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⚡ Something remarkable is happening in energy. The technology that environmentalists spent decades fighting is suddenly everywhere. ☢️ Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta have collectively contracted for over 13 gigawatts of nuclear power. Global nuclear generation hit a record high in 2025 and is set to keep climbing. Investment in nuclear has risen 50% in five years and is expected to exceed $70 billion in 2025 alone. 🔄 The nuclear narrative is changing rapidly, alongside i

😐 Honest admission: I knew/know almost nothing about LTSs. In fact, I barely hear anyone talk about them. One exception is  Harry Smith PhD , who actually wrote a full PhD about it. Here are a few things I learnt in our  CDR Policy Scoop  with Harry: 🎯 Residual emissions in government plans are double what the CDR community assumes. We often talk about 5-15%. In LTSs, they are often more than double this. An even bigger issue: only 26 countries actually quantified their res

🧭 Navigating Net Zero with  Alexia Kelly  recently did an episode with  Tisha Schuller  on on Real Climate Progress and the Messy Middle. She’s an environmental activist turned strategic advisor to the oil and gas industry.  🫣 Sounds uncomfortable right? This is exactly the type of conversations we need to be having. Like it or not.  🌎 Her argument, roughly: the climate community's refusal to engage constructively with oil and gas isn't principled. It's counterproductive.

🎙️ And this clip is not some fringe outlet:  The Diary Of A CEO  is one of the world’s leading podcasts, with over a billion downloads/views to date. 🌍 I was fairly shocked by this episode with  Konstantin Kisin . His discussion with host  Steven Bartlett  on global warming is yet another example of how we have moved from outright denying climate change to reframing it in misguided, binary outcomes: ❌ Net-zero means destroying our economy. ❌ Net-zero means killing pensioner

🤔 Clearly the current system is not working. But what needs fixing? And how exactly do we go about it? 👀 Check out our latest  CDR Policy Scoop  episode with  Robert Höglund  to find out more about his proposal for conditional net-zero targets:  ▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eh_fJQy5 🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eDWU7xG5

🌟 For too long, I have ignored you. Yet there you are: reliably removing 2 gigatons of CO2 year on year, while providing countless co-benefits to forests, animals, farmers, and us humans. 💪 Yes, we need to figure out how to compensate our emissions for the long-term. But this will take us years, yeah decades to scale up. In the meantime, you can help us lower warming at this crucial moment in time. ✅ I don’t need to tell you how to do your job: it comes natural to you. You

⛽ I used to have a pretty clear opinion on the role of oil and gas on the way to net zero: boycott and phase out basically. 🫣 This is a very commonly held stance in the climate bubble. It is also one that is not particularly helpful. 📉 Of course, we need to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible. ⚠️ However, given the massive dependence of humanity on fossil fuels, there can be no net zero without decarbonising this sector. ⚖️ And not all actors are the same: some ar

😳 There, I said it. A statement that will lead to a lot of nodding for some, and fury for others… 👀 It is also the takeaway from a fascinating paper just released by  Carbon Gap  and authored by  Sylvain Delerce .  🤓 Quick recap: What is the Like-for-Like (LfL) principle? From the paper: “Like-for-Like neutralisation requires balancing anthropogenic GHG sources with removals by sinks of similar or greater permanence than the carbon pool the emissions originate from and / o