30 yrs Climate Policy & Energy Transition Advisor | Top 5 Sustainability Influencer | Green Finance | Host of Transformers |

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We are in a climate crisis. The science is unambiguous. The economics of clean energy are increasingly compelling. And yet the policy environment is being shaped — daily, expensively, systematically — by those with the most to lose from rapid transition. The question isn't only what politicians decide. It's who gets in the room before they decide. Democracy doesn't end on election day. It lives or dies in those corridors. Are businesses doing enough to lobby for strong climate policies? edie.net/are-businesses-doin… Report: EU corporate lobbying spend hits €380m a year edie.net/report-eu-corporate… Source: 2026 EU Corporate Lobby League Report — Corporate Europe Observatory & LobbyControl and @Ediet #ClimatePolicy #EULobbying #CorporateGovernance #Sustainability #ClimateAction #GreenDeal #Accountability @LDNgreenspaces @foe_us @AHallbarhet @dagensindustri @GretaThunberg @Friday4Future @YaleClimateComm @AndersWijkman @mattiasgoldmann @AfricaProg @ChathamHouse
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The AI boom is reviving coal on three continents. Every dollar chasing six-hundred-dollar carbon removal ignores a seven-dollar fix sitting at the top of a mine shaft. The methane venting from those mines is eighty-two times more potent than CO₂ over twenty years — and the machine that destroys it already exists. Read bit.ly/3Sm6CfT #Methane #Coalmines #GHG #Datacenter #Carbon #ClimateAction #CarbonCapture #LeadershipMatters @MethaneSAT @CarlPope @bradplumer @maxinejoselow @YaleClimateComm @xiOdizerSystems @PIK_Climate @ClimateReality
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The AI boom is reviving coal on three continents. Every dollar chasing six-hundred-dollar carbon removal ignores a seven-dollar fix sitting at the top of a mine shaft. The methane venting from those mines is eighty-two times more potent than CO₂ over twenty years — and the machine that destroys it already exists. Read bit.ly/3Sm6CfT #Methane #Coalmines #GHG #Datacenter #Carbon #ClimateAction #CarbonCapture #LeadershipMatters @MethaneSAT @CarlPope @bradplumer @maxinejoselow @YaleClimateComm @xiOdizerSystems @PIK_Climate @ClimateReality
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The AI boom is reviving coal on three continents. Every dollar chasing six-hundred-dollar carbon removal ignores a seven-dollar fix sitting at the top of a mine shaft. The methane venting from those mines is eighty-two times more potent than CO₂ over twenty years — and the machine that destroys it already exists. Read bit.ly/3Sm6CfT #Methane #Coalmines #GHG #Datacenter #Carbon #ClimateAction #CarbonCapture #LeadershipMatters @MethaneSAT @CarlPope @bradplumer @maxinejoselow @YaleClimateComm @xiOdizerSystems @PIK_Climate @ClimateReality
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EU Sustainability Energy Week #EUSEW2026 . Lots of panels. Lots of commitments. Here is what the agenda rarely mentions: The EU Methane Regulation is live. Coal mine monitoring requirements are tightening. The 15 July ETS review proposal could open the door to methane integration in carbon markets for the first time. That is not a small thing. If methane abatement generates tradable carbon value under EU rules, the economics of coal mine clean-up change entirely. Not in 2030. Now. The policy window is open. The capital window is not — yet. That is the gap we are working on. Follow and subscribe for free at methanebrief.org #CleanExit #EUGreenWeek #Methane #EUETS #EU #ClimateAction #ImpactInvestment #LeadershipMatters @EUgreenweek @PaulDuffy1192 @EUCouncil @ClimateArena @GlobalEnergyMon @EnergyRuud @PierreSchel @AnguilEnviro @ChinaDaily
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Meet Brent Bobsein at CNX. CNX is a publicly listed Appalachian gas company. It captures roughly nine million tonnes of carbon-dioxide-equivalent of waste methane every year — enough, in greenhouse impact, to take about two million cars off the road..... Read the Methane Brief article about CNX at bit.ly/4gd4dOx #Methane #ImpactInvestment #Coalmines #ClimateAction #GHG #Carbon @MikeBloomberg @JuttaPaulusRLP @pcanfin @peterliese @martinhojsik @CarlPope @Gmethanehub @GlobalMethane @RockyMtnInst @vigenin @Feilimoc @PierreSchel @pewresearch @PAGovOffice @joinember
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The real shortage in climate finance isn't capital. Pension funds are looking. What's missing: cities that can meet them on equal terms. Malmö has done it since 2017. €600M in green bonds. ICLEI is now building a training programme so any city can. London Climate Action Week starts next week 👇 CityTalk: bit.ly/4urObnE Malmö blueprint: lnkd.in/eKcbfZtA #LCAW2026 #GreenFinance #ICLEI #Cities #NordicModel @ICLEI_Europe @ICLEI_USA @ICLEI @ICLEIAfrica @c40cities @climate @MayorofLondon
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The real shortage in climate finance isn't capital. Pension funds are looking. What's missing: cities that can meet them on equal terms. Malmö has done it since 2017. €600M in green bonds. ICLEI is now building a training programme so any city can. London Climate Action Week starts next week 👇 CityTalk: bit.ly/4urObnE Malmö blueprint: lnkd.in/eKcbfZtA #LCAW2026 #GreenFinance #ICLEI #Cities #NordicModel @ICLEI_Europe @ICLEI_USA @ICLEI @ICLEIAfrica @c40cities @climate @MayorofLondon
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This week, Brussels. Next week, London. On 15 July, the EU ETS review proposal. Three weeks that could shape how Europe prices climate action for the next decade — and a conversation that keeps leaving out its fastest, cheapest option. 1. LinkedIn Latest Newsletter - Methane Brief at bit.ly/4ohOFv0 2. Clean Exit: Coal Methane Abatement Archive - bit.ly/4euABLe 3. The footnote that makes coal's methane problem three times cheaper to fix - bit.ly/3SrKqRv EUSEW 2026 opens today: Europe's largest clean energy gathering, with more than 50 sessions across the decarbonisation framework, the 2030 and 2040 targets, and the European Green Deal. The agenda is loud about renewables and efficiency. It is quiet about methane. The Commission's live ETS assessment is examining scope expansion, the integration of carbon removals, and criteria for linking the EU ETS with other carbon markets. That is the opening. If methane abatement from coal mines can generate verified, tradable value under EU rules, the economics of one of the most underfunded climate interventions change entirely. The science is already there. Coal mine methane is satellite-verified, immediately measurable, and fully additional. VAM oxidation removes more than 99% at the stack, at $7–20 per tonne of CO₂e — a fraction of direct air capture. The policy window is open. The capital is not following yet. #EUSEW2026 #Methane #CarbonMarkets #ClimatePolicy #ImpactInvestment #ClimateAction #LeadershipMatters @Carbon @Gmethanehub @GlobalMethane @CarlPope @MikeBloomberg @fionaharvey @xiOdizerSystems @CarbonBrief @WorldBankSAsia @worldgreendlp @EUgreenweek @Energy_Desk @EUScienceInnov @THEnergyNet @PierreSchel @london_climate
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