Chris Aylett

The developing world that could not afford green transition is doing it; the world that had all the money and alleged industrial policies for greening is back to fossil fuels and militarization.

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed.

🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US

"Wright said it would be preferable for Europe to get its supplies from “its friends.”"

For the current US administration, Europe is an enemy, until there is an opportunity to sell more fossil fuels, at which point it becomes a friend

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"Welcoming a potential war criminal to Downing Street is another demonstration of how Keir Starmer and the Labour government are implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza."

@zackpolanski.bsky.social calls for the arrest of the Israeli President ahead of Herzog's visit with Labour ministers.

Much of the world is reliant on American fossil fuels, billed in America's currency.

Is it any wonder that today, many countries are keen to move to machines like solar, batteries and EVs which together can mitigate this brutal double exposure?

The always brilliant @thepolycrisis.bsky.social duo

This is what struck me: the exact same stance as Badenoch's predecessors, almost to a word, which begs the question, why bother to announce it? To which we know the answer: trying rather tragically to keep up with Reform, who for its part, is mainly virtue signalling to the admin in Washington

It's important to assume that Reform in Government would indeed try to do this. The right thing is not to tell the public that this won't happen - so they can therefore vote for Reform without guilt - but rather that a vote for Reform is a vote for the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people.

Reform UK prepared to deport 600,000 under migration plans The party outlines its plans to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK on small boats.

It's deeply depressing that our government feels it can only oppose this on practical grounds - 'it's an unworkable plan!' - and not by calling it out for the brutal, dystopian and dehumanising horror that it is

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

Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms The party is serious about going after shale gas - but critics argue it's too difficult and costly.

This isn't a policy proposal - it's ideological virtue signalling, directed squarely at Washington

Fracking is deeply unpopular in the UK, and extremely challenging to do, certainly at a profit - but Tice claims it can be done with zero public investment!

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

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️

x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia

🧵

Why are food prices rising so fast? Food and drink prices have risen by 4.9% over the last year, according to ONS inflation data.

Think climate change is already a political hot potato?

Just wait until people clock what's behind the cost of food going up up up

"In the five years to July, food prices increased by around 37%. That compares with a rise of 4.4% over the previous five-year period"

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

DeBriefed 15 August 2025: Raging wildfires; Xi’s priorities; Factchecking the Trump climate report - Carbon Brief DeBriefed is Carbon Brief's essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change.

Does Xi Jinping care about climate? It's complicated.

I unpack new @asiasociety.org research into where climate change ranks in Xi's policy priorities for @carbonbrief.org's DeBriefed newsletter

Also this week:
🌡️ Heatwaves and wildfires in Europe
🔍 Factchecking Trump's climate report

Read more⬇️

Hedge Funds Flip on Green Energy and Start Betting Against Oil Portfolio managers have been reversing strategies that have dominated over the past four years.

Tune out the noise and it's clear that we're heading towards a future with a lot more renewables and lot less oil

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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)