Kevin Anderson

@KevinClimate

Professor of energy and climate change - interested in translating the science of climate change into carbon budgets, policy goals and mitigation options.

Uppsala, Bergen & Manchester
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    8 Dec 2021

    First major IPCC report:1990 Rio Earth Summit establishing the UNFCCC: 1992 The Kyoto protocol:1997 Paris: 2015 Glasgow: 2021 So why haven't we bent the emissions curve in 30 years? We conclude power concentrated in 'elites' is a major obstacle to change

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    21 Dec 2021

    "It’s vacuous. It’s completely meaningless. When you unpick what’s behind , I mean, all it is, I often say, is it’s Latin for kicking the can down the road. It’s passing the burden on to the next generation" in

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    20 Dec 2021
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    Agreed! They quote the IEA to support their case, conveniently overlooking that even the IEA have said NO new oil and gas. As for the argument that OUR oil is better than foreign oil, come on! every country says that.

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    19 Dec 2021

    "It says the economic wellbeing of whole communities across the UK is also being put at risk" No, they're not talking about the effects of , but about their own commercial interests. The time to 'pause for debate' is over.

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    18 Dec 2021
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    This demonstrates the utter nonsense that is ‘net-zero by not-in-my-term-of-office’. Rising oil production, airport expansion &more gas pipelines all fit with net-zero, but not with 1.5-2°C carbon budgets. Sadly politicians love net-zero & academics are unprepared to call it out.

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    18 Dec 2021
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    "net-zero by not-in-my-term-of-office" 🎯

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    22 Jul 2021

    Finally: and amazing co-authors' paper on "Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?" is out!! will be open access from October when the whole volume is published.

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    15 Dec 2021

    Countries that could hit 2022 record oil production: Canada, U.S, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Russia OPEC production is set to reach 45.6 million bpd on average in 2022, compared to 41.4 million bpd in 2021 (from International Energy Agency).

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    16 Dec 2021

    🚨 BREAKING NEWS: have today published their response to recommendations! The Assembly will meet one final time in Feb to consider the document and formulate their own response. Read the full government response now:

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    16 Dec 2021

    looks like an interesting opportunity - evaluating Climate Commissions

    PCAN is inviting proposals to evaluate the impact of our climate commissions , and and the role they are playing in local climate debates. An award of £30,000 will be made for the work to produce a report for website. 1/
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    14 Dec 2021
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    It does appear that excess & celebrity are deeply interwoven at the expense of valuing much that is around us - from music & sport, to acting & presenting, from scientists/academics to artists, & from writers to journalists. Commercialisation of beauty belittles so much of life.

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    14 Dec 2021
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    Thanks . All prompted by the marvelous who is promoting a culture of research via twitter, and taking us along with him.

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    13 Dec 2021

    “How can we have climate justice if the people who are suffering the worst impacts of the climate crisis are not being listened to, not being platformed, not being amplified and are left out of the conversation? It’s not possible.”

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    14 Dec 2021

    Looking to help climate science? Anyone can contribute with just a few minutes volunteering by helping transcribe historical weather observations recorded in ship logbooks from the 1860s. Join hundreds of other citizen scientists!

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    14 Dec 2021
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    Not just the commercialization but the idea that beauty must be perfect. Nature's perfection lies with diversity and uniqueness...

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    14 Dec 2021
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    Many experiences that are local and human-sized are actually more intimate and perhaps even more rewarding: it's just the industrial scale that is missing. Goes for music, art, nature, travel, food, etc.

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    14 Dec 2021
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    Or perhaps it's an opportunity for seeing far more local-ish bands. So no total reduction ... just a change from celebrity-bands to other (often equally good) musicians who haven't got the PR machine behind them? Could also help drive a shift away from celebrity excesses?

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    14 Dec 2021

    Reading this discussion is uplifting ... twitter as a medium for constructive and open dialogue ... always feels good to see the workings beneath the bonnet.

    The "sink rate" is a misleading metric in my view. In fact, land and ocean carbon sinks vary more like log(CO2), so sink rate as defined by dividing the sink by the CO2 excess will necessarily drop with CO2. Better to define a sink efficiency as: sink/log(CO2/CO2(0))?
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  19. 14 Dec 2021

    Reading this discussion is uplifting ... twitter as a medium for constructive and open dialogue ... always feels good to see the workings beneath the bonnet.

    The "sink rate" is a misleading metric in my view. In fact, land and ocean carbon sinks vary more like log(CO2), so sink rate as defined by dividing the sink by the CO2 excess will necessarily drop with CO2. Better to define a sink efficiency as: sink/log(CO2/CO2(0))?
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    13 Dec 2021

    CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for session! All things energy & material use, demand-side transformations, provisioning, sufficiency, post-growth +++. Excited to co-convene w/✨ & Volker Krey & Jan Streeck ! Deadline 12th Jan.

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    10 Dec 2021

    Check out my latest work for the . The international finance ban on unabated fossil fuel projects, announced are morally problematic and are not robust climate solutions. Decarbonization cannot stunt econ growth in emerging & developing economies. A🧵(1/10)

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