#OurImperial startup hubs ranked high by Financial Times, thanks to all Imperial College London alumni entrepreneurs🤝 hubs.ly/Q02sKh7C0

Their feedback puts Imperial Enterprise Lab at 49th place. The Greenhouse by Undaunted: Tackling climate change with innovation is 64th. On mentoring alone, The Greenhouse is ranked 14th in Europe.

++Hugely important new International Energy Agency analysis++

'Clean energy accounted for 10% of global GDP growth in 2023…This analysis highlights the scale and weight of the clean energy economy. It shows that it is not only growing quickly, but also has already become a powerful economic force.'…

Was such fun to be interviewed by the lovely ⁦anita rani⁩ on ⁦BBC Woman's Hour⁩ about the Swiss Women’s Climate case in which I was lucky enough to represent ⁦KlimaSeniorinnen⁩. 1/2

WOOHOO! Another new energy system record on the road to Net Zero.

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office action to raise the profile of this crisis and incentivise vital humanitarian commitments👇UN Humanitarian

Kudos ALASTAIR CAMPBELL for using Kingsmill Bond as a foil in discussion with Dieter Helm. The carbon value of £ in policy choices is central. The next govt will need to straighten out domestic policy and engage coherently internationally. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lea… Blavatnik School of Government

Gordon Brown: ‘I really didn’t think we could go as far backwards as we’ve gone’ via Financial Times
Lovely piece on Gordon Brown: ‘public service is a privilege’ on.ft.com/3WhfUdl

An excellent challenge from Giles here to some of the less rigorous proposals for a green industrial strategy. How to answer it? Some ideas. /1

The pensioners and babies behind a new era of climate lawsuits - on.ft.com/3UiTuXK via Financial Times

Good climate news this week
1 Swiss women open floodgates to net zero court challenges as top EU rules human rights violated by climate inaction
2 Top India court: right to life includes climate change
3 Brazil in new program to cut deforestation
4 New York sues world’s biggest…

Such a good thread this. Very succinctly explains what should be obvious about the future of energy and the dominance of renewables, and yet is so rarely understood.

Inside the Controversy That's Divided the Carbon Offsets Market bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Feng Yujun, one of the China's leading Russianists and a professor at Peking University: Russia is sure to lose in Ukraine – The Economist

Four reasons why Russian Federation will lose to Ukraine, according to Feng Yujun:

🔹 The first is the level of resistance and national…

Thank you for thoughtful
debate on these ideas.

Also invigorating to be branded woke, self flagellating mandarin, self loathing pooh-bah, hater of 🇬🇧(etc) by M Philips and given (mistaken) future promotion by C Moore. Without falling into culture war trap, oh, ok then …

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My Imperial War Museums Annual Lecture on 25 April at 7 pm London time, on #War , #Genocide and Other Crimes, will stream live here: youtube.com/watch?v=eBVk7n…

The perfectly free market destroys itself; it leads ultimately to monopoly. Democracy, if comprised only of the right to vote, also destroys itself; it leads to autocracy. Capitalism & democracy require checks & balances to maintain themselves. Purity is self-destruction.

Rees Mogg is right. It is state governments & Parliaments that wrote signed and ratified the law - 196 countries signed up to the Paris Agreement. The European Court of Human Rights set out hundreds of pages of law - has JRM read the 260 page judgment?

This is going to be a great event for anyone interested in conflict and justice: Philippe Sands on ‘War, Genocide and Other Crimes’ Imperial War Museums. Sold out but do join us online. April 25th. I’ll be chairing.

iwm.org.uk/events/iwm-ins…

Renewable energy is cheaper energy.

We could power all UK homes two and a half times over, with green electricity from onshore wind and solar sites alone - all without impacting farmland or areas of natural beauty. Here's how👇
octo.ps/uk-green-gener…

📖 Undaunted: Tackling climate change with innovation partner, Cleantech for UK, reports that in 2023 cleantech venture capital investment in the UK closed at £2.6 billion.

This matches 2021 levels, but slumps slightly year-on-year compared to 2022 📉

cleantechforuk.com/2023-progress-…