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David Tong
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Global industry campaign manager at @priceofoil | Board member at @greenpeace | Likes bikes, just transitions & renewable energy | he/him || Views my own
Jul 29, 2022 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
This morning, I read a newsletter from an excellent #climate journalist who said the @IEA found last year that "we’d already discovered sufficient fossil fuels to get the world comfortably through to net-zero by 2050".

That's true. But it's not what the IEA said. Let me explain. This is all about the difference between DISCOVERED and DEVELOPED reserves. That is shown in this classic @PriceofOil graphic. Oil & gas companies own much more in fossil fuel reserves than they have already developed.

It's not just that we've discovered enough fossil fuels. A chart showing that developed oil and gas reserves are a su
Jul 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Update: Walked for 30 minutes to the A’n’E on Adelaide Rd, which used to be a testing centre. Was told they no longer test and I would need to go to the community testing centre on Taranaki St, which closed at 3:30.

This is a joke. Two places listed as testing centres aren’t. Neither of these places provide PCR tests, despite @covid19nz / @minhealthnz saying they do.
Jul 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Sigh.

So, having tested positive for COVID-19 on my day zero arrival RAT, I need to get a PCR test done. Fine, makes sense. Check online, find that my local GP does tests, phone them to book, discover they don’t do PCR tests anymore and have been asking to be taken off the list. Seeing as I don’t own a car, this means that to get tested, I guess I probably need to walk the entire length of the Newtown shops and Adelaide Rd and hope an N95 mask is enough for me to not infect anyone else in one of the city’s busiest suburbs. Blurgh.
May 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My colleague @andy_rowell has a few things to say about @Shell's AGM today:

"I am sure there are hundreds of Shell managers who will dismiss OCI’s analysis and Follow This’ shareholder action. They will believe the company’s own internal public relations." "They are fed a false truth. We know this. Decades ago for example, on the day that the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and others were murdered by the Nigerian government, the company had a letter..."
May 24, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
We just published our latest update of our Big Oil Reality Check analysis.

Instead of actually confronting the climate crisis, big oil and gas companies’ climate pledges and plans still appear to be designed to disinform and distract. Our new analysis shows that not even one of the eight oil majors considered comes anywhere close to aligning their businesses with what’s needed for 1.5ºC.

Instead, they keep planning to approve new projects, digging up more unburnable oil and gas.
Feb 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is the stupidest thing to boast about, and another classic example of the absurdity of letting businesses focus on Scope 1&2 emissions while ignoring Scope 3 emissions. See those tiny dark lines at the top of these graphs?

That's Fonterra's transport emissions, from their own report. The pale green is manufacturing (largely burning coal to dry milk powder). The green is the farming emissions – the ones that still aren't priced into the NZ ETS.
Sep 21, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
If you don't want New Zealand's climate minister to go to the climate talks, fine – but first please tell me what you'd do instead with the Madrid draft text on corresponding adjustments for CORSIA in article 6 and what this means for Air New Zealand's business. Oh, you don't want an agricultural or forestry there? Tell me about where things stand with LULUCF and the KJWA then when it comes to pine forestry and pastoral sheep, beef or dairy farming. Are you worried that your choice will risk food exports?
Sep 20, 2021 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
National's dirty political attacks on @jamespeshaw & a team of diplomats attending the COP26 climate talks are in bad faith.

He is taking a smaller team than any National minister took in 2008-2016.

And he doesn't have an option, largely because of choices made under National. First – trust me it's not possible to make these negotiations virtual. Or trust the Alliance of Small Island States, or the Climate Vulnerable Forum, or African activists, or academics, or... climatechangenews.com/2019/08/29/ban…

Second – I'm not going, but may launch a report virtually.