Nice to see Liz Truss confirming Esther Webber and my reporting from 2021 that she opposed the UK's hosting of COP26 — vigorously denied by the gvmt at the time.

One other cabinet member joined her rebellion: Rishi Sunak.

politico.eu/article/cop26-…

Sorry to rain on your parade The Telegraph

1. We haven't issued a denial
2. We aren't cloud seeding in UAE
3. Our weather and climate scientists are providing evidence-based comments to explain what happened
4. Read more from them at rdg.ac/49GVsW3
5. Jog on

Lots of people asking about Scotland's climate targets today (understandably).

We won't comment before we see what the Scottish Government is planning, but our position on the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿2030 target is already very clear. It was in two key bits of advice, published already.
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NEW – India election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change | Aruna Chandrasekhar w/comment from Aditya Valiathan Pillai Disha Ravi 𓆉 Sustainable Futures Collaborative

Read here: buff.ly/446suh5

As millions step out in the searing heat to vote starting Friday, where's climate in India's election manifestos? Some say voters and netas don't really care, but cheaper electricity and corruption-free coal have been major poll planks. In 2024, climate gets a bigger shoutout 👇

The removal of Scotland’s 2030 target, announced by the Scottish Government today, is deeply disappointing. 
 
We are reassured that the Net Zero target remains in place but….. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

New first-of-its-kind analysis from International Energy Agency shows the major contributions clean energy is making to the world economy

In 2023, it accounted for 10% of global GDP growth, adding around $320 billion to economic output

Learn more in our new commentary ➡️ iea.li/4d2594b

Very happy to see the IEA replicating our analysis of the contribution of clean energy to GDP growth in China for the other major economies!

In 1999, a panic convinced Wall Street that computers and the internet were about to overwhelm the power grid.

By 2008, some feared, computers could use *half* of American electricity.

It didn’t happen, of course. And in fact the panic had been led by climate change deniers.

38 trillion dollars in damages each year: World economy already committed to income reduction of 19 % due to climate change. 👉New PIK paper in nature by Maximilian Kotz , Leonie Wenz , Prof Anders Levermann, PhD, Image: Kotz et al., Nature pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…

📚📚NEW PUBLICATION!📚📚

We all know that climate extremes are important; think of floods and heatwaves.

*How* important is it for the 21st century economy?
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In NatureClimate we investigate six climate indicators across 33 CMIP6 models: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Assessing climate change's global economic impacts typically focuses on annual temperatures - but what happens if we include variability and extremes?

A 🧵on our new paper in NatureClimate w/ Prof Sonia I. Seneviratne Jarmo Kikstra Fulden Batibeniz James Rising

🔗: nature.com/articles/s4155…
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Arguably the most granular analysis to date of future economic impacts from climate change estimates we will knock 19% off anticipated incomes by 2050 even if we slash emissions. If we don't we'll knock 60% off incomes and enter an era of global austerity. businessgreen.com/news-analysis/…

Pourquoi les crédits carbone volontaires posent-ils question ?

Long fil! C'est parti...
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We've published our plans to deliver a smart and secure electricity system, with heat pumps and flexible electric heating tech to be smart as standard from 2026; potentially saving consumers £100s off their energy bills. Respond to the consultation here 👇 gov.uk/government/con…

Daily Express yesterday: 'Join the green industrial revolution!' (a campaign it launched ahead of COP26)

Daily Express today: '...shatters the great lie...there is a scientific consensus on man-made climate change'

Seriously. Does it think its readers are stupid?

Given #COP29 hosts Azerbaijan have unveiled their logo for this year, here's all the logos from previous COPs.

(My favourite has to be COP7)