Reading some of the media coverage you get the impression that EV sales are down.

See the pattern?

Source International Energy Agency iea.org/reports/global…

We just updated our data on electrical vehicles:
ourworldindata.org/electric-car-s…

Here is one datapoint: 93% of all new vehicles sold in Norway last year were electric.

Municipalities are well-positioned to make huge gains on greenhouse gas reduction. Our latest blog post explores how cities can leverage plant-based proteins for climate action and public health benefits. Read more here: go.eli.org/pbp-blog

Good morning with good news: Total global solar installation reached 1.6 TW in 2023.

More solar was installed in 2023 than had been installed up to 2017! 2023 deployment was up ~80%.

Eighteen nations passed 10% solar level, including Japan & Germany!
iea-pvps.org/wp-content/upl…

The second annual State of the Environment Conference at Vanderbilt Law School was a huge success, featuring discussions on conservation, water, energy, and more. 🌎

Check out the key takeaways and insights shared in our recap: ow.ly/PqkP50RjpeX

The 'recycling doesn't work' people really need to learn the difference between plastics recycling and metals recycling.

We get half of our steel from recycled scrap in the U.S.

It takes less energy to recycle metals than to refine new ore. That saves money. That's why we do

Good morning with good news: Battery recycling by Redwood cuts environmental cost of EV materials as much as 80%. '95% of the key minerals in batteries' can be profitably recycled.

Redwood will produce in US key material for 1.3 million EVs by 2028!
bloomberg.com/news/features/…

My column today is basically a plea for people who care about climate to stop yelling at each other about which solutions are “better” or “cheaper” and start coming to grips with the reality that it’s 2024 and we don’t have time for that shit anymore. latimes.com/environment/ne…

Good morning with good news: Wind industry built a record 117 GW globally in 2023, up 50% from 2022!

Also, 791 GW more is likely added by 2028.
2024: 131 GW
2025: 148 GW
2026: 159 GW
2027: 171 GW
2028: 182 GW

2.4X more wind built in 2028 than in 2022.
gwec.net/wp-content/upl…

Excited to release my Benson Center Free Mind podcast episode with Benji Backer on the day of his book release! youtube.com/watch?v=oYD4Ep…

We need to work together to solve problems like climate change, which touch all of society. Benji is working hard to start this conversation.

Good morning with good news: US has ~600 GW of dispatchable solar/wind plus battery projects in interconnection queues!

That's 35X new data center load (17 GW) forecasted by 2030.

PJM says reliability value of solar/wind plus battery is similar to gas!
emp.lbl.gov/sites/default/…

If you are interested in ways to protect wetlands exposed by the SCt’s Sackett decision, check out our new exploration of private environmental governance options. Michael Gerrard Jonathan H. Adler Tom Dietz Jonathan Nash papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Great start to the law and economics conference on behavioral interventions at ND Law School. Vanderbilt Law EELU Program Tom Dietz Kim Wolske, PhD

Now official: Realizing the full potential of behavioral science for climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change, 14(4), 322-330. 10.1038/s41558-024-01951-1.

postprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Another positive climate decision today: D.C. Circuit upholds California's ability to set strong emissions standards for automobiles; rejects efforts by fossil fuel industry and red states to strike down EPA's 'California waiver'. The decision: bit.ly/3PUFAIE

Happy to share a preprint of some of my PhD work🚨

with Christina Demski and Prof. Nick Pidgeon

Key findings: politicians and celebs who lead by example with low-carbon behaviours increase others' willingness to act and raise trust/credibility/popularity papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Good morning with good news: Maryland becomes first state to require utilities to enable EVs to supply the grid, not just homes. Bidirectional EV charging pilot programs also must be started!

MD's law also boosts VPPs & time of use power pricing for EVs.
solarpowerworldonline.com/2024/04/maryla…

Factcheck: How electric vehicles help to tackle climate change | Zeke Hausfather #CBarchive

Read here: buff.ly/3vNfqAv

NOAA has published its first estimate of the growth in global-average CO₂ concentration for 2023, at +2.81 ppm. GlobalCarbonProject's forecast was 2.4 ppm, the average of a time-series analysis giving 2.39 and an ESM multi-model mean giving 2.41. Let's unpack this.

Wonderful: Booming demand for large heat pumps.

Why? End dependence on Russian gas & decarbonization.

'Siemens recently struck a deal with Heineken to supply 15 large heat pumps for its breweries by 2025.'

Turboden’s Finnish customer is slashing its use of Russian gas.