Simon Evans
Deputy Editor + Policy Ed @CarbonBrief covering climate, energy. Son of migrants/grandson of refugees. PGP: keybase.io/drsimevans [email protected]
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Oil Industry Tries to Take the Fracking Boom Global
A BP project in Oman shows how oil companies are taking fracking techniques perfected in Texas to the global stage, where they had long struggled.
Future effects of climate and land-use change on terrestrial vertebrate community diversity under different scenarios
Land-use and climate change are among the greatest threats facing biodiversity, but understanding their combined effects has been hampered by modelling and data limitations, resulting in part from the very different scales at which land-use and...
Climate change to become ‘greatest pressure on biodiversity’ by 2070
The combined effects of global warming and land-use change could cause the world’s ecosystems to lose more than a third of their animal species by 2070, a new study finds.
Close to half global reinsurance market divests from coal
Close to half the global reinsurance market has now divested from coal after Hannover Re informed the Unfriend Coal campaign and Urgewald that it has adopted an exclusion policy.
How Big Will the Battery Boom Get? Try $548 Billion, BNEF Says
Batteries will attract $548 billion in investments by 2050 as costs fall and homes and businesses push to use more clean energy.
Explainer: How scientists estimate climate sensitivity
The sensitivity of the Earth’s climate to increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration is a question that sits at the heart of climate science. Essentially, it dictates how much global temperatures will rise in response to human-caused CO2 emissions,...
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THE definitive guide to the latest science on climate sensitivity.
@hausfath compiles 142 studies published since 2000:
"No evidence that recent studies show a substantially different range of sensitivity [1.5-4.5C] than in the past"
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Map: These are the cities that climate change will hit first
New York and D.C. will hit the climate change tipping point in 2047 – just 34 years from now.
Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border
ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.”
New Energy Outlook 2017 | Bloomberg New Energy Finance | Bloomberg Finance LP
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By 2050, wind and solar will supply half the world's electricity says BNEF's #NEO2018
48% wind/solar
18% gas/oil
16% hydro, bio, other RE
11% coal
7% nuclear
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Some other interesting points from BNEF's #NEO2018:
"Cheap batteries can make solar and wind dispatchable"
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#NEO2018
In the UK, low-carbon sources will supply 88% of generation by 2030 (up from 50% today)
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Ineos loses fracking 'ban' challenge
Petrochemical firm Ineos loses its Court of Session challenge to the "effective ban" on fracking in Scotland.
Clean energy investment ‘must be 50% higher’ to limit warming to 1.5C
An extra $460bn per year needs to be invested on the low-carbon economy globally over the next 12 years to limit global warming to 1.5C, a new paper says.
Oil and gas production
Historic data and latest production outlook of oil and gas on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
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@Revkin @CarbonBrief @dw_environment Not sure you can easily make that comparison but here's Norways's
expected oil & gas production to 2022
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Claude Turmes MEP: A net-zero emissions target by 2050 will be our red line
Any country resisting an EU-wide objective to reduce emissions to net-zero by mid-century is essentially “in the same camp as Mr. Trump” when it comes to climate change, says Claude Turmes, the lead European Parliament negotiator on the Energy Union...
WWF 2018 electric vehicles report
WWF-UK is campaigning for an end to petrol and diesel vehicle sales in the UK by 2030 - 10 years ahed of the current Government target. We asked Vivid Economics to assess the effect of a 2030 phase-out on the environment, the economy and the energy...
Germany to pressure rich countries to pledge new climate cash
The Petersberg Climate Dialogue will start a replenishment drive for the Green Climate Fund and focus on protecting jobs in the shift to clean energy
Climate Change May Already Be Hitting the Housing Market
Homes in areas most exposed to flood and hurricane risk were worth less last year, on average, than a decade earlier.