George Smeeton

@vicwhittamITV Hi Victoria, thanks for sharing this! The full report if you haven't seen it is below - do let us know if you have any questions about it: eciu.net/analysis/repor…

2000+ net zero businesses across Yorkshire & Lincolnshire attracted £700m in private investment in 2024, according to a new report. The Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit found for every £1 generated by the net zero economy an additional £1.89 was created in the wider economy.

SMMT predicting 23.7% market share for EVs in '25 Saying this means industry won't hit EV sales targets However, this is ABOVE the 23.1% @New_AutoMotive says the industry needs to hit to comply with the ZEV mandate Why? Because EV sales aren't the only source of credits 1/5

Important poster spotted in Twickenham…

So, tomorrow we get the data for new car sales in January 2025 As always, attention will focus on how EV sales performed And, of late, quite a few misleading things have been said about EV sales Here's a thread on what they are, and why they're misleading

Climate change scepticism almost extinct from UK national press - but policy scepticism grows New research from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social for @eciu.net, plus separate analysis from @carbonbrief.org buff.ly/42bsr4J

Seeing lots of stories about BLACKOUT BRITAIN ...maybe let's look at what *actually* happened on Wednesday, when National Grid issued 2 notices to generators (basically asking them to make more power available) 1) the Capacity Market Notice was cancelled within 31 mins‼️

🚨 A recent article in @thetimes by political editor Steven Swinford contained a major factual error - the claim that demand for EVs was falling After our complaint to @ipsonews, and some stonewalling by the paper, the article has finally been corrected A thread 🧵

An assumption among some comment writers that net zero was the policy which saw the Conservative "haemorrhage votes" at the last election. Regardless of what one thinks of the policy, polling shows that wasn't the case. Thank you to the @Telegraph for publishing my letter /1

Well, this is quite the turaround Having spent much of 2024 complaining that the ZEV mandate was too hard, @Stellantis has announced that is has successfully met its EV sales targets Joins the likes of BMW, Mercedes and Hyundai in proving it can be done media.stellantis.com/uk-en/corporat…

@DefraGovUK have today published the 2024 UK Food Security Report Since the last report in 2021 we've seen some almighty shocks to our food system 💉 C-19 🌻 Ukraine ⚡️ Energy crisis ⛈️ Climate shocks Here's a quick 🧵 on what it says about climate... gov.uk/government/sta…

We have some new analysis out today on *the* biggest problem facing English nature conservation… …& increasingly climate goals… …& farm incomes… It’s the befuddling failure of @DefraGovUK to stand up a higher tier land management scheme 🧵… independent.co.uk/climate-change…

NEW: analysis finds that UK car industry is on course to hit the Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV) Mandate’s sales targets of 22% target for 2024. by @colinwalker79 for @ECIU_UK: eciu.net/media/press-re…

"Auto Trader forecasts ‘seismic shift’ to electric vehicles in Britain" "The number of petrol cars on British roads has peaked this year but is set to tumble by more than 40% over the next decade" theguardian.com/business/2024/…

More poorly informed takes on climate from @RestIsPolitics Rory Stewart says climate finance for developing countries is "completely the wrong way" to "stop global warming". Instead G20 should have met for a couple more days to "try to crack this". A few problems with this...

Seeing lots of reporting that Government will allow sale of hybrids between 2030 and 2035 Being reported by some as a 'climb down' Not really 2030 ban was always just on pure petrol/diesels Hybrids were always allowed until 2035 - only change is what kind of hybrid A thread

Vauxhall told investors it was “confident” it would meet the UK’s rules on EV sales just 2 months before it blamed them for the decision to close its Luton factory The claim that the ZEV mandate is to blame for the Luton factory closure looking very iffy theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Slowing down EV transition a ‘recipe for job losses’, says ECIU channel4.com/news/slowing-d…

Note to journalists reporting on EV sales targets Dr James Richardson, Director of Analysis at @theCCCuk, has said that the car market is *on track to meet this year’s targets for EV sales* Pls bear this in mind when repeating the industry line that they’re falling way short

Andy Palmer, COO of Nissan when Stellantis' Luton factory built Nissan's vans: “the plant has been called into question many times...for the last 25 years...there’s always been that question mark" So bit of a stretch to pin blame on EV sales targets that only came in this year

So easy, so tempting to just dismiss COP29 - or the entire COP process - as a failure. Please don't do it. Not only would that be intellectually lazy, but also irrresponsible. Of the many slightly more constructive takes, I recommend this one by @James_BG businessgreen.com/news/4382153/c…