Chris Aylett

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.

🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Trump admin is altering previous National Climate Assessments. These were produced by hundreds of climate scientists and mandated by Congress. (1/2)

UK is being ‘left behind’ on crypto, says George Osborne Former chancellor who now advises Coinbase says Rachel Reeves should set up a framework for stablecoins

The man arguably most to blame for the dismal state Britain finds itself in today is now lobbying to sign us up to a MAGA pyramid scheme

www.ft.com/content/2b55...

The global energy investment landscape has undergone major changes in the past decade – responding to the rise of new energy technologies and shockwaves from the pandemic & the 2022 energy crisis.

World Energy Investment 2025 examines the shifts in detail 👉 iea.li/40JSiPX

Can Europe and China Forge a Climate Connection? Emmanuel Guerin & Bernice Lee tout a shared competitiveness agenda as a way for both sides to reap the full benefits of green growth.

"If Europe pumps the brakes on decarbonization, Chinese assets could be stranded, whereas China could face retaliation if it refuses to collaborate or align with global norms. The question now is whether they can constructively shape their interdependence"

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...

Europe learned to love American gas. This is how Trump wrecks it. Backroom deals, embassy contacts and brown liquor built a booming export trade. Now, the lobbyist who saw it all says the U.S. president’s dalliances with Vladimir Putin are an incoming “aste…

Must-read on Europe, Russia, and American LNG

"Oil and gas industry officials have begun warning the White House that normalizing relations with Russia would contradict Trump’s energy and economic agenda that centers on shipping more fossil fuels overseas"

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Trump’s E.U. Trade Deal Comes With Impossible Energy Promises

The EU's commitment to buy $250 billion of American fossil fuels a year is so extreme, so impractical, and so spectacularly bad for the EU's energy security, that it's difficult to see it happening.

I spoke to the @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models Wide-ranging agreement with artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT comes after similar UK deal with Google

We are so thoroughly cooked.

BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq

Guidance on Border Carbon Adjustment A best practices guidance on border carbon adjustment.

This guidance can help countries implement BCAs which reduce the risk of regulatory fragmentation, minimize trade frictions, and drive down the planet-warming gases that are destabilising our climate

www.iisd.org/publications...

Fortunately @iisd.org @economies.iisd.org @aaroncosbey.bsky.social and co. have been on the case

They've drafted guidance, following a 'global stakeholder dialogue' process (to which I contributed)

The result is both an essential technical resource, and a way to hold govs imposing BCAs to account

Designing border carbon adjustments (BCAs) is complex

Policymakers face consequential decisions about measurement, verification, coverage, revenues, crediting, offsets, exports, exemptions and more

How can countries navigate this? And can the world avoid an unholy mess of contradictory regimes?

Trump’s tariff pressure pushes Asia toward American LNG, but at the cost of climate goals Asian countries are offering to buy more U.S. liquefied natural gas to ease trade tensions with the Trump administration

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

"Both coal and renewable energy in Asia are so much cheaper that U.S. gas would need to cost less than half its current price to compete"

It would be a risky gambit for Farage and Reform because it would be in direct opposition to the interests of their allies (and potential financial backers) in the current US ruling elite, which wants to maintain demand for US fossil fuel products

*good for Putin/Russia in terms of supporting gas prices, I should say (UK doesn't import Russian gas anymore)

An IEA graph showing LNG capacity additions from 2025 to 2030

US gas liquefaction capacity additions in pink

www.iea.org/data-and-sta...

Reform tells energy firms it would scrap their clean power subsidies Richard Tice has written to firms giving them ‘formal notice’ that Reform would tear up contracts designed to boost green energy investment.

Blocking renewables, as Farage and Tice propose, props up UK demand for imported gas

Good for Putin, yes, but also very much in the interests of the US, the world's top gas exporter, which is massively expanding its LNG export infrastructure

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Joint readout of the 12th meeting of the China-EU Energy Dialogue between Administrator Wang and Commissioner Jørgensen On July 14 2025, Wang Hongzhi, Administrator of National Energy Administration of People’s Republic of China, and Dan Jørgensen, European Commissioner for Energy and Housing, jointly held the 12th mee...

"The overarching objective of China-EU energy cooperation is to expedite the global transition to clean energy, with full consideration for ensuring energy security, with the aim of addressing the challenges of global climate change" 🇨🇳 🇪🇺

energy.ec.europa.eu/news/joint-r...

🎉 A major milestone for China's Unified power market system

China's two major grids: State Grid and Southern Grid, can now perform cross-grid power trading, approved by the regulator lately

This paves way for a new National Power Exchange in China

Hear hear 🇨🇦

"local energy production machines" - love it

My new paper making recommendations for UK China strategy is now published: www.chathamhouse.org/2025/07/what...
It focuses on recommendations for UK resilience in the face of rising Chinese influence and China-US competition, covering malign influence, econ & tech policy, & relations with allies

NEW CHART: Trump's "big beautiful bill" & other efforts to dismantle climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement 🫠

www.carbonbrief.org/...

The key items in Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' The tax and spending bill, which is set to become law, includes sweeping changes to taxes, Social Security and more.

It's hard to decide what's most grotesque:

The $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich

The $930 billion in health and $287 billion in food benefit cuts for the poor

The $100 billion for concentration camps

The choice to accelerate catastrophic climate change

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's been fascinating to watch the discourse about the Spain blackout over the past month. So much of it predictable, but I'm glad all the people who think mostly about fossil fuels are having to reluctantly learn nerdy things about electricity and grids. It's clear where the future lies.

Renewable energy to blame for Spain’s blackouts Glut of solar power sent prices plunging, triggering a mass switch-off, official report says 91 Gift this article free

Spain’s disastrous national blackout was triggered by solar farms switching off in response to plummeting power prices, an official investigation has found. A government report into Europe’s biggest power cut found that Spain’s solar farms were generating so much power on April 28, a particularly sunny day, that prices became “negative” – meaning there were no profits to be made in operating them. Plunging prices triggered a mass switch-off, which sent voltage and frequency fluctuations cascading across the national grids of both Spain and Portugal. Back-up systems meant to guard against such fluctuations were not in effect. This caused blackouts that left more than 60m people across the Iberian peninsula without power, the Spanish government report concluded. The power cut caused massive gridlock in cities and left thousands stranded on trains and in elevators across the Iberian peninsula. Several deaths were also linked to the incident.

UK media is so wild. It is tough to properly convey how shockingly deceptive this article is. It's desperate I guess but a lot of people will still read this, and trust it bc it's coming from what looks to be a reputable media outlet.

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The @telegraphnews.bsky.social lies about the causes of the electricity blackout in Spain on April 28th:

It wrongly claims that the official report blames renewables when it does the opposite.

It names negative prices as the main trigger instead of poorly controlled voltage fluctuations.

I'm sure the papers and pundits who were so quick to blame renewables for the Iberian blackout will review this report and inform their audiences of what actually happened...

...right?

...right?