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Wat doen we met de belastingvluchtelingen uit Dubai? Alsnog de schatkist laten vullen www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
“With home woodburning increasing, the [European Code Against Cancer] calls on governments to discourage and phase out solid fuels for heating, cooking and recreation.”
German steel industry says EU “buy European” proposal fails to secure sector’s future
“Brussels gives us ambitious climate targets, but no industrial policy safeguards for the transition to climate neutrality here at home”
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-...
Blueprint style illustration of a factory with two chimneys, drawn in white lines on a dark blue grid background. The drawing includes measurement markings and dimensions around the building. The title “Made in Europe” appears at the top, with “Scale 1:200, dimensions indicative” at the bottom left and the European Commission logo at the bottom right.
Strong industry. Strong jobs. Strong Europe.
Today, we adopt the Industrial Accelerator Act to boost demand for low-carbon and European-made products in strategic sectors.
It will also simplify permits, and set conditions for foreign investments.
More: link.europa.eu/w8wPgG
New: Heat pump sales in Europe grew 11% in 2025.
In 12 / 16 countries, demand went up.
Why? Govts addressed electricity taxes & stabilising policy support, like in Belgium & UK.
EU Commission can push this in upcoming initiatives on heating & electrification.
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Mijn leerlingen weten dat ook: als je geen klop doet, heb je je falen volledig aan jezelf te danken.
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
Recommended read: The US is becoming a “petrostate” that will be “sicker and poorer”, wrote Financial Times associate editor Rana Forohaar.
Breaking: China's official statistics report a 0.3% drop in CO2 emissions from energy&industry in 2025, the third time that annual emissions have fallen this century and the first fall predominantly driven by clean energy growth. 🧵
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Anthropic (Claude), in their dealings with the Republican regime, come out looking pretty good.
Anthropic doesn't want to enable unbridled domestic surveillance and automated killing machines.
The Republican regime wants AI-powered surveillance, killing machines.
www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
Wood burning is a choice…
Good night Diesel! This a connected multi-region tipping point, it will reach the US too.
“…longer averaging periods (e.g., daily or annual mean concentrations) do not reflect temporal peak concentrations that can be especially dangerous for high-risk groups…”
Not only do deaths outnumber births in Japan, the country actually records twice (!) as many deaths than births each year now.
I think this explains the popularity of Lisbon to a degree 🌞
Source: buff.ly/xXPH2C0
For as long as I can remember, IT hardware followed a simple rule: wait a year, pay less. But after the COVID spike and almost three years of continuous price hikes since about 2023, that 'law' feels broken.
Yachts are rich people's carbon bombs. Yachts are a policy failure. We should put a 100% luxury tax on yachts, and put the money into green infrastructure that cuts carbon pollution and protects coastal communities from floods.
When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
Progress!
Good news from Kraków, where a ban on domestic burning of wood and coal is estimated to have saved 6,000 lives so far by reducing air pollution: www.theguardian.com/environment/... .
Nice report. I got an A2A system last month. The main reason being my house is quite narrow and getting rid of the radiators gave me a lot more flexibility in how I use the space.
The US has become a climate bully.
The sabotage of the IMO shipping levy is the most dramatic example. The pressure on Vanuatu to stop its legal efforts is the most recent.
My new piece for @foreignpolicy.com
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/18/t...
Hier kwam men zelfs uit op meer dan 10 miljoen doden...
"Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 (..) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (...) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
ENERGY REPORTING IS BROKEN!
6 steps to reframe energy reporting in the Age of Electricity...
New analysis from @ember-energy.org Kingsmill Bond team and @mliebreich.bsky.social
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Two years ago, Ethiopia did something no other rich country has yet. It banned the import of new fossil fuel cars. In that time, the country went from less than 1% of its vehicles being electric to more than 6% — higher than the global average. Read our feature:
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
🇧🇪 We’re raising funds with @Flore14, Renaud de Kerchove and Fred Coels to deliver 🛻 1× NAFO Truck 3.0 to the 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade (RUBpAK) 🇺🇦
www.help99.co/patches/belg...
This unit needs our help to stay mobile and combat-ready on the frontline ✊
Help us push this forward!
"ETS2 is geen garantie op succes. Het organiseert geen vakmensen, geen netverzwaringen, geen snellere doorlooptijd, ... Timing en organisatie zijn en blijven dé beleidsuitdaging, ETS2 zet hooguit de prijs van gas." rubenbaetens.substack.com/p/waarom-ets...
Solar and batteries are cheap enough that most people can get most of their electricity from them, and save money. This equation gets better and better over time as their costs decline.
All details in a new blog post: nworbmot.org/blog/solar-b...
"Elke stap en elke ingreep moet aantoonbaar bijdragen aan de beoogde emissiereductie, op weg naar een fossielvrije - of liever: *schoorsteenvrije* - gebouwenvoorraad. 👍
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Two weeks before Chancellor Friedrich Merz makes his first trip to China, my Rhodium Group colleague Gregor Williams and I have taken a fresh look at the numbers behind Germany’s economic relationship with China.
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