Xavier Evans

MPP student at @sciencespo. Focused on climate, decarbonisation, strategy, and technology with @stateofplay_sop and Slate Advisory. Views my own. He/him.

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

V proud to finally share this new analysis

Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change

🇺🇸 530GtCO2
(🇪🇺+🇬🇧 478, +28%)
🇨🇳 309
🇷🇺 239 +41%*
🇬🇧 130 +70%
🇧🇷 115
🇩🇪 92
🇮🇳 74 -15%
🇯🇵 73
🇮🇩 68 -24%
—
🇳🇱 35 +181%

🧵

https://t.co/5xiF6HwG7A

[Xavier Evans @XavierEvansDC]

@JesseJenkins I've got some too if you have any people left over

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

If we had started reducing emissions in 2000 the world would have had a gentle slope downward to limit warming to well-below 2C.

23 years later we face a steep decent to limit warming to 2C, and a near-cliff to achieve 1.5C without substantial net-negative global emissions

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

"E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world."

https://t.co/ubwfteT8hI

[Xavier Evans @XavierEvansDC]

@sierrap James Hastwell from CarbonFarm are doing some amazing work based out of Paris. They just raised a seed round, but could be worth staying in touch to see what they're up to https://t.co/O2haVAa5qv

[Xavier Evans @XavierEvansDC]

@TheRosaLab @shaylekann What's the source on this graph? Would like to take a closer look

[Thomas Spencer @ThomasASpencer]

Costs of capital for renewables are much higher in low income countries, and this correlates well with much lower deployment.
We need strong domestic policies and scaled up and more effective international support to overcome this.
More here from @IEA : https://t.co/RywHRnroLL

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

MEGA FACTCHECK

EVs are “likely crucial” for tackling transport CO2, says the IPCC – and sales are rocketing

But EVs still face relentless hostile media coverage

So, I spent the past few months debunking 21 (!) of the most common EV myths

Here it is 🧵

https://t.co/gfqcswgRvK

[Akshat Rathi @AkshatRathi]

🚨 New investigation

Oxy built the world's largest carbon-capture plant by capacity in 2010.

It never operated at more than a third of its capacity.

In 2022, Oxy quietly sold it for a fraction of the price.

Story with @ntashawhite & @CrowleyKev
https://t.co/cLrctxW0L3

See🧵

[Xavier Evans @XavierEvansDC]

An excellent deep-dive into the voluntary carbon market, highly recommend reading it before buying into any 'carbon neutral' greenwashing hype. True carbon removal is way more expensive than the couple of euros offered by airlines to offset your flight.

[Heidi Blake @HeidilBlake]

My latest for @NewYorker. The world's largest carbon offsetting firm sold environmentally worthless credits, while the developer of its biggest project secretly moved of tens of millions of $ paid by Gucci, Porsche, Nestlé & others into offshore accounts. https://t.co/Z1dJEDwrz4

[Damian Carrington @dpcarrington]

‘Fuel on the fire’: Fossil fuels subsidised by $13m a minute, IMF says

- Despite being the primary cause of the #ClimateCrisis, oil, gas and coal benefited from $7 trillion of support in 2022

#FossilFuels @IMFNews
Story by me
https://t.co/vnOh1WaZ9f

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

Today, climate is changing faster than any time in human history. As a result, our trillions of dollars of infrastructure - homes, roads, cities and ports - were built for a climate that no longer exists, unprepared for the climate risks we face today. https://t.co/32XD3S9crR

[IMF @IMFNews]

Rising corporate profits were the largest contributor to Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than the spiking costs of imported energy. https://t.co/iEf6Emu0Rp

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

"Despite its 50-year history, all the CCS plants deployed globally capture only about 40 million tons of CO2 each year.

That’s less than 0.1% of global greenhouse-gas emissions."

[Ajit Niranjan @NiranjanAjit]

every new study about climate psychology makes me think we should ditch most of the communications advice and just say true things that matter https://t.co/Y3Vshmjjzq

[Tobi Kellner - @[email protected] @KellnerTobi]

Germany's Nuclear Exit – a not-so-short guide for perplexed non-Germans

yesterday, Germany’s last three remaining nuclear power stations stopped their operations. I have intelligent, informed friends who care deeply about our planet who will celebrate this as a tremendous...

[Michael Liebreich - @MLiebreich.bsky.social @MLiebreich]

€4/kg of hydrogen is equivalent to $32.7 per MMBtu. That's nearly 16 times the current US natural gas price (Henry Hub). Think about that for a moment. #deindustrialization

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

This image from today's IPCC synthesis report is brutal. The existing policy trajectory represents a profound failure of our governments, and of our international political system. We need much more aggressive mitigation and much stronger international cooperation.

[Ajit Niranjan @NiranjanAjit]

the world's top scientists have written a landmark report about climate change and 195 countries just signed off on a summary that lays out surprisingly clearly what must happen to fossil fuels to keep us safe 1/

[I'm @Ketanjoshi.co on Bluesky @KetanJ0]

Here's a few things from the #IPCC AR6 Synthesis summary that you might not see in broader coverage, or in the formal responses of big polluters and their defenders in government.

A 'lil thread for you of some VERY IMPORTANT stuff

https://t.co/tBC5goVsVg

#ipccar6