
George Smeeton
@gsmeeton
Head of communications at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit @ECIU_UK, also featuring the Net Zero Tracker @NetZeroTracker
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https://eciu.net/ 23-02-2011 13:58:45
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So easy, so tempting to just dismiss COP29 - or the entire COP process - as a failure. Please don't do it. Not only would that be intellectually lazy, but also irrresponsible. Of the many slightly more constructive takes, I recommend this one by James Murray businessgreen.com/news/4382153/c…



Note to journalists reporting on EV sales targets Dr James Richardson, Director of Analysis at Climate Change Committee, has said that the car market is *on track to meet this year’s targets for EV sales* Pls bear this in mind when repeating the industry line that they’re falling way short

Vauxhall told investors it was “confident” it would meet the UK’s rules on EV sales just 2 months before it blamed them for the decision to close its Luton factory The claim that the ZEV mandate is to blame for the Luton factory closure looking very iffy theguardian.com/business/2024/…


More poorly informed takes on climate from The Rest Is Politics Rory Stewart says climate finance for developing countries is "completely the wrong way" to "stop global warming". Instead G20 should have met for a couple more days to "try to crack this". A few problems with this...





Well, this is quite the turaround Having spent much of 2024 complaining that the ZEV mandate was too hard, Stellantis has announced that is has successfully met its EV sales targets Joins the likes of BMW, Mercedes and Hyundai in proving it can be done media.stellantis.com/uk-en/corporat…

An assumption among some comment writers that net zero was the policy which saw the Conservative "haemorrhage votes" at the last election. Regardless of what one thinks of the policy, polling shows that wasn't the case. Thank you to the The Telegraph for publishing my letter /1


🚨 A recent article in The Times and The Sunday Times by political editor Steven Swinford contained a major factual error - the claim that demand for EVs was falling After our complaint to @ipsonews, and some stonewalling by the paper, the article has finally been corrected A thread 🧵





SMMT predicting 23.7% market share for EVs in '25 Saying this means industry won't hit EV sales targets However, this is ABOVE the 23.1% New AutoMotive says the industry needs to hit to comply with the ZEV mandate Why? Because EV sales aren't the only source of credits 1/5