BIG NEWS 🚨 #COP26 climate pledges mean Glasgow is getting closer to Paris! New International Energy Agency analysis shows that fully achieving all net zero pledges to date & the Global Methane Pledge by those who signed it would limit global warming to 1.8 C A big step forward, but much more needed!

Remaining carbon budgets to stay within #ParisAgreement global warming limits Source: globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/i…

Excited to be in #Glasgow for #COP26 until Wed. It's the 🍒 on top of my 1.5 years of writing about the summit for #ForefrontAdvisers. Kicked things off today at the #WCSummit2021 - the Investor COP.

CAT global update: Glasgow has a credibility gap between talk and action. If all govts met their 2030 targets, we would have 2.4˚C of warming in 2100. But right now, current policies put us at 2.7˚C. bit.ly/CAT_Global2021 A Thread 🧵

Just touched down in Berlin, back from my trip to #Glasgow for #COP26. Now we wait for progress from negotiators.

Here is the joint US-China Glasgow Declaration. Is this the breakthrough the talks needed? docs.google.com/document/d/1yo…

... a similar attack on a pipeline from Norway to the UK, Germany or Poland would have huge impacts of European gas supply. Or a gas field. Or a LNG terminal. Or smth. It is a stark reminder of the vulnerability of our energy infrastructure.

Danish PM just stated that leaks on NS pipelines were the result of direct action (sabotage). Being stated in the press conference that there is no chance of it being an accident and is the direct result of explosions.

Von Januar bis August 2022 wurden in Deutschland 4,2 GW Solar installiert. Das Ziel für das ganze Jahr 2022 sind 7 GW. Von September bis Dezember müssen somit noch 2,8 GW zugebaut werden.

Do you feel like the EU is hard to understand? 🤔 It's not you, it's them!  European Commission's language is very complex and gives even more space to Euroskeptics to bash Brussels: politico.eu/article/europe… 👉That's why we explain how EU politics really works, in plain words! 🇪🇺

Newly installed solar PV & wind capacity is set to save consumers in the European Union €100 billion from 2021-2023 Wholesale electricity prices in Europe would have been 8% higher last year without the additional renewable capacity 👉 iea.li/3NdWD6g

Die #COP28 rückt immer näher. Hier ein kleiner Überblick über einige der wichtigsten Meilensteine auf dem Weg nach Dubai.

Dr. Liesbet Hooghe & Dr. Gary Marks asked me to make a video about their newest research on the recent rise of Green & Nationalist parties in Europe – so I did! Watch it over on my YouTube Catch-the-Eye Politics

Der “Klimakanzler” lässt grüßen! #Scholz will also bis 2045 noch so viel Öl & Fracking-Gas verbrennen wie möglich. Drill, baby, drill! So wird Klimaschutz zur Farce. Schon vergessen, was das BVerfG 2021 geurteilt hat, liebe #SPD?

Ich frage mich, was es mit dem Gewissen der Union macht, wenn wir mittags gemeinsam dem Holocaust gedenken und abends die Partei, die Hitler zum Fliegenschiss in der deutschen Geschichte erklärt hat, frenetisch jubelt.