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Ploy Achakulwisut, PhD

@ploya.bsky.social
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Former science & mitigation lead in the UN Secretary-General's Climate Action Team | Former #ProductionGap report co-lead | 1.5°C • Fossil fuel phase-out • Just Energy Transition | Science • Advocacy • Policy • Diplomacy | #Grist50 | She/her | Views mine

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David Michaels @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Wrote this in 2023 with @susananenberg.bsky.social Reposting now, and likely will to have to repost it again and again.
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Smoke from Canadian wildfires shows outdoor workers need air quality protections
The smoke from Canadian fires illuminates the lack of government policies and programs to protect the public, especially outdoor workers.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 01/02/2026
Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth. (This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)
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Accounting for methane from natural gas infrastructure in United States greenhouse gas emission estimates
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that United States net greenhouse gas emissions have declined over the last two decades and are no…
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/11/2025
The idea *suppliers* of fossil fuels are neutral meeters-of-demand remains one of the worst lies Their job is not just digging up fossil fuels: their job is bullying, pushing, fighting, lying and lobbying to ensure fossil fuels get burned as much as possible www.rigzone.com/news/wire/ch...
China Gas Sector Lobbies for More Power Plants to Boost Demand
by Bloomberg|Bloomberg News | Tuesday, June 10, 2025 | 2:30 AM EST
China Gas Sector Lobbies for More Power Plants to Boost Demand
China's natural gas producers are lobbying Beijing to increase the number of power plants that run on the fuel, in a bid to help prop up faltering demand.
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China’s natural gas producers are lobbying Beijing to increase the number of power plants that run on the fuel, in a bid to help prop up faltering demand.

The power sector - which currently accounts for 18 percent of China’s gas consumption - is viewed by the industry as a key engine of growth, according to people involved in advising on energy policy. Under the sector’s latest proposal, China would build nearly 70 gigawatts of new gas-fired capacity by 2030, an almost 50 percent increase from 2025’s estimated level, they said, asking not to be named as the plan is not public.
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Ploy Achakulwisut, PhD @ploya.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Unpacking some of the science and nuances behind UN Secretary-General António Guterres' recent remarks on 1.5°C and #overshoot in the lead-up to and at #COP30... www.linkedin.com/pulse/notes-...
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Notes from the science-diplomacy field #3: Can we still “keep the 1.5°C goal within reach”?
Can we still keep the 1.5°C goal within reach? If so, how? And what are the implications for the Paris Agreement and the first global stocktake outcome? In this final instalment, I’d like to unpack so...
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 05/11/2025
UNEP’s latest #EmissionsGap Report shows global temperature rise has only slightly fallen, leaving the world on track for escalating climate risks. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges countries to step up now and cut planet-warming emissions: www.unep.org/resources/em...
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Ploy Achakulwisut, PhD @ploya.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
How can #COP30 build on the first global stocktake outcome to "transition away from fossil fuels..."? I explore why the Para 28d consensus language was, in fact, historic from scientific and equity perspectives — and what could come next, at COP30 and beyond... www.linkedin.com/pulse/notes-...
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Notes from the science-diplomacy field #2: How to interpret & implement the GST-1 Para 28d "Transition away from fossil fuels..."?
Back in 2023, I attended COP28 wearing two different hats. The first, as a scientist from SEI – Stockholm Environment Institute, to share some of the research I had been working on since 2019 that sup...
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Ploy Achakulwisut, PhD @ploya.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A must-read for anyone at #COP30 and beyond thinking about how to rescue 1.5°C and limit #overshoot!
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Climate Analytics @climateanalytics.org · 04/11/2025
Ten years on, the Paris Agreement is working—just not fast enough. Our new report tracks 22 ways it’s changing the world: uniting countries behind 1.5°C and net zero, and cutting projected 2100 warming by ~1°C (≈3.6°C → ≈2.7°C). climateanalytics.org/publications...
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What has the Paris Agreement done for us?
Ten years on, the Paris Agreement is working, but not nearly fast enough. Since 2015 it has become the essential organising framework for global climate action: uniting countries behind the 1.5°C temp...
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Neil Grant @neilgrant.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🚨🚨🚨 NEW REPORT ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 @climateanalytics.org has a new report out today that I’m really excited about. It’s all about 1.5ºC... ▶️ Is overshooting 1.5ºC inevitable? ▶️ Can we still get temperatures back below 1.5ºC? ▶️ If so, how? If you’re interested in our findings, buckle up for a mega thread...
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Climate Analytics @climateanalytics.org · 27/10/2025
What are the five things we need to do to rescue the goals of the Paris Agreement? @billhare.bsky.social explains.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 08/10/2025
NEW – Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org and @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/yPWMH59
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Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit - Carbon Brief
On the sidelines of a conference, Carbon Brief asked a range of experts what they consider to be the key “unknowns” around overshoot.
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Running in Fog @ontheprecipice.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"As an Indigenous man, I know very well the pain of the forest, because its body is an extension of ours." Why don't we all listen to those like Wajã Xipai who are still connected with this incredibly unique #Earth? Thank you @jonathan-watts.bsky.social #COP30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen?
A young journalist reflects on the UN leader’s responses, and hopes his messages – about human violence and an increasingly hostile planet – resonated before Cop30
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Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Indigenous voices ‘indispensable” to avoid climate catastrophe, UN secretary-general tells Sumaúma in world exclusive. António Guterres says humanity must change course because 1.5C overshoot is now “inevitable”. And with that comes “devastating consequences.” sumauma.com/en/secretari...
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SUMAÚMA - Jornalismo do Centro do Mundo
SUMAÚMA: Jornalismo do centro do mundo. Periodismo del Centro del mundo. Journalism from the centre of the world.
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Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres before Cop30 Story by me and Wajã Xipai. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
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Ploy Achakulwisut, PhD @ploya.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Which new #NDCs are "1.5°C-aligned" and which may simply be "1.5°C-washing"? Sharing some insights, lessons learned, and challenges encountered from questions I’ve had to grapple with while navigating the nexus of science and diplomacy between COPs 28–30... www.linkedin.com/pulse/notes-...
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Notes from the science-diplomacy field #1: Which new NDCs are "1.5°C-aligned"?
In this three-part series, I reflect on some of the biggest questions I encountered during my time working in the Climate Action Team of the United Nations Secretary-General to figure out how to lever...
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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.
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Center for Global Sustainability @ctrglobsust.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
As a major emerging economy, Indonesia's clean energy transition is key to keeping global climate goals alive. A new CGS report outlines how Indonesia can achieve 46-49% GHG reductions by 2035 through high-ambition, economy-wide actions: go.umd.edu/Indonesia2035Ambition
A solar farm next to a volcano surrounded by forest with a translucent white box over it reading, "Center for Global Sustainability's new analysis showcases how Indonesia can achieve: 46-49% GHG emissions reduction by 2035 and net-zero emissions by 2060."
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/10/2025
Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down www.ft.com/content/5ba8...

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	Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

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“Supply leads demand — you put the supply on the market and demand gets created.,” he said. “Over the long term we’re very bullish.”
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Ploy Achakulwisut, PhD @ploya.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The 2025 edition of the #ProductionGapReport by @sei.org et al. is out now! As Christiana Figueres eloquently put in the foreword: The clarity from the #ICJ Advisory Opinion that fossil fuel production and exploration could violate international law must translate into action as we head for #COP30.
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 22/09/2025
To make up for lost ground and steer the world toward a Paris Agreement-aligned track, we must rapidly and steeply wind down #FossilFuel production & use to the lowest levels possible.
Photo of smiling Christiana Figueres, founding partner of Global Optimism and former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC. A quote next to her photo reads, "Let this report be both a warning and a guide. What we need now is courage and solidarity to move forward at great speed with the just transition." At the bottom reads, "For more information, visit productiongap.org. Next to that are logos of the organizations that produced the report: Stockholm Environment Institute, International Institute for Sustainable Development and Climate Analytics.
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 22/09/2025
🚨 BREAKING: Governments plan to produce over 2x the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C, says the new #ProductionGap Report. Read the report here: productiongap.org 🧵 youtu.be/k7PkESU_1r4
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Production Gap Report 2025
The 2025 Production Gap Report assesses governments’ planned and projected production of coal, oil, and gas against global levels consistent with the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal. Watch our…
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 16/09/2025
📣 NEW: Former Irish President and member of @theelders.bsky.social Mary Robinson will join Monday's launch of the #ProductionGap Report. Register now to hear her remarks and learn how global #FossilFuel production plans steer us away from the 1.5°C warming limit. buff.ly/kXT0r4d #ClimateWeekNYC
Photo of oil refinery piping extending over a body of water. Overlaid blue graphic reading: "Production Gap Report 2025. Online launch event. Featuring special guest Mary Robinson. 22 September. 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. EDT on Zoom. Gain exclusive insights into the findings of the latest report detailing the discrepancy between governments' global fossil fuel production plans and the Paris Agreement. For more information, visit productiongap.org." Logos of the organizations that produced the Production Gap Report line the bottom of the graphic: Stockholm Environment Institute, International Institute for Sustainable Development and Climate Analytics. Photo credit: Steve Satushek / The Image Bank via Getty Images
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 11/09/2025
🗣️ JOIN US: The 2025 Production Gap Report launches 22 Sep! Register today to be among the first to learn the findings of this year’s report. 🕞 3:30 p.m. CEST / 2:30 p.m. GMT / 9:30 a.m. EDT 📅 22 Sep 🔗 buff.ly/d5timKP @climateanalytics.org @iisd.org #ProductionGap
Photo of oil refinery piping extending over a body of water. Overlaid text reads, "Production Gap Report 2025. Online launch event. Gain exclusive insights into the findings of the latest report detailing the discrepancy between governments' global fossil fuel production plans and the Paris Agreement. 22 September, 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. EDT, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. CEST on Zoom. For more information, visit productiongap.org." At the bottom are logos for Stockholm Environment Institute, IISD and Climate Analytics.
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Ploy Achakulwisut, PhD @ploya.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
💡 New resource from @e3g.bsky.social -- How are countries' new #NDCs reflecting the GST-1 energy transition outcomes? 23 countries target domestic fossil fuel consumption cuts... No country has provided a quantified target for winding down oil & gas production. www.e3g.org/publications...
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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 10/09/2025
A risk-averse approach is holding back investment in African renewables projects, which need to be well-structured and supported by blended finance and guarantees, energy funders say www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/10/t...
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 09/09/2025
NEW | China’s clean energy boom and rapid electrification are creating the conditions for a FOSSIL DECLINE at home and abroad⚡ Fossil use in end-use sectors plateaued in 2015--while electricity use grew 65%, becoming central to 🇨🇳’s energy system. loom.ly/psjqvhE
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 02/09/2025
🏭 "Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year", reports @theguardian.com. Former SEI scientist @ploya.bsky.social, co-authored a study finding that marginalized groups face the greatest exposure to oil and gas-related #AirPollution and its health impacts.
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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 27/08/2025
"The solar panels imported into Sierra Leone in the last 12 months, if installed, would generate electricity equivalent to 61% of the total reported 2023 electricity generation" #EnergySky ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
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The first evidence of a take-off in solar in Africa | Ember
There has been a major pick-up in solar panel imports into Africa over the last 12 months - a shift that is likely to impact almost every country on the continent.
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Liza Gross @lizagross.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
My latest @insideclimatenews.org piece looks at a new tool from PSE Healthy Energy that maps the health risks of the #climate super-pollutant #methane. “Natural gas is not just methane. It's actually closer to a chemical soup,” said PSE's Seth Shonkoff /1 insideclimatenews.org/news/2608202...
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New Tool Maps the Health Impacts of Toxic Air Pollutants Released with Methane in Super-Emitter Events - Inside Climate News
When oil and gas infrastructure leaks the potent greenhouse gas methane, it also releases toxic air contaminants that have escaped notice, until now.
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 25/08/2025
⛽ A new @ScienceAdvances study co-authored at SEI by @ploya.bsky.social details the ethnic & geographic impact of #AirPollution stemming from the US #OilAndGas industry. Here's what the team found 🧵
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Ploy Achakulwisut, PhD @ploya.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
🚨 OUT NOW! Our new @science.org study led by @kohrathefog.bsky.social is the first to comprehensively quantify the health impacts of and inequities in outdoor air pollution exposure across all stages of the US oil and gas lifecycle: extraction ➡️ transport/storage ➡️ refining/processing ➡️ end-use. 🧵
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
ICYM - ‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks - Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet #plastic Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks
Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet
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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Terrific new paper from @kohrathefog.bsky.social @ploya.bsky.social et al. Full oil & gas lifecycle air pollution impacts lead to: -- 90k premature deaths -- 10k pre-term births -- 200k+ childhood asthma incidences -- etc Reporting via @dharna.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study
Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
More than 400 people suspected to have died from extreme heat so far this summer in Phoenix, Arizona, and surrounding county - Temperatures have at least 110F (43C) nearly every day in August #climatecrisis Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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More than 400 people suspected to have died from extreme heat in Arizona county
August is on track to be hottest on record, with temperatures hitting at least 110F (43C) nearly every day
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Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Repeal of clean energy tax credits and rescission of carbon standards for power plants will increase the amount of fossil fuel price volatility that households see on their electricity bills. From @rff.org: www.resources.org/common-resou...
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If/Then: Unintended Effects of Recent Federal Actions on Electricity Prices
If the administration’s push to increase US dependence on fossil fuel–powered electricity generation is implemented as intended, then higher electricity rates and more uncertainty over future electric...
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 30/06/2025
New paper. I wish this wasn't the case, but most progress on reducing US greenhouse gas emissions is likely spurious. Why? EPA underestimates methane emissions from oil and gas. Relevant today as Repubs vote to gut IRA's methane monitoring/mitigation program. 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lL4K_6se4...
Two graphs from the paper. 

The left graph shows US net greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2022. The official EPA estimates decline fairly steadily from 6.6 gigatonnes per year in 2005 to 5.5 in 2022 (17% below 2005 levels), largely reflecting natural gas displacing coal for electricity generation. The adjusted estimates, which reflect independent measurements of methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure, end at 6.3 gigatonnes per year in 2022 (only 5% below 2005 levels).

The right graph shows 2022 emissions increasing linearly with the assumed global warming potential of methane. Climate scientists are divided on whether to use the 100-year GWP, 20-year GWP, or something in between. With methane warming impacts assessed via the 20-year GWP, the central 2022 emissions estimate is 7.9 gigatonnes per year - 20% *above* the EPA's official 2005 estimate.

Caption: Figure 1: Left: United States net greenhouse gas emissions over time. Right: Scaling of 2022 net emissions with methane’s GWP. After adjustment to reflect recent measurements of methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure, United States net emissions remain nearly as high as their 2005 level.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/07/2025
UN Secretary‑General António Guterres: "Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies – they are sabotaging them. Driving up costs. Undermining competitiveness. Locking-in stranded assets. And missing the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century."
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Secretary-General's remarks on Climate Action "A Moment of Opportunity: Supercharging the Clean Energy Age" [as delivered; scroll down for All-French] | United Nations Secretary-General
Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Friends joining us from around the world,   The headlines are dominated by a world in trouble.  By conflict and climate chaos. By rising human suffering. By growing...
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Ploy Achakulwisut, PhD @ploya.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
'In relation to the #ParisAgreement, the court affirmed the 1.5°C target to be the only relevant limit and recognized that the climate treaty establishes “stringent” mitigation obligations for states to protect the climate and other parts of the environment from anthropogenic GHG emissions.'
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Earth.Org @earthorg.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
ICJ Advisory Opinion: Climate Change Is an ‘Existential Threat of Planetary Proportions’, Says World’s Top Court
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Climate Change an 'Existential Threat', Says World's Top Court
“The consequences of climate change...underscore the urgent and existential threat posed by climate change,” said ICJ President Yuji Iwasawa .
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/07/2025
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social‬ writes.
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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Ploy Achakulwisut, PhD @ploya.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Working on climate change can make it hard to stay hopeful most of the time, but over the past few months, working on the UN Secretary-General's #MomentOfOpportunity speech and special report has given me more hope than I expected... 🧵 www.un.org/en/climatech...
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A Moment of Opportunity | United Nations
On 22 July 2025, the UN Secretary-General focused on a hopeful story emerging amidst the ongoing climate devastation and turmoil: that of a new energy era. He outlined a compelling and evidence-b...
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
27/ 🌡️With regard to the temperature threshold relevant for today's ruling, the Court affirms, building on science and COP decisions, that the 1.5c temperature target must be understood as the internationally agreed objective of climate policies!
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
10/ 🔥Judge Iwasawa Yuji quotes straight from the IPCC: "Warming of 1.5°C is not considered 'safe' for most nations, communities, ecosystems and sectors, and poses significant risks to natural and human systems." - this is a very strong basis for the Court's legal conclusions!
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo
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Sebastián Rodríguez @sebastianrodvar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Brazil’s environment minister told @mcivillini.bsky.social she has advocated for a roadmap to end fossil fuels to be agreed at COP30: “The worst possible thing would be for us to not plan for this transition.”
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Brazil's environment minister suggests roadmap to end fossil fuels at COP30
Brazil's environment minister Marina Silva suggests this year's COP30 climate summit could result in a roadmap to guide a "planned and just transition"
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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
World on brink of climate breakthrough as fossil fuels ‘run out of road’, UN chief says www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World on brink of climate breakthrough as fossil fuels ‘run out of road’, UN chief says
António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuels
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Ploy Achakulwisut, PhD @ploya.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Thanks to @mcivillini.bsky.social @climatechangenews.com for a terrific coverage of the UNSG's #MomentOfOpportunity climate address and our special report on supercharging the transition away from fossil fuels to renewables -- www.un.org/en/climatech...
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unsrclimatehrights.bsky.social @unsrclimatehrights.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
📣 Great to see all these points in the UN Secretary-General António Guterres' speech on #JustTransition in #Energy and beyond, on the eve of International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on State obligations on #ClimateChange 👉 #HumanRights Imperative to #Defossilize: shorturl.at/ZaHjM
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UN Human Rights Council omits fossil fuels after mention is removed
A proposal calling on countries to transition away from fossil fuels had to be dropped from the final UN Human Rights Council resolution
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Cat Abreu @cat-abreu.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I’m in New York for UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ special address on climate. He has a hopeful story amidst the chaos and loss of climate disaster. Stick with me to follow his speech, and check out the report his comments are based on! www.un.org/en/climatech...
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