🇪🇺Brussels is planning to require 🇨🇳Chinese businesses to have factories in Europe and share technological knowhow in return for EU subsidies. New requirements will apply to #batteries but could be expanded to other #Cleantech sectors #battchat

G20 leaders all agree that the super-rich should pay their fair share. This is a major historic shift.

White House relaxes green hydrogen rules in race to boost sector ahead of Trump on.ft.com/3W2msLC

'The Last Goodbye' is a painting by Edith Birkin, survivor of the Holocaust #WomensArt 80th anniversary of the liberation of #AuschwitzBirkenau

The new Belgian minister for budget (on his bike) waiting in line with his other colleagues (in their car) whilst leaving the Royal Palace in Brussels.

Who was this reporter? I’d like to buy them a drink. 🥃

Thousands of Danish citizens are launching an effort to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

Union wehrt sich gegen Kritik, dass keine Frauen am Meeting teilnehmen: "Was glauben Sie denn, wer den Tisch gedeckt hat?" der-postillon.com/2025/02/union-…

Klimaschutz ist kein „Zugeständnis an die Grünen“! Er ist dringend notwendig zum Schutz aller Menschen - und auch der Wirtschaft - vor einer absehbaren Katastrophe. Und er ist Verpflichtung. 33 Jahre nach der UN-Klimarahmenkonvention sollte wirklich jeder das verstanden haben.

German, French economic advisors champion battery-electric trucks to decarbonise freight transport cleanenergywire.org/news/german-fr… via Clean Energy Wire

DG ENER joins LinkedIn 💫 I hope you’ll follow for news on European energy policy linkedin.com/showcase/eu-en…

Wärmstes Jahr seit Messbeginn in Deutschland. Anstieg vom 2,5°C seit 1881. Ursache: Anthropogene Treibhausgasemissionen.

Leading German economic institute confirms the positive impacts of #climate and #FossilFuelPhaseOut for security: A one-euro reduction in oil consumption in the EU results in a security dividend of 37 cents (central estimate). #energysecurity #IEA ifw-kiel.de/publications/t…

Measures to tackle methane emissions & flaring could have brought an extra 100 billion cubic metres of natural gas to market in 2024 This could improve energy security by alleviating pressure on tight gas markets, while also reducing emissions 👉 iea.li/3EZJ1eK

Noah Smith 🐇 Every year, the AukeHoekstra chart just keeps getting better. x.com/JessePeltan/st…

Ticking the above boxes comes in addition to getting methane right: blogs.edf.org/energyexchange…

Even when your gadgets are ‘asleep’ 😴 they use power. On 9 May 2025, new #EUecodesign rules entered into force, updating limits on how much energy they can use when in ‘standby’ mode. Learn more ➡️ europa.eu/!7P8nJB

Biofuels can't replace fossil fuels. "soybean for one fourth of global aviation fuel would require 40 percent of global cropland" The US subsidizes corn ethanol but "producing ethanol uses almost as much fossil fuel as ethanol replaces" e360.yale.edu/features/corn-…

A milestone: by my calculations Russia has now received $1 trillion in payments for fossil fuel since they started the war in Ukraine. The world will be better off when we move to solar+wind.

Not a single woman in the room.