Steve Dawe

Chinese Turbine Suppliers Seize the Spotlight as Global Wind Power Installations Hit All-Time High, BloombergNEF Report Shows | BloombergNEF Global wind capacity additions hit an all-time high in 2025, marking a third straight year of record installations, according to BloombergNEF's annual Global Wind Turbine Market Shares 2025,

IS WIND STRUGGLING?

Not at all. Global deployment rose by +38% last year💪

- 169 GW installed in 2025
- 95% onshore, 5% off
- Led by China: +47% to 126GW
- Outside China: +17% to 37GW

"This momentum is not fading. We expect similar levels to end of this decade."

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UK’s dependence on gas for home heating leaves households especially exposed to volatility in international energy markets

Spike in gas prices hit UK worst in W. Europe following Russian invasion, acc IMF

Nuclear industry “is dead”, EU focus should be on renewables Analysts tell Montel Europe's nuclear industry

Residual demand in Europe is insufficient to make nuclear investments viable. Renewables-heavy systems provide flexibility through batteries, demand response and pumped hydropower rather than additional nuclear capacity.
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This is a terrible and very uninformed take of Tim who should know better.

- heat pumps save around 80% gas today compared to gas boilers

- using renewable electricity is one of the most effective ways to reduce gas consumption

- the marginal emissions argument is deeply flawed (more in comments)

Gender, climate and knowledge: Community adaptation through a gender lens - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research In this three-part podcast special, you will hear leading researchers explore the important intersection of gender, climate, and knowledge. Recorded at the

How does focusing on women's knowledge reshape climate adaptation? 🎧️ This podcast series explores gender, climate and knowledge intersections: from grassroots forecasting to bridging the gaps between scientific data, policies, and real-life experiences. Start with Ep 1: buff.ly/mikijeu

Reform UK staged a press conference today pledging to scrap the North Sea windfall tax and the upcoming fuel duty rise.

Here's our response from @hollybt.bsky.social, director of politics 👇

Gas is Europe’s most critical vulnerability, and countries that rely on it for electricity production, like 🇮🇹, 🇬🇷, or 🇮🇪, could see a big increase in bills.
Meanwhile, countries using more renewable energy, like 🇪🇸 & 🇵🇹 are more resilient against the price shocks.
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Four ways to tackle health and climate together – and lift millions of people out of poverty Health and climate action can be designed together, supporting and reinforcing each other, instead of being treated as separate priorities.

"Switching to electric transport means cleaner air and reduced toxic exposure. It also creates cooler, less polluted and quieter cities. This reduces respiratory and cardiovascular disease, reduces heat-related injuries and deaths."

#Health #ClimateAction

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A habitability lens to boost effective local climate adaptation Climate adaptation is what we (will) make of it, that is, either a burden or an opportunity for a brighter and equitable future. Achieving effective a…

Doomism can be an obstacle to adaptation, not just cutting emissions. Here, a group of us who have worked in small islands states argue that focusing on habitability - what you want to keep and improve, not what you will lose - boosts adaptation efforts.
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What about the climate? How the Green party's messaging has changed in 2026 - Climate Outreach Eco-populism is the Green’s new approach – but is the eco missing? The Green Party of England and Wales are riding high in the polls. It’s just over a week […]

Really good critique of the unfounded idea that the Green Party has dropped Climate or environment as concerns: climateoutreach.org/greens_ecopo...

Our borders are not secure against this: theecologist.org/2026/mar/10/...

How Britain is involved in Trump’s Iran war Keir Starmer’s complicity in the illegal US-Israeli war started in January when British and American assets started moving to the Middle East

👉NEW -- How Britain is involved in Trump’s Iran war

by Dania Akkad

Keir Starmer’s complicity in the illegal US-Israeli war started in January when British and American assets started moving to the Middle East
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski discussing his political rivals and trans rights YouTube video by Attitude Magazine

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Fishing has a carbon cost just as overfishing is still sanctioned in the North Sea: theecologist.org/2026/mar/10/...

Hell and - even higher water? Sea level rise much worse than previously measured - raising fears of greater impacts from climate breakdown.

Sea level rise, already higher than expected: theecologist.org/2026/mar/10/...

Greens vs Reform: the voters driving Britain’s new political divide The Gorton and Denton by-election highlights a widening political divide as Reform UK and the Greens draw support from very different voters

Greens vs Reform: the voters driving Britain’s new political divide eastangliabylines.co.uk/party-politi...

Why Oxford? An examination of the Interim Report of the Oxford Growth Commission The Oxford Growth Commission puts too much faith in the private sector and lacks a credible plan for housing, transport, and sustainable development

My article on the limitations of even more Growth in Oxford: Why Oxford? An examination of the Interim Report of the Oxford Growth Commission westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/why-...

Ella’s Law includes provisions to phase out wood burning.

Transport & Environment UK social leasing options

HAC colleagues @transportenvironment.org in partnership with @evaengland.org.uk have launched a report on expanding access to EVs for lower income households. It calls for social leasing to cut costs, reduce emissions + ensure the shift to clean mobility is fair for everyone.
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Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study - Carbon Brief An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...

Not slowing, accelerating: www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...

Lobbyists send legal threats to councils over anti-wood burner campaigns At least eight councils receive legal threats alleging flyers criticising wood burners are in breach of advertising codes

Lobbyists for the UK wood-burning stove industry threaten councils with legal action over public information campaigns on the harms of #airpollution

- "Straight from the playbook of tobacco" says Jemima Hartshorn, at Mums for Lungs

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Dramatic rise in water-related violence recorded since 2022 Experts say climate crisis, corruption and lack or misuse of infrastructure among factors driving water conflicts

As we witness the horror of attacks on desalination plants, we need to be aware, on a warming planet, conflict over water, using water as a weapon of war, & targeting people seeking water is on the rise

- in the past 4 years, it's nearly doubled:

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B.C. Doctors Flag Alarming Health Trends Near Fracking Sites Researchers met with the city of Dawson Creek in British Columbia to share insights about how fracking in the region is affecting public health.

- Cancers
- unexplained scarring on the lungs
- impaired fetal growth
- premature birth
- heart disease

Canadian doctors warn of alarming health trends near fracking sites:

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British Geological Survey map showing areas of UK suitable for fracking

And Reform have pledged to open the UK for fracking if elected.

Below is a British Geological Survey map of areas in the UK suitable for fracking exploration 👇🏾

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Fracking firm denied more time to restore Lancashire site Cuadrilla has

In Lancashire they're still waiting for a fracking site to be cleaned up so it's safe to farm on, years after fracking was paused:

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Yorkshire to decide fracking proposal and not the Government Secretary of State declines to call in Burniston fracking proposal River Ure in Yorkshire Proposals for fracking near Scarborough will now not be ‘called in’ by the Government and instead the decis…

In Yorkshire, a fracking firm tries to get round the ban on fracking by saying the 'proppant squeeze' they plan to use is not a form of fracking, so exempt from the ban.

Others beg to differ:

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Reform's pro fracking stance ignores public opposition. Being funded by Climate blind FF interests will undermine them.

I'm looking forward to reading the full text of the new Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill. It's at:

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Reform UK bars award-winning journalist from manifesto launch - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage Restriction is 'straight from Trump playbook' says writer

Reform have skin so thin you can see right through it.
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Criminal Barrister confronts Lammy comparing jury trials to a 'scraped knee' Criminal barrister calls for Lammy to resign as justice secretary compares 3 years in prison to 'scraping your knee'

Criminal barrister calls for Lammy to resign as justice secretary compares 3 years in prison to 'scraping your knee'