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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · May 19

It is interesting to compare our nine energy priorities and five climate priorities to the current text from the UK government. It is promising to see most of the priorities we list either agreed or being taken forward. www.gov.uk/government/p...

UK-EU Summit - Common Understanding (HTML)

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · May 19

It was great fun to write this short piece with my colleague Michael Pollitt a few days ago in advance of the UK-EU summit. We tried to highlight areas of energy and climate policy where we thought there were the greatest opportunities for increased cooperation. www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · May 19

EU-UK reset is in the news - motivating me to share this great paper by David Reiner and Michael Pollitt from @cambridgeuni.bsky.social - neatly setting out the case for greater collaboration in UK-EU #energy and #carbon markets

#energysky #greensky

www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · Apr 3

How carbon capture became the latest victim of conservatives' climate culture war, from @emilypont.bsky.social with insights from @dmreiner.bsky.social ⬇️

The Politics of Carbon Capture Are Getting Weirder

The culture wars are threatening one of the few bipartisan areas of climate policy.

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · Apr 1

on.ft.com/42dDCse

“Boston’s transformation was made possible with more than $1.6bn in state government investment over 15 years […] While we might not be able to match investment at that scale, the UK must make a clear, sustained commitment…” — so the UK can’t afford $100m/yr?!

US competition can teach Cambridge a thing or two about growth

Fine words about the Oxford-Cambridge Arc must be translated into action

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · Jan 15

2) Deng et al, Co-deploying Biochar and Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage can improve cost-effectiveness and sustainability of China’s carbon neutrality in One Earth

authors.elsevier.com/c/1kOXZ_wvRV...

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · Jan 15

Two new articles have just come out in the past week and coincidentally both are led by wonderful collaborators at Tsinghua:

1) Bai et al, Assessing the Viability of Renewable Hydrogen, Ammonia, and Methanol in Decarbonizing Heavy-duty Trucks in Applied Energy

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Cambridge Judge Business School @jbs.cam.ac.uk · Jan 6

Turning methane into the world's strongest material: Professor David Reiner of #CambridgeJudge comments in this article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#methane #emissions #climate
@dmreiner.bsky.social

Methane makeover: how tech is transforming the greenhouse gas

Cambridge tech company is turning waste methane into

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · Jan 5

Only a German article would string together these two sentences: “At the same time, the share of coal in the electricity mix fell to 23 percent in 2024. One thing is certain: German nuclear power is not missed”. Nowhere is it acknowledged that if nuclear was retained, coal could be ramped down.

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · Jan 5

The article starts with a strawman claim that “everything is going wrong” and so pointing to frankly trivial achievements like record renewables is meant to refute that claim (commendable yes, but renewables are setting records year on year almost everywhere!)

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · Jan 5

A useful update but the tone reflects a steadfast denial of the history of German underachievement on grid decarbonisation relative to, say, the UK or Denmark, both of which had substantial coal share in generation a quarter century ago. See Brauer et al (2020)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · Dec 23

Actually, those figures indicate that international aviation still had not recovered by 2022 (and in any case will be one of the last sectors to decarbonise) But it is disturbing how the entire rail network is completely shut on the 25th and we then have rail replacement buses until well
Into 2025!

Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · Dec 23

As I am reminded again how the UK makes it almost impossible to rely on rail travel for Christmas family travel logistics, here are some charts from the most recent UK emissions data release spelling out why international air travel - including yours - is such a big problem for climate targets

Chart 4 is a stacked bar chart showing that:

total UK GHG emissions fell by 67.1 MtCO2e between 2019 and 2020, mainly due to a decrease in emissions from domestic and international aviation
domestic transport was the main contributor to increased GHG emissions in 2021, increasing by 10% from 2020
international transport was the main contributor to increased GHG emissions in 2022, primarily due to the 103% increase in international aviation emissions

Chart 6 is an area chart showing that:

in 2022, international aviation was responsible for 19% of the UK’s total GHG emissions from transport, and international shipping made up 4%
of the 16.3 MtCO2e rise in total UK transport emissions from 2021 to 2022, international aviation was responsible for 88%
increased international aviation emissions negated the small fall in domestic transport emissions prior to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Alice Hancock @alicemhancock.bsky.social · Dec 17

NEW: Sweden open to going ahead with the Hansa PowerBridge cable project if Germany reforms its electricity market, ⁦‪energy minister Ebba Busch‬⁩ tells @financialtimes.com

on.ft.com/3VHkSi8

Sweden open to power cable project if Germany reforms, minister says

[FREE TO READ] Swedish energy minister Ebba Busch prepared to move on Hansa PowerBridge project if Berlin overhauls electricity market

on.ft.com

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · Dec 11

The grad trainee programme at the FT is extraordinary. We train you for THREE years you get decent money and an overseas placement. I've seen other news trainee schemes and this one is exceptional.
It's open now. Pls share with anyone you know who would benefit d/l 14/1/25 www.ft.com/content/314f...

Paul McClean graduate trainee programme

Applications will open in December for our 2025 intake

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Dec 6

Bitcoin 100K — but still, after 15 years, no legitimate use cases www.ft.com/content/31b9...

UK uncovers vast crypto laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies

Multibillion-dollar ring across London, Moscow and Dubai connected cash-rich criminals with sanctions evaders

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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · Nov 28

In news conference discussing border sheriffs idea, Justice Minister Mickey Amery highlights the problem with guns and drugs coming north from U.S. — which isn't exaaaaactly what Trump was on about.

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · Nov 25

If dunkelflaute means ‘dark doldrums’ then yesterday’s Storm Bert felt like whatever the opposite of that is — maybe ‘bright exuberance’? (‘Hellesuberschwang’?! Pardon the mangled German!)

Dr Iain Staffell @iain-staffell.bsky.social · Nov 24

Fossil fuels are providing less than 10% of Britain's electricity right now... So long to Europe's dunkelflaute woes 🌬️

Screenshot from www.electricinsights.co.uk

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · Nov 23

A reminder that ‘winter fuel payments’ has nothing to do with energy policy it is simply ‘payments to retirees’ that they can spend on whatever they want. It is a shame that addressing the genuine problem of excess winter deaths and the dreadful UK housing stock is not actually being debated.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Nov 23

“I think the [winter fuel payment] means testing was too tight..to set it at pensioners who have annual income of less than £11,400 is too tight”

Martin Lewis says the winter fuel payment should have been extended to those pensioners with around “£20,000-25,000” annual income

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · Nov 21

When folks like @climatebrad.hillheat.com create climate moderation lists blocking veteran climate scholars like @thehonestbroker.bsky.social they are shrinking the climate tent just when it needs to be broadened. (an excerpt from this #sustainwhat chat: revkin.substack.com/p/exploring-...) 1/

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · Nov 20

Glad to see that Bluesky is not some sort of panacea and that there are still lots of bad takes to be found!

altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · Nov 19

I think the best thing we can hope for in another Trump Admin is a repeat of the first with a mismanaged pandemic that shuts down the world for a while. It's the only thing that keeps planet under the 2°C threshold. We're already above 1.5°C right now, although temporary, it's close to permanent.

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · Nov 16

Pleasure to contribute to this collection with an expert elicitation on DACCS and BECCS co-authored with my wonderful colleagues Manon Abegg, Lucrezia Nava and Zeynep Clulow. Lots of other excellent contributions that are worth digging into as well!

Miranda Boettcher @mirandaboe.bsky.social · Nov 15

Our e-book "CDR: Perspectives from the social sciences and humanities" is finally available: doi.org/10.3389/978-...
Thanks to Anders Hansson, Mathias Fridahl and @shinasayama.bsky.social for the collaboration, and to all our contributors for their submissions.

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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · Nov 15

Cool job alert. Stripe/Frontier is hiring in-house climate counsel.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Nov 11

Cambridge launches £50 million bid to attract the brightest & best - partly because of Brexit.

Decline in potential PhD students from Europe of particular concern as fees trebled for them post-Brexit, and "quite often the UK is not seen as an attractive place to do a PhD".

Cambridge spends £50m to attract the brightest minds in the world

The university is expected to fully fund around 30 PhDs each year for ten years

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · Nov 12

It is a part-time role, which can be combined with other pursuits and would suit anyone interested in working at the intersection of business and academia in energy, to support and build our extensive stakeholder relations. Please do pass along to anyone you think might be a good fit.

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David Reiner @dmreiner.bsky.social · Nov 12

This exciting new role will involve working closely with me and other wonderful colleagues at EPRG (soon to join Bluesky!), Cambridge Judge Business School, and the rest of the University of Cambridge. Please do get in touch with me directly if you want to have a quick chat about the position.

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