@chrislittlecott
Director, Global Electricity Initiative, Climate Imperative. Accelerating the global transition from coal to clean power generation. Pompey, Milton Keynes, Mexico, Lake District, Brubeck/Desmond, Bowie, Bike trips.
NEW: More North Sea drilling would do far less to reduce the UK's reliance on volatile gas imports than the continued expansion of renewables and clean tech
Full analysis by me, @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social and @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org ⬇️
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why...
Hopefully accompanied by similar levels of incredulity and bullshit-calling as happened in Australia when the Coalition tried this same tactic.
How about government offering a deal that would allow new fields with a license clause that requires the operator to deliver a rising share of stored CO2 over x years? Akin to a take back obligation at the level of the field. Let’s see how many O&G companies would deliver on their rhetoric…
Geopolitical conflicts continue to expose the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. For Southeast Asia, doubling down on coal is not the answer. The path to true energy security lies in renewable energy, electrification, & a just transition away from fossil fuels.
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Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.
A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.
Macca & Guy.
Pleased to say I still have mine (and even more remarkably, it still fits).
I see they are selling for ~£100 online.
We hear way too much about angry Britain, blue-red Britain. What about the Britain of Save the Children, Oxfam, the RSPCA, the RNLI, popular environmentalism, the Britain of London's absolute triumph since its 80s nadir, its civic universities, the Britain of volunteering, giving, hoping?
Paul Hall (black skin) and Andy Awford (very pale white skin) put their hands on each other’s knees and aligned their shirts to make it look like they each hand one white and one black arm, in the Portsmouth Football Club squad photo of 1994-95.
Portsmouth Football Club squad photo 1994-95
A classic of the genre! #Pompey
That 1992-93 team remains my favourite. Ray Daniel and Warren Neill were great wing backs.
'A campaign group that attacked Labor, the Greens & teal independent candidates at the last federal election was almost entirely funded by a coal industry lobby group'.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Wild stat here: most of the gas projects underway in the U.S. haven’t publicly revealed who is making their turbines at a moment when backorders stretch to the end of the decade.
Essential reading 🧵
I was there when Pompey lost 4-2 at Leicester in August 1995. I recall a terrible performance from the whole team and multiple goalkeeping errors, which would explain why only 4 appearances.
Just found this video, my memory was sadly correct:
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In 2000 95% of Poland's electricity was from coal. Today it is 51%. Total coal generation in TWh dropped by 36%.
Source is new @ember-energy.org European Electricity Review.
Photo of rear of RV charger showing two cut cables
Photo of EV charger showing cut cable and error message on screen
Photo of two EV chargers showing cut cables
Multiple rapid EV chargers in central Milton Keynes have had charging cables cut and stolen.
Right next to shopping centre so surely covered by CCTV.
When does a dangerous theft become infrastructure sabotage?
The beginning of the end for ugly dirty coal 👇 And the UK celebrates a full year with no coal power generation 👏
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Using old coal mines to heat homes?
Gateshead is doing it.
Their mine-water project—the UK’s largest—draws 15°C water from boreholes, uses heat pumps to boost it to 80°C, and sends that heat through an underground network.
The system now warms 350+ homes and 23 buildings.
CCS policies and regulations can require operators to either clean up (at high cost and difficulty) or shut down, just like other forms of pollution control.
We should applaud regulators with strong CCS policies and challenge fossil fuel interests who hide behind the idea of CCS.
That’s the opposite of what I said!
The UK Introduced a policy of ‘no new coal without CCS’ in 2009, which resulted in no coal being built at all.
UK & Canada have used emissions standards to require existing coal plants to either fit CCS or shut down by X date. Biden EPA regs similar approach.
I think we should assign agency:
Fossil fuel companies have hidden behind the idea of future CCS as an excuse for business as usual.
Governments have used CCS policy as a means of preventing / retiring coal power plants.
Industrial emitters are supporting CCS clusters to enable emissions cuts.
Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵
How can we accelerate coal transitions around the world?
At #COP30, the Coal Transition Commission released two new reports: “From Flex to Phase-Out”, and “Growing the Pipeline of Coal-to-Clean Projects” to answer these questions.
Read more here: poweringpastcoal.org/strands-of-w...
In this report by @theguardian.com, 350.org Indonesia renews its call for the Indonesian government to phase-out coal 🏭--and for rich nations to pay their climate debt and protect the world’s third-largest rainforests.🌳 #COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The latest Coal Transition Commission analysis highlights how governments, financiers, and partners can accelerate coal transitions together.
Release at #COP30 on Wednesday, read the two reports here:
poweringpastcoal.org/strands-of-w...
Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around #COP30 to send a message to #Japan: end financing of coal & LNG projects.
“Japan is actually delaying the fossil fuel phase-out across Asia” by funding fossil fuel projects, mainly LNG developments:
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #NoLNG #NoPipelines
BREAKING: Guatemala joins the PPCA!
The nation becomes the 65th national PPCA member, after the Republic of Korea and Bahrain joined earlier today.
With Honduras joining earlier in the year, this is a sign the region is moving irreversibly away from coal ⏩
BREAKING: Republic of Korea and Bahrain join the PPCA 🇰🇷🇧🇭
This is a historic step for the Republic of Korea, with the world's 7th largest coal fleet.
Find out about the country's new coal phase-out commitment, made official for the first time today⏩
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Coal giant South Korea agrees to ditch dirtiest fossil fuel
#COP30 live blog
#climatecrisis
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