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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦

@pjpartington.bsky.social
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Millennial climate wonk & policy cat-herder. Innovation for net zero. *Aspiring LinkedIn DJ* I'm not like the other bureaucrats. I'm a COOL bureaucrat.

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yessssss
A picture of a very handsome copy of The Carbon Wave by Leah Stokes on a wooden tabletop. Is wood grain also a “carbon wave” of sorts? Discuss
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Toronto friends, an invitation…
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Alexis Rose in Schitt's Creek
Alt: Alexis Rose in Schitt's Creek
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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How lovely is this? Arundhati Roy on John Berger
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Day started w/ UNEP’s latest gem (neatly summarized by @eroston.bsky.social here), ended w/ multiple emergency alerts due to severe thunderstorm, detouring around flooded highways in Canada’s largest city to pick up kids from in-law’s, where there was a tornado. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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UN Warns Global Warming Will Exceed 1.5C and Must Be Reversed
A new UN report calls for countries to drive temperatures back down through rapid emissions cuts and capturing carbon from the air.
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ugh, what a ridiculous headline from CBC. What kind of doomer fanfiction is this?? "Climate change past the point of no return?" "Worst impacts are now unavoidable?" Not at all the message @joerirogelj.bsky.social and others painstakingly tried to get across in the report (nor in the AP copy)
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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A new UN report starts the societal conversation on the implications of a new reality: a world in which 1.5°C of global warming will soon be reached. 👇
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's publication day for The Carbon Wave! Thank you to everyone who has already bought a copy. Until Friday you can buy signed copies at Brookline Booksmith: brooklinebooksmith.com/book/9780262... Book tour: thecarbonwave.com/tour Book club: electricnotes.news/p/climate-bo...
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
When will China's oil demand peak? Chinese government: Before 2030 Sinopec: By 2027 Reality: it may have happened last year! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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China’s Oil Demand ‘Very Likely’ Peaked Last Year, Sinopec Says
China’s oil demand probably peaked last year, earlier than previous estimates, according to the head of the nation’s top refiner.
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Canadian Climate Institute @climateinstitute.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We're hiring a Lead, Government and External Relations (Ottawa area) to manage federal and Ontario outreach and lead engagement for our Clean Growth and 440 Megatonnes research streams. Learn more and apply by Aug 30 🔽 canadianclimateinstitute.bamboohr.c…
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Recent discourse has reminded me that @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social wrote one of the absolute greatest intros imaginable. I simply can’t fathom *anyone* reading this and not rolling up their sleeves to mainline her Iliad… If you haven’t already, go buy her books and see what you’re missing!
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Amazing to see @lrb.co.uk has truly broken containment and is now being covered in the Québec papers 🤩
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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thing about working with famous epics is that they're famous epics for a reason. Tons of people have had opinions about them for millennia. If you're going to work with one, you know your version is going to piss some people off. Even a *sedate* famous epic inflames some of its audience.
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Duties are multifarious and not glamorous" should be more widely adopted in job descriptions 😂
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Annie Murphy as Alexis Rose: Oh My God, David!
Alt: Annie Murphy as Alexis Rose: Oh My God, David!
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A colleague just returned from a workshop abroad with oodles of supersmart academics and titans of the field and it has come to my attention that you were all *DELIGHTFUL.* Thanks for being amazing, folks! ❤️
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Renewables are unstoppable. BNEF's New Energy Outlook for this year says solar is set to be the biggest source of electricity in 2032 and wind will be second biggest in 2034. Both coal and gas displaced from those thrones. This is the business-as-usual scenario. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
@volts.wtf may be glad to hear that in the pre-dawn blear of a Toronto YMCA locker room this morning, two boomers were discussing... Volts. It's everywhere!
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Applying early for @aleach.ca's next chartapalooza with this duo on the theme of "Canadian climate policy is hard, but it can actually do stuff" 1) Coal phase-outs:
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Dale Beugin @dalebeugin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Come work with me (and my great colleagues) @climateinstitute.bsky.social! canadianclimateinstitute.bamboohr.com/careers/47?s...
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Research Lead, Clean Growth | Chargé-e de recherche, Croissance propre
(la version française suit) Posting Date: April 24, 2026 Closing Date: May 18, 2026 Salary Range: $95,000–$115,000 depending on qualifications and experience. The upper end of the salary range is res...
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Adding to the Annals of Things Wasted on Youth: the lovely tabla parts of Get Ur Freak On
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Whorls gone wild
Portions of an exposed tree trunk with tight and psychedelically flowing whorls in the grain, like nature’s slow lava lamp
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 31/03/2026
On International #TransDayOfVisbility, we stand with trans people worldwide facing escalating attacks on their rights, safety and dignity. Human rights are universal, and governments must protect trans communities from discrimination and violence, and ensure everyone can live freely and safely.
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I can't help but think that @vassb.bsky.social would find this profoundly amusing: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b9363f1...
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How tech billionaires are alienating neighbours in Toronto’s idyllic Wychwood Park
For more than a century, the Toronto enclave has managed its own affairs discreetly. But as corporate types move in, the neighbourhood is now confronting its tensions
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Hey @aaronwherry.bsky.social I know that duels with weapons are frowned upon, but do the rules of parliamentary procedure say anything about singing and/or math battles? www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentView...
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Debates (Hansard) No. 100 - March 26, 2026 (45-1) - House of Commons of Canada
Debates (Hansard) No. 100 - March 26, 2026 (45-1) - House of Commons of Canada
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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
New: Around the world people are turning to low-carbon EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps as the Iran war upends oil and gas markets. Bloomberg journalists, including yours truly, filed dispatches from San Francisco to Lagos for this story. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Iran War Is Pushing Consumers to Break Up With Fossil Fuels
EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps, now cheaper than ever, are becoming more attractive as the conflict upends oil and gas markets.
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Toronto folks! Tonight we're convening the latest edition of our East End Energy Beers. Come wonk out with some of Canada's sharpest climate/energy dorks from government to banking to ENGOs to academia. 7pm on at The Dylan, near Greenwood station
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Everytime a fresh LRB arrives the *very first thing* I check is if there’s any sweet sweet Balle content. Now it’s finally here, but it includes Book IV, which doesn’t come out in Canada till mid-April 😭 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Joanna Biggs · Bleeding in the Dishes: Solvej Balle’s Time Loop
Solvej Balle’s serial novel takes the idea of repetition and uses it to make these ancient, impossible problems of...
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Since I can just *sense* you're all hankering for weird-but-true Canadian ZEV sales statistics facts, consider this: In November 2025, Ontario and Alberta both had the same meagre 5.35% share of electric vehicle sales (either BEV or PHEV). For the the same month: -Canada: 10% -BC: 20% -QC: 17%
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Excited to share some fun policy progress from Canada on permanent CDR. Yesterday, we launched a government procurement process for high-integrity credits from a range of approaches. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first national government to do so. canadabuys.canada.ca/en/tender-op...
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RFSO - 24062-250403 - Acquisition of Credits From Carbon Dioxide Removal Projects. - Tender Notice | CanadaBuys
AMENDMENT TO CLOSING TIME: Please disregard the Ariba Discovery posting response deadline closing time and Buyandsell posting closing time. All offers must be submitted on May 11, 2026 by 2PM EDT. All...
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🙈 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Alberta Carbon Market Rally Fades as April 1 Deadline Nears
A rally in the price of Alberta’s carbon credits after the province promised to raise the industrial carbon tax and shore up its carbon trading system has faded.
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I’m very upset that I didn’t invent this genius website, but I am so glad that *someone* did. The absolute best way to waste your time and celebrate idle humanity 🤣
An oz-like AI that’s really just randos generated a picture of two fun snails in love
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 24/02/2026
an important anniversary this year: colm tóibín's 2009 novel *brooklyn* is exactly as old as avril lavigne was, when she recorded and released her debut album "let go", featuring "sk8er boi", "complicated", and "i'm with you". congratulations to both
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Almost sold out! 🎟️ Join us March 9 at @utoronto.ca for an International Women’s Day conversation on your career in climate with me and @katharinehayhoe.com! Register while you still can: lci.utoronto.ca/event/intern...
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International Women’s Day Event: “Your Career in Climate” with Catherine McKenna and Katharine Hayhoe
To mark International Women’s Day 2026, the Lawson Climate Institute at University of Toronto, together with the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the School of the Environment…
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“When life makes no sense I find that at least books do” First page into my Dublin Review and they’ve already got me (Liz Macbride, ‘Universal topics’)
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Netherlands and China are on the way to being the next Norway, where internal combustion engine auto sales are nearly dead. BEVs were 65% of Dutch auto sales in December and 41% for 2025. In China, internal combustion autos market share falls to ~40%. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/ #energysky
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The sacred patterns
The sweet sweet corduroy of groomed snow in morning sunshine
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Good morning from your local urban owl, surveying their frigid marshmallow kingdom at -20C
Cute lil brown and white owl in a hole in a treeSnowy ravine with location of owl hangout circled, high up in a tree
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
It me. Excited to rip some great Quebec hills in March! ⛷️https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/canadian-skiers-skip-us-mountain-resorts-this-season-thanks-to-trump?srnd=homepage-canada
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Canadians Are Boycotting US Ski Slopes
Travelers from Canada, long the biggest source of international visitors to the US, have pushed back against the president’s imperialist rhetoric. Winter resorts are feeling the chill.
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Montreal bagel fresh from oven, feat. cream cheese, lox. If six ingredients are required can add red onion, capers, salt, pepper. 🥯
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Of all the things in the world to be a crusty performative joyless scold about, perhaps George could at least pick on a grownup's toy and not something that encourages kids to be outside and playing together in winter (including kids who might have trouble making snowballs on their own).
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🥁 India Is Electrifying Faster Than China 🥁 Read our story on @ember-energy.org's analysis. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Happy New Karl Ove Knausgaard Day to my North American comrades 🫡📚
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Confirmed that US is withdrawing from: -UNFCCC -IPCC -Int’l Renewable Energy Agency -Int’l Union for Conservation of Nature -UN Oceans and many more
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Trump appears to have withdrawn the US from the UNFCCC, the foundational treaty for global cooperation on climate change (free to read) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Withdraws US From 31 Bodies in UN, Already in Fiscal Peril
President Donald Trump has ordered the US government to pull out of 66 international organizations that the White House said “no longer serve American interests.”
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
My birthday wish for you all is that you find coworkers so lovely and so alive to what a frickin nerd you are that *11 years later* they bring you custom graphs for your birthday 😍🎉
A graph showing a statistically significant relationship between the price index of booze and my inexorable ageing
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Incentives matter! Québec saw a surge in EV sales as its incentive program was running out of budget, reaching an incredible 44% of new car and truck registrations in December 2024. After the incentives were paused, sales share cratered to 8% by Feb, recovering when they were reintroduced in April.
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Mon ravin, c’est l’hiver
A snowy morning ravine with early sunlight kissing the treetops
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
🚨It's time for another East End Energy Evening🚨 TONIGHT!!! We'll be in the back room of The Dylan from 8pm onwards. Hope to see you there!
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a woman in a black coat says " if that 's not cause for alcohol "
ALT: a woman in a black coat says " if that 's not cause for alcohol "
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A great example of Canada’s climate innovation ecosystem in action! Homegrown tech, early support from SDTC (may it rest in peace), federal and provincial support to demonstrate, growth capital from Canada Growth Fund to scale 🍁💪🍁
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