Campaigns Director at independent climate think tank E3G. Climate campaigner, coalition builder, campaign strategist. Striving for a greener world.
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Ed Matthew retweeted
Amazing new paper shows how the 2022 jump in oil & gas prices delivered $916b extra to Big Oil - almost all captured by Big Oil's backers
Society as a whole received almost zero benefit and was, on average, impoverished: inequality worsened across the board
Ed Matthew retweeted
> Solar and wind take 10 years to get to 5% deployment, 10 more years to get to 25%, and then 10 years to reach 50%
> EVs take 6 years to get to 5% of sales and 6 more years to reach 50%
The cleantech revolution is unstoppable
rmi.org/insight/inside-the-r… #climate
Ed Matthew retweeted
Who leads the global electrification race?
China has electrified more than 25% of its final energy use and overtaken the US and Europe.
Source is rmi.org/insight/inside-the-r…
Ed Matthew retweeted
I’m very aware people think the threat of climate change is hysterical and overblown. But then there’s this. This is fact. A graph from the University of Reading. Does this look okay to you?
Ed Matthew retweeted
🧵As the Government unveils plans to boost clean power, worth noting how much public sentiment has shifted to seeing clean energy not just as good, but as a no-brainer. All voter groups (inc Reform) are more likely to think renewables will cut cost of living than raise it
Ed Matthew retweeted
An area of land a third larger than India has turned from humid conditions to dryland, where agriculture is difficult, in the past three decades - report
#COP16Riyadh
Story by @fionaharvey
theguardian.com/environment/…
Ed Matthew retweeted
A step change:
The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that in 2030, variable renewables account for 2/3 of global renewable electricity generation, rising from less than 45% today.
Solar becomes the number one source of renewable electricity generation.
Ed Matthew retweeted
This NASA visualization shows the CO2 emitted into the earth's atmosphere + clarifies who is responsible for the climate crisis: we, the Global North.
There is not time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables
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Death rate from air pollution per 100,000 people, change from 1990:
> India up 70%
> China down 68%
Come on India, you can do this:
>Faster renewables
>Cut dirty coal
>Scrubbers on smokestacks
>Stricter emissions standards
>Electrify everything
>Enforce environmental regs
Just arrived back in Delhi to find the city embalmed in an all-enveloping burial shroud of pollution. Even at 2pm impossible to see 100m across the runway.
I've never seen anything like this in forty years of living here. What a fate for the City of Djinns- still, at its best the most fascinating of cities, but currently a tragic, choking death-trap.
Ed Matthew retweeted
🙌 President Prabowo has pledged that #Indonesia - one of the world's largest consumers and producers of coal - will retire all coal and fossil-fuel-fired power plants within the next 15 years.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Ed Matthew retweeted
🔴 NEW 🔴
British Gas has been given under the radar access to the COP29 climate summit.
Bizarrely, its CEO and head of public affairs are registered as representatives of a small African NGO.
📝 My @DeSmog scoop from Baku
desmog.com/2024/11/16/britis…
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NEED SOME GOOD NEWS?
The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.
Graph from @NatBullard graphic using @ember_energy data.
Ed Matthew retweeted
I keep hearing that heat pumps are a niche technology and will never take off.
Look at the market share of heat pumps in different European countries - in 8 countries most new heating systems installed are now heat pumps.
Ed Matthew retweeted
The massive growth of renewables means they're on course to meet around half of global electricity demand by the end of this decade ⚡️
By 2030, the share of solar PV & wind alone in the global power mix is set to double to 30%
More ➡️ iea.li/40DRht9
Ed Matthew retweeted
To be clear: the US election result is a blow in the fight against the climate crisis. The window to limit warming to 1.5°C is closing—these next 4 years are critical. But let’s not despair. The Paris Agreement has proven resilient, stronger than any one country’s policies (1/10)
Ed Matthew retweeted
What does a Trump win mean for COP29?
The incoming climate denier will loom large. But before panic sets in, we should examine the lessons from history.
The task at hand is for the rest of the world to show the value of multilateral climate cooperation.
medium.com/@alex_scott_clima…
Ed Matthew retweeted
Our MRP found there was not a single constituency in Britain where concern about climate change falls below 50% of the electorate. Voters across the political spectrum expected politicians to take action to tackle it.
Ed Miliband painted a bleak picture of climate change impacts at this morning's cabinet.
"Climate change is a threat to national security & growth, given [it] could force more than 200m people globally to migrate, the global economy could be 19% smaller in 2049 than it would be otherwise & it could put an additional 600,000 people in UK at risk of flooding."
Very clear dividing line with Tories given Kemi Badenoch has suggested she wants to delay/ scrap UK's net zero targets.
