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🚨 SCOOP: Two years after Colombia halted new oil and gas licenses, it will announce a $40 billion plan to transition away from fossil fuels. New kind of Just Energy Transition Partnership plan, with as much as $10 billion coming from donors and MDBs. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

This might be my favourite chart of the year: the UK's coal power phaseout interactive.carbonbrief.org/coal-phaseout-…

A genuinely historic day for Britain and the world. The crucible of the Industrial Revolution halting the use of coal power once and for all, and proving it is possible for an advanced economy to end its reliance on coal inside a decade or so. businessgreen.com/news/4364612/e…

We're going to do a special edition of the #GlobalNewsPod- putting your questions to correspondents who've been covering the #MiddleEast for the past year. Please send questions, preferably a voice note, to [email protected] Thank you and please share. #October7th

In a competitive field this is one of the worst things I have ever read on climate change and net zero. A complete failure to understand either the pace of the clean tech revolution or the severity of the climate crisis. It is tacit climate denial and defeatism in equal measure.

Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? theguardian.com/environment/20…

As a former reporter for ⁦BBC News (World)⁩, I can testify to the global importance of its radio service. Essential information for millions worldwide. theguardian.com/media/2024/oct…

THREAD: 1. PERSONAL NEWS: Today BBC News has announced plans to close BBC HARDtalk after 3 decades holding the world’s politicians and powerbrokers to account. This is sad news for me personally, but much more important, I think it’s depressing news for the BBC🧵

This is a great shame. I don’t understand how the BBC can rightly talk up the importance of the BBC World Service as a means to fight back against misinformation- and then shut down BBC Worlds flagship current affairs programme

One of BBC News (World)'s true legends, Mohanad Hashim, returns to his home in Omdurman to witness, and to grieve over, the devastation of #Sudan's unfolding civil war. Stunningly filmed by Hassan Lali, produced by Ed Habershon bbc.com/news/videos/cl…

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NOT requiring solar on new homes would be totally bizarre There's overwhelming support for higher new build standards & lots are annoyed solar isn't already required MHCLG allowing housebuilders to water down / delay standards would be v short sighted theguardian.com/environment/20…

Quality journalism is about the questions

Journalists are supposed to write "the first draft of history". Why are we (very much including me) so bad at reporting the biggest issues of our time - climate, wars, Gaza unnecessary deaths from illness? Drop the conspiracy theories for a moment. Me Financial Times on.ft.com/4htPkpc

COP16 in Cali was suspended. Countries couldn't agree how to furnish hundreds of billions of dollars each year to halt the destruction of nature. Not a good sign heading into COP29 in Baku where countries need a plan to furnish hundreds of billions too! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

You will search this article in vain for any mention of the fact climate change is a serious threat, any sort of alternative plan for cutting emissions, or any reference to recent IEA reports demonstrating how global clean tech markets are booming. thetimes.com/article/52dde4…

this is deeply worrying - who would follow? Argentina considering pulling out of Paris Agreement - politico.eu/article/argent…

"Chinese EV carmakers are 'one generation ahead'…This is the real threat staring Stellantis and all the legacy carmakers in the face."

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...