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A RECORD surge in solar halted the rise of global fossil generation last year 🚫💨

Unpack the full story of the global power sector in 2025 👇

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Pohjoismainen raportti AMOC-kiertoliikkeen keikahduspisteen Tuoreeseen raporttiin on koostettu tieteellinen tieto Pohjois-Atlantin kiertoliikkeen (AMOC) mahdollisen romahduksen vaikutuksista Pohjoismaissa. Raportissa annetaan toimenpidesuosituksia alueen

Tuore raportti AMOC-kiertoliikkeen keikahduspisteen vaikutuksista kehottaa tehostamaan ilmastonmuutoksen hillitsemistä, seurantaa ja varautumista.

Raporttiin on koostettu tieteellinen tieto AMOCin mahdollisen romahduksen vaikutuksista Pohjoismaissa.

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Renewables really are staying on trend⚡

NEW research from @ember-energy.org finds that wind and solar overtook fossil fuels in the EU electricity mix for the FIRST time ever in 2025

🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of EU electricity, up from 20% just five years ago #WindandSolarNow

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Bad news for the #CCS industry:
🔻World’s largest #CCS project revealed record low capture rates
🔻Backers of Acorn CCS are looking to sell up
🔻BP scrap blue Hydrogen & CCS at Teesside
CCS projects falling short — technically, economically and politically.

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Utilities give up hope on using hydrogen in their gas grids – report

As you can guess: this is not a failure for hydrogen in any sense of the word. The goal was not to use hydrogen in gas grids, it was to offer a cynically fabricated promise of a solution to allow for more time to kill regulations and fight electrification.

And it absolutely worked:

Current climate policy risks increasing social tensions, warns German government report

CO2 prices place a particular burden on poorer households while the wealthy cause twice the emissions, report says

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The world’s carbon emissions continue to rise. But 35 countries show progress in cutting carbon In 2025 the world has fallen short, again, of peaking and reducing its fossil fuel use. But there are many countries on a path to greener energy.

The 2025 update of the Global Carbon Budget is out.​​
While fossil CO2 emissions rise again and carbon sinks are weakened by climate change, deforestation emissions are down and many countries decarbonise their energy.
No global emissions peak yet though.
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Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy - Nature Sustainability The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the total energy production by t...

Important new research published last month in Nature Sustainability shows that the oil and gas industry has only a 1.42% share of global renewable energy.

Only 20% of the 250 largest oil and gas companies operate any renewable energy projects.

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#COP30

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”And if used at all, carbon credits should be based only on durable removal methods that sequester carbon for hundreds to thousands of years, and reserved for genuinely hard-to-abate sources where carbon prices are Paris-aligned and caps are near zero.”

Historic win against greenwashing as Court rules TotalEnergies misled consumers on net zero View the press release

This is HUGE

A court has ruled that TotalEnergies has misled consumers by presenting itself as a “major player in the energy transition”.

It is the first judgement in the world ruling an Oil & Gas major has misled the public by greenwashing its image.

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Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

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“We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale,” said Stephen Lezak, a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Smith School and co-author of the study, in Annual Reviews. “We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.”

Rasismi ja ilmastonmuutoksen kieltäminen kulkevat käsi kädessä, väittää väitöskirjatutkija Ilmastoestäminen nivoutuu rasistiseen ekologiaan, toisin sanoen pyrkimykseen kehystää ympäristöongelmat rodullistettujen ihmisryhmien poliittiseksi vastuuksi.

Rasismi ja ilmastonmuutoksen kieltäminen kulkevat käsi kädessä, väittää väitöskirjatutkija

ERIKOISJAKSO: Suomessa on työttömyyskriisi, ja syylliset ovat tiedossa Spotify video

RTP:n ERIKOISJAKSO: Lämmitämme hätäkiukaan sataan asteeseen ja julistamme Suomeen työttömyyskriisin. Olemme tilanteessa, jossa todennäköisesti vuoden lopussa Suomessa on koko EU:n korkein työttömyys (nyt jo laman alkuvaiheen tasolla) eikä tämä ole yhteiskunnallisen keskustelun pääpuheenaihe. Miksi?

Lukijakysely | Suomen taloudessa on heikko lenkki: suomalaiset Suomaiset kuluttajat ovat nyt talouden kasvun heikoin lenkki, sanovat asiantuntijat. Yli 2 000 HS:n lukijaa kertoi, miksi heillä ei ole varaa tai halua käyttää rahaa.

HS:n kyselyn tulokset näyttävät odotetun mukaisilta:

"Yli 2 000 vastaajasta moni kertoi, etteivät rahat riitä nytkään. Ne, joilla rahaa on, haluavat kasvattaa puskuriaan, koska Suomen talouden tilanne tuntuu niin epävarmalta."

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China’s rapid build-out of renewables and electrification drive could see its emissions peak — a milestone that may signal a global peak in emissions is on the horizon.

”Mercedes-Benz is falling behind its competitors and trying to deflect the blame onto the EU. However, BMW's success demonstrates that the problem lies with Mercedes' strategy, not the EU.”

NEW RESEARCH: Researchers from Imperial College London conclude: Safe CO₂ underground storage capacity is far lower than previous estimates due to leakage risks, seismicity, engineering limits, and geopolitics.

At best, CCS looks like a scarce resource, not an unlimited backstop.

A few days ago, Berlin opened a new stretch of urban motorway, with the stated aim to reduce congestion.

Today, the stretch was temporarily closed because of too much congestion.

Tätä kirjoittaessa teki koko ajan mieli laittaa lauseiden loppuun huutomerkkejä. Laitan ne nyt tähän.

Velkajarru on Orpon hallituksen merkittävin lakiesitys myös ympäristön kannalta!!!

Avohakkuut heikentävät metsän maaperän hiilivarastoja vuosikymmeniksi

Analysoimme pitkäaikaisessa seurannassa olevia mänty- ja kuusivaltaisia metsiä. Mallinnuksen tulokset osoittivat, että avohakkuu johti maaperän hiilitaseen heikkenemiseen useiden vuosikymmenten ajaksi. Harvennuksilla ei ollut merkittävää vaikutusta. #metsä Lue lisää: www.luke.fi/fi/uutiset/a...

Tutkimus: Avohakkuu heikentää metsän maaperän hiilivarastoa kymmenien vuosien ajaksi Avohakkuun jälkeen voi kestää lähes 70 vuotta ennen kuin maaperän hiilivarasto palautuu samalle tasolle kuin ennen hakkuuta.

"Avohakkuun jälkeen voi kestää lähes 70 vuotta ennen kuin maaperän hiilivarasto palautuu samalle tasolle kuin ennen hakkuuta."

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"Elite pessimism suppresses societal will to fight. A government that does not trust its citizens to step up will avoid making demands of them – creating a self-fulfilling loss of resolve." The same is true for fighting climate change. Very good article.

8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.

The continents are rapidly drying out and the earth’s vast freshwater resources are under threat, according to a recently released study based on 20+ years of NASA satellite data.

Here are the report’s key findings and what they portend for humankind.

Graph showing: Share of electricity generation from solar in Hungary

Hungary ❤️ the sun.

The core problem is this, he doesn’t practice principled anti-imperialism. He practices inversionism: if the U.S. supports something, he reflexively takes the opposite side, no matter how brutal that side is, no matter the evidence.

This slope on this chart is INSANE

Qatar threatened to cut EU LNG supplies over sustainability law, letter shows Qatar has threatened to cut gas supplies to the European Union in response to the bloc's due diligence law on forced labour and environmental damage, a letter from Qatar to the Belgian government, seen by Reuters, showed.

Who was it that said switching to LNG would increase energy security? Oh yeah, the LNG lobby.

The EU now finds itself being blackmailed by Qatar - in addition to the US - over energy supplies if it doesn't weaken environmental protections. Expect more deregulation 😖

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