Published today in NatureClimate: 'The carbon dioxide removal gap', led by William Lamb, expanding the gap analysis from the 2023 State of CDR Report
Full text: nature.com/articles/s4155…
'Read only' version: rdcu.be/dGHsL
Accompanying policy brief: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Massive thank you to Ulster Farmers' Union for hosting Climate Change Committee on William Irvine’s first day in office as President. We learned so much from William, John, Aileen and James. The tour of Hilary and Roger Bell’s wonderful sheep and beef farm was the icing on the cake 🙏

Thanks to Minister Andrew Muir MLA and DAERA for making Climate Change Committee so welcome and the useful open discussions on climate impacts and action in NI

DAERA Minister Andrew Muir MLA with the Interim Chair and Acting CEO of UK Climate Change Committee Climate Change Committee during their visit to Belfast. More info: daera-ni.gov.uk/news/daera-min…

The article goes through the various uncertainties facing this new technology, including the non-CO2 impacts of hydrogen-powered planes. For more info on this topic, check out our webinar with Piers Forster ! 2/2

aef.org.uk/2024/02/20/inv…

This week, Dr James Richardson took over as the acting Dr James Richardson.

James has been the Climate Change Committee Chief Analyst for almost a year, and in that time has done a fantastic job. The Committee and I are very grateful to him and look forward to continuing to work closely together.

Excited to be working with such great partners to help restore nature across Yorkshire & Cumbria Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Woodland Trust🌳 Forestry England National Trust WWF UK UBoC Natural England Restoring Hardknott Forest

Working with Chris has been a lot of fun. Producing authoritative reports and having an impact right up until the end. Enjoy The Carbon Trust 🙏

Having struggled myself with figuring out how to assess the resilience of long-term low-carbon transformations, I'm glad to see stephane hallegatte's team at the World Bank came up with a project rating system.
Still need to read it myself, but my interest is piqued. 👇🧐🌍🌪🌡

Important end of term interview by our outgoing ⁦Dr James Richardson. UK will benefit from investing in and delivering on a well-planned NetZero transition. Now is not the time for mixed messages. Chris’ messages have always been clear. 🙏 www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.co…

We'll discuss these proposals with Dr James Richardson and Scotland Champion Prof Keith Bell at next week's meeting, when they join us to give evidence on Climate Change Committee's 2023 Progress Report.

Earlier this year, we published our latest Scottish Progress Report. In this we were extremely critical of the lack of planning to hit *any* of the Scottish climate targets.

We also felt it was time to call-out the 2030 goal as beyond credible.

theccc.org.uk/2024/03/20/sco…

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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Really excited to have launched Reform's new report 'Mission control' 🚀

Missions are a useful framing for problems that involve extraordinary ambition, and a real emphasis on innovation and pace of delivery.

BUT, they can't just be a political soundbite. 🧵

Sorry to be missing this one. Two jobs sometimes don’t fit in a week’s work 😓

Red regions of the Great Barrier Reef experienced mass bleaching and mortality of corals at least once in 2016, 2017 & 2020 - leaving a blue “refuge” in the offshore south.

Tragically, in 2024 the southern refuge is gone (link below)