Dido Gompertz

Coal-to-clean at @E3G. Tweets on climate, politics, sustainability (views mine). Love nature, hate hayfever

[E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism @e3g]

📢 New report: How can the UK hit its 2030 clean power goal and cut bills?

✅ 2030 clean power target is achievable.
✅ Clean energy shields 🇬🇧 from gas price spikes.
✅ Our Electricity Bills Charter of reforms could save billpayers over £200 per year.

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[E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism @e3g]

🙌 President Prabowo has pledged that #Indonesia - one of the world's largest consumers and producers of coal - will retire all coal and fossil-fuel-fired power plants within the next 15 years.
https://t.co/8hTHeRbT8h

[UN Climate Change @UNFCCC]

⚠️ The #COP28 UAE Consensus goal of tripling renewable energy and doubling energy efficiency by 2030 will require an annual investment of US$ 1.5 trillion, according to this new report by @IRENA.

#COP29 needs to be the moment when we move from pledges to action.

[Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) @PastCoal]

Missed our High-Level Dialogue in June?

Catch up below with speakers @C_Stewart729, Mukhtar Babayev (@COP29_AZ), @PetraJayaMP, @DamilolaSDG7 and more.

Register for the upcoming #SolutionsDialogues here: https://t.co/Bz6s1d0SgL

[Dido Gompertz @didogomp]

Excited to see what this new 🇬🇧 government could mean for ambitious net zero policies and the UK’s climate leadership. Assessments from my @e3g colleagues below 👇

[E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism @e3g]

With a landslide victory in the 2024 General Election, Labour has won a strong mandate for ambitious climate action and green investment.🧵

https://t.co/izMk0MK5E0

[E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism @e3g]

It's #ElectionDay in the 🇬🇧UK!

Reeling from a cost of living crisis driven by the high cost of fossil fuels, voters are seeking bold policies that use the #NetZero opportunity to build a strong, resilient economy. Hear more from E3G's @Ed_Matthew1 below 📺 #generalection2024

[Dido Gompertz @didogomp]

News that sparks joy

[The Guardian @guardian]

‘Yes, Lego car!’: why small electric cars could be about to break the grip of SUVs https://t.co/j0dca7SLr2

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

NEW FACTCHECK: How 'scary-sounding numbers' are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero

MISLEADING: Rishi Sunak's "hundreds of billions" attack on the cost of "Labour…plans"
FALSE: Claire Coutinho's claim that Labour's 2030 target needs an "extra £116bn"
FALSE: Reform's claim govt can save £30bn, which is more than the £8bn it spends on net-zero
FALSE: Reform/Ross Clark claim that net-zero energy will cost £2-3tn (not-zero would cost the same)
FALSE: Telegraph saying 2030 petrol car ban will cost £1,000 a household (CCC says it'll SAVE money)
TRUE: The massive £265bn sum the UK spent on (mostly fossil) energy in 2022

https://t.co/CoKvS03Ib7

[Heather McKay @iM_OcKay]

The #ConservativeManifesto speaks volumes with its silence on green growth. After all the progress made by Rishi and Hunt in the #GreenFinanceStrategy - which was welcomed by business with open arms - the Tory tone has firmly shifted

[Ed Matthew @Ed_Matthew1]

As he announces the election, Sunak attacks ‘environmental dogma’ as he gets drenched in rain on the day scientists announced that super wet weather was now ten times more likely due to climate change. This picture is a symbol of denial

[E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism @e3g]

#COP28 is bringing major announcements showing progress in the #CoalToClean transition, with🇺🇸🇨🇾🇮🇸🇨🇿🇩🇴🇽🇰🇳🇴 becoming the latest members of @PastCoal. 35 out of 43 OECD/EU countries are now members of the PPCA. Follow progress with our trackers: https://t.co/qukncRy5XE
#CoalFacts

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I welcome the decision taken at the opening of #COP28 to operationalize the new Loss & Damage Fund – an essential tool for delivering climate justice.

I call on leaders to make generous contributions and get the Fund and the Climate Conference started on a strong footing.

[Ana Mulio Alvarez @AnaMulio]

In a historic moment, the Loss & Damage Fund has been gavelled through on Day 1 of #COP28 🎉
The fight to acknowledge and address L&D has been ongoing since the very first COP. This sets the tone that countries can and must come together for ambitious agreements at COP. 1/🧵👇

[Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey]

⁦⁦@Guardian publishes the final writing of ⁦@SaleemulHuq⁩ and it’s a warning to rich countries to step up for #Cop28 urgently, as climate crisis accelerates around us. Powerful writing as ever. Co-authored with ⁦@Prof_FSultana⁩ https://t.co/nWMuBsX4lc

[James Murray @James_BG]

It's been said many times in the last few weeks, but to relaunch your premiership around the concept of acting in the long term while actively slowing down decarbonisation efforts and not once mentioning climate resilience is very jarring.

[Dido Gompertz @didogomp]

Unexpectedly watering down net zero commitments is the opposite of what voters and businesses are calling for. Now more than ever the UK economy needs the growth opportunity of the energy transition.

Latest blog from e3g explains why 👇 @iM_OcKay

[E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism @e3g]

🌍🇬🇧 The UK's recent backtrack on #NetZero commitments has sent shockwaves through the business world. We need #ConsistentClimateLeadership to access growth opportunities and revolutionise the creaking UK economy.

Latest from @iM_OcKay and Will O'Leary 👇 https://t.co/FqENF1hlFl

[E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism @e3g]

Over 4️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ businesses and NGOs including @UKSIF, @Nestle, @IKEA, @AvivaUK and @eonenergyuk have written to @RishiSunak to call for #CredibleClimateLeadership and express concern at plans to water down the UK's #NetZero policies.

Read the letter here 👇
https://t.co/nIEg2ksauC

[Emily Gosden @emilygosden]

Energy giant E.ON joins criticism of government plans to water down green pledges… says it risks “condemning people to many more years of living in cold and draughty homes that are expensive to heat, in cities clogged with dirty air from fossil fuels”

[Manon Dufour @ManonDf]

#SOTEU2023 is over. What did we learn?
🏃‍♀️@vonderleyen wants to be president again
🫂the main political groups seem on board with that, including @EPP
🌍Beyond a strong personal commitment, we have no more visibility of where she intends to take the green transition next #EGD

[Elisa Giannelli @EliGiannelli]

Still very fresh but we tried to get our heads around the speech. First take from @e3g (huge thanks to my amazing colleagues! @DVangenechten1 @ManonDf @Pieter_de_Pous @nkambli @TsKuzmanova @goodgal_rherhe @PepeEscrig )

First, the good👇