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Indra Overland
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Research Professor at NUPI | energy transition | ASEAN | FSU | squash player | foodie |
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Happy to be interviewed by Jack Board for this piece in @channelnewsasia.bsky.social. In good company with Christopher Len @iseas-singapore.bsky.social, Li Shuo @asiasociety.org, Sisilia Nurmala Dewi @350.org, and @rueannahaynes.bsky.social @climateanalytics.org.
COP30: Climate diplomacy at a crossroads, 10 years after Paris accord
As the COP30 UN-led talks kick off in Brazil, observers say climate diplomacy is increasingly fragmented by geopolitics, nationalism and economic rivalry. But they remain cautiously optimistic about p...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
"Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two billion people, could suffer catastrophic losses even under moderate global warming scenarios, according to a new global assessment by @iccinet.bsky.social"
At 2°C warming, only 25% of Hindu Kush–Himalayan glaciers will survive, warns report | Dehradun News - The Times of India
Dehradun: Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two bill.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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nataliejones.bsky.social
Important new research published last month in Nature Sustainability shows that the oil and gas industry has only a 1.42% share of global renewable energy.

Only 20% of the 250 largest oil and gas companies operate any renewable energy projects.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#COP30
Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy - Nature Sustainability
The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the total energy production by t...
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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chrisbataille.bsky.social
Just as a thought for the development types out there, the older term of "industrial(ized) economies" more aptly applies to China and the middle income countries now (as a portion of GDP), than to the higher income, highly developed countries. #Fridaythought cc @katemac.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.
10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are (Gift Article)
Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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teslatakedownuk.bsky.social
Europe’s EV Market Grows 24%, But Tesla Registrations Plummet by 38% | WhichEV.Net share.google/eou9bxpDvS5w...

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Europe’s EV Market Grows 24%, But Tesla Registrations Plummet by 38%
The UK market has outperformed the EU, passing 22% BEV share year-to-date, as plug-in hybrids see a major resurgence across
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October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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michaelpettis.bsky.social
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Bloomberg: "It’s clear that Western nations are slowly starting to recognize the need for an embrace of production-oriented — rather than 1990s style consumer-focused — economic strategies."
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
China Has Another Trade Weapon Waiting for America
It’s not just rare earths the US has to worry about. It’s pharmaceuticals, too.
www.bloomberg.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Today I learned that Equinor, Norway's state-owned fossil fuel company, had to buy the name from a horse vet when they rebranded from 'Statoil'

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Oil majors aren’t famed for their pranks, but Statoil ASA had analysts checking it wasn’t April Fool’s Day when it announced a new name that turned out to have been acquired from an Oslo veterinary practice specializing in horses. “We checked the calendar,” SpareBank 1 Markets analyst Teodor Sveen Nilsen said in a note to clients. “It’s not April 1.” Should shareholders back the change at its annual general meeting in May, Statoil will be called Equinor, a name intended to reflect the Norwegian oil company’s commitment to cleaner energy sources. Initial reactions on Twitter suggest not everyone is convinced by a rebranding exercise that Chief Executive Officer Eldar Saetre said could cost as much as 250 million kroner ($32 million). “I don’t expect Equinor to be love at first sight for everyone,” the CEO told reporters in Oslo on Thursday. “Give it a little time, let it mature. I feel very confident that this is right and important for the company to do.” Statoil declined to disclose how much it paid the veterinarian, who will soon be offering services from equine dentistry to castration under the name of Equina.
November 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
indraoverland.bsky.social
NUPI rekrutterer fem masterstudenter! Dette er en mulighet til jobbe med Norges sterkeste miljø på internasjonale spørsmål og bygge et godt nettverk. Mange av de som har vært masterstudenter på NUPI har gått videre til store ting.

www.nupi.no/om-nupi/ledi...
Masterstudenter | NUPI
NUPI er et uavhengig forskningsinstitutt som har til formål å forske og informere om internasjonale utviklingstrekk og spørsmål som er sentrale for norsk utenrikspolitikk og utenriksøkonomi
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October 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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chrisbataille.bsky.social
Great NYT article China’s fast growing nucelar industry www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
indraoverland.bsky.social
🧵(1/2) Trump announces sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies. Whether this is just performative or will be withdrawn after next call from his handler in the Kremlin, remains to be seen. However, it may be useful to know more about these two behemoths which produce over half of Russian oil.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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johnsmillie42.bsky.social
This is the big one keeping solar and batteries from eating eveything - winter.

It's why decarb models even in the sunny US typically have more wind than solar, why Ontario, Sweden, and Finland are building more nuclear, and why we need to deploy what tools we can to blunt heat demand.
solarchase.bsky.social Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 22d
20. There is no way we can build a big enough battery to shift energy from summer to winter. The economics of battery storage are nearly impossible at one cycle a year.
October 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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wineecon.bsky.social
Per Capita Wine Consumption in France, Italy and Spain, 1835-2023
October 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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solarchase.bsky.social
Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.

www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon
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October 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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nocureforchronic.bsky.social
No need to wear the raincoat
I’ll wear the rain instead
There are fires to put out
Ones that keep me in bed

#raincoat #vss365
October 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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norvid-studies.bsky.social
ancient chinese curse
sneptech.bsky.social max 🌌 and 6 others @sneptech.bsky.social · Oct 11
may your autistic special interest never become geopolitically relevant
October 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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helenczerski.bsky.social
The first steam-powered passenger rail trip was on 27th Sept 1825 (200th bday is nuanced - regular passenger steam slightly later). Here's transport carbon footprint today - Eurostar easily cleanest cos fully electrified. I hope the next 200 yrs has even more (electric) trains! With lower prices...
September 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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antonyaolarsson.bsky.social
Here is the first more in-depth article on the truly breathtaking discovery of a 6 kg silver hoard, containing thousands of late 1100s AD coins and ample Viking Age jewelry, found near Stockholm. Paywalled, but surely not the last you will hear of this. www.dn.se/sverige/hon-...
September 26, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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jamescomey.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Something important is that the Bitcoin debate also featured the same reactionary anti-environmentalist reflexives arguing that we can't argue against something because it's extremely energy intensive.

Fast forward four years: Bitcoin now consumes as much power as Pakistan

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Bitcoin, Weed, and NFTs The Case for Frivolity in a Future of Abundance Mar 12, 2021 Print Share Share via Twitter Share via Facebook Share via Email Climate advocates seem increasingly concerned about fun and frivolity. I am here to defend it. But let me begin by (partially) agreeing with climate hawks’ fashionable antipathy towards one particular frivolity: Bitcoin. My case against Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is simple: we already have money and it works great. A successful future for Bitcoin will either see it displace fiat currency under a still heavily-regulated monetary system, in which case the alleged comparative advantages of crypto disappear, or it will achieve its final form as a truly untraceable, unregulatable digital currency, which will further unmoor the public trust in institutions and state capacity that observers across the political spectrum warn has eroded. No thanks. Now contrast my argument here with those of climate hawks, whose case against Bitcoin tends to begin and end with its carbon footprint. We shouldn’t fret about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies centrally because of their carbon intensity. We should fret because, by and large, they serve no useful social function. It’s a crucial distinction with implications beyond Bitcoin: We should not oppose emerging technologies and activities merely because they consume a lot of energy. As I wrote a few years ago, “Bitcoin may be a bad idea, but desalination and wastewater treatment, large-scale materials recycling, direct-air carbon capture, vertical farming and aquaculture, and spaceflight have a lot to say for them — and all will come with significant energy demands.” A planet of seven going on nine or ten billion people later this century will require significantly more energy than is produced today, most of it, hopefully, from low-carbon technologies. But it’s not just essential industries and services that deserve a place in a clean energy future. Even energy-intensive sourc…
September 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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akshatrathi.bsky.social
Here are 10 provocations on climate and energy. Tell me if you agree, disagree or have a nuanced take. Drop your own provocations in reply or quote post.

Start:

1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!
September 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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heimbergecon.bsky.social
Statistically insignificant results are at least as interesting as significant ones (but often end up in the file drawer because deemed less publishable). Results are interesting if they change what we believe. No reason that only non-zero findings should change our beliefs.
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
indraoverland.bsky.social
ASEAN megacities face congestion, air pollution, traffic safety issues. Public transport could help remedy all three + mitigate climate change. But in the ASEAN countries' NDCs, only 2.2% of targets covers it. 6 of 10 ASEAN country NDCs make no mention at all. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Does ASEAN climate policy pay sufficient attention to public transportation? - Discover Sustainability
Expansion of public transportation is a climate mitigation measure with many potential co-benefits and positive externalities: reduced congestion, lower air and noise pollution, improved road safety, ...
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September 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM