For the full cartoonist‘s perspective on the AMOC risk, check out theguardian.com/commentisfree/…. For a scientist‘s perspective here is my blog article: realclimate.org/index.php/arch…

Nuclear did not play a role in the #Raisina2024 energy panel discussion. Question from audience: What about nuclear? India's G20 sherpa responds shortly: Small nuclear will be needed. But he more emphasizes: Markets must penalize those that account for GHG emissions.

🇺🇦 2004: Ukrainians started the Orange Revolution after Yanukovych rigged the elections 🇧🇾 2020: Belarusians protested after Lukashenko rigged the elections 🇷🇺 2024: Russians came to watch Putin’s speech after Putin rigged the elections

NEW from me: China's 2024 energy and economic targets allow CO2 emissions to rise up to 2.4%, because a major redefinition of a key energy target. The target could well be overachieved, but the low target is not helping China's credibility. chinadialogue.net/en/energy/how-…

The Great Foreign Car Brand Collapse in China. "Last week, BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu predicted foreign brands would see their China market share plummet from 40% to 10% in the next three to five years." A drop from 40% to 10% would be massive. reuters.com/business/autos…

What does a cabinet reshuffle in Russia mean for 🇨🇳🇷🇺 government-to-government ties? It's about continuity, deepening, and long-term. Also, as Beijing and Moscow expand their defense industrial cooperation, Putin has elevated high-caliber professionals with China experience. 🧵

The highly scripted official part of Putin’s state visit to China has started. But it will be his 1-on-1 with Xi and intimate dinner with natsec teams tonight (Belousov, Shoigu, Lavrov, Ushakov) where the real action is.

Charts of the Day: Lithium-ion batteries are likely to be most affected by a new round of U.S. tariff hikes designed to prevent the American market from being flooded with cheap Chinese goods. caixinglobal.com/2024-05-16/cha…

As one Chinese diplomat puts it, sardonically, America’s proposition to Beijing could be summarised as: “Please help us to defeat your closest ally, so that we can turn on you next.” Gideon Rachman in Financial Times. ft.com/content/6459a7…

👇 Shen Zhihua has always excelled at saying the quiet bit out loud, something which is not popular in China these days.

I got the chance to go on National Public Radio to explain why striking Russian oil refineries hurts Russia economically, is good military strategy and does not raise prices at the pump. Washington's chronic and misguided fear of affecting oil prices has hampered effective

Rule of Law Index 2023 Top 10 Countries 1. Denmark🇩🇰 2. Norway🇳🇴 3. Finland🇫🇮 4. Sweden🇸🇪 5. Germany🇩🇪 6. Luxembourg🇱🇺 7. Netherlands🇳🇱 8. New Zealand🇳🇿 9. Estonia🇪🇪 10. Ireland🇮🇪 World Justice Project

Important topic these days where we face multiple accounts of sabotage and hybrid warfare in the #Baltic Sea and #Europe as a whole

Breaking: China’s CO2 emissions fell 1% in Q2 of 2024, the first quarterly fall since the end of zero-Covid, following five straight quarters of increases. Full-year emissions are on track to fall this year, but only if electricity demand growth eases as expected.

That’d make the Biden-Xi meeting exactly 10 years after the Obama-Xi meeting at the APEC in Beijing, where the two sides delivered their first joint climate statement. What a decade it has been.

I had not realized coal power has plummeted like this in Germany - down two thirds in a decade. See the two jumps from ~2009 to 2013 and 2020 to 2022? That's the only times that developments on coal in Germany were widely reported on... the coal industry hype machine is doing a

🇪🇺President @VonDerLeyen looks right at Orbán Viktor as she discusses Ukraine. And she has uncharacteristically tough words. "The world has witnessed the atrocities of Russia's war. And yet, there are still some who blame this war not on the invader, but the invaded. Not on

Ein Zitat, das große Teile der aktuellen Debatte wunderbar zusammenfasst. “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” Kurt Vonnegut, University of Oregon speech, 1990.