Mark Lutes

Have worked as farmer, logger, trucker, translator, environmentalist. Trying to leave my boys a stable climate and healthy planet. Working for WWF; views mine.

[WWF @WWF]

#BreakingNews: The @UN has backed a landmark climate advisory opinion, strengthening governments’ legal responsibility to act on #ClimateChange.

The #ClimateCrisis is not just about our environment - it’s about #ClimateJustice, survival, and accountability.

[Climate High-Level Champions @hlcchampions]

We’re leaving Climate Week 3 in Yeosu with a clear mission: making climate action work for people in their daily lives.

Over the last few days, COP31 Climate High-Level Champion @samedagirbas has been on the ground, moving beyond the conference rooms to see where real solutions are being built.

As we look toward COP31 in Antalya, we are accelerating the partnerships that prove a safer, cleaner, and fairer world is possible today.

[WWF Climate and Energy @climateWWF]

🚢 Shipping’s climate future is on the line. Europe must stand firm and back the @IMO_HQ #NetZeroFramework.
⚠️ Backtracking means chaos. ✅ Agree the implementation rules and keep shipping on course to net zero.
Europe: don’t blink. ⏳
https://t.co/KmXR44S1hA
@WWF @D_Karavellas

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

#EarthDay is a reminder of the fragility of our world.

But we know what must be done:

End our addiction to fossil fuels.
Accelerate the renewables revolution.
Protect & restore nature.
Deliver climate justice for the most vulnerable.

Let’s #ActNow – for people & planet.

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

For anyone wondering whether the fossil fuel crisis in the Middle East is driving interest in clean energy technologies:

China's exports of batteries, EVs and solar products shot up in March to $21.9 billion!

This is an all-time record and a 70% increase over March 2025.

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Never-ending fossil fuel wars are a lethal distraction: New study shows global warming doubling in speed since 2015, to 0.35°C/decade, while we fight over the last drop of oil

Apocalyptic warming isn’t coming; it’s here. Almost no one is looking up

https://t.co/FQZ25Vor3R

[WWF Climate and Energy @climateWWF]

89 shipping businesses and organizations urge governments to adopt the @IMOHQ #NetZero Framework. WWF says it clearly: “climate ambition and economic competitiveness can go together.” Now governments must act.
#Shipping #ClimateAction #Decarbonization
https://t.co/HpK79TEVN6

[Climate Home News @ClimateHome]

The green shipping deal, known as the Net-Zero Framework (NZF), would penalize polluting ships and fund cleaner fuels. But powerful countries are trying to change the rules before it takes effect. https://t.co/882j3IlvmM

[Mohamed Adow @mohadow]

Africa can go 100% renewable by 2050. The tech exists. The economics make sense. The benefits—jobs, savings, clean power—are staggering. So what’s stopping us?

My latest for @ContextNewsroom

https://t.co/KTUsroLUxT 1/4

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

This is definitely not the time to delay or dial back climate policy. The urgency has never been greater.
We are approaching dangerous tipping points, almost 200 scientists warn. 🌊
https://t.co/dCC8fYuORA

[Manuel Pulgar Vidal @manupulgarvidal]

In times of climate denial, we will all miss Pope Francis and his vision of combating climate change and caring for our common home as well as his prophetic insight into the extent to which technocracy in charge of politics & economics can lead to technology not being used wisely

[Climate Home News @ClimateHome]

Comment: Landmark deal to put shipping on course for net-zero is in sight

Next week, governments will try to agree on how to get the global shipping industry to meet its net zero goal, with a levy and green fuel standard under discussion
https://t.co/q8Lkw8OVNH

[WWF International media team @wwf_media]

A net zero shipping deal is in sight! 🚢

Next week, countries have the opportunity to secure a landmark agreement that would see the sector rapidly cut emissions and environmental harms

✍️WWF's Mark Lutes writes for @ClimateHome #IMO #MEPC83
https://t.co/RHgc1HeFAv

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

The guy is 53 years old.
He's almost a trillionaire.
He employs many thousands of people.
He's running multiple billion-dollar businesses.
He's made the "heart with hands" gesture. 🫶
He's had access to the same historical information we all have since grade school.
And, just two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day, he tells Germany's AfD it's time to move "past guilt" of the Holocaust.

And you want US to believe that he doesn't know what the fucking sieg heil salute is?

Get the fuck out of here with that gaslighting bullshit.

[Mark Lutes @MarkLutes]

Awkward, or practiced and proficient?

[WWF Climate and Energy @climateWWF]

🆕 Breaking news:

The proposed finance target #NCQG is far too low, with no full commitment from rich countries to deliver it. This deal must do better—our future depends on it.

RT if you demand more ambition at #COP29!

Read @WWF ’s reaction: https://t.co/FjDBLLpXNR

[Mohamed Adow @mohadow]

The $1.3 trillion developing countries are asking us to tackle the climate emergency and it ISN’T about taxing grandmothers for example in Lancashire in the UK to pay for the climate crisis.

The money can be raised through the ‘polluter pays principle’. For example:
-A levy on high frequency air travellers
-Taxing the super rich who are often high emitters.
-Taxing the profits of the fossil fuel giants who have caused this mess.
-A report by Global Witness showed that since the war in Ukraine began the five biggest oil companies have made $281 billion profit.
-A report by Christian Aid showed how a tax on excess fossil fuel profits could raise £13 billion.

#NoDealIsBetterThanABadDeal

[Dave Jones @CleanPowerDave]

This graphic is going viral.

This is how it was calculated... let's get geeky🤓...

[WWF Climate and Energy @climateWWF]

Emissions soaring and climate action stalling, warns two major UN reports ahead of #COP29. Only a seismic shift in climate ambition, action and finance can kickstart five years of decisive action in this critical decade, says @WWF
https://t.co/tdPhW1naXL

[Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta]

China's thermal (coal and gas) power generation fell 7% on year in June, accelerating from a 4% drop in May. Solar power continued to deliver most of power generation growth, and the recovery of hydropower from earlier droughts helped push fossil fuels down sharply.

Industrial emissions likely fell too, with cement production down 11% and iron production 3%. Steel products output grew 3%, showing that there was progress in increasing the share of recycled steel.

Crude oil processing volumes, an indicator of oil products consumption, also fell 4%.

The production of electric vehicles grew 37% while overall vehicle production was almost flat, raising the share of EVs to 39% of all vehicles produced.

Total energy consumption grew about 4.2% in the second quarter, while GDP grew 4.7%. The pattern of energy-intensive growth continues, with only a very modest drop in the energy intensity of GDP.

I will have a detailed analysis of the changes in emissions and power generation in a few weeks when the data is available, but it seems clear that the clean energy boom is finally bending China's emissions path.