A hopeful insight into Australian emissions reductions!
When the incoming Aus fed govt announced the Battery subsidies, I could not imagine it would have such rapid uptake & impact....
Loved this quote: "It's actually a bottom-up renewable energy revolution being led by punters"
Let's prepare for "long lasting" energy shock, without mentionning once "renewables", says the EU commissionner for energy. www.ft.com/content/7d3a...
@alexpiron.bsky.social and @ccrellin.bsky.social use #LLMs on #EU aid data to construct the EU's Humanitarian Aid #Network to explain aid allocation at our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop.
To keep track of the rapidly growing field of attribution research, Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has influenced extreme weather.
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Gas spent 20 years owning the evening peak. Batteries took a year to crash the party.
That's disruption. Not gradual, but a rapid shift in who supplies grid's most valuable hours.
The battle was never about total generation. It was about the peak & batteries are winning it. #Bettrification #BESS
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Energy commissioner says bloc is assessing fuel rationing and releasing more oil from strategic reserves
🔓️ Contrary to common assumptions, introducing pull policies before shifting to stricter push policies may not boost public support for tougher #climateaction, find Thomas Bernauer et al. Rather than policy-sequencing, governments may benefit from contemporaneous bundling of pull and push measures⬇️
Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @ember-energy.org
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1/🤔To be or not to be continued?
Our new report with Forum Energii explores this question in the context of the Just Transition Fund and its impact in Czechia, Germany, Greece, Poland, Romania and Spain.
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We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply!
👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026
When it comes to the energy transition I'm a glass half full person.
I know: plenty of people would say that's terribly naive. They point to the scale of the challenge. They point to vested interests. They point to hard-to-abate sectors.
And they're not wrong. But here's what they miss.
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