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Let’s get something straight about fossil fuel phase-out: renewables needn’t replace all the coal, oil and gas we use today bc most of it is just used to produce and move those fossil fuels around!
We only need to replace the useful energy: 37% of what we currently produce 🫨🧵
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I wrote an entire book chapter on the propaganda about the CCS and carbon removal that extends oil and gas companies license to operate (and wins billions in subsidies from the US government), but this article still made my jaw drop to the floor.
Pulitzer-Prize-worthy stuff.
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Fact: ALL the metals and minerals the energy transition needs between now and 2050 weigh less than the coal the world mines in ONE single year
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Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn theguardian.com/environment/…
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MIND-BLOWING STATS: A record 2/3 of new cars in China are now electric, while combustion-car sales have fallen by 2/3 since they peaked in 2017
– In 2020, ~95% of sales were combustion-engine cars
– By Sep 2026, they crashed to 33%
– On the flip side, NEVs hit a record 67%
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An honour to discuss energy security & fossil fuels at @GlblCtznImpact Perth with Nobel Laureate & President José Ramos-Horta, Former President Anote Tong & Marie-Ange Saraka-Yao of green Climate Fund. youtu.be/RoPwZkaBYFk?si=vztg…
I’m so disappointed.
Last year, Andy Burnham stood alongside Massive Attack and called the #FossilFuelTreaty a “lifeline.”
He urged governments to end coal, oil and gas expansion and hold polluters accountable.
Yesterday, his government approved a new North Sea gas field. 🧵
Andy Burnham once said he refused to “stand by and watch.”
I hope Prime Minister Burnham can find some of the courage of Mayor Burnham.
Reject Rosebank.
Stop expanding fossil fuels.
And help build the safer, fairer future you once promised.
#FossilFuelTreaty 8/
Climate leadership isn’t what you say when you’re standing on a rooftop with musicians and activists.
It’s what you do when the fossil fuel industry comes knocking.
It’s whether you have the courage to say no to projects that threaten our collective future. 7/
Meanwhile, 25 nations, many from the Global South, are working together to develop a #FossilFuelTreaty.
Countries that have done the least to cause this crisis are showing the courage to confront it.
Why can’t one of the world’s wealthiest countries do the same? 7/
And this story is far from over.
The UK government must now decide the fate of Rosebank, a massive North Sea oil field.
If approved, its lifetime emissions could equal roughly 70% of the UK’s annual emissions.
This is a defining test of climate leadership. 5/
Let’s be crystal clear.
We cannot keep approving new oil and gas fields and pretend we are serious about a safe climate.
You don’t phase something out by building more of it.
And you don’t protect people from fires, floods and deadly heat by adding more fuel to the fire. 4/
Even worse, the government is trying to justify new fossil fuel production by arguing the profits will help fund renewable energy.
That’s like expanding cigarette production to fund cancer clinics.
You cannot solve a crisis by expanding its cause. 3/
Burnham says he’s being “pragmatic.”
But approving new fossil fuel projects in the middle of a climate crisis isn’t pragmatism.
It’s reckless capitulation to the fossil fuel industry.
And it’s a betrayal of the leadership he promised. 2/
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💬 "The worst thing that they've done is stolen our imagination, to imagine a world beyond fossil fuels. But it exists in many countries...it requires us to stand up. It requires us to force the conversation and to have courage."
@Tzeporah joined @3CR collaboration with the Women's Climate Congress for "Beyond the Fossil Fuel Deadlock; Building an International Roadmap for a Just Transition" to reflect on why she helped launch the initiative and the growing support in preparation for the 2nd International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels.
🎙️ Hear the full conversation:
Part 1 3cr.org.au/earthmatters/epis…
Part 2 3cr.org.au/earthmatters/epis…
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🔥“You can’t phase something out by building more of it.” @Tzeporah
No new coal, oil or gas projects. A just transition requires governments to stop expanding fossil fuels and cooperate on a fair, financed phase-out.
Pacific leaders were clear at pre-#Cop31 in Nadi that there should be an urgent fossil fuel phaseout. “This means no new projects.”
📰 See the full Guardian article theguardian.com/environment/…
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During New York Climate Week, @Tzeporah Berman asked Minister @MainaTalia1 of Tuvalu why his country has championed the proposal for a Fossil Fuel Treaty. His answer was illuminating.
I gave them my vote, my time, my energy and - perhaps most importantly - my trust. That trust has been broken. Why I broke up with David Eby’s NDP #bcpoli nationalobserver.com/2026/10…
Another flash flood in Nepal as the country is still trying to recover their dead from the last one. This is what climate change looks like now. My heart goes out to all the families suffering devastating loss in Nepal. 💔
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As the glaciers continue to melt and meltwater lakes continue to breach, this will become an ever more common sight in the Himalayas and other high mountain regions
A debris-laden flood has surged through the Budhi Gandaki River at Salleri in Gorkha, carrying mud, sediment and rocks downstream. The sudden flood has affected parts of the Manaslu region, Nepal, while authorities continue assessing the situation and possible damage.
Video Courtesy: Sovit Shrestha.