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Strategy, Communications, Engagement. Tweets about business, policy, energy transition.

Calgary, Alberta
Joined December 2011
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Love Canada's climb in the BNEF lithium ion battery supply chain attractiveness index! #2 after China overall. Let it be known. 🇨🇦😉 @AvistaHomayun @LucLeboeuf
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Here's @AliciaPlanincic, Jamie Bonham, and me in @RIACanada on future-proofing prosperity in Alberta. riacanada.ca/magazine/quick-… @LabEnergy
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Less mowed grass, more wild flowers via @Greenpeace
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Jeremy van Loon retweeted
Great 🧵on todays' @ClimateInstit report from lead author (and all-around clever guy) @dion_jason 💡🔦
📢Today, @climateinstit released our latest report “The Big Switch”. In it, we explore both the technical and policy changes needed to align Canada’s electricity systems with net zero. I’ll summarize some key findings and recommendations here.⚡️ climateinstitute.ca/big-swit…
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California's grid ran on almost 100% clean energy this month bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #renewableenergy
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Plunging costs of renewables mark a turning point in a global transition to low-carbon energy, with new solar or wind farms increasingly cheaper to build than running existing coal plants
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Good climate news this week 1 China to add 140GW of solar + wind in 2022 2 US renewables queue soars to 1,300GW 3 California briefly ran on 97% clean energy 4 Irish grid can now run on 75% renewables 5 NY State to electrify 100% of school buses 6 Mercedes EV breaks 1,000km range
Good climate news this week 1 Germany to reform laws to deliver 100% renewables by 2035 2 UK ups wind target to 50GW by 2030 3 EU to target faster HFC cuts 4 EU to broaden citizens' rights to sue polluters 5 IPCC outlines solutions [again] 6 China’s BYD stops making petrol cars
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Between 2005 and 2019, Canadian GHGs fell 0.03% annually, or 3 Mt total. In 2020, they dropped 65.9 Mt in one year, or 8.9%. Light duty vehicles down 16Mt, natural gas processing down 11Mt, conventional light and heavy oil down 9Mt, and electricity down 7 Mt.
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Banks say they're getting tough on coal, but they keep lending trillions to polluters. They pledged to go green. Yet they can't seem to ditch coal. It's not all about money, just mostly cnn.com/2022/04/10/investing…
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An important piece of work that underlines five immediate policy priorities for GHG reduction #cdnpoli
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Very good thread on today's @IPCC_CH. From a Canadian perspective, this underlines the necessity of implementing the #2030EmissionsReductionPlan as quickly as possible. There's no time to waste #cdnpoli @ClimateInstit
🚨 The @IPCC_CH report on how to tackle climate change is finally out, covering nearly 3,000 pages Look out tomorrow for @CarbonBrief in-depth summary Here are some highlights 1/ Global GHG emissions are at highest ever level, but growth has slowed ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessm…
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Visualizing The World’s Loss of Forests Since the Ice-Age visualcapitalist.com/visuali…
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Out today! New scoping paper by Shawn McCarthy (@smccarthy55) on lessons for Canada from Nordic electricity co-operation and integration climateinstitute.ca/publicat…
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This month, Canada moves from #NetZero commitments to implementation: some thoughts on the significance of this moment from @caristconsult and I #2030EmissionsReductionPlan #cdnpoli @ClimateInstit @NZAB_Canada thestar.com/opinion/contribu… via @torontostar
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Park where you want: Boss level! 💯
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#CleanGrowth needs to play a role in government plans for a #JustTransition in Canada. #cdnpoli #polcan climateinstitute.ca/is-clean…
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Global energy-related CO2 emissions rose to record high in 2021-IEA... reuters.com/business/energy/…
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Why is the automobile viewed as the ultimate symbol of freedom again?
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