In fact, the "Glasgow Dialogue" on loss and damage finance did not make the cut and so has not been formally part of the SBI agenda, as @ChloeFarand reported here:
The "work programme" towards a global goal on adaptation (GGA, as if there weren't enough acronyms already) did make the cut to be on the formal agenda in Bonn; some groups formally submitted their views and we even got a draft (decision) text
The draft GGA decision text draws on a paper from the African Group, but is heavily bracketed (22) & filled with options (37), meaning it's far from being agreed
At this stage, they're haggling over what to discuss in a series of workshops (!)
You can see the grab-bag of ideas being discussed in this "informal note", which is a collection of everything suggested, without any judgement on what should ultimately be included
As reported by @ClimateHome latest newsletter and shown by the "informal note", countries can't even agree on how long the "urgent" dialogue on raising ambition should last – whether one year only or all the way out to 2030 – or who should be focus
Elsewhere, the Bonn talks also included "technical expert dialogue" on climate finance, looking ahead to the new target that will replace the existing (not yet met) goal of $100bn by 2020
If you thought "Article 6" on intl carbon markets was agreed at COP26, you're right, but there's still a whole bunch of new processes to put in place before any of it can start to operate… (6.4, L)
Beyond those items, a whole load of other stuff was being discussed in Bonn, from the Global Stocktake that will show (again) how far off track we are, to the Koronivia joint work on agriculture, the WIM on loss and damage, or the forum on response measures
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UK opened the world's first coal power plant in 1882 on London's Holborn Viaduct (pic)
⛰️ Since then, UK coal plants have burned 4.6bn tonnes of coal, emitting 10.4GtCO2
🌍 That's more CO2 than most countries have ever emitted, from all sources (!)
But the UK was the world's first "coal-fired economy" – and that started long before coal-fired power
🥤Coal fuelled pumps to drain mines to get more coal
📈And as steam engines got more efficient, it got cheaper to use and extract ever more of the fuel, inspiring "Jevons paradox"
Let's begin with the facts. Andrew doesn't say so, but I am going to assume he is (correctly) quoting data from Montel Analytics, showing that UK electricity imports were 18.9TWh in H1 2024, up 82% from H2 2023
Just over a decade ago, then-PM David Cameron was infamously reported to have told aides to "get rid of the green crap" as a "solution to soaring energy prices"…
After Cameron's "get rid of the green crap" frontpage, a series of UK climate rollbacks followed
First, policy changes and funding cuts for home insulation improvements, with annual loft+cavity wall installations now 98% below previous levels
Fossil-fueled chemicals boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe has an anti-EV tirade in today’s Daily Telegraph, littered with outright falsehoods, half-truths and selective facts
Exhibit 1: Far from "coming to a halt", EV demand grew by 25% in Q1 of this year
Let’s take a look shall we?
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Exhibit 2: Ratcliffe cherrypicks Germany – where EV subsidies recently ended – to argue that demand is drying up
As already mentioned, global EV sales grew 25% in Q1 of this year, according to the IEA
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How about China, Jim? Ah yes, EV sales are up 35% so far this year. But I guess that didn't fit your narrative.
Nor does the UK, I guess, given sales are up 11% in 2024ytd (31% for plug-in hybrids, on which more later)
It seems @mattwridley thinks @Telegraph readers are idiots
Let's run the numbers:
244,000km2 = area of the UK
5-10% = share of UK Matt says would need to be covered with solar to meet electricity demand in June
40MW = solar capacity per km2
500-1,000GW = solar capacity, if covering 5-10% of UK
300% = share of total UK electricity demand that would be generated by 1,000GW of UK solar
650GW = current solar capacity of China, roughly half the global total
<30GW = actual UK summer peak demand
15GW = current solar capacity of UK, of which ~10GW ground mounted
0.1% = current solar land take
70GW = UK govt solar target, because no one thinks we can run the country on solar alone
<1% = future land take
>20% = reduction in UK gas imports if govt solar target is met
Zero = credibility of Matt's article
Sources:
Land requirement for UK solar 40MW per km2 = 6 acres per MW, based on current solar farms; as noted in the article, govt says future farms would need 2-3x less land