Cavin Wilson🌻

Climate change and sustainability at @McKinsey. Co-founder of @SoldierOnAust and former Air Force Officer. John Monash Scholar. All views mine.

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

Lots of💡insightful💡recommendations in here from @FrontierEcon and others on getting to #NetZero. But for me the quickest of quick wins: making Air Passenger Duty fit for purpose as an emissions reduction policy🛩️✈️🚀

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

@TurkishAirlines @igairport @NatGeoTravel @NatGeo @natgeotvturkiye PSA: You terminated my Istanbul-Sydney flight in Dubai and refused to provide assistance with on-forward travel. Your help desk says that I am entitled to no compensation and gives no further explanation. Is this how "Europe's best airline" aspires to treat its passengers?

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

@TurkishAirlines PSA: You terminated my Istanbul-Sydney flight in Dubai and refused to provide assistance with on-forward travel. Your help desk says that I am entitled to no compensation and gives no further explanation. Is this how "Europe's best airline" aspires to treat its passengers?

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

@EuroLeague PSA: You terminated my Istanbul-Sydney flight in Dubai and refused to provide assistance with on-forward travel. Your help desk says that I am entitled to no compensation and gives no further explanation. Is this how "Europe's best airline" aspires to treat its passengers?

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

@TurkishAirlines PSA: You terminated my Istanbul-Sydney flight in Dubai and refused to provide assistance with on-forward travel. Your help desk says that I am entitled to no compensation and gives no further explanation. Is this how "Europe's best airline" aspires to treat its passengers?

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

@EuroLeague PSA: You terminated my Istanbul-Sydney flight in Dubai and refused to provide assistance with on-forward travel. Your help desk says that I am entitled to no compensation and gives no further explanation. Is this how "Europe's best airline" aspires to treat its passengers?

[David Perell @david_perell]

The 404 page on the Financial Times is a work of genius

[Tajuden Soroush @TajudenSoroush]

Kabul is preparing for Taliban.

[Chris Stark @StarkClimate]

Net Zero is great; near-term action is even better

A reminder of our advice: the UK should put into law a 6th Carbon Budget requiring a 78% reduction in territorial emissions between 1990 and 2035, including those from international aviation and shipping

https://t.co/aFaj0q9FxW

[Trevor Sutton @trevorcsutton]

Can't emphasize enough how major this is. No U.S. free trade agreement to date has directly acknowledged climate change. This is a huge step forward, and a powerful example of how elections have consequences. So delighted @amprog could host @AmbassadorTai
https://t.co/8FcezXiMVk

[Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie]

🇪🇺 For the first time the EU got more electricity from renewables than fossil fuels in 2020.

Just added 2020 electricity data for the EU-27 & UK to @OurWorldInData.

This update comes from @EmberClimate – big thanks to them for their latest analysis.

Thread 👇

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

Full study with all the caveats is here:
https://t.co/gFpWRKQo3y

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

What does the #MinimumWage have to do with the price of fish?

Not all that much. But UK min wages do cause small increases in the prices of some things like cleaning, childcare and takeaways.

We find that doubling the min wage could increase some prices by up to 11%.

[Low Pay Commission @lpcminimumwage]

We've published a blog this morning about a project by researchers @cavinwilson @FrontierEcon looking at the effect of the NLW on prices and business performance.

https://t.co/AQIzM0pUay

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

This approach lets us zoom in on the products/places where we are most likely to find an impact.

And we do find it. Some prices go up by around 0.5% each time the NLW is increased. But the main thing this tells us is that most costs are not being passed on to consumers.

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

@dan_tomlinson_ Thanks @dan_tomlinson_. Excellent news and as you say, likely a tad conservative given missing data over the weekend from WA/SC

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

@BaturalpIlim Two stories about travel which have nothing to do with travelling:

Calvino - Invisible Cities
Tesson - Dans les forêts de Sibérie

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

@DavidOG87361059 @Dannythefink @stephenpollard If we need extra people administering vaccines, surely easier to find someone willing to work at 2pm than 2am?

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

@johnnymorls @zoeharcombe @Gus_ODonnell @CEP_LSE Hi Johnny. Sorry about that. Try this link: https://t.co/ZnjBYuHW0Q or search “When to release the lockdown: A wellbeing framework for analysing costs and benefits”

[Cavin Wilson🌻 @cavinwilson]

@seeds_we_sow @benatipsosmori @HollieNuisance The other way to see this is that the 75+ group which accounted for ~3/4 of deaths will all have access to the vaccine by the end of January. If correct, this is hugely promising.