'My concern is that when we use phrases like 'realism' & 'pragmatism', what it means to many people is: 'we just need to move more slowly with the clean energy transition,'' CGEP founder Jason Bordoff tells CNBC correspondent Dan Murphy.

▶️ Watch now: cnbc.com/video/2024/04/…

At the #G7 Energy Ministerial, led by 🇮🇹 Minister Gilberto Pichetto, I called for a sixfold increase in global energy storage by 2030 to support the tripling of renewables, as highlighted in International Energy Agency’s recent report

I also emphasised the importance of diversified clean energy supply chains

BREAKING: #G7 agree to phase out domestic coal during the first half of 2030s💪

(Of course they'd already agreed 'to 'fully or predominately' decarbonize their power sectors by 2035', so hopefully no-one will forget they also need to do the same for gas🥺)

Daily Mail admits making up story about electric vehicles causing potholes - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment lse.ac.uk/granthaminstit…

V useful chart via 2023 Nicholas Stern paper detailing various estimates (2018-2022) of macroeconomic benefits from #climate action. Pretty positive jobs / growth figures. academic.oup.com/wbro/article/3…

G7 has agreed to phase out coal in 'first half of the 2030s' according to UK #climate minister. No text as yet but if accurate that represents a shift.

Unearthed @ue wanted to find out who was behind all the Facebook groups springing up demanding an end to ULEZ and what was going on them...

They found Tory staff running a network of groups riddled with racism, climate conspiracies and abuse ( 1/6)

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/04/27/con…

Seriously, you're going to wake one morning in the 2050s in a home warmed by your wind powered heat pump, open the dividend from your solar farm share, ride to work on an electric bus passing fields of agroforestry brimming with wildlife, and wonder what all the fuss was about.

Andrew knows perfectly well what the answer to this is, because it's been explained to him repeatedly

At this point his bleating about low wind periods, which –surprise!– actual grid engineers do know about, just looks like wilful ignorance

Germany supports EU proposal to reduce emissions by 90 percent by 2040, says foreign min Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock

cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-s… #EUGreenDeal #ClimateAction

After THAT fracking vote at the end of the Truss premiership, THAT by-election caused by Sunak North Sea policy, now it’s THAT climate target row that threatens the SNP leadership.

Striking how realities of climate transition again & again now shaping political destinies.

When can companies claim to be aligned with the #ParisAgreement ?🌍🌡️🔥🧐

In a new Science Magazine piece we write that corporate emissions targets alone are insufficient to make this call.

(1/n) Grantham Imperial Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial Imperial Sciences
imperial.ac.uk/news/252893/vo…

Happy 70th birthday to the photovoltaic cell, demonstrated on April 25, 1954.

NYT: 'the beginning of a new era, leading eventually to the realization of one of mankind's most cherished dreams - the harnessing of the almost limitless energy of the sun' nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/…

Happy Friday to all the reply guys saying how renewables are a terrible idea.

I hate to break it to you but >80% of new generation capacity built is now renewable energy, mainly solar and wind.

See the trend? Coal (black) and fossil gas (grey) getting squeezed more and more.

Electric vehicles continue to be doomed, this time with help from Honda and its $11 billion investment in new facilities in Canada to produce EVs for North America: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

V helpful World Bank / IMF Spring meeting review via Josh Gabbatiss carbonbrief.org/qa-climate-fin…

Demand for heat pumps through our Boiler Upgrade Scheme – backed by our 50% increase in grants – continues to grow.
Figures released today show applications in March were up 46% on the same month last year.

This is next level...

Newsweek is reporting that Hillary Clinton tweeted Carbon Brief analysis

'As of press time, Clinton's Trump post has garnered more than 14m views. Newsweek has contacted representatives of Biden and Clinton via email for comment.'

newsweek.com/donald-trump-h…

Batteries are a vital part of the energy transition. Here's why:

- They're the fastest growing clean technology on the market

- They help meet climate goals & ensure energy security

- They bring down emissions in power & transport

International Energy Agency's new report ➡️ iea.li/3QmAogL

Pope on those who deny human-caused climate change:

'There are people who are foolish, and even foolish if they show you them research. They don't believe it…They don't understand the situation or because of their interest, but climate change exists.'

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…