A good reminder that, except for the mining part, China controls most of the supply chain EV batteries... 6 Chinese companies are among the world's top 10 battery suppliers. iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/ee01701…

Attention climate fam 📣 I’m excited to share that Quadrature Climate Foundation has officially surpassed $1 Billion in climate giving Now back to work so we can get the next Billion (s) out 😎

OK... But right now France needs a prime minister. Just saying lemonde.fr/en/france/arti…

The last coal-powered power plant in the UK is set to close later this month. The first coal power plant started there in 1882 The drop in coal power generation over the last 15 years is remarkable canarymedia.com/articles/fossi…

Coal consumption per region in 2023. China accounts for 56%. Add the Asia Pacific region and you get 80% of global consumption…

Visualizing the Products and Fuels Made from Crude Oil 🛢️ From the archive: elements.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-th…

“The energy transition will require too much mining” A 900MWel coal plant burns 9700t of coal per day (data from the US). All numbers below are taking into account the rock-to-metal ratio

If you know bright PhD students working on climate and think their work needs to be recognised more widely- point them towards this new award launched with Marble and that I am proud to support with QCF We need a lot of brain power to solve climate inflectionaward.com

In 2023, 18% of new cars being sold were electric (full or hybrid)- 93% in Norway, 38% in China and 22% in the EU. But there are 1.4 billion cars in the world and right now only around 3.2% are electric (29% in Norway). The transition is about stocks and fluxes

Summer 2024 will be the hottest on record (that record will be broken in the next few years as the planet keeps warming). This has severe consequences, as illustrated by this map of the significant climate anomalies and events for August 2024 phys.org/news/2024-09-e…