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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 10h

This would be an interesting move ahead of energy bills climbing to £2,000 a year. The Warm Homes Plan (and CCS and hydrogen) are also meant to be political cover for Burnham's 'pragmatic' approach to more North Sea drilling.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 10h

Electric cars just had their best month ever in the UK Nearly 100,000 new BEVs sold, +36% year-on-year (Data from SMMT, which continues to lobby for weaker EV targets)

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026

Not sure we've come to terms with what this chart means for people's lives, politics, borrowing costs, cost of capital, etc, etc Lots of big European elections coming up next year…

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 28/09/2026

EVs are now up to 9x cheaper to drive than diesels in UK www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026

NEW – Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK ✍️ Written by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/VpxOLE5

EVs are now up to nine times cheaper per mile than diesel cars. Pence per mile. A chart shows diesel highest at around 21p, petrol at 20p, EV at price cap at 7p, and EV off peak lowest at under 2.5p. Source: Carbon Brief analysis, DESNZ, Ofgem, Zapmap. - (alt text generated by Google Gemini)

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026

"We are in a state of perpetual gas price spikes", says Ana Musat, exec director for policy at RenewableUK Says energy bills have been hit by 9x gas price spikes in a decade and that renewables have saved UK £100bn since 2021

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026

A lot of medium-term growth in gas demand, particularly from Asia, is "now in some question", says Bill Farren-Price, senior research fellow at the Oxford Inst for Energy Studies While intl climate diplomacy has "fractured", the "economics of the energy transition are…going to win out"

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026

Dhara Vyas, Energy UK CEO, says high electricity costs for businesses are "stifling growth" in the economy Calls for upcoming budget to take policy costs off bills For households, says successive govts have failed on using data to better target public support for bills

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 21/09/2026

This year's El Niño event is moving into record territory, with the daily Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) tying the record previously set during the 2015/2016 super-El Niño. My latest over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 21/09/2026

The long view of North sea licenses: A short story with some fascinating historical details 🧵 How often are we told that new licenses can guarantee UK energy security, amid another energy crisis? But hang on: licenses for the much-discussed Jackdaw gas field were issued as long ago as 1970 (pic)

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/09/2026

When we stop talking about climate change like it’s a political issue and start talking about it as a shared challenge that we all need to work together to solve, that’s when we’ll finally be able to start talking about saving ourselves. That is our conclusion here!

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 18/09/2026

We are thrilled that Carbon Brief’s @leohickman.carbonbrief.org and @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org have won the Covering Climate Now journalism award in the international relations category. We are grateful to @coveringclimatenow.org for recognising the importance of our journalism with this award.

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Doubts grow about China's gas demand, as experience from one province shows. *Gas plants are increasingly being used to balance intermittent renewables output instead of delivering baseload power." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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China’s Gas Demand Outlook Clouded by Guangdong’s Power Shift

Electricity market reforms in one of China’s economic powerhouses could herald a more sweeping slowdown in the country’s demand for natural gas.

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW: How did the summer heatwaves and wildfires change attitudes to climate and Net Zero, if at all? A short thread on analysis of tracker polling now summer is winding down. 🧵 (for @persuasionuk.bsky.social with @yougov.co.uk)

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 16/09/2026

NEW ANALYSIS: Global fossil-fuel emissions are set to fall by around 0.5% in 2026 amid the ongoing Hormuz crisis We've all see the scare stories about a "return to coal" – but the "demand destruction" for oil is even bigger Here's how it stacks up: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...

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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I find this stuff remarkable. This is in response to a story about record numbers of ambulance callouts for "life-threatening" emergencies during the June heatwave. Real, tangible evidence that extreme heat is contributing to people dying or nearly dying in the UK. But it's still a "scare story"

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So according to the headline 4 days of high thirties C weather is an extreme heatwave. Goodness knows how the citizens of the UAE manage to not only survive but proper in much hotter weather. Climate change scare stories are really tedious and best left to the BBC and Met Office

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 16/09/2026

ELECTRIFICATION: Really striking chart showing that three-quarters of final energy demand can now be electrified "economically" (ie at lower lifetime cost) – and 90% electrification is technically possible From the latest @ember-energy.org slidedeck by @kingsmillbond.bsky.social and colleagues

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 16/09/2026

NEW – CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ | By @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/SBtfvG3

Aviation is on track to reach 80% of UK CO2 emissions by 2050 with Heathrow expansion, says CCC. Residual CO2 emissions in 2050 under the CCC balanced net-zero pathway, with the impact of a proposed Heathrow expansion, MtCO2. Horizontal bar chart showing aviation far exceeding all other sectors. Source: Climate Change Committee - (alt text generated by Google Gemini)

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Good day to recirculate our paper on how to respond to the 2026 energy crisis, which we published nearly 6 months ago… www.nesta.org.uk/report/how-t...

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How to respond to the energy crisis

How the government can respond to an energy crisis by reducing reliance on oil and gas

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Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is absolutely brutal and highlights why the PM has already trailed an effort to lower bills for the worst off by £200. You will note that this is less than the half the projected increase. I can't see this holding.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 14/09/2026

REMINDER: Trump has overseen a larger fall in coal-fired power than any other US president (ie, other things equal, the EPA repealing power-plant CO2 rules means more coal power,…but other things are not equal, because most coal plants are old and expensive) www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-tru...

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Can cheap power make poor countries competitive in data centres? Not really, says the World Bank. Most of the cost is hardware rather than energy so small differences in financing costs and regulation erase any advantage from cheaper energy. documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 11/09/2026

Parts of the country are “burning more than they’ve ever burned”, says Dr Guido van der Werf

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 11/09/2026

NEW: Indonesia's fire emissions in 2026 are on track to match the record for this century, as El Niño builds By my CB colleague @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/el-nino-indo...

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 11/09/2026

MEGA FACTCHECK: Reform UK's Farage & Tice constantly mislead on climate & energy We've checked 45 of their claims, inc… * Yes we really have made it hotter * No UK is not acting alone * No we can't change geology * Yes underground cables really are more costly www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-re...

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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW INVESTIGATION – this summer saw temperature records smashed around the UK. We asked NHS trusts in England and Wales how many operations they were forced to cancel due to overheating surgical theatres They provided details of 1,110 operations that were called off in the May and June heatwaves

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 10/09/2026

NEW – UK aviation emissions to be 50% higher than thought by 2050, government admits ✍️ Written by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 💬 With comments from @theaef.bsky.social @loispennington.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/61e2uoH

The UK government says UK flight emissions are set to be at least 50% higher than previously thought by 2050. Projected emissions in the UK's new scenarios (dark blue and grey), compared to the jet-zero strategy 'high ambition' scenario (light blue), MtCO2e. By 2050, new technology scenario reaches 28 MtCO2e compared to 19 MtCO2e in jet-zero. Source: UK Department for Transport. - (alt text generated by Google Gemini)

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The number of reports that state “it was not immediately clear how” rather than “it was clearly a desperate, bullshitter’s bribe attempt”. 🙄

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Some thoughts on how the government and the wider political and media ecosystem continue to ignore the animating and unifying vision for the country that climate action could so easily provide. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 08/09/2026

NEW – Q&A: What can – and cannot – be said about global warming’s role in the 2026 Himalayan floods | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/XeMOzXR

An aerial view of Devighat Bazaar in Nuwakot, Nepal, following the floods of 26 August 2026. Credit: ZUMA Press / Alamy Stock Photo

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 08/09/2026

Re Jaguar Land Rover job cuts, this is quite the chart from @bennelmes.bsky.social at @newautomotive.org Look at the data and ask yourself, is this a company damaged by UK EV targets, or by a failure to make competitive EVs for the Chinese market, where nearly 2/3 of sales are electric

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 04/09/2026

It's rare to see a mainstream news broadcaster explicitly referencing loss-and-damage finance, climate justice and big-emitter responsibility in its reporting. So this moment on the BBC's News at Ten really caught my attention. Report by @azadehmoshiri.bsky.social in Nepal

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis, with EVs and public transport among the key factors. Oil consumption fell by 9% overall and by 16% for transport. 🧵

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 19/08/2026

Relying more on gas power will save money, as long as gas is cheap – and stays cheap in the future. About that… (Annotated chart from Johnny Gowdy at Regen)

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Tom Haddon @tomh-analyst.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

And wait until the next price cap to really hear how cheap gas is. As an aside, front month gas closed at a post-Iran high yesterday, pretty much double the price of the same contract two years ago, which would be 50% higher than the same contract three years previous of that. So cheap guys.

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Tom Edwards @notionalgrid.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

They have 45GW of gas and 20GW of nuclear in 2050, hard to see how it could be cheaper given how much turbines cost nowadays. Most of their wholesale price saving just comes from removing UK ETS from generators, so not really realistic at all.

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Tom Edwards @notionalgrid.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Madness, you can't just take away the UK ETS and expect things to remain stable, What happens to interconnector trading? What happens with CBAM? Wouldn't the existing CfDs just absorb the saving?

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 19/08/2026

On the day that UK inflation spikes due to what the ONS calls the "largest rise in gas prices in four years", the Conservatives are claiming – and getting acres of credulous media coverage – that we can cut electricity bills by relying more on gas. Righto.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Tories have a new ‘serious’ plan for tackling climate change out tomorrow. Its unofficial code name is ‘wouldn’t it be great if nuclear and gas were cheap and there were no risks to decarbonising slower’. www.businessgreen.com/news/4534520...

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'Electrification is a far bigger prize': Tories spark fresh row over net zero cost claims

Conservatives argue ditching 'net zero dogma' and prioritising 'cheap power' could save UK £320bn over 20 years and still drive down emissions, but critics question feasibility of plan centred on new ...

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 18/08/2026

Reform UK's Richard Tice: "When it’s a bit warm, let’s enjoy it…rather than just be doom and gloom about it." Met Office: More than 2,700 heat deaths NHS: More 999 calls than Covid Farmers: "Brutal harvest…one of the worst ever" Your own eyes: "Inferno…fires engulf…homes"

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

British people should “enjoy” multiple heatwaves and shrug off warnings of dangerous climate change while enjoying more English fizzy wine, the deputy leader of Reform UK has said. www.ft.com/content/49ea...

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Reform UK’s deputy leader tells Britons to ‘enjoy’ heat amid record drought

Richard Tice’s call for people to ‘celebrate’ hotter weather comes as farmers warn of one of the worst harvests on record

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