The Pacific deserves better than Australia's policy of continued fossil fuel expansion, says MP Nicolette Boele.

This is a great story from @katearonoff.bsky.social on the new UNEP emissions gap report and a recent ERL paper from @arvindpawan1.bsky.social and @hdaigle.bsky.social

Carbon Capture Won’t Save Us Anytime Soon

A new U.N. climate report says ​that massive amounts of carbon capture and storage can keep a long-shot climate goal within reach. ​But nobody should be counting on it.

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We need @andyburnham.bsky.social to stick his word now on #ClimateChange

Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative@fossiltreaty.bsky.social · last yr.

“The Fossil Fuel Treaty is not just a plan—it’s a lifeline,” said Mayor @mayorofgm.bsky.social Burnham, joining Massive Attack to endorse the call just before a sold-out show in Manchester on #WorldEnvironmentDay2025. This is the moment music, activism, and leadership united for climate justice.

Over half the bonds pledged at the Bank of Korea come from fossil fuel and high-emission sectors. Green bonds were under 2%. A new study calls it an implicit subsidy to high-carbon firms. https://greencentralbanking.com/2026/08/10/bank-of-korea-urged-to-stop-fossil-fuel-subsidy/

LSE are advertising a tenure track position on IPE with a specialism in global environmental politics - rare to see these positions come up, particularly those in GEP link to application form below

Renewables-plus-storage is so cheap that in large parts of the world it is cheaper to build a whole new clean power plant than just pay for the fuel and maintenance for a fully-depreciated gas generator. Renewables aren’t just threatening new-build gas — they are undermining existing plants.

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

Why would a country leave billions of dollars of oil & gas in the ground? On a narrow economic view it looks irrational: walking away from profit, jobs and geopolitical leverage, and picking a fight with one of the most powerful industries on earth. And yet it's happening🧵

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

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Another interesting fact: When I wrote that piece in 2019, 6,569 people in Kentucky, or 1 in 500 working age adults, were employed in coal mining. Today the number is 3,843, or about 1 in every 1,000 working age Kentuckians. But we have to save coal! Data here: eec.ky.gov/Energy/News-... 3/3

NEW ARTICLE ALERT Carbon taxes are increasingly being adopted around the world. A key factor is influence from other, similar states. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

deep cut here but........are there any euro energy / wind folks who can provide some examples from 2006 that this blog post is referring to? www.windpowermonthly.com/article/9513...

A @ciel.org @foeus.bsky.social report shows global banks have provided $133bn to fuel US petrochemicals over the last 6 years. Despite risks such as hazardous 'forever chemicals', researchers show that ESG-linked investments are linked to petrochemical companies.

Nobody, literally nobody, could have possibly seen this coming

Federica Genovese@fgenovese.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Venezuela is an important oil producer (~top15 in global ranking), with some of the world's largest proven oil reserves. Supply chocked last year but export to 🇨🇳 was picking up. The current uncertainty will be profitable to other fossil giants (🇷🇺) Unless, just an idea: we take renewables seriously

What a geopolitical crisis can do. Tbf I believe it when I see it, but at least nominally this Indonesia announcement is important as renewables are incredibly weak there, despite the potential. And no, coal won't be displaced in short term, dont fall for that. This sounds more like a China model.

This is insane.

New paper out in Ecological Economics with @gonzalezrostani.bsky.social and @aklin.bsky.social! We look at how long-term labor market risk from automation shapes people's environmental attitudes and climate policy preferences 🧵

New paper with Stefan Renckens in @ripejournal.bsky.social! Sustainable finance standards are often accused of being highly fragmented. We built an original dataset of 111 Sustainable Finance Governance Initiatives (SFGIs), covering 2000-2020, to see for ourselves. The result? It's complicated.

Review of International Political Economy@ripejournal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Overlap and fragmentation in the global governance complex of sustainable finance, by Stefan Renckens & Christian Elliott

I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨ What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions

For anyone who believed the advancing climate backlash would not concern the core of EU climate policy, it's time to wake up. And it is amazing how little key politicians care - all for fighting climate change, but let's abandon the policies that do it. @bundeskanzleramt.bsky.social

Von der Leyen and Merz clash over future of EU’s core climate law

German chancellor joined industry in attacking the EU carbon market as the Commission president defended its “clear benefits.”

politico.eu

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

📢El 24 de febrero, en colaboración con nuestros socios locales, @alianzaporelclima.org, organizamos un evento sobre el Tratado de Combustibles Fósiles en Madrid.🇪🇸 fossilfueltreaty.org/events/madri...

‘Here’s the final irony. Conspiracy theorists and climate deniers insist governments are exaggerating the threat. In reality, the evidence increasingly suggests the opposite.’ theconversation.com/a-uk-climate...

A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before

Governments have been warned about climate change for 70 years. They’re still suppressing the worst news.

theconversation.com

An interesting case study for Scotland after independence. Uruguay achieves 99% renewables by balancing their grid with 45% hydro - so a little like Norway. In the process they've halved their electricity costs. www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World

Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

forbes.com

Final document for #COP30 just dropped and here are some hot takes 1/ No decisive language about FF phaseouts. This is a HUGE loss. The consolation prize is a political process toward phaseouts outside the official decisionmaking of the #ParisAgreement

Husk at stemme til kommunal- og regionsrådsvalget i morgen ✏️❌🗳️ Din stemme er vigtigere end du tror! #kv25 #valg #dkpol

As explained at the 🔗, the reviews took place between April 2016 (Beijing) and October 2018 (Rome) and were chaired by the OECD. They were scheduled to continue in 2019 (pairing Argentina and Canada), but were delayed. Then the COVID-19 pandemic created an interruption that proved to be permanent.

Introducing G20 Peer Reviews | QUNO

QUNO explores insights from the G20 Peer Reviews, analysing efforts towards sustainable economic practices and global cooperation.

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Paper on #football in the #climate emergency with M Guillen-Royo, E Daehlin, B Aamaas from @cicero.oslo.no and J Utgård from @oslomet.bsky.social. We interview senior staff from #Norway's national teams, calculate their carbon footprint and discuss alternatives www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

🌪️As global climate disasters mount, the insurance protection gap is widening. Natural disasters caused US$320 bn in losses globally in 2024, according to Munich Re. But Japan remains an exception: its insurance protection gap isn’t yet pronounced.👇

How Japanese insurers are keeping the climate protection gap at bay

While the insurance protection gap is widening in many countries due to climate change, the same isn't true of Japan as yet even though premiums are on the rise.

greencb.co

🌱 @dnb-nl.bsky.social is publishing a guide so pension funds & insurers can integrate climate & nature risk into their risk assessment frameworks—further developing ESG data to help with insight into sustainability exposures  Read the full article by Emma Thomasson 👇

Dutch central bank reviews climate and nature risk to pensions and insurance

DNB shifts from awareness raising on climate to ensuring compliance with regulations.

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