Chris Hopkins
@chrishopkins.bsky.social
Interim Policy Director @GECoalition.bsky.social, @IIED.bsky.social 💚 Personal views & 🌭🐶 content only.
Econ, env. policy, geopolitics, football 🤓 stuff. He/Him. Occasionally ChrisHopkins99.
Econ, env. policy, geopolitics, football 🤓 stuff. He/Him. Occasionally ChrisHopkins99.
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Chris Hopkins
@chrishopkins.bsky.social
· Nov 14
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We know what policies and laws are needed to build a green, fair future. But which countries are leading the way - and which are lagging behind?
greeneconomytracker.org
Will get around to a proper pinned post, but here's one interesting thing I do - the Green Economy Tracker.
greeneconomytracker.org
41 countries, 21 policies, crowd sourced assessment of green transitions. Evolution in progress... 🧬
greeneconomytracker.org
41 countries, 21 policies, crowd sourced assessment of green transitions. Evolution in progress... 🧬
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the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
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I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
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It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
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Lots of optimism today from the IEA on the future for oil and LNG growth. The US and Qatar are going to flood the global market with LNG in the next few years. We are told the market is thirsty for this energy.
Meanwhile, back in the real world....
Meanwhile, back in the real world....
Qatar Agrees to Divert 24 LNG Cargoes; Pakistan to Pay Price Difference
Pakistan and Qatar have agreed to divert 24 liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes next year as domestic demand continues to weaken, particularly from the
propakistani.pk
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Lots of optimism today from the IEA on the future for oil and LNG growth. The US and Qatar are going to flood the global market with LNG in the next few years. We are told the market is thirsty for this energy.
Meanwhile, back in the real world....
Meanwhile, back in the real world....
Interesting summary of proposals coming out for hitting $1.3tn climate finance goal in the Baku to Belém roadmap.
At one level - any version will feel speculative given the need + starting point, so it's a matter of duelling implausibilities...
At one level - any version will feel speculative given the need + starting point, so it's a matter of duelling implausibilities...
An influential team called the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance has laid out what it calls an "entirely feasible path" to mobilising $1.3tn by 2035.
This was the aspirational goal agreed at last year's COP.
Half of the finance in their pathway comes from the private sector.
This was the aspirational goal agreed at last year's COP.
Half of the finance in their pathway comes from the private sector.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Interesting summary of proposals coming out for hitting $1.3tn climate finance goal in the Baku to Belém roadmap.
At one level - any version will feel speculative given the need + starting point, so it's a matter of duelling implausibilities...
At one level - any version will feel speculative given the need + starting point, so it's a matter of duelling implausibilities...
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33% chance this comes back to bite his ass.
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
33% chance this comes back to bite his ass.
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Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
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This is going to be a big old thread where I dump thoughts, reactions, charts etc from the @iea.org World Energy Outlook 2025 :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkP...
www.iea.org/commentaries...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkP...
www.iea.org/commentaries...
World Energy Outlook 2025
YouTube video by International Energy Agency
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This is going to be a big old thread where I dump thoughts, reactions, charts etc from the @iea.org World Energy Outlook 2025 :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkP...
www.iea.org/commentaries...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkP...
www.iea.org/commentaries...
Screaming, crying, throwing up, etc.
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Screaming, crying, throwing up, etc.
I mean, just put this in the dictionary next to 'billionaire' tbqh.
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I mean, just put this in the dictionary next to 'billionaire' tbqh.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
The Heritage Foundation has found a new vein of shame to mine.
Science and climate denialism, now hand in hand with denying recognition to segregated black troops who served and dug their country's own war cemetery. Shameful.
Science and climate denialism, now hand in hand with denying recognition to segregated black troops who served and dug their country's own war cemetery. Shameful.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The Heritage Foundation has found a new vein of shame to mine.
Science and climate denialism, now hand in hand with denying recognition to segregated black troops who served and dug their country's own war cemetery. Shameful.
Science and climate denialism, now hand in hand with denying recognition to segregated black troops who served and dug their country's own war cemetery. Shameful.
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Some thoughts on why Remembrance is so important, and why attempts to police it should be resisted.
One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests.
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Some thoughts on why Remembrance is so important, and why attempts to police it should be resisted.
We need to do a World Cup of Nonsense Charts.
The escalation vortex 👑 is in danger.
The escalation vortex 👑 is in danger.
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We need to do a World Cup of Nonsense Charts.
The escalation vortex 👑 is in danger.
The escalation vortex 👑 is in danger.
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AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
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The #COP30 world leaders summit is about to start, and on this thread I'll be tracking how world leaders address energy transition (specifically fossil fuels) in their speeches. Let's go!
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The #COP30 world leaders summit is about to start, and on this thread I'll be tracking how world leaders address energy transition (specifically fossil fuels) in their speeches. Let's go!
There's a line of argument that takes the billions of people using AI/LLMs - many millions intensively - and concludes they should be proximate to thousands and thousands of tragic incidents, even *if* completely harmless.
And then there's this - and you realise people are rightly going to jail.
And then there's this - and you realise people are rightly going to jail.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
There's a line of argument that takes the billions of people using AI/LLMs - many millions intensively - and concludes they should be proximate to thousands and thousands of tragic incidents, even *if* completely harmless.
And then there's this - and you realise people are rightly going to jail.
And then there's this - and you realise people are rightly going to jail.
'Area-pundit finally comes around to the value of gender studies!' [contemptible]
Honestly grateful to Douthat for this accessible distillation of this point of view. Going to be a great teaching tool that generates lots of conversation.
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
'Area-pundit finally comes around to the value of gender studies!' [contemptible]
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"Here is the graph, which is so wild, the climate scientist had to call a colleague & check it"
It is true actually! In the Global Carbon Budget we do not usually show the LUC like this, because of interannual variability & uncertainty. But it is what the data says!
politiken.dk/klima/art106...
It is true actually! In the Global Carbon Budget we do not usually show the LUC like this, because of interannual variability & uncertainty. But it is what the data says!
politiken.dk/klima/art106...
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
"Here is the graph, which is so wild, the climate scientist had to call a colleague & check it"
It is true actually! In the Global Carbon Budget we do not usually show the LUC like this, because of interannual variability & uncertainty. But it is what the data says!
politiken.dk/klima/art106...
It is true actually! In the Global Carbon Budget we do not usually show the LUC like this, because of interannual variability & uncertainty. But it is what the data says!
politiken.dk/klima/art106...
UK shooting itself in the foot, as well as letting down nature guardians...
This is deeply disappointing from Starmer.
The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯
How embarrassing for the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯
How embarrassing for the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
UK shooting itself in the foot, as well as letting down nature guardians...
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
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This doesn't even include the cost of avoided climate damages, or account for any of the co-benefits of climate action!!! 😮💨
#CostOfNotZero
#CostOfNotZero
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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
Are the advocates for net zero losing the fight?
The cost of misunderstanding: How public perception shapes the net zero debate
fgsglobal.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This doesn't even include the cost of avoided climate damages, or account for any of the co-benefits of climate action!!! 😮💨
#CostOfNotZero
#CostOfNotZero
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If we're starting another quantum hype cycle, I need people to understand that there are pretty much just two practical problems we *know* have an exponential speedup on a quantum computer. These are:
1. Breaking the internet
2. Being quantum
A few other problems have a smaller speedup, or none
1. Breaking the internet
2. Being quantum
A few other problems have a smaller speedup, or none
November 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
If we're starting another quantum hype cycle, I need people to understand that there are pretty much just two practical problems we *know* have an exponential speedup on a quantum computer. These are:
1. Breaking the internet
2. Being quantum
A few other problems have a smaller speedup, or none
1. Breaking the internet
2. Being quantum
A few other problems have a smaller speedup, or none
