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Working on sustainable development and the energy transition as a strategy consultant, leader and storyteller. Let’s create the world(s) we want to live in.

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Buying an ICE vehicle today is like buying a BlackBerry after the smartphone’s been invented.

07.01.2026 07:37 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The EV leapfrog - how emerging markets are driving a global EV boom | Ember Growth in emerging markets has turbocharged global EV sales in 2025, with over a quarter of new cars sold being electric.

Buying an ICE vehicle today is like buying a BlackBerry after the smartphone’s been invented. #EVs

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

07.01.2026 07:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wind and solar power overtake coal in US for first time The milestone highlights the rapid growth of renewable energy despite political headwinds since President Trump’s re-election

Wind and solar power overtake coal in US for first time

- Milestone highlights the rapid growth of renewable energy despite political headwinds since President Trump’s re-election

HT @carbonbrief.org
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

06.03.2025 10:10 👍 76 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 2
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Three ways that Ukraine will help Make Europe Great Again As many have pointed out, in recent years the EU's economic model has depended on cheap Russian gas, US security guarantees and the ability to produce at lower wage rates while selling to newly afflue...

It's been a tense week for people who care about Ukraine. But there are opportunities too. Here's some thoughts on that!
#MEGA #EU #IStandWithUkraine #SustainableDevelopment

www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-...

06.03.2025 03:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pippin 🫶

04.01.2025 06:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Looking for reminders that against the fetid headwinds of politics, 2025 is the year of agency, alternative civilizations, and rekindling the luscious power and innovation of humanity?

Five Earthshot Winners Offering Regenerative Hope
substack.com/home/post/p-...

04.01.2025 05:05 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Antic 👍

04.01.2025 06:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Does anyone else find this profile deeply creepy?

04.01.2025 06:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just tried the new Apple Vision Pro. It is weirdly awesome. The elephant sanctuary video alone was worth the whole trip. Has anyone else tried it? #apple #technology #VR

04.01.2025 06:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So true!

02.01.2025 19:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our global #food system depends on natural systems that are under pressure: from soil to freshwater to pollinators and rainfall. Extreme weather, drought and war may disrupt supply chains, #desertification, soil degradation and diseases like #avianflu could impact production in major ways.

02.01.2025 19:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The energy transition is happening:
In many sectors progress is now driven by market forces. Perhaps this is why politicians who previously denied climate concerns are floating alternative solutions instead - from #nuclear to #geoengineering. Whether the alternatives have merit remains to be seen.

02.01.2025 19:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The role of the US will change:
As an American living abroad I’ve seen the impact President Trump had on our national reputation. I don’t believe that other countries will wait four years to see what happens next. Instead we may see a more #multipolar world, with all its opportunities and risks.

02.01.2025 19:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ready or not, we've reached 2025. Halfway through the #decadetodeliver.

I think this will be the year where trends that have been ‘out there’ on the horizon, ominous or promising but not yet real, become unavoidable.

Here’s a short list of ‘unavoidables’ I’ll be looking out for in 2025:

02.01.2025 19:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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COP and what it means for business | WBCSD The 29th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP29) has concluded. Hosted in the shadow of rising geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainties, and the sobering reality of climate impacts being felt wo...

It’s always good to see what insights the World Business Council for Sustainable Development brings regarding the #energytransition. This post contains useful reflections from the recent #COP29 in Baku.

www.wbcsd.org/news/cop-and...

05.12.2024 04:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to Save America with Peggy Noonan Podcast Episode · Honestly with Bari Weiss · 26/11/2024 · 1h 2m

I appreciated this podcast with Peggy Noonan from @bariweiss.bsky.social at the @freepress.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...

03.12.2024 09:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of the interesting trends we’re seeing as cities get greener is the value of interspersed habitats, like urban tree plantings and biodiversity corridors that stretch across neighbourhoods (aka the green grid), restored urban streams and wetlands, and this beautiful example.

02.12.2024 23:40 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As always, the real story is in the data. Very interested to see how O&G markets will shift over coming years with greater EV adoption!

14.11.2024 22:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Here's how to make green #transit even greener. Put the tram tracks on a carpet of grass or sedum. 2 kms of track creates 1.5 football fields' worth of green space, reducing air pollution and urban heat island effect.

A tram-on-the-lawn thread: 🚋🌱🧵

1/ Milan #Milano

14.11.2024 14:16 👍 171 🔁 33 💬 8 📌 3

That’s awesome. I think that is the way of the future- certainly in universities. I’m taking postgraduate classes atm, and it’s sad to see half the students reading off screens about unrelated content during lectures. Not judging them, I would just rather interact while we are all together!

14.11.2024 22:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Looks like blue skies today!

14.11.2024 22:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0