Sarah Oppenheimer

⚡️EU power is becoming less and less reliant on fossil fuels

EU countries with the largest fall in fossil share (2004 vs. 2024):

🇩🇰Denmark: 76% → 12% 🏆
🇵🇹Portugal: 73% → 15%
🇳🇱The Netherlands: 91% → 46%
🇮🇪Ireland: 95% → 55%
🇬🇷Greece: 90% → 50%
🇫🇮Finland: 44% → 5%

World on brink of climate breakthrough as fossil fuels ‘run out of road’, UN chief says António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuels

Guterres really does have a great speechwriter, so many good lines here. And good change of tone. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ed Miliband to tell MPs who reject net zero policies they are betraying future generations Exclusive: Energy secretary’s ‘radical truth-telling’ comes as Reform plans net zero bonfire and Tories also ditch targets

It's a sad reflection on the state of things when telling the truth is called 'radical' but good Ed Miliband has the energy and determination to call out the bullsh**t: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Texas floods reveal limitations of disaster forecasting under climate crisis Texas’s ‘flash flood alley’ could bring even more floods in near future as Trump cuts compound with warming climate

Thank you @ericholthaus.com I have been waiting for this analysis of the role of climate change, and recognition of the “trend towards increasing atmospheric moisture content globally as the world warms and the air can hold more water vapor”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel Demon Copperhead, the author’s retelling of Dickens during Virginia’s opioid crisis, was a global success. Now she has used royalties from the novel to open a recovery residence

Barbara Kingsolver is so inspiring. I couldn’t love this woman and her writing and her actions more: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

‘Completely unexpected’: Antarctic sea ice may be in terminal decline due to rising Southern Ocean salinity Scientists once thought Antarctica might hold onto its sea ice as the world warmed. No longer.

This explainer is more coherent - reversal in the salinity trend, not the current. theconversation.com/completely-u...

🌲Ed Sheeran explains to Louis Theroux that he dislikes private jets and prefers trains because "I like the environment, I like trees." We know that this type of messaging from celebrities is hugely impactful. We need far more of this from more stars.
As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social

Why investors remain bullish on US renewables Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ could slash clean energy tax credits but long-term backers in the sector are not spooked

On why US renewables are still a good investment: "this administration is just a blip on a 30-year megatrend"
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I have heard the complete opposite, that the diaspora is more liberal

I like this a lot although it has made me think I need to buy a tablet and I’m not sure that’s the point…

European carmakers’ challenge is to ‘stay on course’ with EVs Sales in Europe are up, but groups face shifting regulations, tariff uncertainty and competition from China

Thanks, Håkan Samuelsson, for choosing to invest in the future: on.ft.com/4k9mhZc

Shell faces shareholder pushback over gas strategy Special resolution calling for more detail on LNG business wins 20% backing

So low of Wael Sawan to say we need more gas to avoid power cuts like the one in Spain when the analysis of what went wrong isn’t out yet and he knows that - pure scaremongering on.ft.com/4jcPq48 Shell faces shareholder pushback over gas strategy

Vladimir Putin’s manipulation of Donald Trump If the US president is walking away from Ukraine, other allies must step up

Hard agree with this: on.ft.com/4mgkSBo

Daring to deliver: Pedro Sánchez and the revival of Spanish social democracy 10 Renewal 33.1_Heymann10 Renewal 33.1_Heymann.pdf108 KBdownload-circle Since 2018, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez has led one of the most successful social democratic governments in the worl...

No government is perfect but it has been a relief to escape Brexit lunacy and live under one that has achieved significant social and environmental progress. renewal.org.uk/articles/dar...

European firms ramping up lobbying for climate action, report finds Research shows companies ‘aligned’ with strategies to meet climate goals have risen from 3% in 2019 to 23% in 2025

There is more prosperity from decarbonising than not decarbonising. (But Repsol, Enagás and others didn’t get the memo) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Dive into the April 2025 #C3S Climate Bulletin summary: second-warmest April on record globally, 1.51°C above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. End of four months with record low Arctic sea ice extent for the time of the year. 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/2nd-warmest-...

How Xi sparked China’s electricity revolution Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of energy self-sufficiency could give it the upper hand in the trade war with the US

Important Big Read on China's electrification and huge grid investment. Western countries have progressed on decarbonising electricity but are lagging on wider system electrification, which is where true energy security lies.
on.ft.com/43g63Gl

Power Outage Rapid Response Toolkit A toolkit designed for clean energy advocates to help set the record straight on root causes of electricity blackouts and grid outages.

Reliability is a system attribute and is not dependent on any specific class of resources.

This @regassistproj.bsky.social package pulls together information and tools to respond quickly to misinformation about power outages like yesterday in ES/PT. 🔌💡

www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...

Brilliant stuff! 🙌 What a great vote of confidence, trust and respect for Carbon Brief’s work across the board.

In 10 yrs Uruguay switched from fossil fuels to 98% renewable electricity.

What did this transformation bring? Lower costs. More jobs & #energysecurity. Showing what's possible with political will, public support & trust in renewables.

350.org/uruguay-ener...

#IEASummit #REbootTheWorld #HopeHub

Keir Starmer at the IEA/UK Summit in London:

"Homegrown clean energy is the only way to take back control of our energy system, deliver energy security and bring down bills for the long term."

"This is in the DNA of my government."

NEW | 74% of the global population lives in countries that are net importers of fossil fuels.

12 countries supply 80% of net fossil fuel exports - with rising trade uncertainty, this puts much of the world at risk.

1/8 🧵

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The US, not others, will feel most pain from its economic mistakes America is not the powerhouse it once was

“America’s economic problems are its own. When it shoots itself in the foot, it is the US that will be bleeding.” on.ft.com/3GkSq0M The US, not others, will feel most pain from its economic mistakes

The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness

The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK

Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking

YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly
NO it's not due to net-zero
YES it is due to GAS

Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

Current national plans are set to deliver only half of the renewable energy growth needed by 2030, leaving a 3.8 TW gap. As the custodian of the #3xRenewables target, IRENA warns that the #UAEConsensus goal will fall short by 34%. bit.ly/3UuUgR5

EU carbon market emissions drop 5% in 2024, on track for 2030 target Carbon dioxide emissions regulated under the European Union's emissions trading system (ETS) fell by 5% in 2024, driven by cuts in the power sector, the European Commission said on Friday.

EU carbon market emissions drop 5% in 2024, on track for 2030 target

Decrease of emissions regulated under EU's ETS trading system driven by cuts in the power sector

America’s astonishing act of self-harm Trump’s tariffs will upend the global economic order and tarnish US prosperity

We said Brexit was the greatest act of self harm ever undertaken by a nation, but it seems to have been outdone. on.ft.com/447uiZh America’s astonishing act of self-harm

More clear analysis of the economic and reputational self harm by Trump’s US: on.ft.com/3FQEBqD Ten weeks that shook the world