Dominic Lavelle
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Dominic Lavelle
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I help companies plan for - and deliver - Net Zero

I also volunteer for the Carbon Accounting Alliance

Based in Worcester & London.

Personal account. Opinions mine and mine alone.
The one scale to rule them all.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
(I don't even know why I'm arguing about this... I quite like kelvin. Celsius just seems more of a human scale day to day I guess)
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"Wrap up warm dear and be careful it could be slippy out there, it's 273 outside"

Said no one ever 🤣
November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
No way... I never knew that was a thing.

Maybe if it was fresh it would taste better.

[insert "hump" joke here]
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Why should it be kelvin ? 🤔

I like 0 = ice.

100 = boiling

(Subject to pressure blah blah)
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Litres. I don't make the rules 🤷‍♂️
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Brilliant list, thanks for communicating it so clearly. Another huge thing is the circular economy. I love using examples like a council run swimming pool in Devon being heated by a data center (not AI). This reduces costs and emissions for both and everyone wins. These heat networks will only grow.
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
In the UK we need a lot of land in addition to the UK to satisfy this "need"
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I can't access it :(

I assume you're using a 100 year GWP time horizon?
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"If we can just appease them on this one thing maybe they will leave us alone?"

Nope, that's not how it works.
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"We need to be pragmatic" followed by climate solutions denial
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 AM
That would be awesome as it means we are there now commercially and can get on with mass roll out.

Energy abundance for all 👌🔥
October 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Long term storage?
October 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Totally agree. I'd also add the massive increase in car usage now prevents kids from being independent - it's often dangerous for them to go out on their own

So no youth clubs, dangerous to go out when younger... Then when these kids enter the workforce adults complain they don't have social skills
October 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The fundamentals suggest the price of these coins will fall to zero.

So let's see if that happens ;)

(I still think Bitcoin might fall close to zero in future... I've no idea when though)
October 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Reminds me of Wing Chun martial arts 😆
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October 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Windsun energy ;)
October 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I don't fully agree with this analysis. It's more nuanced than the article makes out.

Offsets are often held to a higher standard than other form of decarbonisation.

For example:

"projects with leakage, such as protecting part of a forest but effectively pushing loggers elsewhere"

1/x
October 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The IPCC state that halting deforestation is crucial for climate change mitigation.

But protecting existing forest struggles to meet "additionally" criteria because you can't prove it would have been chopped down without the funding from offsets.

Which is silly.. we have to protect the forests.
October 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Yes agree.

In my other examples those decarbonisation initiatives would be counted as genuine carbon reduction.

I don't know the answer, I just sense the bar offsets have to overcome - in particular around "additionally" - is not applied to other decarb initiatives.
October 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I'm not here to defend offsets in particular, they do have issues.

But many are worthwhile projects.

I feel this nuance is missed when people imply all offsets are worthless.

5/5
October 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The underlying point is that systematic change is needed, and all these actions nudge towards systematic change.

So for example if I invest in protecting a forest, that is inherently a good thing.

4/x
October 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM