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Is Europe’s gas crisis back? 🚨🚨🚨

Why? Cold weather, no wind, no sun. Gas storage emptying fast. Gas price doubled since February.
Should we be worried? Kinda. CEO of Germany’s biggest generator posted a panicky message on LinkedIn 🤷‍♂️.
Vlad’s smiling? Yes. Europe lucked out with two mild years. More cold weather & Russia holds the cards.
Read more: Bloomberg “Europe already facing its next energy crisis” (£)

Carbon credits, crunched

What? Businesses are buying fewer ‘voluntary’ (non-government) carbon credits - so the market is shrinking.
Why? Because they are dodgy. Standards aren’t tight. Buyers sceptical.
Read more: CarbonCredits.com

COP-out: I don’t want to write about this nonsense

I can’t stand the COP circus. Me too. What’s the point? Smug politicians & parties. Year-in, year-out they talk. And what happens? Nada. Emissions continue to go up.
What CAN change the world? Business. Innovation. Entrepreneurs. Let’s get to it.
Read more: Everywhere. But why?

One thing to worry about

China’s cumulative emissions have overtaken the EU’s (Carbon Brief).

One thing to be optimistic about

Next thing to go electric?

Tractors.

VW launched this in Sub-Saharan Africa, where solar power is cheap and fossils hard to source. (Electrek)

If you’ve got more time, read this…

Damian Carrington compiled experiences of climate change in this X.com thread:

1. ‘I lost my six year old son when flash floods inundated Nova Scotia’ (Canada)

2. ‘When the hurricane hit, I saw my neighbour’s boat lift into the sky’ (Union Island)

3. ‘I asked if my baby would survive - the doctor said no.’ (Burkina Faso)

4. ‘I had to fight the flames burning down my own house’ (Greece)

5. ‘I’m imagining what my mother went through in her last seconds’ (France)

6. ‘The drought is the most severe in the world. It changed me totally’ (South Africa)

7. ‘My legs were getting smashed in. My face was burning’ (Canada)

8. ‘The sea was coming closer, it was so painful to see my house being destroyed’ (Brazil)

9. ‘When the water subsided, I saw our house was gone’ (Phillipines)

10. ‘People have always felt a bit haunted since the floods’ (China)

So. Which one will you read first?

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