Notices by Akshay (akshay@eupolicy.social)

India “has achieved over 50% of its installed electricity capacity from non-fossil sources —

reaching this milestone five years ahead of its 2030 Paris Agreement target.”

- (NB Generation will be much lower, but still!)

https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/india-hits-milestone-renewable-energy-generation-5-years-ahead-of-2030-paris-agreement-target-1.500523480

#Climate #Energy #Renewables #Nuclear #India #Electricity

Analysis of why the fossil fuels shock could drive the electric age…but only if we choose it over mean reversal.

“China already has the factory capacity to more than double 2025 sales of solar, batteries and EVs. What was once seen as “overcapacity” is now just capacity.”

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-new-twin-fossil-shock/

#FossilFuels #Electrification #Climate #Energy #Renewables #China #OilCrisis #EnergyCrisis

“Don’t mention the Climate”

USA attempts to extend censorship to World Bank and IMF, threatening funds.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/13/dont-mention-the-climate-trump-creates-beyond-absurd-situation-at-global-finance-talks

#USA #Geopolitics #Climate #FarRight #UN #Development

“A quarter of Pakistani households are now using solar panels.

This insulates millions of families from the energy supply crunch prompted by the US-Israel war on Iran.”

—> Pakistan is actually quite vulnerable due to low strategic reserves. But the stories in this article are real and interesting: farmers who switched from diesel generators to solar are surely glad they did!

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/7/how-pakistans-solar-boom-is-shielding-it-from-worst-of-iran-war-crisis

#Energy #Solar #Renewables #Climate #Pakistan #SouthAsia #FossilFuels #OilCrisis #Hormuz

Pope Leo freaks out too, calls Trump threats against an entire people “truly unacceptable”

He “urged Americans and other people of good will to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives to demand they reject war and work for peace.”

https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/pope-says-trump-s-threat-to-destroy-iranian-22194000.php

#Catholic #Religion #Christianity #USA #USPol #Trump #Iran #IranWar #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Genocide #IHL

“U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has threatened to retaliate against European countries if the EU favors domestic weapons-makers in a drive to rearm the continent.”

—> Contractor interests were always part of the reason the USA opposed EU Defence.

—> Treating increased EU Defence spending as tribute will only make us more dependent on the US.

https://www.politico.eu/article/washington-lobbies-eu-against-buy-european-push-for-weapons-donald-trump/

#EUDefence #EU #UE #Europe #USA #Geopolitics #Military

“The Washington Post’s decision to cut a large share of its climate and environmental reporters is not just a newsroom story…

cuts to environmental journalism thin the information infrastructure societies rely on to recognize risks and respond before harm becomes harder to reverse.”

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/what-is-lost-when-environmental-coverage-is-cut/

#Democracy #Media #Journalism #Environment #Climate #Green #Oligarchy #WashingtonPost #USPol #Bezos

Amsterdam to enact landmark ban on fossil fuel and meat advertising in public spaces

—> good start to get to a Grenoble style ban on all advertising in public spaces

https://www.euronews.com/green/2026/02/06/amsterdam-to-enact-landmark-ban-on-fossil-fuel-and-meat-advertising-in-public-spaces

#Climate #Green #FossilFuels #Advertising #Urban

“[US] Democrats made their wager: from the presidential nominee down to local candidates, they fully deployed the popularist strategy of moderate, “kitchen table” messaging. The result? A Republican trifecta…

Successful anti-authoritarian movements do not win by softening their positions. They win by building unlikely coalitions around a broadly resonant grievance.”

—> detailed, well argued piece!

https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-not-to-defeat-authoritarianism/

#USPol #FarRight #Democracy #Activism #PoliticalScience #Sociology

@blogdiva

Josh Brockman, scientific literary agent, was apparently in charge of organising the Nerd circle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brockman_(literary_agent)

I also note Dan Ariely, fraud psychologist who apparently likes redheads

https://bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.co/post/3mdolpezl222p

And one Nicholas Christakis (I’m guessing the first google result but don’t know 100%)

https://bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.co/post/3mdq5rlmnuc2a

#FriendsOfEpstein #Epstein

Destroying NATO won’t lower price of eggs.

1) Actual Corporate Democrat
2) The Onion, describing Dems

#USPol #Greenland #NATO

Dutch electricity grid operators will buy millions of Chinese “smart meters” because they were cheaper.

But this a bright idea security-wise?

And are the EU producers correct the CN ones were dumped below cost? Is this a good idea for industry policy?

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/31/netbeheerders-kopen-4-miljoen-slimme-meters-in-china-kamer-bezorgd-over-afhankelijkheid-a4916560

#China #Energy #Renewables #Grid #Electricity #EU #Europe #Nederland #Infosec #digital #Industry

The Shrinking Freedom of Indian Cinema.

Are Westerners aware of the creeping progress of gleichschaltung under Hindu-Nationalist rule?

Warning: The same forces are here now.

https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/the-shrinking-freedom-of-indian-cinema/

#Movies #Cinema #Film #Films #India #FarRight #fascism

Orbanization of the USA continues, as Teen Vogue, hilariously one of the last bastions of bluntly critical anti-GOP coverage, fires all its politics staffers.

#USPol #FarRight #Fascism #USA #Journalism #TeenVogue #Media #Oligarchy

USA threatens to sanction EU diplomats, and their families, for negotiating climate agreement on shipping.

—> WTAF? Ancient norms against threatening diplomats are there for a reason!

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-accused-threats-eu-diplomats-bid-to-kill-green-shipping-rules-negotiations-personal-intimidation/

#USA #Fascism #FarRight #USPol #Trump #GOP #EU #EUPol #FossilFuels #Climate #Shipping #Geopolitics #UN

@jwildeboer shares the good news that EU greenhouse gas emissions are -37% below 1990 levels.

Then gets a thread full of Eeyores responding that it must be due to delocalisation of industry to China or something.

No man, it ain’t, and it can’t possibly be. It’s mostly the shift from coal power to renewables and nuclear, as well as some energy efficiency, for instance in buildings.

A few relevant links below

https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/115286838003096901

#Climate #Energy #Europe #EU

US children are 80 percent more likely to die before adulthood than children in peer nations!

As with other “why do Americans die so young?” questions the cause is everything: (maternal) health care, guns, cars, diet, poverty, social isolation and mental health etc etc

The root cause is a lack of social democracy.

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/us-child-deaths-health-safety

#USA #USPol #Health #Children #Medicine #Science #Capitalism #Economics #SocialScience

FINALLY some clear language from 25 Western countries on Israel’s behaviour in Gaza.

Now some action please for the love of God!

(And Germany still missing, ffs)

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvg9ky87dpdt?post=asset%3Adbede933-3e52-49da-aec3-4b98507a445b#posT

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #EU #EUPol #Europe #UK #CrimesAgainstHumanity #HumanRights #WarCrimes #Genocide #Geopolitics

USA sanctions Francesca Albanese for working with the International Criminal Court, and for being early at calling the Gaza Genocide a genocide.

This regime is a global menace, to the freedoms of each of us. Where will this end?

https://apnews.com/article/francesca-albanese-gaza-genocide-sanctions-un-israel-ff0501f318b7dd0d923c30f10b639724

#FarRight #Genocide #Gaza #USA #USPol #ICC #ICJ #Law #HumanRights #Palestine #EU #Geopolitics #Albanese #FrancescaAlbanese

Andrew Cuomo getting huge oligarch and dark money funding for his New York mayor election battle with Zohran Mamdani, says FT.

Donors include Bloomberg and even a (non-New York) Palantir co-founder.

Sadly, this shit almost always works in the USA; hence the state of the nation.

https://www.ft.com/content/1f76c045-011d-49af-aaa4-aab2917bbc5b

#USPol #USA #NewYork #Zohran #AndrewCuomo #ZohranMamdani