«The "drill baby drill" guy will be remembered as the one that shrunk fossil fuels» pt. 2

How is it possible we have more golf courses than land for solar panels? - Analyzing carbon inequalities The richest 10% of the world population is emitting 6 times more than the poorest 50% . Ultra-rich top 0.1% already emits 77 times more than the threshold for 1.5°C

Without redistribution, decarbonization stays fragile — and backlash gets mistaken for "technical difficulties."

Justice isn't decoration. It's the strategy.

#ClimateJustice #Inequality

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Everyone talks climate tools — carbon pricing, green innovation, efficiency.

But the one word we avoid explains everything: redistribution.

The richest 10% emit 6× more than the poorest 50% (3.9 billion people).

Top 0.1% emit 77× the 1.5°C threshold.

#housing #housing #affordablehousing #climate #energyefficiency #renovation #eu #justtransition #cities #sustainability | Sebastiano Michelotti We thought #housing was finally going to be treated as what it is: a right, not a luxury. Housing is a fundamental right, and affordability should go hand in hand with sustainability and quality. But...

We thought #housing was finally going to be treated as what it is: a right, not a luxury.

But when you look at what’s actually on the table, the climate part risks becoming the first thing that gets “simplified” away.

🚩A few red flags I’m watching closely:

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According to a new report by energy thinktank Ember, battery storage is now “cheap enough in India that solar power can meet 90% of the country’s power demand at lower lifetime costs”

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EU delays proposal to ban Russian oil amid Iran war and price spikes | Sebastiano Michelotti The war in Iran made this happen again: Europe will keep importing Russian gas indefinitely. Only a war could make another war even worse. “It ain’t working. That’s the way you do it,” Mark Knopfler ...

🚨 EU delays Russian oil ban as Iran war spikes prices. December's "historic" phase-out agreement? Shelved indefinitely.

We're choosing fossil fuel addiction over energy security—again. When the world burns (literally), adding more oil is the worst possible move.

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It’s unbelievable to acknowledge that this won’t be in the agenda of today Energy Council meeting “because the topic is to sensitive”

I mean, WHAT???

Are you afraid of showing everybody that your Oil&Gas agenda was a total failure, only meant to favor big companies windfall profits??

we are about to face one of the toughest world financial crisis ever: energy prices are surging due to our deep reliance on fossile fuels, which are - as always - very exposed to geopolitical tension.

Thank goodness #renewables were supposed to be the "intermittent" sources.

#FossilFuels got us two energy crises in three years, with devastating effects over both the general economy cycle and the climate

Why the left is losing. An academic analysis of the falling of democracies How procedural failures and a crisis of responsiveness are eroding democratic legitimacy.

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What if Europe is currently wasting €180 billion per year as cost of not implementing its own environmental law. The “competitiveness” debate we should actually have The Commission's study finds that failing to fully implement EU environmental law costs Europeans €180 billion every year. The real competitiveness killer is letting environmental damage accumulate

Europe's "competitiveness" debate is missing the biggest cost: €180 billion per year lost from not implementing environmental laws already on the books.

Every year we delay, we pay twice: in damage, and in public money to manage the consequences.

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Affordability is the defining climate issue of 2026 New research reveals that people want governments to spend on clean energy and bring living costs down.

«With the cost of living spiralling out of control, affordability is now the key factor determining whether climate action gains public support or faces opposition.»

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The #ClimateLaw has just been approved in the plenary session of the #EuropeanParliament

413 in favour
226 Against
12 abstentions

The final text has been consistently weakened, but still this is the most ambitious and advanced climate law in the world.

Not enough, but something.

Perché il fattore Vannacci non riguarda solo la destra Il partito fondato dal generale non irrita solo Matteo Salvini: ha la potenzialità di mettere in crisi l’unità di tutto il centrodestra, elemento cardine oggi del nostro sistema politico. Ci sono però...

molto gira intorno alla variabile della performance reale. Ma - soprattutto se passa il NO al referendum - Vannacci potrebbe spingere il CDX a riformare la legge elettorale vs un proporzionale con sbarramento. Significativo per pesi e contrappesi politici

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Extinction Rebellion activists block the entrance to CEFIC in Brussels with signs reading "CEFIC = TOXIC LOBBY", "AREA CLOSED", "CEFIC, COUNCIL FOR ECOCIDE, FAMINE AND IRREVERSIBLE COLLAPSE"

📍HAPPENING NOW

@xrbelgium.bsky.social and activists from Greenpeace Belgium are blocking the offices of CEFIC, the European chemicals lobby group

‼️ 50 activists have declared the area a climate crime scene!

Si respira proprio una brutta aria.

Questo "manualetto del corteo" raccontato come la premeditazione di chi sa che cosa è un semplice vademecum di pratiche di minima sopravvivenza.

Roba che si apprende nelle formazioni di attivismo più basilari ma raccontate oggi come violenza

Australia’s Cop31 chief negotiator plans to lobby petrostates on fossil fuel phaseout Exclusive: Chris Bowen says key to next UN climate summit will be ‘engagement, engagement, engagement’ with countries such as Saudi Arabia

We all count on it

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Kennedy Said His Dietary Advisers Would Have ‘No Conflicts of Interest.’ Some Did.

as it was said: the inverted pyramid

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🌍 BREAKTHROUGH! After 5 intense rounds of technical negotiations, we've secured a deal!

Working with @Guarda_Cristina as rapporteur, we transformed 210 amendments into 32 compromises. Exhausting but worth it!

Next steps: committee vote → plenary confirmation.

Deadly Floods’ $20 Billion Toll Shows Asia’s Rising Climate Risk Devastating floods have killed more than 1,300 people and caused at least $20 billion in losses since late last month across parts of South and Southeast Asia, underscoring the increasing risks from c...

20bn$ in loss

the cost of climate change is already here

we need mitigation, a strong global adaptation strategy and more on Loss&Damage.

Countries that are suffering the most ain't the bigger polluters
#reparation
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Ribera rules out changes to nature restoration law in upcoming deregulation package | Euractiv Commission vice-president warns changes to environment law risk 'Pandora's Box'

Finally, a (partial) good news! The NRL and the UWWD should be adjusted throughout delegate acts, which limit the democratic expression. Although, given the present political context, opening the whole directive would be too dangerous

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And we'll act so concerned—because who could have imagined that this "simplification" agenda is actually a political strategy to roll back environmental policy, right?

INCREDIBLY, centre-right parties in the parliament will find UNEXPECTED cooperation with the far-right to dismantle all the EQS, all the references to climate, adaptation etc etc.

Perhaps even the new standards on pollutants like PFAS in surface and groundwater management, just introduced

“Don’t worry, we are not trying to dismantle the #GreenDeal…

…Just a little bit”

A new #deregulation is on the way about one of the most sensitive framework in the EU.

Although they sell it as simplification to foster their industrial (non-)strategy, we know how this is going.

#WFD

Gas boilers, the EU reconsiders and withdraws the ban from 2029 Consultation on the draft revision of the Ecodesign regulation: no marketing ban on boilers from 2029

No more ban on gas boilers.

🚨 Ring the alarm: a new attack to the #GreenDeal is on the way.

The #EPBD targets are stile there, but the ban is key to streamline the investments in the right direction: the transitioning away from fossil fuels.

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Climate leadership isn’t a press release. It’s rules that bite and timelines that hold. The EP’s vote to weaken the EUDR is a step backwards. Defend the law’s integrity. #EUDR #DeforestationFree

This vote is a shame. The EP just voted to weaken the EUDR. Delays. Loopholes. Shields for traders. This isn’t “simplification” — it’s backsliding. A shameful day for forests and fair competition. #EUDR #Deforestation #EU

It’s now clear: Von der Leyen wants the EU to remain tied to high energy prices and unreliable geopolitical scenarios with fossil fuels VDL is just parroting Oil&Gas narratives, putting the future of EU citizens (and their money) in danger. Here is why.

BREAKING NEWS: “We are not fighting fossil fuels” has stated #VDL this morning at a press conference in Johannesburg, for the first African G20 Leaders' Summit.

That’s my take as climate advisor👇
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BREAKING: EU Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu says “We are not fighting fossil fuels, we are fighting the emissions from fossil fuels”

She is parroting oil&gas industry lines, pushing unproven costly technologies like CCS + CO2 removals to keep using fossil fuels.
#FossilFreePolitics