Iain Soutar

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Senior Lecturer in Energy Policy at the University of Exeter, UK. Researching change, inertia and public engagement in energy transitions.

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If you still have a Twitter account and are still prioritizing it over other social media accounts, please consider stopping doing that.

This is what's going on over on X. Friends don't let friends stay there. Tell them how good it is here! (or on Threads! or even on LinkedIn!)

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“It's almost like citizens can ignore the media narrative and that voting matters.” @juliedicaro.bsky.social #VivelaFrance Yes!

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This is what's going on over on X. Friends don't let friends stay there. Tell them how good it is here! (or on Threads! or even on LinkedIn!)

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It held

Chapeau

Shock follows shock! Exit poll puts Le Pen’s right wing National Rally in THIRD …behind the left wing NFP and Macron’s Ensemble.

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The US (4% of the world's population) has caused about 20% of all historical greenhouse gas pollution to date. Because global temperature rise scales linearly with historical greenhouse gas pollution, the US bears outsized responsibility for causing climate change - and therefore for fixing it.

Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change? - Carbon Briefwww.carbonbrief.org Carbon Brief looks at national responsibility for historical emissions of CO2 from 1850-2021, updating analysis published in 2019.

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The new UK government has the lowest proportion of privately educated cabinet members since 1945, and that's just fine.

Great news for the Green Party this week.

‘We’ll push the government to be bolder’: Carla Denyer on election success for the Greenswww.theguardian.com The party’s co-leader, now MP for Bristol Central, says she will pressure Starmer on climate, housing and services

The new UK government has the lowest proportion of privately educated cabinet members since 1945, and that's just fine.

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One of the new UK Government’s key energy pledges from the 2024 general election is the creation of Great British Energy – (GB Energy). The new government intends to invest £8.3 billion of funding into this new, publicly owned green power company.🔌💡 energysavingtrust.org.uk/great-britis...

GB Energy: what we know so farenergysavingtrust.org.uk Great British Energy is one of the new government's key pledges. But what will this publicly owned company will do and how it will run?

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“Overall storage installations — meaning utility-scale, home, and commercial projects — grew 84 percent in Q1 2024” Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act helped kickstart an energy storage revolution in the US www.canarymedia.com/articles/ene...

Chart: The US battery market is on track for its best year yetwww.canarymedia.com Overall storage installations — meaning utility-scale, home, and commercial projects — grew 84 percent in Q1. Grid battery installations grew even faster.

I'd count that as a good first day's work.

Sir Keir Starmer confirms Rwanda plan 'dead' on day one as PMwww.bbc.com The prime minister says he is going through with Labour's pledge to end the pledge to deport illegal migrants to Rwanda.

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Those switching from the Tories to Labour or the LibDems strongly support the net zero climate target (73%). This compares to 61% of people overall who support Net Zero. Even 42% of Reform voters support climate action, despite Farage's grifting climate denial.

Election survey: what switching voters thought on climate as they…eciu.net Net zero policies supported by voters switching from Conservatives to Labour or the Liberal Democrats at the polls.

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The fact that Labour scored fewer votes in 2024 than in 2017 or 2019 isn't a pointer to failure in this election, the failure was in the last two in which votes were accumulated under FPTP in areas they weren't needed.

Quick win

If Labour can immediately fix self-checkouts so that when it says "card only" you don't still have to choose card as a payment method when you checkout that would probably be enough to keep people happy for the first week or so.

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"...the proportion of state-educated members has risen from 54% to 63%. That is still far short of the 88% of people among the general public who went to comprehensive schools, but it represents the highest proportion of state-schooled members ever recorded in parliament."

Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have most female ministers in historywww.theguardian.com It will, however, only have three from minority ethnic backgrounds despite a record 89 being elected to parliament

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Inspired by @kellyhereid.bsky.social, I'm going to try getting better at sharing papers I'm finding valuable, if not daily, then perhaps weekly. This paper sets out some principles & practices for researchers to help avoid 'extractive' relations with communities hosting energy developments:

Place-based reflexivity for just energy social science - Nature Energywww.nature.com Where host communities are marginalized by industry practices, energy social science researchers must ensure that their research does not doubly exacerbate extractive practices. Place-based reflexivit...

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Carbon footprints among different income deciles in Germany are pretty similar.... until you look at transport. Once again, a very strong argument for a frequent fliers tax. www.diw.de/documents/pu...

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Such a good collection of lovely people ⤵️⤵️⤵️

Read this great thread below. We can build a climate community on Bluesky. Here’s a starter pack for folks to follow some people who work on climate. go.bsky.app/Aa1sErQ

Do Something About Climate Change Starter Parkbsky.app Join the conversation

Chindōgu (珍道具) is the practice of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that seem to be ideal solutions to particular problems, but which may cause more problems than they solve (Wiki)

Is it April fools day already? This can’t possibly be true. Toyota builds experimental hydrogen-powered pizza oven and a hydrogen grill: Toyota says cooking with hydrogen makes food taste better. Seriously??? www.autoblog.com/2024/07/04/t...

Toyota builds experimental hydrogen-powered pizza oven - Autoblogwww.autoblog.com Toyota worked with Japanese appliance brand Rinnai to make a hydrogen-powered pizza oven, and it also developed a hydrogen-burning barbecue.

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3-yr interdisciplinary PhD position (philosophy, social geography, climate science) on decision-making related to climate change adaptation w/ Julie Jebeile (philosopher, Universität Bern) & Isabelle Ruin (geographer, Institut des Géosciences, Grenoble) 31 July 2024 [email protected] #philsci ⚒️

Very much hoping this is a government that just quietly and thoughtfully gets things done. Odd in retrospect that the opposite has become so normalized.

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🚨My book is online!🚨 "Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice" This was a journey & labor of love to clarify what climate coloniality is & how to decolonize climate justice. Thanks to many for their support! Details below.🧵

Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justicewww.routledge.com This timely and urgent collection brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and ideas from around the world to present critical examinations of climate coloniality. Confronting Clim...

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Brand new report on the social impact of marine developments published! The research was led by me at @uniofexeter.bsky.social and funded by The Crown Estate. The scoping review cuts across marine sectors, and draws on academic and industry literature. Open access here: hdl.handle.net/10871/136442

The social impact of marine developmentshdl.handle.net

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2. 'Europe's sustainability transitions outlook: short-term action, long-term thinking' www.eea.europa.eu/publications...

Europe's sustainability transitions outlookwww.eea.europa.eu Polycrisis. This rather disturbing term has come to be used to describe the current context in which our societies and politics operate. Broadly speaking, polycrisis describes a convergence of economi...

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The European Environment Agency has released some important reports over the last weeks that relate to the governance of sustainability. 1. 'Governance in Complexity: sustainability governance under highly uncertain and complex conditions' www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...

Governance in complexity: sustainability governance under highly uncertain and complex conditionswww.eea.europa.eu Hosted by the EEA and the European Centre for Governance in Complexity (ECGC), this webinar followed the launch of the EEA report ‘ Governance in Complexity: Sustainability Governance under Highly Unc...

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quitting fossil fuels is popular pass it on www.theenergymix.com/3-4-of-peopl...

3/4 of People in Fossil-Producing Countries Want Rapid Transition to Clean Energywww.theenergymix.com Nearly three-quarters of the people in fossil fuel-producing countries want their governments to speed the transition to clean energy, while a minority think big businesses are addressing climate chan...

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New from me: The UK election outcome is a rare (of late) win for a party promising to tackle climate change -- now the Labour Party faces an uphill battle to implement its green agenda. (No paywall!)

UK’s Election Is a Rare Win Against Anti-Climate Campaignswww.bloomberg.com Keir Starmer’s Labour Party promoted a green agenda — but now faces an uphill struggle to implement it.

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Ed Miliband is the Energy Secretary #UKLabourGovernment