This is such a good idea from ScottishPower and Energy Systems Catapult to prescribe heat pumps and insulation to people with health conditions living in cold homes. businessgreen.com/news/4206232/s…

Report: Global electricity emissions set to decline this year due to solar and wind boom edie.net/report-global-…

Can Forests Be More Profitable Than Beef? nytimes.com/2024/05/02/cli…

Number of EV charging points in Britain growing rapidly, data shows edie.net/number-of-ev-c…

Solar and battery manufacturing levels aligned with net-zero trajectories edie.net/solar-and-batt…

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Kadin Net Zero Hub Accelerates Indonesia’s Net Zero Journey by Joining the Race to Zero climatechampions.unfccc.int/kadin-net-zero…

Massive thank you to Ulster Farmers' Union for hosting Climate Change Committee on William Irvine’s first day in office as President. We learned so much from William, John, Aileen and James. The tour of Hilary and Roger Bell’s wonderful sheep and beef farm was the icing on the cake 🙏

This week, Dr James Richardson took over as the acting Dr James Richardson.

James has been the Climate Change Committee Chief Analyst for almost a year, and in that time has done a fantastic job. The Committee and I are very grateful to him and look forward to continuing to work closely together.

Well, this is certainly welcome news! reuters.com/business/energ…

A great opportunity to learn more about the Power Breakthrough - how international collaboration is identifying targets and actions, and implementing them, to keep driving the exponential take up of renewable energy. High-Level Climate Champions

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Nigeria is planning to set up a $10 billion diaspora fund to attract investment from its citizens living abroad bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

Congratulations to Taiwan - with the inauguration of 900MW Greater Changhua 1 and 2a offshore wind farms, the island now boasts the largest-of-its kind renewable facility in APAC. #RE100

Working with Chris has been a lot of fun. Producing authoritative reports and having an impact right up until the end. Enjoy The Carbon Trust 🙏

Climate Policy Is Working foreignaffairs.com/world/climate-… via Foreign Affairs

Good to see clear medium term government policy driving exponential growth in cleantech - UK imposes sustainable fuel targets on airlines ft.com/content/1ecaac… via @ft

👏🏻Brilliantly argued by Dr James Richardson at Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee (expanding on & emphasising some of what he said to Laura Kuenssberg recently), about the wide-ranging, multiple benefits of progressing & achieving #NetZero , being collaborative, & getting our discourse into a more positive space.💯

Reflecting on a week at #SpringMeetings . Welcome others’ views. Just a reminder: we need to mobilise trillions for people and planet, not just locate some spare change down the back of the MDB sofa, and still it's only 2% of global GDP! Nicholas Stern Dr. Vera Songwe Amar Bhattacharya

EVs are set to account for 45 per cent of all new car sales in China this year, which can't be right because supposedly serious people keep saying they don't work and will never prove popular. businessgreen.com/news-analysis/… BG+