🚨 Energy data nerds! 🚨

Just unveiled: new-look country pages on the International Energy Agency website - rich info now available at country/regional level on

🔋Energy mix
🌬️Emissions
⚡️Electricity
📉Efficiency/demand
🛢️Renewables and fuels

Huge congrats to colleagues!

iea.org/countries

That is roughly ten times as much electricity as EVs used, for anyone keeping score.

📢 Kicking off in 2.5 hours! 📢

The International Energy Agency's webinar on 'Doubling global progress on energy efficiency' - the goal agreed by every government at COP28

Join IEA experts inc Brian Motherway and me to explore what the goal is, and how to get there

iea.org/events/doublin…

At COP28, governments worldwide called for a doubling of global energy efficiency improvements by 2030.

On 16 Jan, join IEA experts as they discuss why doing so is vital to reach climate goals and what's needed to achieve this target.

Register now → iea.li/3HfzYUp

The world added a historic 510 gigawatts of renewable power capacity in 2023, up 50% from a year before

Under current policies & market trends, global renewable capacity is set to be 2.5 times higher by 2030, not far off the COP28 goal of tripling

More: iea.li/41QZoRW

Many views on COP and its outcomes, but certainly a historic one to see #energyefficiency feature so prominently. The ambition to double efficiency progress this decade is now an agreed outcome. What does this mean? 🧵

It's Day 7 here at #COP28 and parties were debating fossil fuel phase out / energy package in the Global Stocktake until late last night.

My summary: At the end of the first week of COP, the opponents of fossil fuel phase out have revealed themselves 🧵

Today at 15h30 GST at COP28 UAE and EC AV Service we will launch the Global Pledge to TRIPLE renewables and DOUBLE energy efficiency by 2030.

Planet-wide goals that bring us closer to a clean energy future for all.

120 countries are on board.

Join the movement.

🗣 “The energy sector is taking early steps to harness the power of AI to boost efficiency & accelerate innovation”
 
In a new commentary, vida, Jack Miller & Sungjin Oh explore how AI can support efficient, clean & resilient power systems 👉 iea.li/49f2gvf

With COP28 approaching fast, the International Energy Agency has been working with govts, the European Commission and COP Presidency to agree goal of doubling energy efficiency progress this decade.

Today we released a short commentary on what this entails 🧵 1/8

iea.org/commentaries/a…

SUNDAY THREAD:

This week the IEA updated their groundbreaking 1.5 degree Net Zero report. I was lucky enough to be a peer reviewer, and I want to explain in my own words what I think it means..

Yes we can still keep to 1.5 degrees! Were you ready to give up? So many people were

We were very pleased to work with the Government of India on the #G20 Voluntary Action Plan on Doubling the Rate of Energy Efficiency Improvement by 2030; and delighted to see it referenced in the Leaders' Declaration mea.gov.in/bilateral-docu…

Sunday fun fact: Paris' 100-strong fleet of hydrogen-powered taxis is called, without a hint of irony, 'Hype'

Keeping cool on a hotter planet has major implications for energy systems

Not getting it right has disastrous consequences - an enormously important topic as heat domes sit over vast swathes of the planet

This is not going away.

🙌

On the first, we laid the groundwork last month in Versailles - where 45 governments endorsed the doubling goal

iea.org/news/at-iea-co…

Wow! Wow! Wow!

North Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies are going vertical again. And yes, I needed to extend the y-axis.

Yesterday's temperature of 24.49°C (76.08°F) was 4.2σ above the 1991-2020 mean. The previous high for July 17 was 23.71°C (74.68°F) in 2020.