Matt Evans

Climate change, global development, politics, semi-interesting miscellany, mostly dormant except desperate attempts to get help from tech support.

[Matt Evans @evansmattyb]

@MalibuInvest @skithedream_ @grok From ai!

[Ofisi ya Makamu wa Rais @vpo_tanzania]

Waziri wa Nchi Ofisi ya Makamu wa Rais (Muungano na Mazingira) Mhe. Dkt. Selemani Jafo akioneshwa jiko linalotumia nishati safi ya kupikia na Mkurugenzi wa Shirika la UpEnergy Tanzania Bi. Rehema Mbalamwezi mara baada ya kufanya mazungumzo kuhusu nia ya shirika hilo katika kuunga mkono Serikali kuhamasisha matumizi ya nishati safi ya kupikia, mazungumzo yaliyofanyika leo katika Ofisi ya Makamu wa Rais jijini Dar es Salaam.

[Matt Evans @evansmattyb]

@BerkouwerS @DanStein_econ @teevrat @guardian @josh_t_dean @GivingGreenE Exactly right @BerkouwerS. Instead we got an article that drives climate finance away from a project category that benefits the lowest income, most climate change affected people.

[Susanna Berkouwer @BerkouwerS]

@DanStein_econ @teevrat @guardian @josh_t_dean @GivingGreenE Yes, I agree. An article that says "many cookstoves are over-credited, but there are some that are high-quality and accurately credited. Conducting rigorous evaluations is important to help funnel funding towards the highest impact stoves." would have been great.

[Susanna Berkouwer @BerkouwerS]

@josh_t_dean @pgreenfielduk @guardian Yes, I sent a detailed email yesterday to you @pgreenfielduk - and to @bibivanderzee and @itsalanevans - about our high quality, published research about the large environmental and financial benefits of cookstoves. Completely different than what you quoted us as.

[Matt Evans @evansmattyb]

Would be good to see a correction and the inclusion of a broader swath of the academic community in the discussion here. How did the Guardian and the FT cover a paper claiming to be an unbiased meta-analysis without checking it's biases with real cookstove academics?

[Josh Dean @josh_t_dean]

Hi @pgreenfielduk @guardian,

You link to @BerkouwerS and I's paper in your new article on overcrediting of cookstoves saying that we find "they often failed to produce their potential benefits in practice."

This is wildly inaccurate. Please correct it.

https://t.co/eHc8numta4

[Matt Evans @evansmattyb]

Hah, yep, and @peter_wood do the combined DAC removals this quarter even add up to the CO2+radiative forcing of the SFO-DXB biz class flights of the DAC industry/investors? Back of the envelop would suggest no.. not even factoring those removals are claimed elsewhere.

[Peter Wood @Peter__Wood]

Energy inequality: The return flights of #COP28 delegates from EUR/US will use more oil than the average African or Indian consumes in a year.

Flights @2.5lt/seat/100km:
BXL-DBX ~10000km => 250lt
DCA-DBX ~23000km => 570lt

Annual per capita oil demand:
India ~210lt
Africa ~175lt

[Fatih Birol @fbirol]

On Wednesday, @IEA will launch a new report providing A Vision for Clean Cooking Access for All

2.3 billion people globally lack access to modern energy for cooking – harming their health, living standards & opportunities. Women & children bear the brunt of this burden.

More ⬇️

[Matt Evans @evansmattyb]

Thanks @ICE_Markets and Peter Asch for the great conversation!

[ICE @ICE_Markets]

UpEnergy Group Cofounders Alex Rau and Matt Evans explain how UpEnergy is using ICE’s carbon markets to drive the energy transition, save lives, and reduce energy poverty.
Take a listen to this week's @ICEHousePodcast 🎙

[Matt Evans @evansmattyb]

Another warning about speculative bubbles and crypto in the climate space if true.

[Matt Evans @evansmattyb]

@SFBayFerry Roasted

[Matt Evans @evansmattyb]

Perfect

[Heather McKay @iM_OcKay]

Does Leonardo DiCaprio even care about climate anymore now COP is 27?

[Sam Sanders @samsanders]

Hundreds of thousands of DC residents had to endure a coup in their backyard today, go into curfew at 6pm, and fear for their personal safety. None of them have any representation in Congress.

[Matt Evans @evansmattyb]

Josh Hawley playing with fire.

[Manuel Quinones @ManuelQ]

From our Francis Chung, Sen. Josh Hawley greeting protesters in the east side of the Capitol before riots began.

[Golden State Warriors @warriors]

5+ minutes without a miss.

Stephen. Curry.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

"For the site of their Waterloo, Team Trump chose a landscaping business that rested on an industrial road next to an erotic book shop that hosts “Dildo Madness” sales and whose proprietors have taken a decidedly negative assessment of water-based lube."

https://t.co/bSFAaepKhk

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

Real men whine till the bitter end.

[Paula Reid @PaulaReidCNN]

BREAKING: While President Trump is on his 209th golf outing, @CBSNews projects former VP Joe Biden elected President. (HT @markknoller for golf stats)

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

@ossoff This might have something to do with it.