Xi Jinping urged by advisers to take the ‘moral high ground’ and avoid escalation in trade war as Biden and Trump compete to be seen by voters as the toughest on China. via Financial Times w Ryan McMorrow
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Today’s Trade Secrets. State subsidies can help the environment or simply waste money, distort trade and lead to conflict.

This would be a v good time to have comprehensive and binding global rules to sort good from bad. Guess what? We don’t.

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Your regular reminder that solar farms take up (a lot) less of the UK than golf courses

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I've been a Londoner long enough to recall 1980s days of flood siren tests, tube stations at risk and water regularly overflowing onto the embankment. So happy 40th to the Thames barrier. New artwork for a great Financial Times piece on its future by gillplimmer and Attracta Mooney

Stunning data/satellite mapping from Jana Tauschinski

NEW: This week's climate graphic looks at the 11th consecutive month of record temperatures using data from Copernicus ECMWF. Tried a new chart type to show the anomalies by latitude. What do you think?

Read Attracta Mooney's report
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#dataviz

Clean energy technology manufacturing is a new engine of growth

It creates opportunities for employment & economic development around the world, and is essential to the energy transition

Read more in International Energy Agency's new report ⬇️iea.org/news/surging-i…

As a result of a Canadian subsidy scheme, the oil major was able to register 5.7mn credits that had no equivalent CO₂ reductions, selling some to top oil sands groups on.ft.com/4a9vRFE

Wild thought. I reckon you could probably fix the #climate problem if we stopped subsidising the very profitable fossil fuel industry. Thanks to Financial Times for the graph, in any case. ft.com/content/6873d9…

Green transition funding:
-we spend less than 1/6th of what we spent on covid in 2020
-fossil fuel subsidies ⁦= 80pct of annual climate funding needs
via Financial Times⁩ ⁦Attracta Mooney⁩

Today, utility-scale batteries paired with solar PV are already competitive with new coal plants in some countries like India

In just the next few years, batteries + solar will be cheaper than new natural gas plants in the US & new coal in China 👉 iea.li/3xXPqDk

The deadline for international offer holders to the MA in financial journalism City Journalism is next week. Home students have longer but don’t delay. Details here city.ac.uk/prospective-st…

Loved this walk through Tokyo's sushi shops run by female chefs by Kana Inagaki, which are hard to find because of discrimination and a bizarre myth that women with our warm hands are ill-suited to the profession!

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You know another traditional European value along with environmental stewardship? Oppressive imperialism.

And as the EU imposes ever tougher green trading requirements on former colonies it might do well to remember it. My Trade Secrets today:

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Useful reminder as climate ministers gather in Berlin

NEW: This week's climate graphic looks at heatwave related deaths, which are up 30% in Europe over the past 20 years. Much of eastern Europe also had their warmest year on record in 2023 according to Copernicus ECMWF
Read Attracta Mooney's report
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#dataviz

The pensioners and babies behind a new era of climate lawsuits… including two-year-old “Woodpecker” Heewoo 🐥

Big read with alicemhancock

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Climate change failings violate citizens’ rights, European court rules via Financial Times
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NEW: Highest monthly temperatures on record extend to 10 consecutive months in March. SSTs were also the warmest on record for the 12th month in a row, according to data from Copernicus ECMWF

Read Kenza Bryan's report
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#dataviz #gistribe

Sadly no women involved in #climate talks any more. Bit of a shame as they're 50% of planet and kinda key. But dems the breaks. Solid blue suit wall, in any case.