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Aug 16, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
With its proposed mines, #Whitehaven will double its #methane pollution over the next decade, releasing >1 million tonnes of methane by 2050 according to our latest data.
The climate impact is worse than the annual emissions of an additional 56 million cars🚗.
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“This flies in the face of Australia’s climate commitments and asks serious questions about the amount of risk these expansion plans pose,” says @Chris_climate_., Climate Strategy Advisor at Ember. (2/6)
BREAKING | #Wind & #Solar hit a record TENTH of global electricity in 2021.
But the global electricity transition needs to sustain high growth rates to replace coal & reduce emissions.
⚡️10 Tweet Thread of the Global Power Sector in 2021
[1/10] #GER22 ember-climate.org/insights/resea…
We analysed annual power generation data for 209 countries from 2000 to 2020, with 2021 data included for 75 countries representing 93% of global power demand.
Key findings of our fifth annual report with @AgoraEW
1. Renewables overtook fossil fuels as the EU’s main source of electricity in 2020.
ember-climate.org/project/eu-pow…2. Renewables generated 38% of Europe’s electricity in 2020, overtaking fossil fuels (37%). Nuclear power generated 25% of EU-27 electricity.
This green milestone was also reached in Spain and Germany in 2020.