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Nominee companies act as middlemen, masking the real investors behind Australia’s biggest polluters.

With no regulation of nominee shareholding, fossil fuel ownership remains hidden — and accountability out of reach.

📊 Full analysis: globalenergymonitor.org/report/the-f...

🌍 The top 250 oil and gas companies own only 1.42% of operating global renewable energy projects.

Despite pledges to do so, these companies are not investing in a sustainable future. #GreenFakes

Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Australia, companies with #ownership obscured through nominee structures account for 23 million tonnes of #fossilfuel CO2 #emissions every year — about 18% of the national total.

The interactive data tools are great too! You can dig into asset level #emissions and #ownership

Even more ways to slice through Global Energy Monitor's extensive power sector data! @globalenergymon.bsky.social
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Corporate ‘middlemen’ mask who really profits from Australian fossil fuel projects, report warns Nominee companies – paid to be listed as shareholders on behalf of unnamed investors – could be reducing accountability over financial support of industry

Corporate ‘middlemen’ mask who really profits from Australian fossil fuel projects, report warns www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

@theguardian.com coverage of @globalenergymon.bsky.social’s latest report using its Global Energy Ownership Tracker data

#beneficialownership #opendata

Who really owns 🇦🇺 ’s fossil fuel projects?

A new GEM analysis shows nominee branches of JP Morgan, Citibank & HSBC are listed as shareholders for 50+ coal, oil & gas projects obscuring project ownership.

+ emitting as much CO₂ as 4.4M Australian households.

After Nuclear, Renewables Can Power an Energy-secure Taiwan After last month's defeat of a proposal to revive the country’s last nuclear power plant, Taiwan now has to decide its future energy mix.

Taiwan’s energy mix is shifting fast. Can a renewables-led blueprint outpace gas in delivering secure, climate-aligned power?

Aiqun Yu and Cheng Cheng Wu from @globalenergymon.bsky.social argue for a renewables-forward blueprint to reduce gas dependency.

GEM’s Oil & Gas data helped inform this important analysis from @ceebankwatch.bsky.social and @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social on why gas is a dead end for the Western Balkans.

Give it a read 👇

🌍 GEM's Global Integrated Power Tracker interactive dashboard updated!

🔎 Explore power facilities worldwide, tracking operating, construction & in-development capacity, w/downloadable data summaries.

🏭 Now including facility ownership & fleet age summaries.

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Australia’s nuclear sector is unlikely to take off.

A moratorium, high costs, & long dev't timelines all limit nuclear’s role in the country’s energy transition.

W/coal set to be phased out by '38, wind & solar are positioned to lead the shift.

Details: globalenergymonitor.org/report/nucle...

An honor to connect with Al Gore at #ClimateWeekNYC.

GEM contributes ownership data through our Global Energy Ownership Tracker as the sector lead in the @climatetrace.org coalition he co-founded — linking emissions to the companies most responsible.

Really important new dataset in the #fossilfuel space! Combining this data with equity data, such as what is in the Ownership Tracker, is an amazing next step for corporate #emissions transparency and independent verification

The Former Vice President Al Gore: “Of all the new electricity installed in the world last year, 93% was renewables, mostly solar.” #ClimateWeekNYC @climaterealityproject.org @globalenergymon.bsky.social

🚨 New data: GEM’s Global #Bioenergy Power Tracker now covers 115 GW of operating capacity across 3,850 units in 116 countries.

China & Brazil lead the way — together holding 53 GW, w/China alone making up nearly 1/3 of global capacity.

🔗 Explore the dataset: globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...

👀 From the rooms at #ClimateWeekNYC:

Sometimes just saying “Global Energy Monitor” at a panel is enough to spark conversations. ✨

Project Drawdown’s (@projectdrawdown.bsky.social) new free portal Drawdown Explorer fills a significant gap by turning climate science into actionable insights! Excited to dig in after #ClimateWeekNYC! Great presentation and launch by @globalecoguy.bsky.social 👏 @globalenergymon.bsky.social

Great discussion on timely climate communications at CET’s Moving from Data to Dialogue to Doing panel.

“It’s like reminding someone about a seatbelt 5 seconds before driving, not 5 minutes earlier.”

How do we bring that urgency to the energy transition?
@globalenergymon.bsky.social

Global Gas Finance Tracker The Gas Finance Tracker (GGFT) is a dataset of project finance transactions to in-development LNG terminals and gas-fired power plants. The tracker includes information on project financiers, transact...

Tracing fossil gas finance isn’t easy — but transparency matters.

GEM’s new #GasFinance Tracker shows $26B USD in project finance for nearly 400 LNG terminals & power plants across 13 Asian countries.

🔎 Explore this first-of-its-kind dataset: globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...

First day of #ClimateWeekNYC with @globalenergymon.bsky.social!

I’m excited to follow several events on renewables, energy transition, and environmental justice 🌍 I’ll post my reflections and highlights throughout the week!!

Nuclear power in Europe is falling further behind.

Wind & solar capacity under construction now exceed nuclear 14 to 1. Meanwhile, the nuclear sector has seen 122 GW cancelled, 68 GW retired, and 90% of the remaining reactors are more than 35 years old.

🔗 globalenergymonitor.org/report/nucle...

GEM is headed to #ClimateWeekNYC! 🌍

Our team will be there September 21–28 to connect with partners and peers.

If you’ll be in town too, let’s connect! DM us for more info.

Blast Furnace Tool Steel has a fossil fuel problem, and it’s called the blast furnace. Blast furnace (BF) technology has been central to steelmaking for hundreds of years. Today, blast furnaces produce around 90% of the...

Curious about how coal-based steel is actually made, and the impacts it has around the world? Check out this new new tool from @globalenergymon.bsky.social:

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Global Nuclear Power Tracker The Global Nuclear Power Tracker (GNPT) is a worldwide dataset of nuclear power facilities. The GNPT catalogs every nuclear power plant unit of any capacity and of any status, including operating,…

Our Global Nuclear Power Tracker keeps expanding:

🌍 7 new countries/areas added
🔢 208 nuclear units tracked
⚡ 96 GW of capacity added
📈 65 GW of prospective capacity

🔗 Explore the data:

US gas power capacity set for big jump as renewables growth slows U.S. power developers are planning to sharply boost natural gas and hydropower generation capacity and are cutting back on plans to add new solar and wind farms, according to recent data on the U.S. power capacity pipeline.

US gas power capacity is set to jump while capacity plans for solar & wind are being trimmed back.

That's what the latest data from @globalenergymon.bsky.social shows.

More in today's column:
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

High costs and long timelines have stalled nuclear power worldwide.

Nearly 40% of all nuclear projects ever proposed have been cancelled — 566 GW in total, more than the world’s entire operating & retired fleets combined.

Learn more in our latest analysis: globalenergymonitor.org/report/nucle...

Blast Furnace Tool Steel has a fossil fuel problem, and it’s called the blast furnace. Blast furnace (BF) technology has been central to steelmaking for hundreds of years. Today, blast furnaces produce around 90% of the...

Blast furnaces make ~90% of the world’s iron & most of steel’s CO₂.

GEM’s BF data story reveals:
📊 Where BFs are + how old they are
💰 Retirement & relining timelines
🌏 China’s influence + India’s expansion

Phasing out BFs is key, learn more here ⤵️ globalenergymonitor.org/blast-furnac...

🇨🇳 NEW | China – Coal power biannual review – H1 2025

❗ China's clean energy boom has seen clean energy meet all new power demand growth in 2025 & emissions drop but new coal projects are highest in a decade

w/ @globalenergymon.bsky.social

📄 Read full report:
energyandcleanair.org/publication/...

Asia’s Proposed Coal Projects May Reverse Recent Declines, Significantly Increasing Methane Emissions [Op-Ed] Global coal mine capacity saw its lowest increase since 2015, but with over 2,200 Mtpa still in development—primarily in China and India—the risk of future expansion remains high.

Coal mine expansion slowed in 2024, but over 2,200 Mtpa of proposed capacity — mainly in China and India remains in development. Future methane emissions could rival Japan’s entire yearly GHG output.

Read our latest Op-Ed by the @globalenergymon.bsky.social 's team.

2,270+ Mtpa of new coal mine capacity is in development — mostly in 🇨🇳, 🇮🇳, & 🇦🇺.

If built, they could emit 15.7 Mt of methane a year — more than 🇯🇵’s total GHG emissions.

Combined w/existing mine emissions, the sector’s footprint could rival that of the 🇺🇸

🔗 globalenergymonitor.org/report/still...