Mark Tilly

China added more solar in H1-2025 than the rest of the world combined ☀️

🇨🇳: 256 GW, 67% of global total, followed by
🇮🇳: 24 GW, and
🇺🇸: 21 GW

Read more: https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/global-solar-installations-surge-64-in-first-half-of-2025

"As a member of the Pacific Island Forum, Australia’s actions are in sharp contradiction to its platitudes around caring for the Pacific ‘family.’ The Woodside project is a demonstration of Australia’s glaring disconnect between rhetoric and action."
pacificelders.org/statement/au...

Cambodia denies re-entry to Mongabay journalist who reported on illegal logging BANGKOK, Thailand — On Jan. 5, Mongabay journalist Gerald Flynn was denied entry to Cambodia. Flynn has lived and reported in the country since 2019, but upon return from a brief visit to neighboring ...

This is absurd.

@geraldrflynn.bsky.social - @mongabay.bsky.social

news.mongabay.com/2025/02/camb...

Got the classic "ask that person over there" treatment by multiple Australian government departments when asked why exactly they decided to defer their EPA/EIA 'nature positive' laws.
carbon-pulse.com/364528/

Indonesia risks carbon ‘backfire’ with massive deforestation for sugarcane JAKARTA — Indonesia’s plan to clear rainforests half the size of Switzerland for sugarcane plantations isn’t just an agricultural gamble, experts warn — it’s a potential environmental catastrophe. A n...

Indonesia’s plan to clear 2 million hectares of forest in Papua for sugarcane plantations would nearly double Indonesia’s total greenhouse gas emissions, a new report warns. news.mongabay.com/2024/12/indo...

Nationals senator claims Coalition introduced nuclear as a political fix Nationals senator Matthew Canavan has said in an interview that his party introduced a nuclear policy as a political fix, in a video that emerges amid his colleague Keith Pitt announcing he will quit ...

In #Australia, "Video has emerged of Nationals senator Matt Canavan labelling his party's nuclear policy a 'political fix' and conceding it is not the cheapest form of power...his party was 'not serious' about nuclear power being a solution to high energy costs..."
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Fossil fuels are being 'eaten alive' by the solar rush Satellite imagery reveals the staggering rise of solar farms around the world in recent years. Can Australia get on board?

“The solar disruption is inevitable"

Great data story on solar energy's rise: www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Feral cat controls helping boost endangered numbat population Conservation scientists credit the curbing of introduced predators with a rebound in the population of endangered iconic numbats in Western Australia. 

Conservation scientists credit the curbing of introduced predators with a rebound in the population of endangered iconic numbats in Western Australia. 

Breaking news! Greyhound racing to be banned.

How anger at the rollout of renewables is being hijacked by a new pro-nuclear network An alliance of political groups is harnessing real fears about the local impact of renewables projects across Australia – and using them to spruik nuclear power

This @arielbogle.bsky.social @readfearn.bsky.social piece is so good, for many reasons but importantly is shows the spectrum of community opposition to renewables: from bad-faith political / fossil fuel networks to genuine sentiment from communities left out of the process.

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Japan will today restart a reactor that was shut for 13 years 🇯🇵 ☢️

⚡️ Shimane No 2 will resume this afternoon
⚠️ This is the 14th reactor to restart under post-Fukushima safety rules. But most operable units still shut
👉 Japan aims to use nuclear to curb fossil fuel imports

Brussels preparing ‘net’ climate goal for 2040, EU sources confirm

* 90% target will also include removals from soils and forestry
* NGOs, industry, and EU Parliament pushing for separate sub-targets for emissions reductions, land-based removals, and technological removals

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She is identified by her leg band, Z333, and is considered the world's oldest known wild bird. 🥲

Will New Carbon Market Work? Indonesia Will Provide First Test A U.N. carbon market is expected to open as soon as next year, with carbon-rich Indonesia planning to generate billions of dollars in credits from its vast rainforests. But critics say the trading sys...

Critics say the new U.N. carbon market is vulnerable to fraud and double-counting of carbon credits.

With plans to sell billions of dollars of credits, Indonesia will provide an early test of the market, which is set to launch as soon as next year.

Could the decline of fossil fuels be Australia’s chance to become a clean exports giant? | Frank Jotzo Leading the charge towards clean energy would bring some much-needed positive momentum to international climate policy When Australia announces its 2035 emissions target to the world, there will be a unique opportunity to promote Australia’s ambition to help other countries decarbonise through exports of renewable energy-based commodities, while coal and gas exports will fall. Coal and gas exports from Australia are equivalent to well over a billion tonnes of CO2 when burned in other countries. That is around 3% of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions – far more than Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions at home that the national emissions target applies to. Continue reading...

Could the decline of fossil fuels be Australia’s chance to become a clean exports giant? | Frank Jotzo

Quite remarkable. Not an opinion, but a demonstrable fact: the prime minister has rejected a policy his government promised for the good of the country in the name of short-term parochial politics in a state captured by vested interests.
bsky.app/profile/adam...

Nearly 200 countries have reached a historic agreement on international carbon markets at COP29, in a decision that finally concludes the rules governing the trading and crediting of mitigation outcomes under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

carbon-pulse.com/346120/

As Cop29 wraps up and the climate crisis gathers pace, Australia’s dash for gas is confounding | Bill Hare Nearly all observers believe Chris Bowen is strongly committed to action. Most agree that can’t be said for his party Cop29 in Baku has concluded but its outcome is disappointing – in many dimensions. Its decisions on finance – agreeing that the developed world would provide US$300bn a year by 2035 – come nowhere close to what’s needed. Ultimately, it may even be poisonous because of its lack of ambition and muddled scope – it does not even cover loss and damage. Baku saw little sense of urgency or increased climate action, despite the universal message from scientific studies, including the Climate Action Tracker. Our global update this year found that in the last three years there’s been virtually no improvement in either action on the ground, nor ambition to take action in the future. And this is despite a series of seemingly never-ending, global warming-linked deadly catastrophes unfolding around the world. Continue reading...

As Cop29 wraps up and the climate crisis gathers pace, Australia’s dash for gas is confounding | Bill Hare

Indonesia vows to phase out coal power by 2040.

Plan includes building over 75 GW of renewable energy by then, the Indonesian President said

Stunning. By Stian Reklev.
carbon-pulse.com/345534/