.@Ed_Miliband says now is a decisive moment in race for green jobs of the future

Net zero is a massive economic opportunity for Britain, he says

This is the economic opportunity of the 21st century, he adds at @GreenAllianceUK event .@Ed_Miliband says there’s much evidence the UK is behind in the global race for green jobs even before the IRA, Biden’s climate plan

Cites progress in other countries on green steel, gigafactories, green hydrogen

The UK government is now a month & a half late on a legal deadline for Environment Act targets.

The expectation was they'd be announced this week at #COP15, but I'm hearing that is now unlikely.

Recess starts next week, so will we get an early Xmas present? Or wait for 2023? NEW

UK government has published overdue Environment Act targets on everything from pollution to nature recovery

gov.uk/government/con…

(Please flag any targets that have been strengthened or weakened compared to the consultations)

If fracking "will only be allowed to take place when local communities agree to it", as reported, very little fracking will happen. Public atttidudes massively swung against it over the past decade - the more exploration progressed, the more it was opposed assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

https://twitter.com/NatashaC/status/1567638309148426240

Also big outstanding question of whether any companies have an appetite for fracking exploration (let alone production) in England.

Permissions for fracking have expired (e.g. for Cuadrilla), and sites have been mothballed.

Previous big players were Cuadrilla, Ineos and iGas.

The UK's independent climate advisers, @theCCCuk, have a 600-page report out today on progress towards #netzero. It's packed with important findings — here are seven of them 🧵 @theCCCuk 1️⃣ The UK government doesn't have enough credible policies in place to meet its carbon targets for the mid-2030s, despite its Net Zero Strategy last October. The yellow, orange and red on this graph show the problem sectors

.@HenryDimbleby says biggest miss from the UK gov’s food strategy was the lack of different tariffs to hit beef imports that are environmentally harmful (eg from Amazon). Says other miss was the lack of putting targets & reporting in statute. Says it doesn’t amount to a strategy .@lorddeben of the @theCCCuk is highly critical of the food strategy. “I don’t think it’s a strategy at all. It’s a collection of hopes, wishes and desires… to call it underwhelming is to dignify it”

The UK govt has ended electric car grants. Effectively argues it's no longer needed: "Successive reductions in the size of the grant, and the number of models it covers, have had little effect on rapidly accelerating sales" gov.uk/government/new… New electric car sales are on meteoric upwards trajectory (newscientist.com/article/226426…). But in terms of optics this is still an odd move just 6 months after COP26, where "cars" [as in greener ones] were one of the UK govt's four top priorities (cash, cars, coal, trees)

UK energy strategy is out. Heavy on targets, light on new money/policy.
1) 50GW offshore wind target by 2030, up on prev 30GW goal & 10GW today
2) £120m for new nuclear (Hinkley is £23bn so £120m is small)
3) 10GW hydrogen target by 2030, up on old 5GW goal
More on next tweet... UK energy strategy continued:
4) solar power: "looking to increase" it but no new money or support yet, consulting on plans
5) onshore wind power: no extra support or lifting of planning veto but consulting on community partnerships
6) New oil and gas licensing round in autumn

NEW: IPCC report on climate mitigation is out. How to stay under 1.5°C?
🌡️Global emissions peak by 2025 (v.hard)
⛏️Coal use drops 90% by 2050 (huge)
Happily...
☀️Cost of solar has fallen 85%
🔌Electric car roll-out up x100
🥩Diet shifts can make big cuts
newscientist.com/article/2314731 .@antonioguterres on the new IPCC climate report and the response to the war in Ukraine: "increasing fossil fuel production will only make matters worse. Choices made by countries now will make or break the commitment to 1.5°C."

@TimmermansEU lays out the the EU's new energy strategy, called 'Repower EU'. "It’s abundantly clear we are too dependent on Russia for our energy needs," he says. "The answer lies in renewable energy and diversification of supply" @TimmermansEU Key measures in EU energy strategy, Repower EU

- curb Russian gas imports by ramping up biomethane, renewable
hydrogen and LNG imports
- expand renewable electricity generation
- double heat pump installations

JUST IN: Global carbon emissions from energy rose 6% in 2021.

Up 2bn tonnes, biggest absolute increase in history and enough to offset the pandemic-driven decline in 2020, says @IEA.

So much for "build back better".

iea.org/reports/global… @IEA Coal was the big driver of the increase.

And with high gas prices and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, all the expectations are for more coal burning this year, especially in Europe.

NEW: IPCC climate report
🌎 Impacts already widespread, some irreversible
‍👩‍👦 3.3bn people in highly vulnerable areas
🌊Limits to adaptation increasingly clear
⚕️For 1st time in IPCC doc, mental health impacts are explicit
🌡️ 1.5°C makes big difference
newscientist.com/article/2309795 Yesterday the world’s governments signed off on the new IPCC climate report. Speaking about the invasion of Ukraine, the head of the Russian delegation reportedly told colleagues: “This is not the wish of all the Russian people and the Russian people were not asked.”