Chris Aylett
@chrisaylett.bsky.social
Research Fellow @chathamhouse focusing on the geopolitics of climate change and the energy transition. Views my own.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/chris-aylett
Header: 'A List of Antagonisms', Hiba Abdallah
https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/chris-aylett
Header: 'A List of Antagonisms', Hiba Abdallah
India, Brazil and China "can turn clean-tech manufacturing, renewable exports, green hydrogen and nature-carbon markets into strategic assets for other emerging economies to follow and ensure that the COP process remains relevant"
www.thehindubusinessline.com/specials/cle...
www.thehindubusinessline.com/specials/cle...
COP: The rise of a new influential triad
Discover how India, Brazil, and China can lead global climate action at COP30, addressing finance and sustainable solutions.
www.thehindubusinessline.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
India, Brazil and China "can turn clean-tech manufacturing, renewable exports, green hydrogen and nature-carbon markets into strategic assets for other emerging economies to follow and ensure that the COP process remains relevant"
www.thehindubusinessline.com/specials/cle...
www.thehindubusinessline.com/specials/cle...
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"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
EVs put an end to China's usual holiday surge in gasoline use
Tianyu Jiang took a 2,000-km (1,200-mile) road trip this month during China's national holiday week, driving in his electric vehicle from the southwestern Sichuan basin to Beijing for the first time.
www.reuters.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
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Elon Musk Is repsonsible for the deaths of 600,000 human beings and yet is being rewarded by capitalists with 1000 billion dollars
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Elon Musk Is repsonsible for the deaths of 600,000 human beings and yet is being rewarded by capitalists with 1000 billion dollars
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6 Strategies Behind China’s EV Rise in Africa
🇨🇳⚡️🌍 China is not just shipping electric vehicles to Africa, it’s building the ecosystem. In @hakeenah.bsky.social ’s latest analysis, he breaks down 6 plays shaping Africa’s EV market.
Watch: tinyurl.com/4cups9u2
🇨🇳⚡️🌍 China is not just shipping electric vehicles to Africa, it’s building the ecosystem. In @hakeenah.bsky.social ’s latest analysis, he breaks down 6 plays shaping Africa’s EV market.
Watch: tinyurl.com/4cups9u2
November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
6 Strategies Behind China’s EV Rise in Africa
🇨🇳⚡️🌍 China is not just shipping electric vehicles to Africa, it’s building the ecosystem. In @hakeenah.bsky.social ’s latest analysis, he breaks down 6 plays shaping Africa’s EV market.
Watch: tinyurl.com/4cups9u2
🇨🇳⚡️🌍 China is not just shipping electric vehicles to Africa, it’s building the ecosystem. In @hakeenah.bsky.social ’s latest analysis, he breaks down 6 plays shaping Africa’s EV market.
Watch: tinyurl.com/4cups9u2
Good that the EU did manage to agree its NDC ahead of COP30
But the concession to revise the 2040 target if climate policy is deemed to be 'bad for the economy' is worrying
Who gets to define that? Will it be possible to make robust causal links?
www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
But the concession to revise the 2040 target if climate policy is deemed to be 'bad for the economy' is worrying
Who gets to define that? Will it be possible to make robust causal links?
www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
EU countries agree weakened 2040 climate goal and target for COP30
The deal avoids the EU going empty handed to the COP30 climate summit starting on Nov. 10.
www.politico.eu
November 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Good that the EU did manage to agree its NDC ahead of COP30
But the concession to revise the 2040 target if climate policy is deemed to be 'bad for the economy' is worrying
Who gets to define that? Will it be possible to make robust causal links?
www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
But the concession to revise the 2040 target if climate policy is deemed to be 'bad for the economy' is worrying
Who gets to define that? Will it be possible to make robust causal links?
www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
People are quietly rejecting the fully digitized utopia and retreating to the physical world (hurrah for this)
But citing slowing US EV sales as an example of this is ridiculous
The parallel makes no sense
An EV is as physical as an ICE car, just with less environmental damage
on.ft.com/3Ld9xnT
But citing slowing US EV sales as an example of this is ridiculous
The parallel makes no sense
An EV is as physical as an ICE car, just with less environmental damage
on.ft.com/3Ld9xnT
Books, malls and cars: where the physical world still rules
Many consumers are resisting, even turning back the digital revolution
on.ft.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
People are quietly rejecting the fully digitized utopia and retreating to the physical world (hurrah for this)
But citing slowing US EV sales as an example of this is ridiculous
The parallel makes no sense
An EV is as physical as an ICE car, just with less environmental damage
on.ft.com/3Ld9xnT
But citing slowing US EV sales as an example of this is ridiculous
The parallel makes no sense
An EV is as physical as an ICE car, just with less environmental damage
on.ft.com/3Ld9xnT
Sasha Mudd with a compelling characterisation of Trumpian 'governance':
"A fantasy of excretion without consequence, of the unfiltered id released from every restraint"
A ruler who "dominates not by persuasion, but by discharge"
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
"A fantasy of excretion without consequence, of the unfiltered id released from every restraint"
A ruler who "dominates not by persuasion, but by discharge"
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
The politics of the potty
Trump’s defecating fighter jet is an emblem of a man in revolt against civilisation
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Sasha Mudd with a compelling characterisation of Trumpian 'governance':
"A fantasy of excretion without consequence, of the unfiltered id released from every restraint"
A ruler who "dominates not by persuasion, but by discharge"
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
"A fantasy of excretion without consequence, of the unfiltered id released from every restraint"
A ruler who "dominates not by persuasion, but by discharge"
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
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The developing world that could not afford green transition is doing it; the world that had all the money and alleged industrial policies for greening is back to fossil fuels and militarization.
October 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The developing world that could not afford green transition is doing it; the world that had all the money and alleged industrial policies for greening is back to fossil fuels and militarization.
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COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed.
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US
September 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed.
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US
"Wright said it would be preferable for Europe to get its supplies from “its friends.”"
For the current US administration, Europe is an enemy, until there is an opportunity to sell more fossil fuels, at which point it becomes a friend
For the current US administration, Europe is an enemy, until there is an opportunity to sell more fossil fuels, at which point it becomes a friend
US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has called on the EU’s remaining buyers of Russian fossil fuels to drop their campaign against the bloc’s efforts to end dependency on Moscow and buy from America instead.
Hungary and Slovakia must quit Russian gas and nuclear, Trump envoy warns
“The more we can strangle Russia’s ability to fund this murderous war, the better for all of us,” says U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
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September 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Wright said it would be preferable for Europe to get its supplies from “its friends.”"
For the current US administration, Europe is an enemy, until there is an opportunity to sell more fossil fuels, at which point it becomes a friend
For the current US administration, Europe is an enemy, until there is an opportunity to sell more fossil fuels, at which point it becomes a friend
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"Welcoming a potential war criminal to Downing Street is another demonstration of how Keir Starmer and the Labour government are implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social calls for the arrest of the Israeli President ahead of Herzog's visit with Labour ministers.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social calls for the arrest of the Israeli President ahead of Herzog's visit with Labour ministers.
September 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"Welcoming a potential war criminal to Downing Street is another demonstration of how Keir Starmer and the Labour government are implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social calls for the arrest of the Israeli President ahead of Herzog's visit with Labour ministers.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social calls for the arrest of the Israeli President ahead of Herzog's visit with Labour ministers.
Much of the world is reliant on American fossil fuels, billed in America's currency.
Is it any wonder that today, many countries are keen to move to machines like solar, batteries and EVs which together can mitigate this brutal double exposure?
The always brilliant @thepolycrisis.bsky.social duo
Is it any wonder that today, many countries are keen to move to machines like solar, batteries and EVs which together can mitigate this brutal double exposure?
The always brilliant @thepolycrisis.bsky.social duo
China is making massive investments in electrification to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and the US dollar.
@katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss the geopolitics and how other countries are getting on board.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/291_...
@katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss the geopolitics and how other countries are getting on board.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/291_...
September 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Much of the world is reliant on American fossil fuels, billed in America's currency.
Is it any wonder that today, many countries are keen to move to machines like solar, batteries and EVs which together can mitigate this brutal double exposure?
The always brilliant @thepolycrisis.bsky.social duo
Is it any wonder that today, many countries are keen to move to machines like solar, batteries and EVs which together can mitigate this brutal double exposure?
The always brilliant @thepolycrisis.bsky.social duo
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It's important to assume that Reform in Government would indeed try to do this. The right thing is not to tell the public that this won't happen - so they can therefore vote for Reform without guilt - but rather that a vote for Reform is a vote for the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people.
None of this will ever happen, and it's incumbent on the BBC to at least indicate that everybody who knows anything about this topic says it's a load of baloney. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK would pay countries for migrant return deals
The party outlines its plans to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK on small boats.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It's important to assume that Reform in Government would indeed try to do this. The right thing is not to tell the public that this won't happen - so they can therefore vote for Reform without guilt - but rather that a vote for Reform is a vote for the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people.
It's deeply depressing that our government feels it can only oppose this on practical grounds - 'it's an unworkable plan!' - and not by calling it out for the brutal, dystopian and dehumanising horror that it is
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK prepared to deport 600,000 under migration plans
The party outlines its plans to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK on small boats.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It's deeply depressing that our government feels it can only oppose this on practical grounds - 'it's an unworkable plan!' - and not by calling it out for the brutal, dystopian and dehumanising horror that it is
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This isn't a policy proposal - it's ideological virtue signalling, directed squarely at Washington
Fracking is deeply unpopular in the UK, and extremely challenging to do, certainly at a profit - but Tice claims it can be done with zero public investment!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fracking is deeply unpopular in the UK, and extremely challenging to do, certainly at a profit - but Tice claims it can be done with zero public investment!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms
The party is serious about going after shale gas - but critics argue it's too difficult and costly.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This isn't a policy proposal - it's ideological virtue signalling, directed squarely at Washington
Fracking is deeply unpopular in the UK, and extremely challenging to do, certainly at a profit - but Tice claims it can be done with zero public investment!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fracking is deeply unpopular in the UK, and extremely challenging to do, certainly at a profit - but Tice claims it can be done with zero public investment!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
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x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
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August 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
🧵
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
🧵
Think climate change is already a political hot potato?
Just wait until people clock what's behind the cost of food going up up up
"In the five years to July, food prices increased by around 37%. That compares with a rise of 4.4% over the previous five-year period"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just wait until people clock what's behind the cost of food going up up up
"In the five years to July, food prices increased by around 37%. That compares with a rise of 4.4% over the previous five-year period"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why are food prices rising so fast?
Food and drink prices have risen by 4.9% over the last year, according to ONS inflation data.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Think climate change is already a political hot potato?
Just wait until people clock what's behind the cost of food going up up up
"In the five years to July, food prices increased by around 37%. That compares with a rise of 4.4% over the previous five-year period"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just wait until people clock what's behind the cost of food going up up up
"In the five years to July, food prices increased by around 37%. That compares with a rise of 4.4% over the previous five-year period"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Does Xi Jinping care about climate? It's complicated.
I unpack new @asiasociety.org research into where climate change ranks in Xi's policy priorities for @carbonbrief.org's DeBriefed newsletter
Also this week:
🌡️ Heatwaves and wildfires in Europe
🔍 Factchecking Trump's climate report
Read more⬇️
I unpack new @asiasociety.org research into where climate change ranks in Xi's policy priorities for @carbonbrief.org's DeBriefed newsletter
Also this week:
🌡️ Heatwaves and wildfires in Europe
🔍 Factchecking Trump's climate report
Read more⬇️
DeBriefed 15 August 2025: Raging wildfires; Xi’s priorities; Factchecking the Trump climate report - Carbon Brief
DeBriefed is Carbon Brief's essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change.
www.carbonbrief.org
August 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Does Xi Jinping care about climate? It's complicated.
I unpack new @asiasociety.org research into where climate change ranks in Xi's policy priorities for @carbonbrief.org's DeBriefed newsletter
Also this week:
🌡️ Heatwaves and wildfires in Europe
🔍 Factchecking Trump's climate report
Read more⬇️
I unpack new @asiasociety.org research into where climate change ranks in Xi's policy priorities for @carbonbrief.org's DeBriefed newsletter
Also this week:
🌡️ Heatwaves and wildfires in Europe
🔍 Factchecking Trump's climate report
Read more⬇️
Tune out the noise and it's clear that we're heading towards a future with a lot more renewables and lot less oil
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Hedge Funds Flip on Green Energy and Start Betting Against Oil
Portfolio managers have been reversing strategies that have dominated over the past four years.
www.bloomberg.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Tune out the noise and it's clear that we're heading towards a future with a lot more renewables and lot less oil
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#JournalismIsNotACrime
August 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.
🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime
🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime
August 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.
🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime
🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Trump admin is altering previous National Climate Assessments. These were produced by hundreds of climate scientists and mandated by Congress. (1/2)
August 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Trump admin is altering previous National Climate Assessments. These were produced by hundreds of climate scientists and mandated by Congress. (1/2)
The man arguably most to blame for the dismal state Britain finds itself in today is now lobbying to sign us up to a MAGA pyramid scheme
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UK is being ‘left behind’ on crypto, says George Osborne
Former chancellor who now advises Coinbase says Rachel Reeves should set up a framework for stablecoins
www.ft.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The man arguably most to blame for the dismal state Britain finds itself in today is now lobbying to sign us up to a MAGA pyramid scheme
www.ft.com/content/2b55...
www.ft.com/content/2b55...
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The global energy investment landscape has undergone major changes in the past decade – responding to the rise of new energy technologies and shockwaves from the pandemic & the 2022 energy crisis.
World Energy Investment 2025 examines the shifts in detail 👉 iea.li/40JSiPX
World Energy Investment 2025 examines the shifts in detail 👉 iea.li/40JSiPX
August 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The global energy investment landscape has undergone major changes in the past decade – responding to the rise of new energy technologies and shockwaves from the pandemic & the 2022 energy crisis.
World Energy Investment 2025 examines the shifts in detail 👉 iea.li/40JSiPX
World Energy Investment 2025 examines the shifts in detail 👉 iea.li/40JSiPX
"If Europe pumps the brakes on decarbonization, Chinese assets could be stranded, whereas China could face retaliation if it refuses to collaborate or align with global norms. The question now is whether they can constructively shape their interdependence"
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...
Can Europe and China Forge a Climate Connection?
Emmanuel Guerin & Bernice Lee tout a shared competitiveness agenda as a way for both sides to reap the full benefits of green growth.
www.project-syndicate.org
August 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
"If Europe pumps the brakes on decarbonization, Chinese assets could be stranded, whereas China could face retaliation if it refuses to collaborate or align with global norms. The question now is whether they can constructively shape their interdependence"
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...