30 European countries have already, or are predicted to, break their highest ever heat stress levels. 1/2
Polluters must pay for European heatwave costs
Fossil fuel companies must be held responsible for the extreme heat gripping Europe by paying permanent windfall taxes to help...
350.org
🚨 BREAKING: Huge #climate win in the courts of France against #TotalEnergies: Total argued that emissions were someone else’s problem. The court found that Total failed to meet its climate duty, gave 6 months to update its plan to describe + prevent the climate risks of the #fossilfuels it sells.
Paris court gives TotalEnergies six months to sharpen up its climate policies
A Paris court on Thursday ruled that French oil major TotalEnergies must disclose the climate risks linked to emissions from its oil and gas products and set out plans to address them. The ruling i...
france24.com
We can have impact and justice by making fossil fuel polluters pay for the damage they cause and ensure money is invested in renewables and affordable energy. A global momentum is picking up to hold Fossil Fuel companies and Big Oil to account. Join us @350.org @makepolluterspay.bsky.social
NEW SURVEY: 3 in 4 EV owners across Europe feel protected from energy price shocks. Only 1 in 3 non-owners feel the same way. The same pattern shows up with heat pumps. 57% of owners believe households like theirs are better protected from price shocks. www.veriangroup.com/fr/news-and-...
Rising Energy Costs: Impacts on Attitudes and Adoption of EVs and HeatPumps
Rising Energy Costs: Impacts on Attitudes and Adoption of EVs and Heat Pumps Verian x European Climate Foundation
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Great initiative for electrification - happy to have shared some thoughts for this story in the article about the sources of electrification: www.edie.net/miliband-lau...
Miliband launches global electrification initiative as UK secures £100bn in green investment – edie
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