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Liam Dowd
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Industry Lead - Sustainable Business, Reuters Professional.

As Spike Lee said 'Do The Right Thing'.

Thoughts and comments are my own, I think.
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📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872

🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%

www.carbonbrief.org/...
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March 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky
February 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"A problem created by 8 billion people is not going to be solved by a few governments and a few corporations... People will have to step up to the plate and change the way they live their lives"

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Satya Tripathi: ‘We aren’t here to fix the market, we are here to fix the planet’
Indian-born Tripathi, former assistant general secretary of UN Environment, rejects the “top-down” approach that he says pervades environmental finance.
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January 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Data presented by NASA charting global average temperature change by month since 1880. Have a look down the bottom. We are at the beginning of profound change.
December 20, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Just watched Deadpool and Wolverine, the finale - wow! Such a fitting song and montage
December 15, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Actions have consequences... California plan excludes Tesla from new EV tax credits, governor's office says - www.reuters.com/business/aut... #zevs #climate
California Governor Newsom to propose clean vehicle rebate if Trump cuts EV tax credit
California Governor Gavin Newsom will propose a new version of the state's discontinued Clean Vehicle Rebate Project if the incoming Donald Trump administration scraps the federal tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases, his office said on Monday.
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November 25, 2024 at 11:45 PM
One of Reuters columnists interviewed an investor in X and he's said he's done with the platform - something that I finally came to action last week. So glad I'm (finally) here... www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Elon Musk investor Gerber says he is 'kind of done with X'
Donald Trump's U.S. presidential election victory seems set to have a wide impact on the businesses of Elon Musk, including his social media platform X.com.
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November 20, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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EU countries brought 113 fossil fuel lobbyists to the #COP29 climate talks in Baku, with Greece, Italy, Sweden and Belgium bringing the most

Oil, gas and coal lobbyists have no interest in real climate action – only in delaying it

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Europe brings gas lobbyists to COP29 to strike deals – Fossil Free Politics
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November 18, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Hopefully more CEOs speak out in supprt of Inflation Act.

US utilities want Trump, Republicans to save inflation act, Edison CEO says - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US utilities want Trump, Republicans to save inflation act, Edison CEO says
The U.S. utility industry wants the incoming Trump administration and Republican-led Congress to preserve clean energy and EV tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act, Pedro Pizarro, the CEO of utility Edison International said on Saturday.
www.reuters.com
November 17, 2024 at 1:24 AM