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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Join this fascinating webinar (starting in 45 min) presenting polling of business leaders across 15 major economies: Powering up: Business perspectives on shifting to renewable electricity 📅 22 April 2025 🕙 11:00 AM (SAST) 💬 Includes audience Q&A

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E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism @e3g.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

📢 Don’t miss next week’s webinar What do business execs across 15 countries think about the move to renewable electricity? 🗓️ 22 April | 10:00 BST 🔗 Register here: e3g-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @wemeanbusiness.bsky.social @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

In South Africa, local communities own equity through "community trusts" - so not direct payments, but community governance of expenditure. see inspire-excellence.net/about-us/ for more. Ireland also has a payment scheme, as does Aust

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About Us - Inspire

About Us The Initiative for Social Performance in Renewable Energy (INSPIRE) aims to advance the field of social performance in South Africa’s renewable energy sector, with the wider goal of becoming ...

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

thanks so much :D this is a big issue here in SA as we finalise our 2025 IRP, with much turning on cost assumptions for SMRs

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

please can you share the source? gracias!

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

interesting, what is the absolute reduction in TWh in coal/year? interesting to have real world comparators for countries such as South Africa

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

i enjoyed this but i take umbrage with the ahistorical starting point that says "traditional defenders of a rules-based world order such as the United States". The lawless-based order might be a better phrase to capture the behaviours of the "rules-based" order, see www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The choice before us: International law or a ‘rules-based international order’? | Leiden Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core

The choice before us: International law or a ‘rules-based international order’? - Volume 36 Issue 2

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

"Because the US can have Elon, but South Africa can have Green Daaaay" thanks @greendayofficial.bsky.social it's a more than fair trade - please stay! www.youtube.com/watch?v=56wC...

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Billie Joe Armstrong disses Elon Musk: "The US can have Elon, but South Africa can have Green Day"🔥

YouTube video by Green Day Italy

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 23/01/2025

No one can be left behind in the clean energy transition. Especially not an entire continent. Africa holds 60% of the world’s best solar resources and wants to increase renewables fivefold by 2030. But the continent gets less than 2% of global clean energy investments. This must change.

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-whi...

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

These toxic assets get spun out - eg into pure play coal companies as with Anglo's coal assets in South Africa. Result - locked in companies with their backs against the wall & a dependence on fossils. I'd prefer "responsible closure" by those firms with the means to do it properly, not divestment.

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

please do! or build on stephen's? bsky is heavily skewed to the US and Europe. i miss my old global south twitter

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

similarly, do communities in towns where steel manufacturing is a large employer agree that green hydrogen is not an important option for their sector? GH2 has domestic positives for heavy industry & jobs, but is expensive. Sometimes we need to take a bigger view than only local issues on transition

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I wonder if local communities and workers in areas that depend on automotive manufacturing would agree with this view? The reason automotives is in there is because it employs many people, and municipalities in the eastern cape are dependent on those jobs and activities too.

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I am currently visiting SEI Latin America to exchange on lessons from South Africa's JETP, just transition planning, and to explore south-south cooperation on energy, as part of @trajects.bsky.social global climate centre. Join us at UNAL on Thursday at 930am for a Colombia-South Africa discussion!

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

She's not on Bsky but Holle Wlokas (and organisation called Inspire), based in South Africa have worked extensively on community ownership structures for RE under South Africa's auction programme (lots of lessons on how not to do things...), also some work looking at lessons from mining trusts in SA

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

I must apologise to Australia - I arrived this week from South Africa and now you also have coal plants falling over and loadshedding. If it is any consolation (it isn't), South Africa has been at stage 6 loadshedding (6GW, up to 12 hours per day without power) in the last few days

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Please share widely - my team at the University of Cape Town is hiring for several roles working on the intersection of energy and climate change modelling and policy

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Energy Systems Research Group at the University of Cape Town @energyuct.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

The Energy Systems Research group is hiring! We have three posts for energy systems modellers and policy analysts. For more information on junior researcher roles: www.linkedin.com/posts/harro-... and on the senior role: www.linkedin.com/posts/harro-... Applications close 12 Jan 2024

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

pretty clear why they want all the attention on Al-Jaber

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

JOIN US if you like energy, economics, development and are full of cop FOMO! Tomorrow, 5pm, at the Nelson Mandela School of Governance and @energyuct.bsky.social.

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Rich fossil fuel exporters need to take the lead & show that fossil-free development is achievable. The numbers in this report are 🤯: exported emissions from Norway, Australia, Canada and the USA account for 11% of global emissions and projected extraction will chow 11% of remaining CO2 budget.

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

do you need someone to come and give some guest lectures or some such on energy transition in a developing country...?

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Local coverage of this year's Emission Gap Report highlights risks of too much fossil fuel invesment and issues of inequality in emissions between and within countries. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023...

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Greetings energy folks - I'm currently in Australia (various cities) for a few weeks and keen to meet and discuss energy with fellow nerds. Anything related to coal, just transition, and power system operations will make my heart beat faster. Let me know if you're around and keen to meet!

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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

There can be no *new* oil and gas drilling if we want a safe, habitable world. Yet, a tiny club of wealthy countries – 🇺🇸US, 🇨🇦Canada, 🇦🇺Australia, 🇳🇴Norway and 🇬🇧the UK – are responsible for *51% of all planned oil and gas field developments* from now to 2050. That's the real hypocrisy ahead of #COP28

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

UK going big on climate inaction and inequity this week incl approving new oil and gas (UK is 5th for historical cumulative FF emissions and 8th incl land use see www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-whi...). Compromising climate action and grist to the mill of vested interests in other countries

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Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change? - Carbon Brief

Carbon Brief looks at national responsibility for historical emissions of CO2 from 1850-2021, updating analysis published in 2019.

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

Definitely not. he occasionally lets slip on his quite lefty leanings and does a detailed thread on the economics of fashion. seems like a nice person who just really loves clothes-art

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

Hey EnergySky 🔌💡: workposting to say we've got a new OA journal (no fees for 2 years) launching on Tues. We're really hoping to be a great place to publish work focused on enacting sustainability and justice through the energy transition! Check us out: iopscience.iop.org/journal/2753-3751

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Environmental Research: Energy - IOPscience

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Great piece by Navros Dubash on careful use of remaining carbon budgets to support human welfare: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-…

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Jesse Burton @jesseburton.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

What are some of the critical energy-related elements of a just transition in Africa? Some initial thoughts, from trade, to RE finance, to benefit-sharing southsouthnorth.org/wp-content/uplo…

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