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Congratulations

! Your leadership in the First Movers Coalition is much appreciated & can’t wait to see what you will do at

@Orsted

👏👏

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Feb 2

Delighted to share that I'm joining @Orsted to lead group corporate strategy as well as technology innovation. It's been an exhilarating 2 years serving Sec Kerry & the administration—now I'm excited to advance Ørsted's vision as a global green supermajor! us.orsted.com/news-archive/2

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Ørsted U.S.

@OrstedUS

Feb 2

"Setting the right strategic vision for clean energy leadership and scaling the next generation of emerging technologies go hand in hand." -

Ørsted Announces Dr. Varun Sivaram as Group Senior Vice President for Strategy and Innovation

Join us in welcoming Dr. Varun Sivaram,

@Orsted

's new Group SVP for Strategy and Innovation!

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Office Of The UAE Special Envoy For Climate Change and 2 others

Mads Nipper

@NipperMads

Feb 2

Warm welcome Varun! We are happy and privileged to have a world class capacity like you on our team. Onwards!

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So grateful to

John Kerry for the opportunity to serve my country. Thanks to his and

@POTUS

leadership, we created the First Movers Coalition with

@wef

, built climate partnerships around the world, and elevated clean technology innovation in our climate policy.

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This was fun! Thanks

for leading this session on transforming voluntary carbon markets #Davos2023

Jan 18

First Movers assemble! Delighted to bring together our coalition of world-leading companies here at Davos—70 firms who have made $12B in advance purchase commitments for next-generation clean technologies, chaired by Sec.

@JohnKerry

and

@WEF

President

@borgebrende

Volvo Group and 4 others

Volvo Group

@VolvoGroup

Jan 18

A successful meeting. At #wef23

@VolvoGroup

President and CEO, Martin Lundstedt, met with fellow leaders in #FirstMoversCoalition to reflect on the current and future progress around building sustainable value chains and increasing the pace to #netzero across industry. #Davos23

John Kerry and 2 others

Guru

@DrGuru_

Jan 17

President Curry at the White House podium.

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The world is entering a new age of clean technology manufacturing, and countries’ industrial...

The

's Energy Technology Perspectives 2023 is out! It shows we're entering a new industrial age – the age of clean energy technology manufacturing This will create new markets worth hundreds of billions of dollars & millions of jobs this decade ⬇️

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The world is entering a new age of clean technology manufacturing, and countries’ industrial strategies will be key to success - News from the International Energy Agency

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@ProfDavidHart

Jan 12

"There are big dividends for countries that get their clean energy industrial strategies right"

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The @IEA's Energy Technology Perspectives 2023 is out! It shows we're entering a new industrial age – the age of clean energy technology manufacturing This will create new markets worth hundreds of billions of dollars & millions of jobs this decade

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Nathan Iyer

@NiyerClimate

Jan 11

Ugh ok quick thread about "additionality" and why it matters for hydrogen and the exceptions. Wonk level high, impact level high, hot takes only. You have been warned.

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Replying to

's key point was the demand signals for decarbonized materials are missing. The IRA provides production subsidies, but why go to all that trouble unless somebody/govt/firm wants it, and is willing to pay for it? That's the missing holy grail of industrial decarbonization.

My two friends

talk about the power of advance market commitments (like the First Movers Coalition or Frontier Fund for carbon removal) to catalyze nascent clean energy technologies on

Advance market commitments to decarbonize heavy industry

. Give it a listen:

canarymedia.com

They brought us vaccines and rockets. Could advance market commitments bring us zero-carbon metals, aviation fuels and other heavy-industry products?

Replying to

Some great recs already, but would add Short Circuiting Policy from

@leahstokes

, Taming the Sun by

Candace Vahlsing

@cvahlsing46

Dec 23, 2022

🌎Good news – The FY23 bipartisan Omnibus bill passed the House today and includes ++ ups for a number of the President’s climate priorities! A thread 🧵

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‎Catalyst with Shayle Kann: Advance market commitments to decarbonize heavy industry on Apple...

Dr. Chris Bataille

@bataille_chris

Dec 22, 2022

😁 Great podcast on lead markets for green materials, US style, by ⁦⁦

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‎Show Catalyst with Shayle Kann, Ep Advance market commitments to decarbonize heavy industry - Dec 15, 2022

Noah Kaufman

@noahqk

Dec 22, 2022

2022 was the year I went from skeptic to believer that an honest-to-goodness energy transition is happening. Invite me to your parties I'm more fun now.

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Steve Albrecht's Lab

@AlbrechtLab

Dec 16, 2022

We are back! Our Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells entered the

@NREL

chart with a certified efficiency of 32.5% Thanks to all the amazing people contributing to this achievement.

@SiliconCellsHZB

@HZBde

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Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and 8 others

Abhishek Malhotra

@absmalhotra

Dec 16, 2022

India is: - one of the largest startup ecosystems ($42 Bn invested in 2021). - the 3rd-largest emitter of GHGs (2.88 Gt in 2021). But what is going on with low-carbon energy tech (LCET) startups in India? Our new paper in

@NatureEnergyJnl

will tell you! rdcu.be/c1GYj

Thanks to Harvard's

Lab for inviting my 2023 media prediction! It's time to deliver on profound audience demand for higher-quality international journalism. Excited to preview some striking quantitative results from our yearlong

@GlobalPress

study niemanlab.org/2022/12/unlock

🎙️ Delighted to rejoin

Advance market commitments to decarbonize heavy industry

with my friend

@shaylekann

! We got deep into the weeds of the First Movers Coalition, which has assembled $12 billion in advance market commitments through President Biden's flagship public-private partnership on climate

canarymedia.com

They brought us vaccines and rockets. Could advance market commitments bring us zero-carbon metals, aviation fuels and other heavy-industry products?

blogs.microsoft.comMicrosoft names new Chief Sustainability Officer - The Official Microsoft BlogMelanie Nakagawa brings almost two decades of environmental sustainability experience at the nexus of policy, business and technology,

Melanie Nakagawa

@melnakagawa

Dec 15, 2022

I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining

@Microsoft

in the new year as its Chief Sustainability Officer. I look forward to leading a world class team at this pivotal time as the world is working to advance ambitious and innovative sustainability goals.

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Canary Media

@CanaryMediaInc

Dec 15, 2022

Could advance market commitments bring us zero-carbon metals, aviation fuels and other heavy-industry products? In this episode of

@shaylekann

talks to

, who played a key part in the creation of the First Movers Coalition concept: bit.ly/3WireT4

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Catalyst w/ Shayle Kann

Dec 15, 2022

So how will the FMC work? In this episode,

@ShayleKann

talks to FMC's brainchild,

. Varun is managing director and senior advisor for clean energy and innovation in

@JohnKerry

's office. 🎧 Listen: link.chtbl.com/FlaRdykI

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Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes

David Sheppard

@OilSheppard

Dec 11, 2022

FUSION ENERGY BREAKTHROUGH: US scientists have made one of the most significant leaps in decades in the search for the Holy Grail of energy - limitless, carbon free power - by achieving net energy gain in a fusion reaction ft.com/content/4b6f0f Huge scoop by

@thomas_m_wilson

ft.com

Net energy gain indicates technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels

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Jonah Messinger

@JonahMessinger

Dec 10, 2022

This is why we published Energizing America 2 years ago

@ColumbiaUEnergy

. We proposed a ramp up of US clean energy RD&D to $25 B by 2025 from a bottom up analysis of specifics RD&D programs. We also focused on underfunded research areas. (1/5) energypolicy.columbia.edu/sites/default/

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Noah Smith

@Noahpinion

Dec 9, 2022

Energy research is a rounding error in our federal R&D expenditure. This is a massive government failure.

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Listening to

’s boss

talk about the most important issue of our time. #FulbrightKerry

Opinion | Europe Is Wrong to Blame the U.S. for Its Energy Problems

Fatih Birol

@fbirol

Dec 6, 2022

🚨 BIG NEWS! 🚨 The world is set to add as much renewable power in the next 5 years as it did in *the whole of the past 20 years* as countries seek to take advantage of renewables' energy security benefits Read more in

@IEA

's new market report: iea.li/3VX9ZX5

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This is excellent from

@JasonBordoff

in today's

@nytimes

. Unravels lots of fallacies and gives credit to US energy and climate policies where due.

nytimes.com

The complaints not only are misguided but also risk aiding Vladimir Putin in his attempted conquest of Ukraine.

Hey

can we have Harbaugh back now? (Jokes aside, here’s to a remarkable 12 years under

@CoachDavidShaw

’s steady leadership

@StanfordFball

—thanks for all the memories 🥂)

gostanford.com

David Shaw Steps Down as Stanford Head Football Coach - Stanford University Athletics

Stanford's Bradford M. Freeman Director of Football David Shaw announced following Saturday's game that he will step down from his position, effective immediately.

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Techn…

Nov 25, 2022

“Chip War” is superb. There are many great histories of Silicon Valley, but this book stands out for its contemporary analysis on why there may be no greater national security imperative than reinvigorating US leadership in semiconductors. Bravo

@crmiller1

goodreads.com

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control w…

Meet the ‘Closer’ Who Finds the Right Words When Climate Talks Hit a Wall

Noam Brown

@polynoamial

Nov 22, 2022

3 years ago my teammates and I set out toward a goal that seemed like science fiction: to build an AI that could strategically outnegotiate humans *in natural language* in Diplomacy. Today, I’m excited to share our Science paper showing we’ve succeeded! 🧵

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Meta AI

@MetaAI

Nov 22, 2022

Meta AI presents CICERO — the first AI to achieve human-level performance in Diplomacy, a strategy game which requires building trust, negotiating and cooperating with multiple players. Learn more about #CICERObyMetaAI: bit.ly/3GBwLzx

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A remarkable profile of a remarkable leader—required reading if you want to understand how #COP27 will conclude. Sue Biniaz is deservedly "The Closer," "America's linebacker," and just a delightful colleague. Wonderful piece

@LFFriedman

nytimes.com

Sue Biniaz is considered one of the most innovative American legal minds when it comes to climate negotiations. She once rescued a collapsing deal by using quotation marks.

Nov 17, 2022

John is a national treasure and now batting 2/2 after launching JETPs in 🇿🇦 and 🇮🇩

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John E. Morton

@johnemorton

Nov 16, 2022

Exhausted and red-eyed flying home from #G20 after the launch of Indonesia JETP whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/ a historic $20 billion partnership to expedite Indonesia’s #justenergytransition. What is the #JETP and why is it a big deal? 1/

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Shwetal Shah

@ShwetalPShah

Nov 15, 2022

Pleased to meet my favourite author and thinker of energy transition

@COP27P

Climate Progress Can Be “Made in the USA”

Sagatom Saha

@SagatomSaha

Nov 15, 2022

Hi energy/climate Twitter, I'm back with my first piece with

@ColumbiaUEnergy

! In

@ForeignAffairs

, I argue the US should supercharge its commercial diplomacy to take abroad the benefits the Inflation Reduction Act unlocks at home 🧵

foreignaffairs.com

How to export America’s clean energy technology.

Delighted to represent 🇺🇸 at the ministerial summit for the Leadership Group for Industry Transition, chaired by Mins

@byadavbjp

🇮🇳 &

@RPourmokhtari

🇸🇪. Progress urgently needed in hard-to-abate sectors; President Biden’s IRA will slash the green premium of clean industrial techs

Varun Sivaram and 9 others

SEI Climate

@SEIclimate

Nov 15, 2022

Panel on how to catalyze action for #IndustryTransition in 2023 concludes that standards for green industrial products, global #CarbonPrice, demand creation, and support to #EmergingEconomies, are keys to accelerating the transition.