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John Lang
@johnlang.bsky.social
Co-founder + lead Net Zero Tracker, Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit, Oxford Net Zero Associate.

Founder of Kiwis in Climate, Consult Climate and The Climate Trunk.

Don't mind an #infographic.
Most consequentially:

Pre-Paris: world heading for ~4°C of heating by 2100.

Post-Paris: down to ~2.6°C because of strengthened policy, #cleantech S-curves and #AmbitionLoops. (That is, assuming current policies are delivered and sustained.)

@frediotto.bsky.social Credit: #WorldWeatherAttribution
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Progress on reducing Amazon deforestation. Why? Because of renewed policy and enforcement.

Brazil lost more rainforest than any other country in 2024 —due to to #wildfires — but the last few years show that better policy makes a massive difference.

Now for #COP30 + #TropicalForestsForeverFacility
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
OK, not progress per se, but signs that climate risk really is becoming financially material, 10 years after Mark Carney's #TragedyOfTheHorizon speech.

We zoom in on the #CanariesInTheCoalMine in the US. #InsurancePremiums

@cathmckenna.bsky.social @marcdaalder.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Clean energy #jobs (36.2m) now outnumber those in oil, gas and coal + ICE manufacturing (~33 million), and the gap is widening.

#Renewablesjobs have nearly doubled from 8.5m in 2015 to 16.2m 2023.

Updated @irena-official.bsky.social 2024 data dropping in December... 20m might be a stretch?
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Climate policy has proliferated globally:

- #ClimateFrameworkLaws have tripled since 2015.

- Climate councils have also tripled. @climatecouncils.bsky.social

- National climate policy tools are up seven-fold

@oxfordnetzero.bsky.social
@climatepolicyradar.bsky.social
@granthamlse.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
83% of the 🌎 economy is still under #netzerotargets despite Trump's rollback of climate policy.

19 of the G20 are committed to #netzero by midcentury.

70% of the largest listed companies are still in, inc. most US firms. But yes, integrity's still crap.

@netzerotracker.bsky.social @ketanjoshi.co
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Global #CO2emissions plateaued: since 2015, annual emissions (including land use) are up by about 2%, compared with >18% in the decade before Paris.

Since Paris, the annual CAGR increase in the growth rate of all #GHGemissions slowed to 0.32 %, a five-fold drop.

@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
#ElectricVehicles hit 20% of new car sales globally in 2024, and is on track for 40% by 2030, over 10 years ahead of the IEA’s 2015 forecast.

@colin-walker.bsky.social gets troubled that PHEVs and BEVs are grouped together. Fair. But progress nonetheless. (I'll produce a solely BEV one next time.)
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Investment in #cleanenergy now beats fossil fuels 2 to 1, with the gap wider in the Big Four: the US, EU, China and India.

Like in the UK, China's #CleanEnergyEconomy is outpacing the wider economy threefold, now worth 10% of GDP.

@eciu.net @davidrvetter.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
#Wind deployment kept pace. Added capacity in 2024: triple 2015 IEA forecasts.

Wind's costs have edged up on average recently but both onshore and offshore still deliver electricity below the #fossilfuels average.
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Couldn't resist reproducing the @ourworldindata.org graph of solar LCOE dropping off a cliff — yes a 2009 baseline (not 2015) because it tells such a compelling story.

Since 2015, the #costcollapse was still a healthy 66%.

@hannahritchie.bsky.social @chrisstark.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
#TheSunHasWon — solar beat IEA forecasts 1500% to became the 'cheapest electricity in history' 6 years after The Economist said it was uneconomic.

In 2015, BP predicted the global non-fossil share of generation would rise from 32% to 38% by 2035.

By 2024? >40% of power supply. @ember-energy.org
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I often appreciate Daniel Yergin's dose of reality, but his claim that 'The 2050 target is enshrined in British law. But it is not embraced by others' is a dose of nonsense.

- 100 countries have a #netzero target in law or policy
- 130+ if we count 'Pledged' and 'Proposed'

@eciu.net @ketanjoshi.co
April 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The @netzerotracker.bsky.social now shows a drop from 93% to 78% thanks to Mr Trump's executive orders revoking mention of a federal-level #netzero target.

Account for US states and that 78% becomes 84%. In total, 66% of the US economy *still* has deep reduction targets.

My latest #infographic 👇
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
How to govern private sector efforts to achieve credible #netzero *and* shift the bounds of political feasibility for faster action?

My latest #infographic of @thomasnhale.bsky.social's #ConveyorBeltModel aims to make the framework accessible to a wider audience.

zerotracker.net/insights/net...
December 16, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Today marks one week to go until the annual #UNClimateSummit kicks off in Dubai.

There are always hundreds of asks at any one COP, so here's a cheat sheet #infographic explaining what you need to know about #COP28UAE.

eciu.net/analysis/inf...
November 22, 2023 at 12:44 PM
Hey Bluesky,

Suppose the first entry to my one follower should be the new explainer I created the other day:

https://eciu.net/analysis/infographics/our-climate-goals

Thanks for the nudge @ketanjoshi.co, and the follow @christinahood.bsky.social :)
August 20, 2023 at 6:39 PM