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7m ago10.55 BSTEnvironmentalists strongly criticise Blair over his net zero analysisAnd here is some more comment on Tony Blair’s net zero comments from environmentalists and commentatorsFrom Damian Carrington, the Guardian’s environment editor, on Bluesky “We need to depoliticise the climate debate” says that Tony Blair report ... .... the main impact of which has been to deepen the right wing culture war against net zero by describing the climate debate as “hysteria” From Carole Cadwalladr, the former Observer journalist, on Bluesky Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying From Doug Parr, chief scientist and policy officer at Greenpeace UK Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town However it’s a bit odd By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn’t be taken seriously Parr has posted a long thread explaining why he is saying this on Bluesky. Here are some of his posts. On technology, it says current technologies have failed Right So solar, wind, batteries etc have all ‘failed’? Has Blair been paying attention? Instead, it says, we should use lots of *carbon capture* & *nuclear power*. which haven’t failed repeatedly, cost a fortune, or struggled at al For reference Tony, here’s a chart of how solar, wind et al are doing. I bet loads of companies and stockmarkets would like to fail this badly And wind and solar will continue to expand rapidly By contrast IEA etc are constantly having to revise down how much CCS will be deployed Allow content provided by a third party?This article includes content hosted on embed.bsky.app. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as the provider may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'.Allow and continueFrom Richard Black, director of policy and strategy at Ember, an energy thinktank, in a post on LinkedIn Where to start with the ‘new’ paper from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, approved by the great man himself and given fanfare treatment in the UK’s top tier media, calling for a ‘reset’ on action to tackle climate change? Nothing new about it: just a recycling effort. And not in a good way. Bearing in mind the word limit on LinkedIn posts, I’ll just deconstruct from the top down and see how far I get. “Voters feel they’re being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle” - when advances in many countries on renewables, EVs and heat pumps will reduce energy bills in perpetuity. “Fossil fuel consumption is set to rise up to 2030” - I suggest that TBI puts some of its money into coal stocks, then I’ll believe that they believe it. “China initiated construction of 95GW of new coal-fired capacity” - and simultaneously made market reforms showing that coal will be running less and less of the time, as renewable generation rises. Oh, they forgot that bit … The thing is: the paper isn’t entirely bad. Its diagnosis is partially correct. But its prescription is all stuff that we’ve heard a hundred times before, that takes grand but ultimately vapid statements like “The current climate debate is broken” and treats them as tablets of stone. What’s missing is a call for political leaders to lead with confidence and clarity on solutions that are cost-effective, popular, gaining market share and command the favour of private investors. An odd omission, you might think, for a politician once bold enough to reform his party en route to winning three terms in office. Share

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