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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 52m
FACTCHECK: Claire Coutinho claims UK gas power only costs £55/MWh…

…but she is ignoring a few small details:

🤫 Gas prices always rise in winter
🤫 Gas plants cost money to build
🤫 CO2 causes economic damages

THREAD with receipts

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 1d
NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️

Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.

https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 1d
Kemi Badenoch has been saying a lot of stuff that isn't true recently.

We've taken a look through some of the things she and her Conservative colleagues have been saying as they pledge to “repeal” the Climate Change Act.

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Factcheck: What the Climate Change Act does – and does not – mean for the UK - Carbon Brief
The UK’s Climate Change Act is a landmark piece of legislation that guides the nation’s response to global warming and has proved highly influential around the world.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 6h
Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* #methane metric means for farming emissions

By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org
#climatecrisis
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Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief
A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.
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Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 1d
This is really good. Nothing about the CCA has obliged the Government to go down the centrally planning route the Conservatives now decry. Moreover, the Conservatives were in office for all but two of the first 17 years of the CCA. /1
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 1d
FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 1d
A brilliant piece on what the UK's Climate Change Act does, why it's inspired action around the world, and how the Tories were key to creating it - despite their current leader now wanting to destroy it

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 1d
FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 1d
FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 1d
NEW – Factcheck: What the Climate Change Act does – and does not – mean for the UK | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

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Cumulative number of countries with “climate change framework laws”, as defined by the Climate Change Laws of the World database. When countries have updated laws or introduced additional framework legislation, duplicates have been removed. Source: Climate Change Laws of the World.
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Natalie Jones @nataliejones.bsky.social · 8d
I'm writing today to share some (rare) good climate news!

New research released today by @energy.iisd.org @oilchange.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social shows that members of the Clean Energy Transition Partnership have cut their international public finance for fossil fuels by up to 78%.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 8d
Renewables are a masterclass in learning-by-doing. Each doubling of deployment cuts costs via experience curves: better manufacturing, finance & supply chains.

Result:

Solar now cheapest new power in many regions
Falling battery costs enable flexibility
Electrification gets more attractive
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 8d
NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power

We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before

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Daisy Dunne @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org · 12d
NEW:🌎Half of global emissions covered by 2035 climate pledges after UN summit in New York🌎

China, Russia, Turkey and 8 other nations announced new pledges at the UN climate summit

But two-thirds of countries are still to announce their new NDCs

Analysis⬇️

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 13d
Xi Jinping announced China's new climate targets personally, a positive gesture, but the targets brought little clarity on China’s future emission pathway. Targeting a 7-10% emission reduction by 2035 from an undefined "peak level" undersells China's current clean energy boom.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 13d
NEW: China's president Xi Jinping unexpectedly joins the UN climate summit, by video, to offer his nation's 2035 climate pledge

* Cut GHGs to 7-10% below peak by 2035, "striving to do better"
* Raise non-fossil share of energy to at least 30%
* Boost wind/solar to 3,600GW
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Wanyuan Song @wanyuansong.bsky.social · 13d
#China #ChinaNDC #Climatechange
🇨🇳 China's state news agency Xinhua published the highlights of Xi's new NDC commitment:
⭐ By 2035, China's economy-wide net greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by 7%-10% from their peak, with the goal of achieving even higher levels.
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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 14d
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
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Daisy Dunne @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org · 14d
Today's @carbonbrief.org Daily Briefing factchecks the false climate claims in Donald Trump's tirade to the UN

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 16d
China will announce plans this week to cut its carbon emissions 10-15% by 2035, sources tell the Economist

Expert think it may already have peaked emissions or be on the verge of doing so

However, a 30% cut by 2035 is needed to hit the world's 1.5C climate goal 👇
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Don’t fret over China’s new climate targets
The ambitions of its clean-tech industry matter more than any humdrum pledges
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 19d
Yet more embarrassment for the Times, which has printed a ludicrous – and almost certainly false – line about windfarms being “dismantled” near Trump’s Scottish golf course

But why pick up the phone, as I did, when you can print nudge-nudge rumours instead?

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · Aug 29
Few technologies have been met with such a barrage of misinformation as heat pumps have.

@carbonbrief.org just dropped a brand-new version of my heat pump myths factcheck. Have a look here 👇

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Factcheck: 18 misleading myths about heat pumps
Carbon Brief factchecks 18 of the most common and persistent myths about heat pumps
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Aug 28
NEW – Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power

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🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social Tom Pearson

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Molly Lempriere @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org · Aug 28
As the number of solar farms continues to grow, so have the misleading claims about them.

@carbonbrief.org has fact-checked some of the most common claims, from solar being unreliable to expensive, from it destroying farm land to not working during heat waves.

Check out the full fact-check here:
Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar
Carbon Brief factchecks 16 of the most common myths about solar power
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · Aug 28
Are you or your loved ones worried about solar farms?

Have you heard scary things about solar panels turning the countryside into an industrial hellscape?

Fear not! We at Carbon Brief have just published the definitive article debunking solar myths ⬇️

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Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar
Carbon Brief factchecks 16 of the most common myths about solar power
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Cecilia Keating @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org · Aug 22
🚨 We’ve just updated @carbonbrief.org's factcheck of Trump’s ‘critical’ climate report. 🚨

Huge thanks to all the dozens of climate scientists who have helped us pull together this rebuttal — including the authors of our brand new additions.

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Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · Aug 26
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️

x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia

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