By the end of this month, the UK will bring its 142-year coal-powered era to an end with the closure of its last remaining plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar. Carbon Brief looks at how the UK became the first G7 country to completely phase out coal power. buff.ly/3XF14w1

💯 agree. China dominates because of its consistent financial incentives for clean tech. We should have done the same. Sour grapes mustn’t slow down the global energy transition.

España puede ser líder mundial en hidrógeno verde necesario para sectores difíciles de electrificar, pero no debe desperdiciarlo mezclándolo con gas fósil (como en Mallorca) sin ningún beneficio climático ni económico. expansion.com/economia-soste…

70 years of annual car production - the stunning rise of one country

España podría liderar Europa en hidrógeno verde, pero Mallorca es una señal de advertencia

The response to The Economist from the first Prince of Asturias Professor in the US: agendapublica.es/noticia/19394/…

WOW – The IEA has boosted its latest renewable forecast by another 16% Just 9 months ago, in January 2024, its Renewables 2023 report forecast 3,200GW of capacity – mainly wind and solar – would be built around the world during the five years 2024-2028. Now, in Renewables 2024,

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.

The overconfidence in overshoot is that it can be avoided. A key message of the last IPCC cycle: unless emissions are reduced, 1.5°C is beyond reach! In case you are not aware, emissions have not been reduced. Logically, that means [fill in the blank] ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/

The EU needs Britain as much as Britain needs it. Where is Starmer’s solidarity? theguardian.com/business/2024/…

The 2024 State of the Climate report, written by top climate scientists, begins: "We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled." Clear enough? academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…

It’s bad enough to burn wood for electricity- so inefficient, high emissions and not renewable in any meaningful timescale for the climate. Add destroying old growth forest. Shameful, scandalous

While the growth *rate* in EVs has slowed, sales are still going up ⬆️ significantly, and on track to reach a fifth (20%) of global annual vehicle sales for the first time. Plenty of reasons for optimism in 2025 for EV transition bloomberg.com/news/newslette…?

THREAD My deep dive on International Energy Agency #WEO24 🌄Solar up 4x by 2030, top ⚡️ source by 2033 🥇Clean energy +44% by 2030, top *energy* source by "mid-30s" 🛢️EVs displace 6mb/d by 2030 (⏫4mb/d last yr) ⛰️Fossil fuels peak by 2030 🌡️Warming 2.4C(🔽 2.6C 2021 ⏬ 3.5C 2015)

Let’s get something straight about fossil fuel phase-out: renewables needn’t replace all the coal, oil and gas we use today bc most of it is just used to produce and move those fossil fuels around! We only need to replace the useful energy: 37% of what we currently produce 🫨🧵

Yesterday 44 of the world’s leading climate scientists wrote an open letter about collapse of the Atlantic Ocean’s circulation (AMOC) When I interviewed one of them about the consequences of AMOC reaching a tipping point he could barely keep it together. 🧵

And this is why the West should be deeply concerned by this chart. Held back by fossil lobbyists, electrification is being made too slow and too expensive in most western countries.

New from IEA: "A single journey by a large container ship filled with solar PV modules can provide the means to generate the same amount of electricity as the natural gas from more than 50 large LNG tankers or the coal from more than 100 large bulk ships." iea.org/reports/energy…