Microsoft is the carbon removal market The company bought 93% of global carbon removals last year, new research shows.

Microsoft bought 93% of all the carbon removal credits globally last year. This is absurd, and no way to determine which method might actually work and scale. Carbon dioxide removal research and development should be government-funded and government-led.

My compliments
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Electric vehicles reach tipping point in China, surge to 51% market share Electric vehicles have reached a tipping point in China. They now represent the majority of the new car market, surging...

Chinese auto market reaches 51% EVs. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 electrek.co/2025/08/29/e...

The importance of BOTH "carrot" AND "stick" (and the role of both demand-side and supply-side incentives) is discussed at length in The #NewClimateWar (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)

Here's a short excerpt:

Gasoline demand is famously inelastic; even large increases in cost have very small impact on demand.

The most efficient way to eliminate fossils is to eliminate demand, not blocking supply.

It's much more important to build solar, wind, EVs, bike-lanes, walkable cities, etc. than block pipelines.

What world am I in?

Lucid buys Nikola factory at an auction - electrive.com The Californian EV manufacturer Lucid has acquired the former production facility, headquarters and development centre of the insolvent electric truck

After going bankrupt, Nikola's factory has just been sold to Lucid motors - the luxury BEV car maker - for $30 million.

Lucid did not purchase Nikola's hydrogen portfolio though. The Nikola hydrogen truck is now officially dead.

www.electrive.com/2025/04/11/l...

Die gesamte Nettostromerzeugung aus Kohle in Deutschland hat 2025 einen neuen Tiefststand erreicht.
www.energy-charts.info/charts/energ...

As always, my last post of the year reminder...

Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org.

Thanks for being here in 2025! I appreciate all the support 🙂

Indeed the green premium is expanding as well
Not evident the impact on electrification and on green molecules competitiveness
TBD

Two line graphs side-by-side showing the annual maximum and annual minimum values of Arctic sea ice volume for each year from 1979 to 2025. The figure caption says: the volume of Arctic sea ice is decreasing! Both graphs show interannual variability and a long-term decreasing trend.

This year set the 2nd lowest annual minimum (summer/fall) #Arctic sea-ice volume on record in the PIOMAS data set. I just updated my corresponding graphic that compares the seasonal max/min for volume at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Long awaited: efficiency standards for electric vehicles. Good news for the energy transition.
Can't beat an e-bike, though ;)

Merry Christmas Roger
Last year best book of 2024 !

Hydrogen emissions are ‘supercharging’ the warming impact of methane - Carbon Brief The warming impact of hydrogen has been “overlooked” in projections of climate change, authors of the latest “global hydrogen budget” say.

The Global Carbon Project has just published the most comprehensive Global Hydrogen Budget to date.

H2, although not a GHG, has an indirect Global Warming Potential 37 times more potent than CO2.

Carbon Brief:
www.carbonbrief.org/hydrogen-emi...

Research paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by International Cryosphere Climate Initiative After COP30 Fire and Floods: AMOC Shutdown

Watch a real climate minister, speaking about the risk of AMOC (Atlantic Ocean circulation) collapse, a big one for Iceland.
'Not because collapse is inevitable, but because ignoring systemic risk is irresponsible'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-0e...
Via @rahmstorf.bsky.social

Búzios Scientific Statement

100 climate researchers, coordinated by @pik-potsdam.bsky.social & @iiasa.ac.at, released a joint statement to inform the #COP30 negotiations and provide guidance on difficult but doable global efforts designed to limit dangerous overshoot of 1.5°C as much as possible.

Ammonia gas leak from a tanker truck in Oklahoma sickens dozens and forces evacuations Officials lifted a shelter-in-place order Thursday morning, hours after emergency workers wearing gas masks went door-to-door in Weatherford, waking people up and telling them to leave.

If you think ammonia would make a good shipping fuel, watch this. The industrial safety guru Trevor Kletz said "what you don't have, can't leak." I've chaired the TfL board safety panel and I'll tell you "what you do have, will leak". Enough Powerpoints. Think!
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Climate Politics When It's Too Late with Wim Carton In this Climate Chat episode, we interview author and professor Wim Carton about his new book, co-authored with Andreas Malm, titled: "The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It's Too Late." The book fo...

Sunday 11/2 at 10am PT on Climate Chat: "Climate Politics When It's Too Late" with @wimcarton.bsky.social. Is adaptation, CDR & SRM just scams to keep FF emissions going? What needs to change?
@leonsimons.bsky.social @bikingmzstacey.bsky.social @radsci.bsky.social
youtube.com/live/oxtkKTd...

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

If you want more figures on the UNEP Emissions Gap Report emission trends (Chapter 2), then you can't go past @wflamb.bsky.social page...

This is the change in total global GHG emissions from 2015 to 2014.

Figures and data here: lambwf.github.io/UNEP-Gap-Rep...

More atmospheric carbon removal needed.

Ahead of #COP30, G20 pledges fall short in their ambition and credibility to scale up #CDR alongside emission cuts.
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Policy brief by the #StateofCDR research network, led by PIK’s William Lamb & Carley Reynolds.
www.stateofcdr.org/insight-repo...

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

YouTube video by Saïd Business School, University of Oxford Geological Net Zero: How we will stop climate change...eventually

Of course !
You have prominent Scientist supporting your thesis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEOQ...

Finland has a goal to be net zero GHG emissions by 2035.

Emissions were declining, the LULUCF removals were strong, the plan was looking good, but then LULUCF collapsed.

Net GHG emissions have actually risen over the last decade!

www.treasuryfinland.fi/investor-rel...

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Geological Net Zero and the need for disaggregated accounting for carbon sinks - Nature Including passive CO2 uptake as an anthropogenic removal in greenhouse gas accounting systems could undermine the Paris Agreement; measures to address this include acknowledging the need for Geologica...

The entire LULUCF sink in Finland is considered 'managed' in emission reporting, but in practice it is a mix of anthropogenic and natural effects.

This is a reason we suggest not to use the sink to offset fossil emissions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finland has learnt the hard way.

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Our first carbon capture and storage project An overview of our support for a first-of-its-kind gas power plant with carbon capture and storage.

blog.google/outreach-ini...

German airport installs solar modules on chimney of thermal power plant Cologne-Bonn Airport has installed 80 adhesive photovoltaic panels on the 27-meter chimney of its cogeneration plant in a pilot project using Heliatek modules.

'80 adhesive solar panels mounted on 27-meter chimney of airport's co-generation plant...collector area of ~70 m²...4,400 kWh per year...efficiency of 7.2% to 8.0%...50-55 watts...1.6 kg/panel'

There isn't a syllable that can be refuted or denied, it's all on video and a matter of congressional recorded fact! Google it!

www.instagram.com/reel/DM8OAE5...

Techno-capitalists think innovation can save the planet. But that same thinking is what got us here An upside-down mindset is emerging around the world. We have to rethink our relationship with the environment and the technology that’s caused it harm

There is something a little ironic about streaming anti-technology polemics to our globally linked handheld microcomputers, which make use of quantum mechanical effects to transfer information to our retinas.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Rondo Energy’s 100 MWh heat battery powered by 20 MW of onsite solar Heat batteries for storing industrial heat can also be powered by low-cost grid electricity generated at sunny and windy hours, the company said.

Rondo Energy's 100 MWh heat battery powered by 20 MW of onsite solar: Heat batteries for storing industrial process heat can also be powered by low-cost grid electricity generated at sunny and windy hours, the company said. (My latest story for PV Magazine USA)
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