Lauri Myllyvirta

@laurimyllyvirta

lead analyst, : tracking&accelerating progress from polluting energy to clean air, with research and evidence.

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energyandcleanair.org
Joined April 2009
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    Nov 24

    NEW by me: China's CO2 emissions fell in the third quarter of the year, a first since the start of the post-lockdown surge. Reasons: government efforts to tame runaway real estate construction, together with sky-high coal prices and electricity rationing.

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  2. Retweeted
    Dec 23

    Good words to end the year on by

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  3. Retweeted
    Dec 23

    Great Guardian interactive showing how much progress was made in the Glasgow climate summit towards phasing out coal-fired power globally - and how much there is to do. Based on our analysis and data.

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    Dec 22

    "An expert committee tasked by the power ministry [..] has recommended that no new coal-based capacity be considered" ⚡️👏

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  5. Dec 21

    A mega-thread of all the things we at CREA have been up to in 2021. We certainly had no idea that we would get to do so many things and work with so many partners throughout the year, nor how much progress there would be on clean energy and climate despite the pandemic.

    2021 was CREA’s second year of operation. We’re proud to have worked with partners across Asia, Europe and Africa to assess emissions trends, air pollution impacts and clean energy solutions. A thread of our key outputs around the world:
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  6. Dec 20

    Case in point

    Most of the coal plants that feed the biggest U.S. power grid will soon become unprofitable (via )
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  7. Dec 19

    Obviously Build Back Better isn't just a climate bill - on many other areas the ambitions won't be fulfilled. Maybe this will catalyze a purge of DINOs akin to the purge of non-Trumpian Republicans in the GOP.

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  8. Dec 19

    I think emissions reductions will continue in the U.S. through the EPA, executive action and state-level action. It won't be as coordinated or fair, a worse outcome for both households and businesses. And a pity that Biden wasted so much time and credibility, just like Obama did.

    By withholding his support from President Biden’s $2.2 trillion Build Back Better bill, Senator Joe Manchin has significantly dimmed the prospects for climate action that scientists say the U.S. must take to keep the planet from dangerously overheating.
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    Dec 19

    A drop in the bucket and yet the whole planet is suffering. Damn them all - How Much Does Covid Vaccine Cost? $50 Billion Needed to Inoculate World: OECD - Bloomberg

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  10. Dec 18

    Luckily I wasn't the only one asking this question:

    Now, Lüliang has launched a sweeping thorough inspection in "each village, each valley and each mine" to stop all "illegal coalmines". It's also being treated as an anti-corruption campaign.
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  11. Dec 18

    One more question: How many illegal coal mines are still operating, given this one was only busted once the accident took place?

    Eight, including the coalmine "owner", have been arrested. Big questions need to be answered: When did it start? How did the digging and equipping go on "without" being noticed? How much has been produced and sold illegally?
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  12. Dec 18

    This js relevant because "green coal mining", a term without well-defined meaning, was included in the scope of the State Council's "clean coal" lending facility

    So China's State Council decided to create a 200 bln yuan / $31 bln lending facility for "clean" coal. No, there's nothing to indicate that this would be coal with carbon capture and storage, but your run-of-the-mill, high-carbon coal mining and burning.
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  13. Dec 18

    This is the information released by the Postal Savings Bank. Strikingly, it claims the coal miner has "always followed the path of green coal mining".

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  14. Dec 18

    The first published example of a "green" coal mining loan shows what to expect: plenty of buzzwords like cloud computing and artificial intelligence but nothing related to environmental or social sustainability. With my comments.

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  15. Dec 17

    And if course can't repeat enough that China's coal power generation is trending down now as well

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  16. Dec 17

    In terms of energy nerd trivia, this year looks like it will be a new record for coal power generation in India on calendar year basis but not 12-month rolling basis which the graph is showing.

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  17. Dec 17

    Whenever I hear the phrase "China and India" I'm instinctively inhaling because whoever says that is in for a lungful. Yes fossil power generation in both countries is up this year but India's is still down from peak in 2018-19 and 1/5 of China's level, while China went up up up.

    Furthermore, while India's year-on-year increases are eye-popping, this is against a steep drop in coal use that started already before the pandemic.
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  18. Dec 16

    This is when we SHOULD have been talking about the emissions surge in China - my analysis from March.

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  19. Dec 16

    I think that talking about global aggregates as if they reflect some common theme or trend, rather than only the post-lockdown CO2 surge in China, is just going to feed unjustified defeatism. We know how to do this, and are already moving the right way, just not fast enough.

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  20. Dec 16

    This is not to say that the rest of the world is doing well - fossil fuel use and emissions aren't going down fast enough, and the pace of emissions reductions in the OECD has in fact slowed down in 2019-21. We need to build clean energy & retire coal&gas much faster, everywhere!

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  21. Dec 16

    I wrote about India's emissions slowdown with here, before the pandemic:

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