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  1. Oil and Gas majors created the myth that "natural gas" is clean — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane gas decades earlier than previously reported.

    A CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution: climateintegrity.org/projects/

  2. Oil and Gas majors created the myth that "natural gas" is clean — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane gas decades earlier than previously reported.

    A CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution: climateintegrity.org/projects/

    #disinformation #climatePolicy #attribution #agnotology #influence #science #energy #oilAndGas #methane #climateChange

  3. Oil and Gas majors created the myth that "natural gas" is clean — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane gas decades earlier than previously reported.

    A CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution: climateintegrity.org/projects/

  4. Funny how that works...

    Bureaucracy is very bad for EU 🇪🇺 competitiveness when it's about restoration of nature, but more paperwork is totally fine when it's about free allocation of permits ("benchmark-based"), international credits ("high quality") and carbon removal ("strict safeguards")... 🤷

    All good as long as the ambition of EU #ClimatePolicy and stringency of the #ETS is scaled back.

    ec.europa.eu/commission/pressc

  5. Funny how that works...

    Bureaucracy is very bad for EU 🇪🇺 competitiveness when it's about restoration of nature, but more paperwork is totally fine when it's about free allocation of permits ("benchmark-based"), international credits ("high quality") and carbon removal ("strict safeguards")... 🤷

    All good as long as the ambition of EU #ClimatePolicy and stringency of the #ETS is scaled back.

    ec.europa.eu/commission/pressc

  6. EU ETS revenues for rail: a tool for decarbonization

    Photo: Deutsche Bahn AG / Dominic Dupont Ahead of the European Commission’s proposal—scheduled for July 17, 2026—on the…
    #Europe #EU #climatepolicy #Decarbonization #electrification #emissions #EUETS #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #railsector
    europesays.com/europe/95503/

  7. According to the ICJ, “States are subject to the duty to prevent significant harm either where no harm has yet been caused but the risk of future significant harm exists, or where some harm has already been caused and there exists a risk of further significant harm.”

    A new report strengthens the case that major industrialized countries knew that they could face legal obligations to reduce #climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions: ciel.org/reports/what-states-k

    #history #climateChange #climatePolicy

  8. According to the ICJ, “States are subject to the duty to prevent significant harm either where no harm has yet been caused but the risk of future significant harm exists, or where some harm has already been caused and there exists a risk of further significant harm.”

    A new report strengthens the case that major industrialized countries knew that they could face legal obligations to reduce #climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions: ciel.org/reports/what-states-k

    #history #climateChange #climatePolicy

  9. The economy can be reoriented to lower both emissions and costs, moving us away from fossil fuels while also using fewer critical minerals to furnish a green transition.

    "At the Climate and Community Institute, we’ve modelled the impact of a series of modular shifts that could be achieved through policies like reorienting transport towards good-quality, low-emission mass transit, better land-use and urban planning, smaller cars and batteries, plus properly enforced recycling for these technologies."

    Read Thea Riofrancos, Strategic Co-Director at the Climate and Community Institute, an advocate for lithium-based batteries: newleftreview.org/issues/ii159 🧵

    #mining #batteries #climatePolicy #electricity #extractivism #geopolitics #energy #energyTransition #politicalTheory #China

  10. The economy can be reoriented to lower both emissions and costs, moving us away from fossil fuels while also using fewer critical minerals to furnish a green transition.

    "At the Climate and Community Institute, we’ve modelled the impact of a series of modular shifts that could be achieved through policies like reorienting transport towards good-quality, low-emission mass transit, better land-use and urban planning, smaller cars and batteries, plus properly enforced recycling for these technologies."

    Read Thea Riofrancos, Strategic Co-Director at the Climate and Community Institute, an advocate for lithium-based batteries: newleftreview.org/issues/ii159 🧵

    #mining #batteries #climatePolicy #electricity #extractivism #geopolitics #energy #energyTransition #politicalTheory #China

  11. "In Western Australia, hard-rock mining is powered by diesel-run machinery, which creates a lot of localized and atmospheric pollution. In theory it could operate with battery power, but the mining industry is not yet decarbonized. The container ships that transport Australian lithium to China are powered by bunker fuel, a very polluting form of fossil energy, and processed in coal-powered refineries. That’s probably the most polluting, most carbon-intensive part of the lithium sector."

    Thea Riofrancos, Strategic Co-Director at the Climate and Community Institute, an advocate for lithium-based batteries: newleftreview.org/issues/ii159 🧵

    #mining #batteries #climatePolicy #lithium #greenTransition #greenCapitalism #environment #extractivism #energy #energyTransition #Australia

  12. "In Western Australia, hard-rock mining is powered by diesel-run machinery, which creates a lot of localized and atmospheric pollution. In theory it could operate with battery power, but the mining industry is not yet decarbonized. The container ships that transport Australian lithium to China are powered by bunker fuel, a very polluting form of fossil energy, and processed in coal-powered refineries. That’s probably the most polluting, most carbon-intensive part of the lithium sector."

    Thea Riofrancos, Strategic Co-Director at the Climate and Community Institute, an advocate for lithium-based batteries: newleftreview.org/issues/ii159 🧵

    #mining #batteries #climatePolicy #lithium #greenTransition #greenCapitalism #environment #extractivism #energy #energyTransition #Australia

  13. "In Western Australia, hard-rock mining is powered by diesel-run machinery, which creates a lot of localized and atmospheric pollution. In theory it could operate with battery power, but the mining industry is not yet decarbonized. The container ships that transport Australian lithium to China are powered by bunker fuel, a very polluting form of fossil energy, and processed in coal-powered refineries. That’s probably the most polluting, most carbon-intensive part of the lithium sector."

    Thea Riofrancos, Strategic Co-Director at the Climate and Community Institute, an advocate for lithium-based batteries: newleftreview.org/issues/ii159 🧵

    #mining #batteries #climatePolicy #lithium #greenTransition #greenCapitalism #environment #extractivism #energy #energyTransition #Australia

  14. "In Western Australia, hard-rock mining is powered by diesel-run machinery, which creates a lot of localized and atmospheric pollution. In theory it could operate with battery power, but the mining industry is not yet decarbonized. The container ships that transport Australian lithium to China are powered by bunker fuel, a very polluting form of fossil energy, and processed in coal-powered refineries. That’s probably the most polluting, most carbon-intensive part of the lithium sector."

    Thea Riofrancos, Strategic Co-Director at the Climate and Community Institute, an advocate for lithium-based batteries: newleftreview.org/issues/ii159 🧵

    #mining #batteries #climatePolicy #lithium #greenTransition #greenCapitalism #environment #extractivism #energy #energyTransition #Australia

  15. "In Western Australia, hard-rock mining is powered by diesel-run machinery, which creates a lot of localized and atmospheric pollution. In theory it could operate with battery power, but the mining industry is not yet decarbonized. The container ships that transport Australian lithium to China are powered by bunker fuel, a very polluting form of fossil energy, and processed in coal-powered refineries. That’s probably the most polluting, most carbon-intensive part of the lithium sector."

    Thea Riofrancos, Strategic Co-Director at the Climate and Community Institute, an advocate for lithium-based batteries: newleftreview.org/issues/ii159 🧵

  16. CBAM allarga le maglie: non solo acciaio, ma anche beni di consumo
    metallirari.com/cbam-allarga-m
    L’espansione del CBAM ai prodotti downstream, approvata in commissione ENVI ma non ancora dal Parlamento, minaccia di colpire milioni di consumatori e migliaia di PMI europee.
    #CBAM #EUROFER #ACEA #ETS #ClimatePolicy #EUPolicy #Siderurgia #PMI #CommoditiesNews #CarbonPricing #EuropeanParliament #TradePolicy

  17. Environmental justice group sues California over carbon market overhaul

    📰 Original title: Environmental justice group sues California over carbon market overhaul

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/environmental-

    #environment #environmentaljustice #carbonmarket #climatepolicy

  18. "The EU's done climate change the economist's way, pricing CO2 emissions & incentivising global adoption.
    "But it's outflanked by China's greentech mercantilism, developed mainly for non-environmental reasons, & Trump's accidental Iran war carbon price hike."

    archived from FT: archive.is/DXmqh

    #pricing #economics #solar #renewables #energy #markets #pollution #climatePolicy #energyTransition #economics #greenTransition #cleanTech #carbonPricing #carbon #CO2 #sarcasm

  19. "The EU's done climate change the economist's way, pricing CO2 emissions & incentivising global adoption.
    "But it's outflanked by China's greentech mercantilism, developed mainly for non-environmental reasons, & Trump's accidental Iran war carbon price hike."

    archived from FT: archive.is/DXmqh

    #pricing #economics #solar #renewables #energy #markets #pollution #climatePolicy #energyTransition #economics #greenTransition #cleanTech #carbonPricing #carbon #CO2 #sarcasm

  20. "When government, through its decisions, encourages or permits continued destruction of the natural environment, market participants are incentivized to behave accordingly."

    Peter Cooper (2021) heteconomist.com/markets-are-...

    #solar #renewables #energy #markets #pollution #climatePolicy #mining 🧵

  21. "When government, through its decisions, encourages or permits continued destruction of the natural environment, market participants are incentivized to behave accordingly."

    Peter Cooper (2021) heteconomist.com/markets-are-...

    #solar #renewables #energy #markets #pollution #climatePolicy #mining 🧵

  22. “A key factor in the rapid acceptance of #ecocide law is the definition itself, which resulted from a drafting program commissioned in 2021. The definition focuses on the level of harm, not on specific activities or sectors. Similar to how criminal law works, a murderer is defined by the outcome, not the method. The ecocide definition emphasizes the harm caused rather than forbidding particular activities. It does not prohibit industrial fishing or mineral mining; rather, it outlines a threshold of harm that should not be crossed. This approach encourages best practices without alienating any sector, which has been hugely helpful in facilitating constructive dialogue. So, while there are countries that are not ready to support ecocide, we have not encountered many that openly oppose it.”

    A conversation with Stop Ecocide International’s CEO Jojo Mehta: gjia.georgetown.edu/dialogues/

    #law #publicLaw #fossilFuels #climatePolicy #policy #StopEcocide

  23. “A key factor in the rapid acceptance of #ecocide law is the definition itself, which resulted from a drafting program commissioned in 2021. The definition focuses on the level of harm, not on specific activities or sectors. Similar to how criminal law works, a murderer is defined by the outcome, not the method. The ecocide definition emphasizes the harm caused rather than forbidding particular activities. It does not prohibit industrial fishing or mineral mining; rather, it outlines a threshold of harm that should not be crossed. This approach encourages best practices without alienating any sector, which has been hugely helpful in facilitating constructive dialogue. So, while there are countries that are not ready to support ecocide, we have not encountered many that openly oppose it.”

    A conversation with Stop Ecocide International’s CEO Jojo Mehta: gjia.georgetown.edu/dialogues/

    #law #publicLaw #fossilFuels #climatePolicy #policy #StopEcocide