Jonny Peters
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Chief of Staff at E3G @e3g.bsky.social
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OUT NOW: All you need to know about COP30, brought to you by @carbonbrief.org
Our 20k word explainer breaks down:
🛢️ What happened with the fossil fuel roadmap push?
💰 Who wanted (and got) what on climate finance?
🇨🇳 Did China step up as a climate leader?
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Our 20k word explainer breaks down:
🛢️ What happened with the fossil fuel roadmap push?
💰 Who wanted (and got) what on climate finance?
🇨🇳 Did China step up as a climate leader?
Find out here ⬇️
COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém - Carbon Brief
A voluntary plan to curb fossil fuels, a goal to triple adaptation finance and new...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
OUT NOW: All you need to know about COP30, brought to you by @carbonbrief.org
Our 20k word explainer breaks down:
🛢️ What happened with the fossil fuel roadmap push?
💰 Who wanted (and got) what on climate finance?
🇨🇳 Did China step up as a climate leader?
Find out here ⬇️
Our 20k word explainer breaks down:
🛢️ What happened with the fossil fuel roadmap push?
💰 Who wanted (and got) what on climate finance?
🇨🇳 Did China step up as a climate leader?
Find out here ⬇️
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Keir Starmer will attend Cop30 in Brazil, No 10 confirms
Keir Starmer will attend Cop30 in Brazil, No 10 confirms
After speculation and conflicting pressures, prime minister will attend climate summit next month
Keir Starmer will travel to the Amazon rainforest for the UN climate summit next month, Downing Street has confirmed, after weeks of speculation that he would not.
No 10 said on Monday the prime minister would fly to Belém, in Brazil, for what experts say will be the most significant Cop meeting since Paris in 2015. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Keir Starmer will attend Cop30 in Brazil, No 10 confirms
Fantastic - UK gov announces 5 new clean energy Technical Excellence Colleges to train the next generation of workers needed for the clean energy transition - 400,000 extra jobs expected by 2030, in 31 priority occupations such as plumbers, electricians, and welders
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Clean energy jobs boom to bring thousands of new jobs
Clean energy will bring 400,000 extra jobs by 2030, with high demand for roles including plumbers, electricians and welders.
www.gov.uk
October 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Fantastic - UK gov announces 5 new clean energy Technical Excellence Colleges to train the next generation of workers needed for the clean energy transition - 400,000 extra jobs expected by 2030, in 31 priority occupations such as plumbers, electricians, and welders
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
The UK uses the Climate Change Act framework to set its national targets under the Paris Agreement. What’s next, will the Tories go full Donald Trump and pull the UK out of Paris?
If not, how do they plan to set the national climate targets required of the UK under the Paris Agreement?
If not, how do they plan to set the national climate targets required of the UK under the Paris Agreement?
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The UK uses the Climate Change Act framework to set its national targets under the Paris Agreement. What’s next, will the Tories go full Donald Trump and pull the UK out of Paris?
If not, how do they plan to set the national climate targets required of the UK under the Paris Agreement?
If not, how do they plan to set the national climate targets required of the UK under the Paris Agreement?
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The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine | Anand Menon
The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine | Anand Menon
Reacting to the Russian military threat would require the bloc to be agile and decisive. It is many great things, but it is not that, says Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:52 AM
The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine | Anand Menon
James Cleverly a mess on net zero. Somehow tells Laura K he supports Badenoch wanting to scrap net zero by 2050 while also saying he supports and sees benefits of climate action
September 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
James Cleverly a mess on net zero. Somehow tells Laura K he supports Badenoch wanting to scrap net zero by 2050 while also saying he supports and sees benefits of climate action
Starmer also clearly emotional having to defend this moving gift to his mum. Laura K backed off pretty quick when she realised her gotcha question was actually just a bit mean
September 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Starmer also clearly emotional having to defend this moving gift to his mum. Laura K backed off pretty quick when she realised her gotcha question was actually just a bit mean
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Ellie Belton (Senior Policy Advisor, E3G) on how the energy agreements announced at the UK-EU Summit will;
📉Reduce the cost of decarbonisation
⬇️ Bring down bills
🇬🇧🇪🇺EU-UK cooperation delivering cheaper and cleaner energy for both sides.
📉Reduce the cost of decarbonisation
⬇️ Bring down bills
🇬🇧🇪🇺EU-UK cooperation delivering cheaper and cleaner energy for both sides.
June 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Ellie Belton (Senior Policy Advisor, E3G) on how the energy agreements announced at the UK-EU Summit will;
📉Reduce the cost of decarbonisation
⬇️ Bring down bills
🇬🇧🇪🇺EU-UK cooperation delivering cheaper and cleaner energy for both sides.
📉Reduce the cost of decarbonisation
⬇️ Bring down bills
🇬🇧🇪🇺EU-UK cooperation delivering cheaper and cleaner energy for both sides.
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The EU is set to announce that it is on track to cut planet-warming emissions by 54% by 2030 (relative to 1990 levels).
The legislated target is 55%.
www.ft.com/content/4abd...
The legislated target is 55%.
www.ft.com/content/4abd...
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Bloc is within one percentage point of meeting greenhouse gas emissions reduction target by 2030
www.ft.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The EU is set to announce that it is on track to cut planet-warming emissions by 54% by 2030 (relative to 1990 levels).
The legislated target is 55%.
www.ft.com/content/4abd...
The legislated target is 55%.
www.ft.com/content/4abd...
Useful from @simonusherwood.bsky.social “an early marker of how much effort is being put into this will be the speed with which the Commission produces and agrees mandates for SPS, Emissions trading, Energy market integration and youth mobility/experience”
My thoughts on this week's UK-EU reset
Tl;dr it's the next week's that will tell us whether it is going to mean much
Also, Jaws
www.open.ac.uk/blogs/EUatOU...
Tl;dr it's the next week's that will tell us whether it is going to mean much
Also, Jaws
www.open.ac.uk/blogs/EUatOU...
We’re gonna need a bigger tracker… | The European Union and the UK
www.open.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Useful from @simonusherwood.bsky.social “an early marker of how much effort is being put into this will be the speed with which the Commission produces and agrees mandates for SPS, Emissions trading, Energy market integration and youth mobility/experience”
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Blogged
Friends with benefits: the legal elements of the UK/EU reset: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/05/frie...
Friends with benefits: the legal elements of the UK/EU reset: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/05/frie...
Friends with benefits: the legal elements of the reset of the EU/UK relationship
Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Julian Herzog, via Wikimedia Commons Introduction Advocat...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Friends with benefits: the legal elements of the UK/EU reset: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/05/frie...
Friends with benefits: the legal elements of the UK/EU reset: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/05/frie...
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Not the most discussed element of the summit but I think the commitment on UK participation in the internal energy market is v significant. Unambiguous cherry picking which shows both UK willingness to reintegrate into single market and EU willingness to be flexible about it.
May 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Not the most discussed element of the summit but I think the commitment on UK participation in the internal energy market is v significant. Unambiguous cherry picking which shows both UK willingness to reintegrate into single market and EU willingness to be flexible about it.
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Shouldn’t Parliament have a say on new agreements with India, the US and the EU?
Some thoughts in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social
www.spectator.co.uk/article/parl...
Some thoughts in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social
www.spectator.co.uk/article/parl...
Parliament should get a say over Starmer's trade deals
It seems astonishing to think that parliament may not get a substantive vote on the principle of these agreements.
www.spectator.co.uk
May 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Shouldn’t Parliament have a say on new agreements with India, the US and the EU?
Some thoughts in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social
www.spectator.co.uk/article/parl...
Some thoughts in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social
www.spectator.co.uk/article/parl...
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New report shows strong business support renewables💡
"The results showed that despite the political and economic uncertainty, executives strongly support a rapid transition to renewable power,” said E3G's CEO Nick Mabey.
🔗 Read in @financialtimes.com: www.ft.com/content/5864...
"The results showed that despite the political and economic uncertainty, executives strongly support a rapid transition to renewable power,” said E3G's CEO Nick Mabey.
🔗 Read in @financialtimes.com: www.ft.com/content/5864...
Companies plan shift to green energy despite Trump-era rollbacks, survey shows
Majority of 1,500 executives polled back a long-term move away from fossil fuels
www.ft.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
New report shows strong business support renewables💡
"The results showed that despite the political and economic uncertainty, executives strongly support a rapid transition to renewable power,” said E3G's CEO Nick Mabey.
🔗 Read in @financialtimes.com: www.ft.com/content/5864...
"The results showed that despite the political and economic uncertainty, executives strongly support a rapid transition to renewable power,” said E3G's CEO Nick Mabey.
🔗 Read in @financialtimes.com: www.ft.com/content/5864...
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In this new report I make the case for councils to be funded, via a levy on landlords, to raise standards across the board in England and Wales' private rented sector (PRS).
Report in the link below, and we are running a webinar on Tues 8th April 10am; sign up here! 1/
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Report in the link below, and we are running a webinar on Tues 8th April 10am; sign up here! 1/
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Energy efficiency standards in the private rented sector, fair and effective local implementation
We set out 5 policies to significantly improve enforcement of existing and new energy efficiency standards in the private rented sector.
www.e3g.org
March 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In this new report I make the case for councils to be funded, via a levy on landlords, to raise standards across the board in England and Wales' private rented sector (PRS).
Report in the link below, and we are running a webinar on Tues 8th April 10am; sign up here! 1/
shorturl.at/ejEeB
Report in the link below, and we are running a webinar on Tues 8th April 10am; sign up here! 1/
shorturl.at/ejEeB
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"More than three years after Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged to stop building new coal projects abroad, the country’s Belt and Road Initiative is increasingly driven by renewables."
It's not altruism, y'all. Shit's cheaper.
It's not altruism, y'all. Shit's cheaper.
China’s foreign infrastructure push is greener than ever
Renewables beat fossil fuels in China’s overseas power projects last year.
www.semafor.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"More than three years after Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged to stop building new coal projects abroad, the country’s Belt and Road Initiative is increasingly driven by renewables."
It's not altruism, y'all. Shit's cheaper.
It's not altruism, y'all. Shit's cheaper.
Huge mistake from Kemi Badenoch - ditching net zero by 2050 is a continuation of Rishi Sunak’s failed policy platform, not the reset she is supposedly seeking
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Net Zero by 2050 'impossible' for UK, says Kemi Badenoch - BBC News
The Conservative leader says the target is impossible "without a serious drop in our living standards or by bankrupting us".
www.bbc.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Huge mistake from Kemi Badenoch - ditching net zero by 2050 is a continuation of Rishi Sunak’s failed policy platform, not the reset she is supposedly seeking
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🚨NEW: climate inaction will cost more than a third of global GDP this century, but an investment of less than 2% GDP now will reduce harms by 90% - a "massive opportunity for humanity", finds a report from Boston Consulting Group and University of Cambridge.
Climate Inaction Could Cost 1/3 Of Global GDP This Century, BCG Warns
The Big 3 consulting firm finds that most harms come from productivity losses, but also reveals how nations could avoid 90% of climate damage.
www.forbes.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
🚨NEW: climate inaction will cost more than a third of global GDP this century, but an investment of less than 2% GDP now will reduce harms by 90% - a "massive opportunity for humanity", finds a report from Boston Consulting Group and University of Cambridge.
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Despite the political noise, the economics of #NetZero are clear: clean energy investment is outpacing fossil fuels, and green industries are driving UK growth.
As E3G’s @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social puts it in @theguardian.com, 'The energy transition is unstoppable.'
As E3G’s @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social puts it in @theguardian.com, 'The energy transition is unstoppable.'
The government's climate plans are still ambitious and on-track, so why is Labour making so much anti-green noise? | Richard Power Sayeed
With apparent support for airport expansion and fossil fuel exploration, it may look as if the party’s leaders are abandoning climate pledges, but it’s just pantomime, says writer Richard Power Sayeed
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Despite the political noise, the economics of #NetZero are clear: clean energy investment is outpacing fossil fuels, and green industries are driving UK growth.
As E3G’s @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social puts it in @theguardian.com, 'The energy transition is unstoppable.'
As E3G’s @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social puts it in @theguardian.com, 'The energy transition is unstoppable.'
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The UK’s £6B aid cut risks undermining its global climate leadership. “This cut was made in Number 10… a top-level, top-down political decision,” says E3G’s Nick Mabey . What’s next for Britain’s climate commitments? 🌍
Read more via @politico.com: www.politico.eu/article/keir...
Read more via @politico.com: www.politico.eu/article/keir...
How Keir Starmer’s aid cuts threaten Britain’s climate mission
The Labour government has promised to lead the world on climate change, but its renewed focus on defense has thrown those plans into uncertainty.
www.politico.eu
March 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The UK’s £6B aid cut risks undermining its global climate leadership. “This cut was made in Number 10… a top-level, top-down political decision,” says E3G’s Nick Mabey . What’s next for Britain’s climate commitments? 🌍
Read more via @politico.com: www.politico.eu/article/keir...
Read more via @politico.com: www.politico.eu/article/keir...
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🚨 We're Hiring: Chief Programme Officer (CPO) at E3G! 🌍
Join us to drive #ClimateAction and shape E3G’s strategic vision. As CPO, you'll lead programmes, build partnerships & expand our impact.
📅 Apply by 26 March 2025, 9AM
🔗 More info: join-e3g.co.uk/job/chief-pr...
Join us to drive #ClimateAction and shape E3G’s strategic vision. As CPO, you'll lead programmes, build partnerships & expand our impact.
📅 Apply by 26 March 2025, 9AM
🔗 More info: join-e3g.co.uk/job/chief-pr...
March 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🚨 We're Hiring: Chief Programme Officer (CPO) at E3G! 🌍
Join us to drive #ClimateAction and shape E3G’s strategic vision. As CPO, you'll lead programmes, build partnerships & expand our impact.
📅 Apply by 26 March 2025, 9AM
🔗 More info: join-e3g.co.uk/job/chief-pr...
Join us to drive #ClimateAction and shape E3G’s strategic vision. As CPO, you'll lead programmes, build partnerships & expand our impact.
📅 Apply by 26 March 2025, 9AM
🔗 More info: join-e3g.co.uk/job/chief-pr...
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On the trade side the talk is now of the summit delivering a 'political declaration' (maybe renamed to avoid nightmares of Brexit past). In effect a device to try to lead the cautious on both sides towards better future negotiations.
aka a roadmap. Not a new idea.
aka a roadmap. Not a new idea.
February 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
On the trade side the talk is now of the summit delivering a 'political declaration' (maybe renamed to avoid nightmares of Brexit past). In effect a device to try to lead the cautious on both sides towards better future negotiations.
aka a roadmap. Not a new idea.
aka a roadmap. Not a new idea.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy joins Claudia Sheinbaum, Justin Trudeau, Xi Jinping (technically Liu He) and Jean-Claude Juncker in the exclusive and honourable club of people who have bamboozled Trump by signing deals in which he gets nothing. Heroes all. They should get badges and membership cards made up.
Exclusive: The full text of the US-Ukraine mineral deal
The Kyiv Independent has obtained from a source in the Ukrainian government, the full text of the mineral deal agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine.
kyivindependent.com
February 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Volodymyr Zelenskyy joins Claudia Sheinbaum, Justin Trudeau, Xi Jinping (technically Liu He) and Jean-Claude Juncker in the exclusive and honourable club of people who have bamboozled Trump by signing deals in which he gets nothing. Heroes all. They should get badges and membership cards made up.
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“A dispute over EU energy policies has led to the collapse of Norway’s coalition government, just as US President Donald Trump’s threats to impose tariffs and take over Greenland were set to reignite a debate on Oslo joining the bloc.” www.ft.com/content/c03f...
Norway’s government collapses over EU energy dispute
Eurosceptic junior coalition partner quits after PM’s push to implement energy directives from Brussels
www.ft.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“A dispute over EU energy policies has led to the collapse of Norway’s coalition government, just as US President Donald Trump’s threats to impose tariffs and take over Greenland were set to reignite a debate on Oslo joining the bloc.” www.ft.com/content/c03f...
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Here’s @jreland.bsky.social and I on why the ‘reset’ won’t be straightforward www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
UK haunted by Johnson’s ‘botched Brexit deal’ and Labour’s plans don’t go far enough | Anand Menon and Joël Reland
Five years on, it’s unclear how a proposed UK-EU relationship reset would repair damage to the economy
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Here’s @jreland.bsky.social and I on why the ‘reset’ won’t be straightforward www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...