The EU's proposed 90% emissions reduction by 2040, would require:
🌞 Energy emissions reaching near-zero
🚗 Transport emissions dropping 69-78%
🚜 Agricultural emissions falling by 30%
🏠 Residential and service emissions by 77-85%
🏭 Emissions from industry by 56-84%
Last week I looked at MCS’ dashboard, to see how solar and heat pumps fared over 2023,
🌞Solar PV installations rose nearly 30% to a post-subsidy record of 189,826
🔥Heat-pump installations were up 20%, reaching a record 36,799
🏘️A record 229,618 total installations
What’s happened this week in climate change?
DeBriefed: US offshore wind; UK’s second warmest year; Carbon Brief’s top articles of 2023
✍️ @mollylempriere.bsky.social and Yanine Quiroz
Read here ⬇️
bit.ly/48E1Kpp
Carbon Brief’s team of specialist journalists will be hosting a free WEBINAR on Friday to discuss the key outcomes from #COP28, which has just concluded in Dubai.
Time: Friday, 15 December, 3pm (GMT)
Register here ⬇️
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
NEW – Ahead of the first live Demand Flexibility Service event of the winter of 2023/24 tomorrow (29 November), Carbon Brief explores what the service has achieved so far and whether it offers value for money.
✍️: @mollylempriere.bsky.social
Read here: bit.ly/3T599cL
National Grid ESO are running their first live Demand Flexibility Service event of this winter tomorrow evening (29 Nov) from 5-6:30pm
Ahead of this, I took a look at last years trial, including who took part, whether it could be considered a success and how cost effective it was ⬇️
NEW – Ahead of the first live Demand Flexibility Service event of the winter of 2023/24 tomorrow (29 November), Carbon Brief explores what the service has achieved so far and whether it offers value for money.
✍️: @mollylempriere.bsky.social
Read here: bit.ly/3T599cL
Great to see the electricity grid getting more focus, but disappointing to see nothing on energy bills in todays #AutumnStatement
And Jeremy Hunt didn’t use the word ‘climate’ even once
In this week's Debriefed, I got to write about the kidnap of a somewhat forgotten solar inventor, George Cove, and what the development of solar could have looked like if his country Sun Electric had continued
Read the full story on @carbonbrief.org ⬇️
www.carbonbrief.org/debriefed-10...
🚨2023 is now "virtually certain" (>99%) to be the HOTTEST year ever recorded🚨
It's set to smash the previous 2016 record by ~0.12C
Every single one of the last 10 years is among the hottest 10 years on record
New Carbon Brief analysis by @hausfath.bsky.socialwww.carbonbrief.org/analysis-gre...
There is increasing evidence that the world has warmed faster over the past 15 years than it has since the 1970s. Surface records, ocean heat content, and the Earth's energy imbalance all support an acceleration of warming, as I argue in today's @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/o...
NEW: One-tenth of UK foreign-aid spending on climate change goes via private consultancies
@joshgabbatiss.bsky.social has analysed 25,000+ transactions listed on government web pages and found more than £2bn has been handed to dozens of these companies since 2010💰
➡️ bit.ly/46sXcBE
