Greece's new plan tackles water scarcity with innovation and sustainability. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate #Sustainability #ClimateAdaptation #NatureBasedSolutions #GreenTransition #ClimateResilient
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/07/24/greek-pm-unveils-national-plan-to-combat-worsening-water-scarcity-and-climate-driven-droug
Austria's sustainable EV battery case made with cork and wood outperforms Tesla in fire test. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate #ElectricVehicles #CleanTech #Sustainability #ClimateTech #GreenTransition
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/wood-ev-battery-case-beats-tesla
Apple partners with MP Materials to recycle rare earth magnets in the US, boosting production and strengthening the domestic supply chain. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate #RecycledMetals #CircularEconomy #CleanTech #ClimateTech #GreenTransition
https://www.theverge.com/news/707249/apple-rare-earth-magnet-mp-materials-recycling
https://www.europesays.com/2244433/ Parties sign for the development of an ammonia terminal in Japan #ammonia #GreenTransition #japan #terminals
@BicycleBen I hope everyone with any kind of voice, including me, who can at least write a coherent sentence, raises that voice to support Milliband strongly now. This idea seems at last like a pivot we can rally around. In my spare time this week I'll be asking whoever I can think of to get behind Milliband with this.
#DegrowthOslo25 morning plenary on livestream: https://isee-degrowth2025.no/live-stream shorltly.
"Confronting Inequalities in the Green Transition" with Piketty, Hornborg, Njoroge Njehû - chair Steinberger.
#Inequality #GreenTransition
And for the UK, see our proposals on redistribution in https://gettingreal.org.uk esp Appendix on tax.
https://www.europesays.com/2127843/ Standby use of aging power stations in Estonia may raise electricity bills | News #Eesti #EestiEnergia #ElectricityPrices #elering #estonia #GreenTransition #PowerStations #Uudised
https://www.europesays.com/2081958/ CEO: Giving up independent fuel production the stupidest of decisions for Estonia | News #AhtiAsmann #Economy #Eesti #estonia #GreenTransition #OilShale #Uudised #vkg
So Dutton will need $600 billion (thats $600,000,000,000 ) of tax payers' money to fund his nuclear reactors.
What a frigging waste: same as the $368 billion ($368,000,000,000 ) predicted for the dead duck AUKUS.
Locked into with USA, thanks to that other great LNP leader, Shite Morrison.
Libs really are the party of financial MISmanagement. Can we all remember the decade of corruption we had with LNP in power ???
Can the 47% of undecided Aus voters remember that when they vote?
$968 billion could buy us a LOT of investment in medicine, education, NDIS, green tech transition and now R+D in Aus in all sectors.
Or should we vote Liberal for more dead-duckism ??
#auspol #auspol2025 #AustralianElection #australianelections #LNPCorruptionParty #lnplast #clivepalmercampaignspending #australiangreens #AusLabour
#AUKUS #nuclearreactors #GreenTransition
One for your Channel 7 and Sky News watching mates' [1].
https://michaelwest.com.au/forget-nuclear-australia-is-on-fast-lane-to-100pc-renewables-solar/
It doesn't matter how vehemently or often or long something is said, if it aint so it is not so.
Here somebody with an actual brain and the career path to use that capability, lays it out : AGAIN.
It will not make one Nostalgic Nationalistic Nutjob of Nope2Woke difference, but at least it validates the truth _one_ _more_ _time_.
[1] For increasingly generous interpretations of "friend" or even "fellow traveller". Heaven help you if your using the biological interpretation.
#Energy #Climate #Technology #Enginering #Economy #GreenTransition #CircularEconomy
NOstalgia, It just aint wot it used to be. :)
If heat pumps are part of the necessary green transition, then it is pretty clear the economic model for energy needs t change to make the switch a worthwhile project for households.... certainly they may be greener, but in the UK's economy, still experiencing an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, most households cannot afford to transit to heat pumps in the current market structure(s).
If any part of the green transition depends on the global recycling of plastics, then we might s well give up right now.... nearly half of all plastics are dumped in landfill, while less than 10% are recycled. Around 20% or more (including some of the 'mismanaged') are incinerated, no doubt adding more pollution to our degrading atmosphere.
We need a better solution to the one we are currently practicing!
If at first you don't succeed try again:
Investors in the failed British battery maker BritishVolt are trying a second bite of the cherry this time in explicit partnership with a Chinese battery maker to develop a British-based 'gigafactory'...
Whether this second try does any better is anyone's guess, but like the UK's nuclear deterrence, its unlikely anyone is going to believe this is a 'home-grown' energy player.
#batteries #GreenTransition
h/t FT
https://www.europesays.com/1869591/ UK to Partner with Big Tech on Nuclear Powered Data Centers #CleanEnergy #EnergyPolicy #GreenTransition #KierStarmer #nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearRegulations #RenewableEnergy #SmallModularReactors #SMR #UKEnergy
Assets owners "can push for the acknowledgement of systemic climate risks by asset managers, and influence managers to improve their climate practices. Reclaim Finance has analysed how asset owners engage asset managers, and offers an overview of best practices that can be replicated."
https://reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2025/02/05/asset-managers-how-their-clients-encourage-them-to-take-action-for-the-climate/
@energyecon @economics-that-works 
In November 2024, BNP Paribas AM became the first major asset manager in the world to end its purchases of bonds issued on the primary market by certain companies in the oil & gas sector: https://reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2025/01/28/the-impact-of-bnp-paribas-ams-revised-investment-policy/
Camelina, a friendly li'l brassica is a superhero!
1. It cleans contaminated soils, slurping up nickel--which can then be harvested (phytomining!) for use
2. It improves the soil's fertility
3. Its oil can be used in biofuels.
"We believe that there is currently enough nickel in the barren soil in the U.S. to supply us for 50 years of phytomining,” says [phytoremediation prof] Dhankher.
@ChrisMayLA6 Back in the 70s the transition from Town Gas to Methane (initially from the North Sea) meant a huge cost in upgrading every home appliance and the pipeline infrastructure - It would have been much cheaper to crack the gas at the coast and just use the aging and dangerous infrastructure!
We need not walk away from this massive investment as we move away from fossil fuels. We can enrich our gas supply (up to 20%) with hydrogen from renewable sources using the existing distributed storage
Electric boilers in homes is a wasteful nonsense that just puts more stress on network storage.
While we are certainly seeing a shift to green energy in the UK, unfortunately because storage issues remain largely unresolved, we still contract for significant back-up capacity when normal (renewable) sources of power cannot meet peak demand.
And those 60% of those back up sources remain fossil fuel assets....
If you needed an argument why investment in network storage is required, this would be in it!
How can Africa help itself, rather than continually finding itself caught up in detrimental global economic forces?
@AnnPettifor argues (pretty persuasively) that a key element to Africa developing a self-help continental political economy would be the establishment of an African Payments Union.
She also argues this is would be a good way for African countries to manage their own green transition.
