Damien Meadows
@damienmeadows.bsky.social
Advisor on EU climate action at the European Commission, and lawyer drafting, negotiating and working to implement strong and effective climate policies since 2000
Europe’s fire costs this year mount to beyond €3bn, FT analysis shows ft.trib.al/5pEUUH1
Europe’s fire costs this year mount to beyond €3bn, FT analysis shows
FT analysis shows economic toll in worst-hit countries exceeds official estimate of costs to bloc in average year
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Global heating made hot, dry and windy weather at least 20 times more likely in Spain and twice as likely in France, according to the World Weather Attribution consortium. Blame on the heating caused by the burning of oil, gas and coal. Climate change threats. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘Extremely scary findings’ show climate crisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather
Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely
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‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers
‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers
PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved
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97 out of every 100 new cars sold to private individuals were electric vehicles in July 🚗🔌 Only 304 gasoline, diesel, or plug-in hybrid cars were registered to private individuals in July 2026. This trend is not due to any single factor.” ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Ilyas reporting from 🇩🇰 #alwaysbecharging The New Norway
Ilyas Dogru@ilyasdogru.bsky.social · 5d ago97 ud af 100 nye biler til private var elbiler i juli 🚗🔌 Blot 304 benzin-, diesel- eller plugin-hybridbiler blev indregistreret til private i juli 2026. Udviklingen skyldes ikke én enkelt faktor. Kilde: Mobility Denmark/Bilstatistik.dk
El sector azulejero apuesta por el horno eléctrico para descarbonizar su actividad El 16,67% de la producción de Equipe Cerámicas ya está electrificada. cincodias.elpais.com/extras/entor...
El sector azulejero apuesta por el horno eléctrico para descarbonizar su actividad
El 16,67% de la producción de Equipe Cerámicas ya está electrificada. El Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica calcula que el 40% de los equipos de cocción estarán libre de CO2 en 2040
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ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
Exclusive: As wildfires rage, Frank Elderson says more work needed to assess risk from collapse of ecosystem services A senior policymaker at the European Central Bank has said the climate emergency and the breakdown of nature poses a dramatically growing risk to the global economy. Frank Elderson, a member of the ECB’s executive board, said the eurozone lender of last resort was stepping up its monitoring of the financial risks linked to the destruction of “ecosystem services”, which are nature-related processes or assets that support human activity. Continue reading...
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Japanese officials have coined an entirely new word to signify the dangerous heat of #ClimateChange. It's "kokushobi," which means "cruel heat day." This coinage is but a drop of the coming shower of cultural changes that climate change will force upon us. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w...
The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...
Wowza. Look at this chart on wildfires in France from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social EFFIS. Red line is cumulative area burned this year; blue line is average since 2006...
China exports electrification. Ethiopia deployed 50 electric trucks at Bishoftu Airport (42 more soon) cutting fuel imports, costs, emissions. Heavy transport electrifies in emerging economies. This model ~ spreading across Africa, LATAM, & Global South. The energy transition is already being built.
Europe’s EV sales rose 40.5% in first half of 2026 - A total of 1,220,890 battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) were registered in the first half of 2026, which now make up 20.7% of the EU market. This is up from a 15.6% market share the year prior. Edie.
EV sales in the EU increased 40.5% in H1 2026
Battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) are now 20.7% of the EU market, with sales increasing by 40.% in the first half of 2026.
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This is a week ahead, so details will change, but right across Western/Central/Southern Europe we're going to have a pretty severe heatwave next week. In some cases it could be record-breaking, e.g. 42 C in Netherlands would be a new national record. Source: climatereanalyzer.org/wx/fcst_outl...
As a regenerative farmer puts it: "with temperatures exceeding 38C for weeks on end, everything is breaking down. I’m expecting yield losses of at least 50%, or even 70%, for certain crops, such as soya. We’re no longer heading for a crash — we’re already there" www.ft.com/content/c528...
European heatwave wiped €2bn from value of grain crop, analysis estimates
France and Hungary worst hit by lost production of maize and wheat
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So happy!! So proud!! 🇪🇸🗽❤️ Enhorabuena, campeones!! #WorldCup2026
Today’s proposal on the ETS review brings together three key objectives: climate action, competitiveness, and independence. It advances climate action, by also transforming the ETS into a genuine engine for innovation and investment. My speech 👉🏻 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Today we are taking key steps to stay on course for climate neutrality by 2050: 🔹 A reviewed ETS after 20 years to keep financing industrial innovation 🔹 An Electrification Action Plan to move beyond the 23% rate where Europe has been stuck for a decade 1/2 #ETS #Electrification #Decarbonisation
Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Good to think about today. The International Criminal Court in The Hague, a key piece in a rule-based order that backs human rights and dignity.
Euronews@euronews.com · 3w agoThe Trump administration said it would pressure other countries to withdraw from the court, marking a sharp escalation in the US effort to isolate the Hague-based institution.
“The Mediterranean marine heat wave has intensified with 78.6% of the basin now experiencing marine heat wave conditions. Anomalies up to 5°C. Climate change is driving nearly all of the event: 97.9% of the marine heat wave area would not have occurred without human-caused warming.” ClimateCentral
'Hotter and hotter and hotter' - Europe's new climate in seven charts If this feels unusual, that is because it is… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
430.07 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 02-Jul-2026 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
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Solidarity is at the heart of the EU Emissions Trading System. Today, together with the European Investment Bank, we announced €2.5 billion from the Modernisation Fund to support 51 energy projects across 11 EU countries. ↓
Feeling the Heat? Europe’s heat wave “was so intense that in a stable preindustrial environment … it would have been the kind of freak event the region could expect about once every 26,000 years.” Fossil fuel caused it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...
Opinion | We Need to Retrofit the Planet. The Heat Wave Proves It.
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🇮🇪 Ireland - June 26 - BEV Trajectory 51.0% BEV 13.3% PHEV 35.7% ICE (of which 17.7%p were HEV) Trailing 12 months are: 23.5% BEV 15.1% PHEV 61.5% ICE (of which 25.9%p were HEV) Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gall...
Climate change is a silent killer. That is why working hand in hand with cities and regions — the front line of this challenge — is a political duty. 👉🏼Europe needs joint action and high-impact measures where they matter most: on the ground.
Update: Jetzt ist es offiziell. Die Weltbank hat ihr Ziel, 45 Prozent der Gelder in Projekte mit Klimabezug zu investieren, aufgegeben. Experten befürchten, dass jetzt auch wieder vermehrt Öl- und Gasprojekte finanziert werden könnten (s. meinen Artikel unten). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
World Bank Scraps Climate Financing Targets After US Criticism
The World Bank decided to remove quantitative targets for incorporating climate objectives into its financing, months after criticism from the US — its biggest shareholder — that it should get back to...
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Nico Beckert@nicobeckert.bsky.social · last mo.Die USA wollen die #Weltbank vom #Klimaschutz abbringen und finden sich in einer Koalition mit Saudi-Arabien, Russland, Kuwait. Doch es gibt breiten Widerstand. Setzen sich die fossilen Staaten durch, wäre das eine mittlere Katastrophe für den Klimaschutz, denn... 1/3 table.media/climate/anal...
At the heart of this massive disaster sat the strongest recorded El Nino in 1877. We are now entering an El Nino that is expected to be very strong... and it will come on a planet that is >1C hotter than 1877.
Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · last mo."From 1875 to 1878, concurrent droughts in Asia, Brazil, and Africa, referred to as the Great Drought, caused widespread crop failures, catalyzing the Global Famine, which had fatalities exceeding 50 million people and long-lasting societal consequences." journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
Tax policy is one of the most important expressions of national sovereignty. Global cooperation on fair taxation is always welcome. But unilateral measures targeting legitimate policy decisions are simply unjustified. 🇪🇺We, Europeans, will always defend our regulatory autonomy.
In any sane, political climate, this sort of thing should lead to mea culpas by anyone who's been arguing that the effects of climate change have been overstated, and emergency summits by leaders looking for ways to avoid things getting even worse www.economist.com/science-and-... @economist.com
Global warming has made Europe’s heatwave 2-4°C worse
The continent is warming faster than any other
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ICYMI: a new independent report shows major reductions in air pollution in our city are linked to an estimated 40% fewer annual premature deaths.
Deaths linked to London air pollution have fallen 40%, study estimates
However, Imperial College team also find that pollution has worse health impact than previously understood
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