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GOOD CLIMATE NEWS THIS WEEK 1 China wind, solar to overtake coal in 2024 2 Greta UK climate protest lawful 3 Saudi drops plan to boost oil capacity 4 China EVs up 92% y-o-y in January 5 1,100 new US EV stations in 6 months 6 Petrol car sales peaked in 2017 7 UK heat pumps up 49% This is the premiere of my weekly list of good climate news here on We Don’t Have Time. I hope it can cheer you up. The list ⬆️ has run for 4 years on other platforms. Follow me on LinkedIn and X to see my previous lists of good climate news. See also The Angry Clean Energy Guy's "Top 10 Good Climate News Stories of 2023" podcast, out now, packed with powerful, consequential climate action: https://theangrycleanenergyguy.com/podcast/episode-80/
Episode 80 - The Angry Clean Energy Guy
The Angry Clean Energy Guy's "Top 10 Good Climate News Stories of 2023"
https://theangrycleanenergyguy.com/podcast/episode-80/
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We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the challenge. Governments have struggled to meet even modest goals. Fossil fuel interests maintain a stranglehold on political and economic power. Even though we have seen growing concern from everyday people, civil society has succeeded only in pressuring decision makers to adopt watered-down policies. All the while, the climate crisis worsens. Is there any hope of achieving the systemic change we need? My new book, Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action, presents a deep-dive into how we got into this mess and what it will take to get to the other side. In short, it focuses on how people power is our most likely way through the climate crisis and concludes with advice (based on years of research in the trenches) about how we can take back power and save ourselves. My book tour (now edited to include new dates in Oxford, Copenhagen, Philadelphia, and at the 92nd Street Y in NYC) kicks off in February--for details, registration, and tickets go here.
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Robert
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I watched the new video by Ingmar Rentzhog talking about New York Climate Week and how he came home from it filled with hope and I wanted to share with kids what he had to say. https://youtu.be/HxmvEC_wBCU
Petter Körnemark
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Almost one year ago I send Climate warning to IKEA regarding their hot dogs, but now it is time to give the Climate love for their hot dogs - or to be more precise - for their new plant dog! I actually don't know what it tastes like yet, neither the price, but the clams to have done something new to this plant based hot dog that should also mimic the 'snap' when biting it. https://about.ikea.com/en/newsroom/2023/06/30/ikea-announces-a-plant-based-evolution-of-the-ikea-hot-dog https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/37c8751d-e069-414c-8409-4a5492b37005
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Remembering our Common Goal: Saving the Planet We’ve all seen the recent headlines about the consumer class action lawsuit filed against Delta Airlines and the misrepresentation of their carbon-neutral claims. Not long before that, we saw news coming out of the European Parliament around greenwashing, subsequently leading to a push for a ban on businesses’ carbon neutrality claims. One might think that as someone who works for a carbon offset project developer, these headlines would upset me, but what I truly come out feeling is disappointment. It is no news to us that not all carbon offsets are created equally, but this does not mean that they do not each have a role to play in the fight against climate change. They won’t be able to play that role, however, without increased honesty and transparency. Earlier this year, our COO released a statement talking about the important role carbon credits play in the fight against climate change, and Tradewater’s efforts to bring young people into the fight to tackle non-CO2 gases. I happen to be one of those young professionals who left my graduate program looking for a way to fight climate change head-on. I knew when I was looking for jobs that I wanted to be on the ground doing something tangible. Something I could quite literally, physically do. And boy, did it get physical! I started at Tradewater in January 2020 and in those first two- and- a-half months, I traveled across over seven different states collecting and transporting thousands of pounds of refrigerant. There are so many procedures, policies, and regulations at play in the work we do, from the type of material we can buy to how it’s collected and transported. It’s a lot of information to absorb, let alone to ensure we’re putting it into practice. Yet, I had the chance to learn the most from the individuals we purchased material from. I listened to their stories about how they obtained this material and why they still held onto it after all these years. They’d talk to me about the cars they used their R-12 refrigerant on and how it differed from newer alternatives on the market. It became evident to me that not everyone embraced the shift towards lower global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants. However, they found an opportunity and incentive through companies like ours to sell their old stock. It seemed that despite our differing objectives, we managed to find a middle ground that resulted in a net good. This all added a human element to the work I was doing, and solidified my feeling that it was real—real in that beyond the ramifications of climate change, it had a very tangible effect on the individuals we are working with and the communities they service. As my role at Tradewater has evolved, it’s become even clearer that there is a crucial need for a company like ours to provide a financial incentive for individuals, companies, and communities to properly retire this material. All of us here at Tradewater share the frustrations that are bubbling up about the ways in which we talk about and market carbon offsets. We welcome the valid scrutiny of the work that we do and will continue to be transparent and push for others in this industry to do the same. It is especially important in this day and age to scrutinize the media we consume and ask for accountability from those that have proven to purposely mislead the public. The passion we feel for this work is palpable, and only further bolstered by the tangible change we see ourselves making every time we send out our next shipment. Our work here at Tradewater truly is a team effort, and I feel fortunate to have found my way into this unique corner of the climate movement. It is my hope that as we continue to hold each other accountable, we do not lose sight that we are all working towards a common goal: a more sustainable future for all.
Petter Körnemark
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Wildlife and biodiversity is important when fighting the climate crisis. To combat illegal hunting Finland has raised the fine according to the cost of protecting the endangered animals, resulting in less illegal hunting and awareness about that this hunting is no longer cool. For instance, Swedish former Secretary of State who was caught with 15 eels was fined 38800 SEK whereas in Finland the fine would have been around 590000 SEK. I think that fine would have stopped him from illegal fishing and he could instead have stayed Secretary of State. Government of Sweden, please consider do like Finland and raise the fines for illegal hunting! Actually, Norway should too, and Denmark, even the whole EU and why not UN. Sweden is also in position to raise this question in the EU parliament. Article in Swedish: https://www.dn.se/sverige/tjuvfiske-av-den-akut-hotade-alen-dyr-affar-i-finland/
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Petter Körnemark
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Take a photo of your old sofa and send it to them and they'll get back to you with an estimate. If you agree, they will pick it up at your place and sell it for you. Couldn't be much easier to sell! And their marketplace for second hand furniture is growing, making it easy to find a new sofa at a good price. So couldnt be much easier to buy either. Seems to be available in Stockholm and Helsinki at the moment, but aim to grow. Give them some climate love!
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We Don't Have Time
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On the 31st of May, 2022, fifty prosecutors and police officers raided Deutsche Bank and its investment arm DWS in Frankfurt, Germany. Not because of large-scale money laundering, or illegal payments. No. For the first time in history, a bank was raided because of greenwashing. In 2020, American Desiree Fixler was appointed Group Sustainability Officer at DWS Group, with the responsibility of driving the firm’s overall sustainability strategy. DWS is one of the world’s leading asset managers, with over 800 billion euros of assets under management, and Desiree saw it as a dream job. ”With almost a trillion dollars to put to work, just imagine the impact we could have”, she thought. In March 2021 DWS released its annual report, in which the company claimed it was a leader in the ESG market. According to the report, more than half of the company’s assets were meeting environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. This meant that a staggering €459 billion supposedly qualified as sustainable investments. The company publicly boasted that ESG was at the heart of everything, and that all the assets had been run through a highly sophisticated AI-supported tracking system that identified ESG risks. The stock market loved the announcement. The demand for ESG investment products was growing, and now DWS was displaying this amazingly large portfolio of verified green options. There was only one problem. It wasn’t true. ”The reality was that we weren’t aligned, and we did not have the systems in place to produce the right type of products. Internally, folks described the system as ’shit’”, Desiree Fixler says in an hour-long interview with the Planetary Business podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86SQARcQoWM She began investigating how the system actually worked, and then reported her findings – and a suggested action plan – to the management team. She expected them to sound the alarm and immediately start dealing with this huge problem. But what happened was … nothing. ”This was all fixable, and in my team, we were just waiting for the management to give us a green light on the action plan”, she says in the podcast. But the green light was never turned on. Instead, one day before the annual report with the false ESG numbers was to be published – Desiree Fixler was suddenly fired. Since she had been rated A+ in terms of individual performance, she saw the sudden termination as retaliation for speaking up. She felt that the whole situation was handled in a bad way, and therefore put together a five-page dossier which she sent to the chairman of the board. In it, she explained all the issues she had founded, and also that she believed she had been fired in retaliation for speaking up about these problems. But the chairman did not act on the dossier either, and after being publicly smeared by her former employer in a major business newspaper, Desiree decided to fight back. She contacted the Wall Street Journal, which published an investigative piece on the story in August 2021. Just a few days later she got a call from the US authorities, which had opened up an investigation against DWS and was now asking Desiree Fixler to become a voluntary witness in their investigation. Later on, the federal German financial supervisory authority, BaFin, opened up an investigation as well. In May the following year, DWS and the headquarters of its majority owner Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, were raided by police and prosecutors, who later said in a statement that “sufficient factual evidence had emerged” that ESG factors ”were not taken into account at all in a large number of investments.” But that was not when Desiree felt she won her greatest victory. That happened two months earlier, in March, when DWS published its annual report for 2021. In the report, the company’s ESG assets under management had shrunk from €459 to €115 billion. ”They revised down their ESG assets under management by 75 percent. They also noted that they would no longer use their smart integration ESG framework. The two main things I called for, they did”, Desiree Fixler says in the podcast interview. DWS is still being investigated by the BaFin, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Department of Justice in the US, for allegedly misrepresenting its ESG work. In October last year, a German Consumer group also decided to file a lawsuit against DWS over alleged greenwashing. DWS has rejected the allegations of greenwashing, and how the story ends remains to be seen. What we do know is that since the scandal broke, the CEO, COO, CIO, and the global head of communications have all left the company. ”At the end of the day this is a story about a colossal corporate governance failure, where the CEO and the management board made the decision to take the shortcut to present themselves as a savvier and more advanced ESG asset manager than they were in reality”, concludes Desiree Fixler, who was recently appointed to the Financial Conduct Authority’s ESG advisory committee of the UK. The producer of the podcast, German Stefanie Hauer, is a corporate sustainability leader and ranked as one of the top sustainability voices on Linkedin. She feels this is a story that needs to be heard by many. ”Greenwashing used to be a PR issue. This case made clear that company managers can be held accountable. So also from a risk management point of view, corporate sustainability must be up high on the agenda. People need to understand what has actually happened, and to acknowledge that we need much higher standards for corporate governance to make sure this won’t happen again. Stefanie Hauer also wants to highlight the fact that even though the CEO and several other persons in leading positions have had to leave DWS, the chairman is still at the high seat of the board. ”The people sitting on the boards need to be sensitive to what the planetary crisis is all about. They need to take responsibility for this, by admitting mistakes, taking serious action, and re-inventing their business models. There is no shortcut for true corporate sustainability.” Listen to the whole episode of the Planetary Business podcast. FACT BOX: LOW LEVEL OF CLIMATE EXPERTISE ON COMPANY BOARDS - According to a study (from 2021) by the NYU Stern Centre for Sustainable Business, only 0,2 percent of the board members in the 100 largest US companies had specific climate expertise. - To increase the knowledge among board members and CEOs about the climate crisis, We Don’t Have Time has previously organized Climate Board Training – How to future-proof your business. -
Petter Körnemark
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He disconnected their house from the grid, just to show that it is possible to produce all electricity needed with solar panels in combination with hydrogen storage. And we're talking about Sweden where it both could get cold, and where not everyday is a sunny one. Read the full article in the Swedish newspaper: https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/unikt-system-driver-hans-olofs-villa-ville-visa-att-det-gar/
Unikt system driver Hans-Olofs villa: ”Ville visa att det går”
Hans-Olof Nilsson har installerat ett unikt energisystem i sin stora villa utanför Göteborg.
https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/unikt-system-driver-hans-olofs-villa-ville-visa-att-det-gar/
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Ingmar Rentzhog
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It's disturbing to learn that Exxon has been aware of the detrimental effects of climate change on our planet for over 50 years. Yet, they chose to prioritize profit over the well-being of our planet and humanity. The evidence of their actions is now clearer than ever, with a staggering graph showing the record low Antarctic sea ice levels. This stark contrast is eerily reminiscent of an advertisement Exxon ran in the 1960s, where they boasted about the benefits of melting ice. I have to ask: is Exxon taking responsibility for their contribution to this crisis? We all are responsible for addressing climate change, and companies like Exxon must be held accountable for their role in it. At least they need to change course immediately. Source, Exxon ad bragging about how they are melting ice (they have changed their name from Humble): https://billmoyers.com/story/exxonmobil-more-than-fifty-proud-years-of-melting-glaciers/
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Petter Körnemark
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Instead, run on bio fuel. This report from 2015 says it is possible, yet Uniper - the owner of Karlshamnsverket - continue with fossil fuel: https://energiforskmedia.blob.core.windows.net/media/21211/proveldning-av-pyrolysolja-for-kraftvarmeproduktion-energiforskrapport-2015-191.pdf But not only do they burn fossil fuel, they also claim to be the life support for Sweden, when other power sources fail while the truth is that Sweden almost never needed any import during 2022, except for around 100 hours throughout the year. Karlshamnsverket was never needed. Accoding to an article in Aftonbladet Karlshamnsverket was solely running in 2022 because Uniper wanted to export to Poland. The article, in Swedish, also features other interesting facts about myths and fake news on power production in Sweden: https://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/RGm0mx/medier-sprider-myter-om-elbrist-i-sverige?fbclid=IwAR2tw1-AKq8B9VPkmXr1FESXgcPZrW_UYQ2qAo3KMK6XChqTl80MRLKnirY
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Petter Körnemark
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In France there is a law since 2016 prohibiting supermarkets to throw eadible food in the garbage. Why not make the same for the whole EU. I cannot see any cons or contradictions.
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We Don't Have Time
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COP27 Climate Hub! It’s a wrap! Thanks to our fantastic partners, we reached a new record of over 50 million viewers together during COP27. That is 3.5 times more than COP26, where we had 15 million viewers! Curious about how it was behind the scenes? Enjoy this short film shot on the last day at #cop27. Besides these statistics, parts of the content were also broadcasted via European Broadcast Union to thousands of TV stations worldwide and via our media partners platforms such as LinkedIn, EarthX TV, Bloomberg Green, NowThis, Mongabay and many many others. Over 75 000 We Don't Have Time members from more than 140 countries subscribed to our daily COP27 newsletter and were accessing the COP27 Climate Hub, where all content is still available for free --> https://WeDontHaveTime.org/cop27 Big shout out to our main partners Ericsson, UNDP, Global Commons Alliance, Business Sweden, and Exponential Roadmap Initiative and our amazing media partners Twitter, LinkedIn, Spotify, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), EarthxTV, MongabayBloomberg Green, NowThis, GreenBiz Group. And all our speakers, partners, and colleagues working behind the scenes that made this happen! THANK YOU! https://youtu.be/oDim3lRekmI
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Boyle Sean
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It was such a pleasure to share the stage with Ingmar and celebrate the great work that you are doing on this platform 👏👏
Petter Körnemark
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Can a man who believes we are already almost fossil free really make us fossil free for real? In swedish: I regeringsförklaringen sa Ulf Kristersson att ”Sverige mötte oljekrisen på 70-talet med en helt ny energipolitik, bröt kopplingen mellan tillväxt och ökande utsläpp, och blev en av världens första, nästan helt fossilfria industrinationer.”
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Petter Körnemark
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If the new government of Sweden wants to, Stockholm Exergi are ready to start up their old 300 mega watt oil pan in order to keep prices down on electricity. They claim it would be cleaner than German coal power - but I don’t think this is any good idea. There must be other solutions. Do you agree with me? Source: https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/stockholm-exergi-vi-kan-halvera-elpriserna-om-vi-far-elda-olja/
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Petter Körnemark
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Through life cycle analyses, Scania has identified four emission “hotspots” – batteries, steel, aluminium and cast iron – that together constitute approximately 80 percent of carbon emissions arising from production materials.* The 2030 target is 100 percent green batteries, 100 percent green steel, 100 percent green aluminium and 100 percent green cast iron in its production. Read more: https://www.nyteknik.se/fordon/scania-fasar-ut-fossilt-material-till-2030-7037841 https://www.scania.com/group/en/home/newsroom/press-releases/press-release-detail-page.html/4353499-scania-to-decarbonise-its-supply-chain-by-2030
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Petter Körnemark
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This could have been a love story. I actually gave IKEA a climate love a few days ago when they said they would lower the price on veggie hotdogs and raise the price of the meat hotdog. They said they wanted to do this because environmental choices should be cheaper. But, people reacted and now they said that their meat hotdog will not become more expensive. The will still lower the price of the veggie one so they will be priced the same. That indeed could have given them climate love from me - but they are cowards who didnt dare to do what they first told us!
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Petter Körnemark
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In Sweden, IKEA now raises the price from 5 to 7 SEK for meat based hot dog, while lowering the proce from 10 to 5 SEK for their veggie hot dog. They say they do this because the veggie alternatives, due to environmental reasons, should be the cheapest. Bravo! This is subsidies way better than fossil fuel subsidies! :)
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Novige’s pitch: Our goal is “Saving the climate with profitable wave power” with our wave energy converter concept, NoviOcean, which extracts renewable electricity from ocean waves. NoviOcean is unique due to the use of a few, simple, light, and strong subsystems that have been well-proven in other industries (e.g., hydropower) for centuries. We call it the “inverted hydro power plant at sea”, with the ocean acting as a never-drying dam. Moreover, NoviOcean utilizes a rectangular float (as opposed to circular) which significantly improves the lifting capacity by a factor of 4-10 vs. the competition. All the above enable it to produce stable electricity, at a lower cost compared to other marine energy concepts.
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Petter Körnemark
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They are investing around 60M € in the company OX2 to produce 38 TWh (rough 1/4 of what Sweden used in 2021) in offshore wind power.
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Petter Körnemark
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This should have been a climate love, but I feel uncertain about who to sent it to. It is a nice story about about an island coming back to life! What more island could benefit from this? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/10/rats-and-rabbits-invasive-species-macquarie-island-southern-ocean-aoe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Petter Körnemark
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There are alternatives to the over 6 billion pounds of degradation-resistant, synthetic filters brown away every year. Many of them end up in nature. Make it mandatory for the cigarette brands to use biodegradable alternatives such as KarmaTips. Do you agree with me? Read about alternatives: http://www.karmatips.in https://www.brightvibes.com/1305/en/these-biodegradable-cigarette-filters-grow-into-plants
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Petter Körnemark
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Karma Tips came up with something great that, if you ask me, should by law be mandatory to use for all cigarette brands. I'm not a smoker and I don't like this litter. With over 6.09 billion pounds of degradation-resistant, synthetic filters littering every nook and cranny of the planet every year, these new filters can reverse the effects of this pollution in just a few years! Funny that they also offer filters with seeds so new plants will pop up whereever these new "conscious smokers" will litter! =) Read more: https://www.brightvibes.com/1305/en/these-biodegradable-cigarette-filters-grow-into-plants http://www.karmatips.in/
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Ted Weber
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Putin's brutal and criminal invasion of Ukraine is funded by Russian fossil fuel exports. But Europe (especially Germany) is so addicted to them, they still won't turn off the tap. Just as destructive, politicians and the media throughout the West are reacting by demanding that more oil, coal, and gas be produced elsewhere, rather than emphasizing the need to reduce fossil fuel consumption. Like all crises, the economic fallout of Putin's war presents two choices: 1. The West can hasten the transition to clean energy, which would save the planet from catastrophic climate change and curb the power of dictators from oil-rich countries; or, 2. The West can go back to the old way of doing things and doom the planet. Which will it be? PLEASE SHARE
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