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Richard Black

@_richardblack

Head of Policy & Strategy at @emberclimate. Hon Fellow @ImperialCollege, Sen Assoc @eciu_uk, ex sci & envt @bbcnews. Energy & climate, occasional sport & music

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No no no, this can't be right... we all know heat pumps don't work in cold countries, isn't that right Daily The Telegraph? theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Why would agreement to triple renewables and accelerate energy efficiency improvement be such a big deal at ? @emberclimate's Dave Jones has the juice Carbon Brief carbonbrief.org/qa-why-deals-a…

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This stat amazes me: petrol car sales peaked in 2017.

Last year sales were 20% lower (26% lower in China) compared to 2017.. (dubious dataviz tho🫣)

This stat amazes me: petrol car sales peaked in 2017. Last year sales were 20% lower (26% lower in China) compared to 2017.. (dubious dataviz tho🫣)
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Michael S. Taylor(@mtaylor_nz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is how things get done.

Big, long-term offtake contracts to de-risk investments.

We saw this work for solar & wind, those policies focussed on de-risking the capital investment are likely to arrive at the start line after the gun has fired...

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Meanwhile, yesterday Eastern Daily Press said that the Conservative candidate to be Norwich North MP thinks climate change is nothing to do with humans and is just natural cycles. I don’t know if these are his current views, hopefully he’s moved on in his views edp24.co.uk/news/23931338.… (2/2)

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Delighted to share two new outputs from the smart folk at Ember - our new tool tracking country's renewable energy targets, and our new report analysing what countries' targets and build plans mean

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Fiona Harvey(@fionaharvey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Remember that sovereign wealth fund that the UK govt set up in the 1980s with the windfalls from the North Sea when it started booming? The one that invests in infrastructure now like HS2? No, me neither.

Remember that sovereign wealth fund that the UK govt set up in the 1980s with the windfalls from the North Sea when it started booming? The one that invests in infrastructure now like HS2? No, me neither.
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Solar and wind generation in ASEAN grew yearly by 43% on average since 2015, according to latest @emberclimate analysis.

Policies to promote renewables in ASEAN countries led to the surge in recent years.

But why did growth slow down to 15% last year? A 🧵(1/5)

Solar and wind generation in ASEAN grew yearly by 43% on average since 2015, according to latest @emberclimate analysis. Policies to promote renewables in ASEAN countries led to the surge in recent years. But why did growth slow down to 15% last year? A 🧵(1/5) #TriplingASEAN
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Great to see my old friends at Net Zero Tracker delivering the latest upgrade - signposting from entity pages to other organisations doing more in-depth analyses, inc ClimateActionTracker, InfluenceMap & NewClimate Institute zerotracker.net/insights/stron…

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Good morning with good news: Solar skyrockets in Nigeria, after big subsidies for gasoline and diesel were ended. BNEF says solar capacity now will triple to 1.6 GW within a year. Nigeria may use off-grid solar to 'build grid-scale volumes.' Jenny Chase
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Good morning with good news: Solar skyrockets in Nigeria, after big subsidies for gasoline and diesel were ended. BNEF says solar capacity now will triple to 1.6 GW within a year. Nigeria may use off-grid solar to 'build grid-scale volumes.' @solar_chase bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Delighted to be able to say that as of this week I've joined the wonderful team at Ember full-time - the global clean energy transition has never been so exciting

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Yet another oil and gas giant buys back shares rather than investing in exploration... can you see what it is yet? thetimes.co.uk/article/shell-…

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Robert Howarth(@howarth_cornell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My paper is more direct that this. No 'may be' about it. Best case scenario for LNG is worse than coal by 24%. Worst case by much more than 2-fold. LNG is a climate disaster.

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