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The shockwaves of 2020 will ripple for the rest of our lives. Among many, it has been a turning point on Climate action. @climate magazine editor @aaronrutkoff on the biggest stories of year. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-09/bloomberg-green-magazine-looking-back-at-2020-from-the-climate-future
2020 Climate turning points:
China commits to carbon neutrality
Coal plant retirements outpace additions for 1st time
Gas is the new Coal as plants scrapped
Carbon-free electricity goes big
Banks make climate commitments
Bans on combustion engine cars grow https://rmi.org/the-top-11-clean-energy-developments-of-2020/
China commits to carbon neutrality
Coal plant retirements outpace additions for 1st time
Gas is the new Coal as plants scrapped
Carbon-free electricity goes big
Banks make climate commitments
Bans on combustion engine cars grow https://rmi.org/the-top-11-clean-energy-developments-of-2020/
3/ Anyone interested in Energy transition & Climate politics can poke about in threads/hashtags I've been using to track it: #CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax on 2020 shock to world economy, #GeopoliticsOfGHGs on interstate dynamics, & #PoliticsOfCoal.
Please use them & add to them!
Please use them & add to them!
4/ Structure may be uncovered from how shocks propagate thru a system. 2008 Crash revealed NY-London centrality to Finance. 2020 Corona Shock revealed the Fossil-fueled 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 that undergird world economy.
#CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax Thread
https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1224136387978579968
#CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax Thread
https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1224136387978579968
5/ Until last yr there was reams about US-China confrontation that didn't even mention they were 2 largest producers of Oil & Coal on the planet. Security & Climate ppl were like ships in the night.
22nd Sept, 2020 changed that. Thread #GeopoliticsOfGHGs https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1195109223639613440
22nd Sept, 2020 changed that. Thread #GeopoliticsOfGHGs https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1195109223639613440
6/ From 2020, its the Oil Endgame, & incentives of all actors in system are changed permanently. Banks, Pensions funds, Petrostates invested in Carbon find "Stranded Assets" warning of divestment movement has arrived. Who dares invest in Carbon now? Thread https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1074380955618402305
7/"Oil fuelled the 20th century, but now a huge energy shock is catalysing a shift to a New world order." #GeopoliticsOfGHGs
Nice Economist cover story on #CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax. You heard it here first in February! https://economist.com/briefing/2020/09/17/americas-domination-of-oil-and-gas-will-not-cow-china
Nice Economist cover story on #CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax. You heard it here first in February! https://economist.com/briefing/2020/09/17/americas-domination-of-oil-and-gas-will-not-cow-china
8/ Many ppl who work on Climate were struck months earlier than most with parallels between utter shitshow of politics over Coronavirus response & predatory delay with Climate action. Both exponentials...
Thread on #CoronaIsClimatePoliticsOnWARPSpeed https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1242832030959878144
Thread on #CoronaIsClimatePoliticsOnWARPSpeed https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1242832030959878144
9/ Meat Agribusiness is a furnace that produces dangerous microbes. Coronavirus is one spark that blazed out of control. More will come. Poultry farms in India w antibiotic resistant bacteria; pig farms in US ('09 H1N1); cattle ranches in Amazon.
Thread https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1250906654272638978
Thread https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1250906654272638978
