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Damien Meadows@damienmeadows.bsky.social |
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Advisor on EU climate action at the European Commission, and lawyer drafting, negotiating and working to implement strong and effective climate policies since 2000
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Sam Burgess
@oceanterra.bsky.social
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Data released by Copernicus Climate shows:
📈 June 2024 was the warmest June on record
📈 The global average temperature for the last 12 months is the highest on record, 1.64ºC above pre-industrial
🌡️ 15th months that SST has been the warmest on record
More: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-j...
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Damien Meadows
@damienmeadows.bsky.social
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Innovation is happening. And carbon pricing is accelerating this through the #EUETS funding of H2GS through the EU Innovation Fund and the Recovery and Resilience Facility ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Damien Meadows
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The EU ETS Directive itself states that, given the need for urgent economy-wide emission reductions, countries should be able to act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through other policies as well
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Damien Meadows
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Alongside implementing the #EUGreendeal, preparations have begun for the 2026 #EUETS review - two important calls for tender have now been published, available below: 📢
ℹ️ For more information: europa.eu/!HVmRxW (aviation/climate) and ec.europa.eu/info/funding... (other EU ETS issues)
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Damien Meadows
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Indeed - unanticipated and unexpected side effects seem bound to happen, and other countries and regions be affected. Better to focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in line with what’s needed
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European Commission
@ec.europa.eu
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List of warmest months on record for the respective month of the year: June 2023 July 2023 August 2023 September 2023 October 2023 November 2023 December 2023 January 2024 February 2024 March 2024 April 2024 May 2024
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Damien Meadows
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Registration is still open for Jos Delbeke’s presentation of the new book on EU climate policy this afternoon. I’m to be joining as a speaker. www.eui.eu/events?id=57...
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Damien Meadows
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Alarming… the warning signs are so clear, yet some of the same old lobby groups are still trying to block even reporting of climate impacts
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Andy Scollick
@andyscollick.bsky.social
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If you really don't have 35 minutes to spare, at least see the Professor's conclusions from 32m49s
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
@rahmstorf.bsky.social
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One of the most ominous risks for Europe is that of a major change in Atlantic ocean currents. Recent science suggests it has been greatly underestimated in the past -including by me, having worked on it for over 30 years. Here my half-hour presentation in Vilnius last week!
youtu.be/ZHNNW8c_FaA?...
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Damien Meadows
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““The EU has been and can remain a laboratory for an efficient and fair implementation of climate policy,” writes Jos Delbeke, the bloc’s erstwhile top climate bureaucrat, in a new must-read book co-written with climate colleagues.” (with link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...)
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Damien Meadows
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A new book that explains EU climate policy up to the adoption and implementation of the European Green Deal has just been published, with open access from today. I’m delighted to have contributed to three chapters: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
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Yellow Dot Studios
@weareyellowdot.bsky.social
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There is a bright spot to this jarring news:
Scientists aren't saying this is inevitable, or that we lack the necessary knowledge or technology.
Rather, it is because of the failure of political leaders and corporations. And we can do something about that.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ed Hawkins
@edhawkins.bsky.social
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A whole year of record breaking ocean temperatures.
This warmth has significant effects on ocean ecosystems. A large fraction of the world’s human population rely on protein from the ocean to live. Disruption to life in the ocean does affect us all.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...
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Kim Sutherland Mills
@bacciogelato.bsky.social
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"the sand battery is expected to knock off 160 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per year. As well as weaning the town off oil, woodchip burning is expected to drop by 60 per cent as a result." 🌎🇫🇮
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Damien Meadows
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Around €720 million from the #EUETS has just been awarded to seven renewable hydrogen projects, to produce 1.58 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen #climateaction ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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EUwatch 🇪🇺
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Airlines lobby against EU plan to monitor non-CO₂ emissions
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Robert Ferry
@robertferry.bsky.social
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Electrify everything. Even the 300 ton capacity harbor cranes.
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Damien Meadows
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Greece is phasing out fossil fuels and replacing them with renewables, using revenues from the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) though a dedicated ETS Decarbonization Fund for its islands #climateaction
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Alex Barron
@alexrbarron.bsky.social
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"we find that the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices...damages already outweigh the mitigation costs required to limit global warming to 2 °C by sixfold over this near-term time frame" #econsky
rdcu.be/dE3zj
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Ketan Joshi
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The images of the planes just rolling through a flat surface of water at Dubai airport...........it's so stunning to me how we're delivered the physical imagery of the climate crisis every few weeks, each time in a completely new way. None of this is subtle at all.
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Jan Rosenow
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Long-durational thermal storage is coming.
The world's largest thermal storage project is underway in Finland with a capacity of 90 GWh, enough to meet the heating demands of a medium-sized city for up to a year.
newatlas.com/energy/varan...
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Damien Meadows
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The European Parliament Plenary has just approved legislation agreed with EU member states to strengthen CO2 emission reductions for new heavy-duty vehicles #climateaction www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
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David Zipper
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More than half the rickshaws sold in India are now electric.
restofworld.org/2024/e-ricks...
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Damien Meadows
@damienmeadows.bsky.social
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It’s European Commission colleagues who put it together - if you or @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social email me your questions then I can pass them on (Damien.Meadows@ec.europa.eu)
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Damien Meadows
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Yes indeed, here’s the official press notice on the impressive year-on-year EU emissions reductions, largely due to the deployment of renewables climate.ec.europa.eu/news-your-vo...
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Niels Ladefoged
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The Commission 🇪🇺 has launched a web portal on energy efficient ⚡products where EU citizens can easily find information about #energyefficiency of household items and manufacturers can access targeted information about ecodesign and energy labelling of products:
europa.eu/!ccmDkY
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Euractiv
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Large electrical heat pumps can be key to decarbonising Europe’s industry
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Damien Meadows
@damienmeadows.bsky.social
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Thanks for reporting on this! Without visibility, there’s marketing without accountability. I remember industry-funded newspaper adverts claiming EU climate measures were unnecessary as there’d be 10% SAF use by 2017 without them www.wearepossible.org/our-reports/...
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Gavin Schmidt
@climateofgavin.bsky.social
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Tomorrow’s opinion in the FT
www.ft.com/content/6f85...
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Damien Meadows
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Does this suggest there’ll be bipartisan support for reducing contrails? www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/c...
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Damien Meadows
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Great article! It’s those proposing techno fix X, Y then Z while opposing policies that would make all three more viable that’s really troubling
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Gavin Schmidt
@climateofgavin.bsky.social
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Good commentary from Elizabeth Kolbert www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...
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Damien Meadows
@damienmeadows.bsky.social
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The tours should come, it’s already the case in Europe. And hopefully the tour boats will be electrified soon enough too www.visitoostende.be/en/north-sea...
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Ben Barclay
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Heat batteries also have the potential to help decarbonise industrial processes.
H/T @damienmeadows.bsky.social
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Damien Meadows
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Deployment of high temperature energy storage is taking off in Europe at last, as reported by the FT @martinsbarata.bsky.social. Thanks to @volts.wtf for your coverage of hot rock start ups www.edp.com/en/news/edp-...
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Damien Meadows
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This is very promising. And there’s funding offered from the EU ETS’ Innovation Fund for airlines to put this into practice #climateaction cinea.ec.europa.eu/funding-oppo...
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Elizabeth Kolbert
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More awful news: another coral bleaching event is hitting the Great Barrier Reef -- the fifth in eight years. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Damien Meadows
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No worries, I’ll see if colleagues can follow up directly. As the EU ETS can cover up to 100% of the cost-difference for alternative fuels from fossil kerosene for flights from January 2024, the traceability of fuels is moving more into the spotlight
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Damien Meadows
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Wow - if there’s any documentation or statistics on this, it’d be very useful!
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Dave Vetter
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🚨New research shows the magnitude of fossil fuel industry lobbying against support for green tech, while the same industry benefits from historically colossal government subsidies (at a rate of US$13 million ***per minute*** in 2022, according to the IMF).
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Steve Peers
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Overhaul of EU air traffic control law agreed
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
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Damien Meadows
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Thanks! The link doesn’t work though. Could be useful to rebut another myth deterring climate action (to the extent that facts matter…)
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Chris Kendall オトクラット
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It would be a good use of five minutes of your time to read the speech given by Daria Navalnaya to the European Parliament in December 2021 when she received the Sakharov Prize on behalf of her father, Aleksei Navalny. Note the date, two months before Russia invaded Ukraine.
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ChristianOnRE
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1/ Wow: most exciting news of the week! The enormous pressure of lost financial resources for fossil import motivate Global South countries to leapfrog for direct electrification. "Ethiopia to ban importation of non-electric cars " apanews.net/ethiopia-to-...
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Unofficial Guardian (World) Bot
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John Podesta to succeed John Kerry as Biden’s top climate change adviser
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Leah Stokes
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New scientific research shows that climate change caused the most extreme drought ever recorded in the Amazon. The consequences for Indigenous communities and small farmers are heartbreaking. If we keep burning fossil fuels, these devastating droughts will continue.
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Dave Levitan
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Average sea surface temperatures spent most of last year just off-the-charts batshit high, and have started this year even higher.
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Damien Meadows
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Thanks for an excellent podcast! There’s a real likelihood that Hannah Ritchie’s book will be used politically by vested interests to encourage complacency, and the interview confirms that this’d be a terrible outcome.
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