71/BIG news from Xi : "China will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad"

Will Coal stop? In eyeopening research @kellysgallagher et al found (1)domestic interests in countries push Coal (2)that 87% of coal finance is non-🇨🇳estatements.unmeetings.org/estatements/10… Image
72/ EU's Hydrogen strategy was to build 6GW of renewable hydrogen electrolyses by 2024.

China's response? Go big or Go Home! 100 GW! Its manufacturing economies of scale that gave rest of the world cheap solar and cheap batteries, now applied to Hydrogen rechargenews.com/energy-transit…
73/ Look around you. Everything you can kick & touch is made by burning carbon. All the machines we use to move,heat,cool,melt burn carbon. It hasn't sunk in everywhere, but Beijing gets that gains from redoing the Industrial Revolution *all over again*
74/"Little over a decade ago, China was strongly arguing against reducing emissions caused by its booming, coal-fuelled econ growth. Instead, it said rich...nations should be leading the way"
Great stories that have never been told:
carbonbrief.org/analysis-nine-…
75/ "we stand shoulder-to-shoulder w developed nations on the starting line of the green revolution. Mastery of green technologies...development of green industries will provide core competitiveness. If we fail to see that, we let down our descendants” carbonbrief.org/analysis-nine-…
76/ China produces less than half US's nuclear electricity. Catch-up plan is to invest more than $440 bilion over next 2 decades!

100+ GW of nuclear will help meet ambitious emissions reduction goals and shut down its enormous 1000+ GW coal fleet sooner.
bloomberg.com/news/features/… Image
77/ While media scares people with stories of China's coal use going up, most specialists who know policy institutions and read the fine print emphasize its clear long-term decarbonization vision.

The Ship needs some time to turn ht @ecoangelhsu nytimes.com/2021/11/07/opi…

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21 Oct
Pentagon just unclassified its Climate report to the National Security Council.

Department of Defense wants you to know climate change is a "threat multiplier". What are all our poor bases in shithole countries going to do?
#GeopoliticsOfGHGs
media.defense.gov/2021/Oct/21/20…
US defense technocrats will now include Climate in prioritizing threats; in strategies for countering threats; in planning missions of the armed forces; in what weapons to develop and five-year plan for investments that support strategy #GeopoliticsOfGHGs
media.defense.gov/2021/Oct/21/20…
gotta love the big nerd brain energy in Pentagon planners.

Guys guys this climate change thing that our scientists are telling us about for 50 years? What if, like, its too hot for planes to take off or, get this, wildfire smoke makes bombing harder?
media.defense.gov/2021/Oct/21/20…
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21 Oct
US- Russia a thread

Worlds largest oil and gas producers? ✅✅
Military budgets many times larger than green investment? ✅✅
Grains in drought?✅✅
Massive forests going up in smoke? ✅✅
Massive chutzpah to create carbon offsets with said forests? ✅✅
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… ImageImage
2/“You wouldn’t always know it, but it went up every year I was president. That whole, suddenly America’s like the biggest oil producer & the biggest gas — that was me, people"-@BarackObama

Energy Independence/Dominance is a hell of a drug in both US (green line) & Russia (blue) Image
3/ Biden's infrastructure bill is now ~$2 Trillion over 10 years. Sounds like a lot right? $200 billion each year. But just about $30B each year is for Climate

US spends ~$750B p.a on the military,25 TIMES more than all climate programs #GeopoliticsOfGHGs Image
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19 Oct
US Power Sector emissions alone "exceeds GHG emissions of all but seven countries". US is the largest oil & gas producer on the planet.

Fight in US Congress is a big deal. If Biden can't do it with legislation, he will face opposition on regulations from GOP dominated courts
The N American oil complex has raised ~$1000 Billion from banks & pension funds to frack oil & gas over next 5 yrs.

At UN's #COP26, developing countries haggle over a symbolic $100 Billion from rich countries for climate wri.org/blog/2018/11/n…
Useful to zoom out. What makes climate action hard in the US?
1 It became the worlds LARGEST producer of Oil & Gas over last decade.
2. The Oil & Gas industry employs 10 million people across a dozen states that are overrepresented in Senate
ht @HelenHet20 newstatesman.com/world/americas…
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Democrats 'build back better' bill will give unto $12,000 in tax credit for new Electric Vehicle purchases! waysandmeans.house.gov/sites/democrat… Image
"Even if the president persuades Congress to fund his climate aid proposal, it’ll still be less per year than what the U.S. spends on a single aircraft carrier." ht @AlexCKaufman
Its the 0.4 in $11.4 billion for developing countries that is *chefs kiss*
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"annual cost of *five* Green New Deal bills combined is still almost $300B less than the amount the House voted to give the Pentagon next year" ht @stephensemler
@JamaalBowmanNY @sunrisemvmt @CoriBush @AOC @saaaauuull
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34/ China's anti-Robber Baron moment? New five-year regulatory effort on Edu & Technology-related sectors on issues like overseas listings, antitrust, privacy.

“looking after middle-class people both in their role as consumers & in their role as workers” ft.com/content/bdcbbd…
35/ Forget 'varieties of capitalism'. We need a 'varieities of corruption' literature. Her fabulous essay on the Robber Barons of Beijing should make you run out to get @yuenyuenang's seminal book
foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/…

book: sites.lsa.umich.edu/yy-ang/wp-cont…
36/ "Since Trump's trade war, there has been a total increase of about $200 billion in tariffs from China. For e-commerce companies, this means direct China-US trade has become too expensive. The solution? Mexico."
ht Spencer Potiker @CharmaineSChua
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Everyone please read Project Drawdown drawdown.org/solutions/tabl…
We need to weave many different climate solutions in this decade & all hands required on deck! ht @GlobalEcoGuy globalecoguy.org/we-need-4-wave…
1 Quick Wins
2 New Infrastructure
3 Growing Natural Sinks
4 Deploying New Tech
2/ " “Quick Win” solutions focus on halting highly destructive practices, such as widespread deforestation, flaring and fugitive emissions of methane, and “black carbon” emissions from dirty cookstoves, biomass burning, and other sources" drawdown.org/solutions/tabl…
3/ There are obstacles to implementing all of these "Quick Win" solutions, of course, but they offer large and immediate emissions reductions, plus strong economic returns. They are among the lowest hanging fruits globalecoguy.org/we-need-4-wave…
Project drawdown: drawdown.org/solutions/tabl… Image
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