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Benjamin Attia
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dad | catalytic climate investing at allied climate partners | phd researcher in climate finance at oxford | nonresident fellow at the payne institute, energy for growth hub, and duke university | fka @solarbenattia
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Good way to start the New Year:

@katharinehayhoe.com's Climate + Finance starter pack bsky.app/starter-pack...
January 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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President Carter’s investments in energy R&D helped deliver the clean tech that we rely on today. Inflation adjusted energy R&D has never been as high as Carter’s until the Biden Administration. 💡🔌 bsky.app/profile/tnor...
If Carter's forward-looking energy policy hadn't been overturned by Reagan, not least in terms of energy R&D spending, it's quite possible the global energy & climate picture today would look very different. RIP.
December 29, 2024 at 11:23 PM
The warming floor is getting higher. This new study finds that even if we were to achieve global net zero GHGs by 2050, which is deeply unlikely, warming is almost certainly higher than 1.5C, with a coin toss that it’s 2C. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Data‐Driven Predictions of Peak Warming Under Rapid Decarbonization
We train CNNs to predict peak global warming given the map of recent annual temperatures and total additional CO2 emissions Even if net-zero emissions are reached mid-century, mean warming is vir...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:41 PM
I caught up with Ed Crooks and Racquel Moses at COP29 Azerbaijan in Baku on the role of early-stage catalytic equity in #climatefinance, the gap of available equity in EMDEs and the value of the COP process as it evolves. Listen on The Energy Gang here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Live from COP29: Everyone is talking about climate finance. What do they mean?
Podcast Episode · The Energy Gang · 11/18/2024 · 47m
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November 19, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Hello again, climate and energy hive mind!
November 15, 2024 at 11:59 AM