Simon Evans
Deputy Editor + Policy Ed covering climate, energy. Son of migrants/grandson of refugees. PGP: [email protected]
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KB금융, 국내 최초 ‘탈석탄 금융’ 선언…석탄발전소 파이낸싱 'NO'
아시아경제 15h 1 tweets
KB금융그룹은 기후변화 위기에 선제적으로 대응하기 위해 국내 금융그룹 최초로 KB국민은행 등 모든 계열사가 참여하는 ‘탈석탄 금융’을 선언했다. 27일 KB금융은 지난 25일 환경·사회·지배구조(ESG) 위원회를 개최하고 지구온난화 억제의 선결 과제인 석탄화력발전 감축을 위해 국내외 석탄화력발전소 건설을 위한 신규 프로젝트 파이낸싱 및 채권 인수에 대한 사업 참여를 전면 중단하기로 했다고
‘Don’t Tell Me What to Do’: Resistance to Climate Change Messages Suggesting Behavior Changes | Weather, Climate, and Society | American Meteorological Society
Journals.ametsoc.org 3d 12 tweets
Bionic duckweed: using the future to fight the present
Medium 3d 3 tweets
When visions of the future are used, in bad or dubious faith, to undermine action and investment today, that’s bionic duckweed
Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Questions-statements.parliament.uk 54h 1 tweets
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.
Simon Evans UK govt will publish its transport decarbonisation plan "before the end of the year" 54h
The Trouble with Carbon Pricing
Boston Review 3d 8 tweets
Carbon pricing has dominated conversations around climate policy for decades, but it is ineffective. Only a bold approach that centers politics can meet the problem at its scale.
Kenya's WTO candidate says she will focus on climate change if selected
U.S. 58h 3 tweets
Kenya's candidate to become the next head of the World Trade Organisation pledged on Thursday to integrate climate change issues into the WTO agenda if selected.
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Simon Evans "Kenya's WTO candidate says she will focus on climate change if selected" (Amina Mohamed is one of the two frontrunners for the job acc the FT) Also worth noting that WTO seen as one obstacle to EU plans for a carbon border adjustment… HT 57h
Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change - Dieter Helm
Dieterhelm.co.uk 59h 1 tweets
ANALYSIS: Xi’s climate plan could transform China’s carbon market, but only much later « Carbon Pulse
Carbon-pulse.com 60h 1 tweets
Analysis: Going carbon neutral by 2060 ‘will make China richer’
Carbon Brief 3d 15 tweets
China’s surprise pledge to reach “carbon neutrality” before 2060 could cut global warming this century by 0.25C and raise the country’s GDP, our new analysis shows.
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Simon Evans +++NEW+++ Analysis: Going carbon neutral by 2060 ‘will make China richer’ Fascinating + timely excl modelling by offers key insights into China's self-interest, with GDP gains from net-zero coming at expense of fossil fuel exporters 3d
PM: ‘Climate action cannot be another victim of coronavirus’
GOV.UK 3d 2 tweets
PM Boris Johnson will address a UN Climate Action Roundtable hosted by the UN Secretary-General.
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Simon Evans Heavy hints here – but no firm commitment – that UK will announce its new climate pledge on 12 December, at event to mark 5th anniversary of Paris Agreement "opportunity to…announce new & enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions & net zero targets" 3d
A stronger and more resilient Canada
Canada.ca 3d 1 tweets
The full text of the Speech from the Throne
California to ban sale of new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles in 2035
David Shepardson - U.S. 4d 3 tweets
California will ban the sale of new gasoline powered passenger cars and trucks starting in 2035 in a dramatic move to shift to electric vehicles and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday.
Every country must raise its political ambition to move towards zero pollution and full climate justice
The Elders 4d 1 tweets
Mary Robinson highlights that pollution is much more than carbon emissions and praises moves to develop a viable and sustainable post-pandemic recovery.
Analysis: China’s Covid stimulus plans for fossil fuels three times larger than low-carbon
Carbon Brief 4d 5 tweets
Our findings suggest China is focusing its post-Covid recovery on high-carbon energy and infrastructure, as it did after the 2008-9 global financial crisis. But a repeat of its emissions surge in 2010 is unlikely, because the current scale of its...
Simon Evans Amid excitement over China's new pledge to go carbon neutral by 2060, here's some timely analysis by showing fossil fuel stimulus plans in country's major provinces amount to hundreds of billions of $$ and outweigh low-carbon threefold… 4d
China going carbon neutral before 2060 would lower warming projections by around 0.2 to 0.3 degrees C | Climate Action Tracker
Climateactiontracker.org 4d 8 tweets
Simon Evans BIG China's 2060 carbon neutrality pledge could shave 0.2-0.3C off projected warming, says snap analysis +2.7C warming by 2100 if all current climate pledges met +2.4-2.5C warming if China goes carbon neutral by 2060 4d
Government urged to set cost reduction target for renewable hydrogen to provide cheap energy - RenewableUK
Renewableuk.com 4d 1 tweets
RenewableUK is the UK's leading not for profit renewable energy trade association
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Bloomberg.com 5d 1 tweets
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Bloomberg.com 4d 1 tweets
Navigating the politics of Border Carbon Adjustments - E3G
E3G 5d 1 tweets
Border carbon adjustments (BCAs) are among the most controversial elements of the European Commission’s European Green Deal. They are technically difficult to design and politically challenging to implement. But they could answer a specific need:...
Statement by H.E. Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China At the General Debate of the 75th Session of The United Nations General Assembly
Fmprc.gov.cn 5d 5 tweets
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Simon Evans Yeah so this is huge "We aim to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060." Official translation of statement by China's President Xi Jinping to the UN general assembly 5d