Assaad Razzouk

51.5% of India's power came from renewables on 29 July - an amazing achievement so many said can't be done - while the country delivered 50 % of installed electric power capacity from non-fossil fuel sources 5 years early

Renewables are unstoppable

www.pib.gov.in/PressRelease...

China's diesel trucks are shifting to electric. That could change global LNG and diesel demand China is rapidly replacing its aging diesel trucks with electric models, signaling a major shift in the world’s largest vehicle market.

Heavy trucks in China:
>2020: 99% of new trucks ran on diesel
>First half 2024: Electric trucks at 9.2% of new truck sales
>First half 2025: E-trucks at 22%
>August 2025: 28%
>By end of 2025: 46%
>2026: 60%

Already cutting oil demand by more than a million barrels/day

apnews.com/article/chin...

Battery storage has been transformative for California:
>17GW installed, up 13 times in 5 years
>50% share of US market
>Helping state avoid rolling blackouts
>Together with solar, eliminated 37% of fossil gas use on grid

www.latimes.com/environment/...

Historical: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months

Off-the-charts good

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Ranked: Countries With the Largest Forests in 2025 Discover the countries with the largest forests in 2025 and how just five nations hold more than half of global woodland.

8 Indonesia: 96m (2.32%)
9 India: 73m (1.76%)
10 Peru 67m (1.62%)

www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-count...

Ranked: Countries With the Largest Forests in 2025 Discover the countries with the largest forests in 2025 and how just five nations hold more than half of global woodland.

Exactly 0.1% of all the carbon we capture from the air isn’t via forests. Top 10 Countries with Largest Forests:

1 Russia: 833m hectares (20.11% share of world)
2 Brazil: 486m (11.74%)
3 Canada: 369m (8.91%)
4 US: 308m (7.46%)
5 China: 227m (5.49%)
6 DRC: 139m (3.36%)
7 Australia: 134m (3.23%)

The Philippines just awarded a massive 10GW of renewables capacity at its 4th Green Energy Auction, bringing the total from auctions over 3 years to 22GW - 74% of the entire existing capacity of the country

Renewables take over slowly, slowly, then suddenly

renewablesnow.com/news/philipp...

Prediction: Nothing useful for climate action will happen at #COP30. The UN "climate talks" are quasi fossil fuel fairs hijacked to obfuscate and delay

NB: Vast climate action is everywhere, and gaining momentum. Just not at the COPs which should be restructured or closed

Also:
>Petrol cars down 8% to 24% share
>Diesel down 16% to 6% share (in 2016, diesel cars were over 50% of new car sales in Europe!)

No wonder Big Oil are in full panic mode and raining plastics on all of us

Tectonic shift in Europe's car market: In September, 67% of all new cars in Europe were electrified

>HEVs (hybrid EVs) up 16% YoY to 35% share
>Pure EVs up by 22% to 21% share
>PHEVs (Plug-in Hybrid EVs) up 59% to 11% share

cleantechnica.com/2025/11/04/e...

World’s biggest isolated grid - Western Australia’s South West Interconnected System - hits new peak of 89% renewables

Not long ago, Big Oil propagandists were explaining to us why 20% renewables would collapse the grid and the economy

reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-bigge...

Hyperscalers announced new data centres with 46GW of computing power

>Cost: $2.5tn to build
>Require 55GW to 65GW of base load electricity

That's more than the total installed capacity of Poland or Sweden, 6 times New Zealand or Singapore, 50% of UK

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12 Canada: Pension fund sued in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice over climate risks

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9 Netherlands: Tens of thousands of climate protesters march in the Hague
10 Kenya: In landmark ruling, court cancels permission for country's 1st coal power plant
11 European Court of Human Rights rules Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil and gas before opening new fields

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5 South Korea: Solar mandated for all parkings of 80 cars or more, retroactively
6 Brazil: Annual deforestation down 11% to lowest deforestation rate since 2014
7 COP: High-level US representatives to stay away from the UN climate talks
8 First UK-Germany interconnector set for 2028

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Good climate news this week
1 UN finds global deforestation is declining
2 UNFCCC forecasts 1st-ever global emissions decline (10% by 2035)
3 South Korea: Closure of coal plants begins in earnest from 1 December, 61 coal plants to be phased out by 2040
4 China: Dirty power generation down 5.4%

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10 France: TotalEnergies loses landmark greenwashing case when court rules it misled consumers over climate action
11 US: Judge orders New York to issue rules for achieving state GHG goals

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7 Germany: Tax exemption for electric cars extended by 5 years to 2031
8 Philippines: EV sales up 5 times compared to 2024
9 Philippines: Victims of 2021 typhoon seek compensation from Shell, send “Letter Before Action”

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4 Morocco to triple renewables by 2030
5 UK to create 400,000 jobs through national green energy plan
6 China to accelerate construction of large-scale wind and solar power bases in desert and barren land

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Good climate news this week
1 China targets installing 120 GW of wind/ year to double capacity to 1,300GW by 2030
2 US: Last coal plan in New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) shuts down
3 Morocco: 2040 set as date for coal phase-out

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Past 10 Years Were 10 Hottest Years in Recorded History, and Likely 10 Coldest Years of the Future

1 2024
2 2023
3 2016
4 2020
5 2019
6 2017
7 2015
8 2022
9 2018 (tied)
9 2021 (tied)

(cartoon by David Horsey)

Top 10 Countries, Solar PV per GDP

1 China: 45.77MW per $1b of GDP
2 Vietnam 38.52
3 Bulgaria 34.4
4 Greece 34.04
5 Hungary 31.67
6 Chile 30.24
7 Brazil 23.92
8 India 23.62
9 Japan 21.4
10 Lithuania 20.68
…
NB:
US: 5.8

That’s who is making the biggest effort relative to means

Nine of the Top 10 countries in solar PV per capita are in Europe
1 Australia: 1,521 Watt/ Capita
2 Netherlands 1,491
3 Germany 1,187
4 Estonia 973
4 Austria 973
6 Greece 964
7 Spain 962
8 Belgium 943
9 Hungary 933
10 Switzerland 908
...
NB:
China: 620
US: 519
India: 70

The US is censoring climate science, disaster defences are at risk and the scientists are leaving:

A French university has a €15m initiative to fund US academics threatened or hindered in their research. It got 300 applications, and accepted 21 US scientists to date

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14 Africa: South African photographer Wim van den Heever wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 award for powerful image that speaks to the resilience of nature and its ability to reclaim human-altered landscapes (thank you!)

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12 ASEAN: Action plan endorsed to increase renewables share to 45% by 2030
13 Germany: Hamburg citizens vote for stricter climate targets in a referendum

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9 Indonesia: Agreement signed with Singapore to enable renewables trade within next 12 months
10 Singapore: 1 GW of renewables imports from hydro sources in Malaysia approved
11 India: Legally binding emission cut targets notified for 282 cement, aluminium, paper and pulp and chlor-alkali units

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5 US: EV car sales hit new record at 11.8% of new car sales in 3rd quarter
6 US: California hits 29.1% EV Share in 3rd Quarter, a record
7 China: Utilisation rate of wind power and solar power was 96.6% and 96.4% in August
8 UK: Largest solar project at 700MW approved

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