Oil shock may accelerate Malaysia's energy transition - experts Academic says transitioning to renewables is no longer optional, it's essential.

Oil shock may accelerate Malaysia's energy transition - experts

Climate Policy, Volume 26, Issue 1 (2026)

🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 1 is out now, with articles on #EUETS 2, #climatefinance & #climatejustice, #carbondioxideremoval & #carbonmarkets, #climatechange awareness & #climatepolicy support, transformative #climateaction

🖋️ @rbaernthaler.bsky.social @egrossman.bsky.social @lisgilmore.bsky.social & more ⬇️

India’s Rs 20,000-crore CCUS push: What the Union Budget’s carbon capture bet really means India's 2026-27 Budget allocates Rs 20,000 crore to boost carbon capture, storage, and utilisation in five key industrial sectors, aiming to support the country's net-zero by 2070 goal. While promisin...

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Sovereign green bonds in practice: effectiveness as a climate finance instrument in emerging economies Sovereign green bonds (SGBs) enable governments to raise capital for national climate, sustainability, and green development objectives. Since the first issuance in 2016, SGBs have expanded rapidly...

Research fellows Seth Owusu-Mante, Kate Chi, and @tarungk91.bsky.social authored a research article on how sovereign green bonds (SGB) can mobilize capital toward renewable energy and other projects that deliver environmental benefits.

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No direct mention of fossil fuels, as far as I can make out. "Technologically neutral" is an interesting phrase, potentially opening the door to carbon capture. But CCS is not cost-competitive at the moment. So the "neutral" emission-reduction solution available today is renewables.

1.5 seems to be textually alive in the #G20 Leaders' Declaration out of Johannesberg. Reconciling that ambition with current emissions trajectories is another question.

A summary of WTO jurisprudence on "arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination" and "disguised restriction" that may inform how this text is interpreted: www.wto.org/english/trat...

🆕 #COP30 Global goal on adaptation text

- "takes note of" Glasgow goal to 2x adaptation finance/2025
- "calls for efforts to at least" 3x adaptation finance/2035
- "urges" developed countries to "increase trajectory of collective provision" of climate $$ for adaptation
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TL;DR: COP30 delivers a very weak outcome on adaptation finance, at what was supposed to finally be the Adaptation COP.

Tripling goal pushed back five years. Still might be framed as a "win" by some, but far from the $120bn/yr by 2030 that least developed countries pushed for.

A photo of the current contributors to "COP30: Key Issues and Stakes for Global Climate Policy" by the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts

Fletcher experts offer insight into the politics and priorities driving international climate talks at @cop30brazil.bsky.social. @tarungk91.bsky.social @katehkchi.bsky.social #COP30noBrasil #COP30

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Exxon lawyer vows to crush climate lawsuits Oil companies are once again pushing the Supreme Court to stop a flood of cases that could force them to pay billions.

Exxon lawyer: "We are not going to lose this fight."

The US Supreme Court, he said, needs to step in to shut the door on this litigation once and for all

#SCOTUS will soon decide whether to take up Exxon's petition in Boulder's climate deception case

www.eenews.net/articles/exx...

Brazil’s $125bn forest fund – framed as the “biggest thing to come out of COP30” – goes live tomorrow.

Critics point out that TFFF “puts private investors first”, forest payouts last + sets a 🌳 bar too low to be “scientifically credible”.

@yaninequiroz.bsky.social and I 🕵🏽‍♀️, for @carbonbrief.org.

Climate Policy, Volume 25, Issue 7 (2025)

🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 7 is out now, with the latest on emissions trading systems #ETS, #netzero transition, transformational #adaptation, oil + gas superprofits & more ✅

📣 Insights from @michaeljgrubb.bsky.social @tarungk91.bsky.social @maksympolyakov.bsky.social @robbieorvis.bsky.social & more ⬇️

How Energy Transitions Challenge the Political Economy of Fragile Fossil Fuel-Producing Countries Jared Miller & Tarun Gopalakrishnan (Fletcher School, Tufts University) examine the political and economic impacts on fossil fuel producers.

New analysis for @suspol.bsky.social exploring the fragility of fossil fuel-producing states in an age of competitive decarbonisation from Jared Miller and @tarungk91.bsky.social of @fletcherschool.bsky.social at Tufts University.

Quick 🧵 on the main arguments

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The #Climate Ambition Scenario - a mix of financial incentives and regulation - could reduce greenhouse emissions in #Mexico by 77.1% below business-as-usual in 2050 while also increasing GDP growth, creating jobs and reducing the national debt.

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Trump’s Retreat From Clean Energy Puts the U.S. Out of Step With the World (Gift Article) Most major economies are investing in ever-cheaper solar and wind power. The United States risks further ceding a global market to China.

"Purely on economic and security grounds it is simply contrary to the U.S. national interest to restrict the continued growth of clean energy technologies."

(Not paywalled)

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/c...

Pollution Regulation in India Recent reports on capacity constraints faced by the state pollution control boards have revealed serious systemic issues—problematic board structure and composition, lack of competence in the boards’ ...

REPLUG: In EPW, Shibani Ghosh draws on an in-depth review of India’s pollution control boards to examine why these front-line regulators have struggled to curb air & water pollution. Recent amendments to the Water and Air Acts are designed to facilitate ease of doing business. bit.ly/4fWvnFR

What’s next for energy after the US elections? | With a new Trump administration set to steer US energy policy, what changes lie ahead for energy? Join Ed Crooks and expert guests as they break down the impacts on energy policy, renewables and the I...

What’s next for US energy after US President Trump's inauguration?

In this episode from November, the gang discussed:
- Potential shifts in energy policy
- Potential impacts on renewables like wind and solar
- Changes to the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits

#EnergySky #ClimateSky #GreenSky

Cop29 deal fails to consider inflation so is not tripling of target, economists say Experts say financial movements mean poor nations will in effect get billions less in value from £300bn pledge A failure to factor in inflation means the $300bn (£240bn) climate finance deal agreed at Cop29 is not the tripling of pledges that has been…

Cop29 deal fails to consider inflation so is not tripling of target, economists say

NEW – COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku

#COP29

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As global emissions rise, staying within the Paris #climate goals seems a pipe dream. It is not.

Our new brief outlines India's progress on #climateaction and projects the next phase for climate policy - if national ambition meets ambitious finance. #COP29

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Prioritizing a new climate finance goal over fossil phaseout at this COP makes sense. The finance goal should have been agreed three years ago, the can was kicked down the road.

Get finance right, ambitious NDCs will follow.

‘Environmental Laws and Climate Action: The Case for Enacting a Framework Climate Legislation in India’ with the International Forum for Environment, Sustainability and Technology (2021)

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Agrometeorological Advisory Services India

‘Agrometeorological Advisory Services in India: An Assessment’, with the Centre for Science and Environment (2020)

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Beyond COP26: Why India Needs a Climate Investment Framework There is some uncertainty around what India's call for a trillion dollars in climate finance represents.

‘Beyond COP26: Why India Needs a Climate Investment Framework’ for The Wire (2021)

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A tale of two climate policies: India’s UN commitments aim low, but its national policies are ambitious – here’s why that matters India’s international climate pledge could set the tone for other emerging economies for a decade.

‘India’s UN commitments aim low, but its national policies are ambitious – here’s why that matters’ for The Conversation (2022)

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India’s New Climate Target: Paris-Compliant, But Not Much More It remains ambitious on renewable energy expansion but moves away from its 2.5-billion-ton forest carbon sequestration target.

‘India’s New Climate Target: Paris-Compliant, But Not Much More’ for The Diplomat (2022)

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India’s ‘Green Growth’ Climate Spending Shortchanges Adaptation India’s budget signals progress on climate change mitigation, while ignoring needed spending on adaptation.

‘India’s Green Growth Climate Spending Shortchanges Adaptation’, for World Politics Review (2023)

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Disaster Relief Is No Longer A Charity, But An Obligation. What India Should Do At COP28 Climate change is a problem caused primarily by the emission of carbon dioxide by large developed countries, so there is a responsibility to compensate for the harm caused. Disaster relief is no longe...

‘COP28: Who Is Most Responsible and Who Deserves Compensation?’ for ABP News (2023)

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