The world faces two energy problems: hundreds of millions lack access to energy, and most of our energy still produces greenhouse gas emissions. The first energy problem of the world is the problem of energy poverty. People in very poor countries have very low emissions. The reason that the emissions of the poor are low is that they lack access to modern energy and technology. When people lack access to modern energy sources for cooking and heating, they rely on solid fuel sources — mostly firewood, but also dung and crop waste. This comes at a massive cost to the health of people in energy poverty. The reliance on fuelwood is also the reason why poverty is linked to deforestation. The second energy problem is the one that is more well-known: greenhouse gas emissions are too high. The problem is larger for the extremely rich, but it is not limited to them. People need access to energy for a good life. However, in a world where fossil fuels are the dominant source of energy, access to modern energy means that carbon emissions are too high. Once we look at it this way, it becomes clear that the twin energy problems are really the two sides of one big problem. We lack large-scale energy alternatives to fossil fuels that are cheap, safe, and sustainable. Until we scale up those alternatives, the world will continue to face the two energy problems of today.

Israel is already using A.I. to determine who lives and who dies in Gaza. Even in war, we should not let an algorithm play God. We must stop this deference to A.I. before this becomes normalized. trib.al/cP8pZ3S

The denial is understandable it is too big for the political muppet show class and all academic now do is measure 📐 and document the decline.📉 not a single attempt to make ice management for bringing back the cooling albedo, most in leadership like lobbyists and PR are lazy and apathy. ‘Switzerland's glacier report 2026 is out. Swiss glaciers have lost 5% of their ice volume this year. Only the last 5 years accounted for nearly 20% of the total ice loss across Switzerland. The numbers are devastating. 📹VAW Glaciology

Not proud, but I once got creative and registered a team of 20-year-olds in a U10s tournament. Other coaches kept saying "you can't use them" and "they have beards" and "I think that's Myles Lewis-Skelly." But whatever happened behind the scenes, the game is won on the pitch.

Hi Tom, NHS consultant here. The NHS is supported by impressive, innovative and ground breaking technologies provided by a wide range of outstanding multinational corporations. It is a false dichotomy to suggest to people that if we want good health care, we must align with genocide supporting organisations like Palantir. Hope that helps. Niz

A former civil servant describes fearing for his job after speaking out against the UK government’s involvement in Gaza and questioning its policy on arms exports. Here, he speaks exclusively to journalist Ramita Navai.

The front page of @ScotNational tomorrow is what every UK newspaper front page should look like. But, as throughout the entirety of the genocide, it stands alone with a moral backbone, not afraid to tell the truth about the horrors the rest of the press whitewash.

"The escalating demand for electricity in the world is being met through these fossil free energy systems but we're not getting off coal, oil and gas fast enough. That's the dilemma," says PIK director @jrockstrom in The Climate Question. Full episode: bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct99j2

Back in 2014, there was a man who was already aware of the irregularities involving Manchester City. That man now runs FIFA. The infamous Gianni Infantino, then UEFA General Secretary, abused his authority, shared confidential documents and, in short, outmanoeuvred the Investigatory Chamber, doing everything in his power to ensure that both Manchester City and PSG would merely receive a fine, avoiding a deeper investigation that could have led to a Champions League ban. All of these details were also revealed through Football Leaks. Given his actions as UEFA General Secretary and, more recently, as FIFA President, I can only say, in my humble opinion, that Gianni Infantino has become a cancer on football and should have no place in the future of the game.

Netanyahu, who I’ve interviewed three times including in Israel, has rejected hundreds of requests I’ve made for an interview since Oct 7.. if you can sort it, I’ll be on the next plane.

This was the 4,500 metre Matterhorn, the most iconic mountain in the Alps, on September 25th 2003. A disaster

100 BIL euros extra in fossil fuel imports since the start of the war in the Middle East. Time to move away from this expensive and dangerous dependency and help our citizens&businesses with lower energy prices. Doorstep at informal meeting of Energy Ministers in Dublin 👇🏻

Is it possible and necessary to win the net zero argument all over again? I assess with the world leading climate economist Nick Stern, in new Rest is Money podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…

BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 Israel struggles after facing opponent that isn’t an unarmed 6-year-old.

It will shock you to learn that the executive director of the Tony Blair Institute is endorsing the main editorial in today’s Observer’s: a manifesto for AI boosterism. But that’s not the only thing going on here. 1/

Fun fact, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climat Change) Working Group 3 Lead Author meeting starts tomorrow in Bangkok, amidst one of the worst climate change disasters ever to hit the city. JFC.

Honoured to be nominated by Spain as a candidate for Director-General of the @WHO I am grateful for this trust and for the many colleagues and communities who have shaped my life in public health. I believe in WHO. @sanidadgob @MAECgob

“Human-caused climate change has reduced Arctic sea ice cover and thickness, so the region is fundamentally different compared to a few decades ago.” via @CarbonBrief at carbonbrief.org/concerning-l…

The Israeli army has dropped phosphorus bombs on the outskirts of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah municipality, near the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, reports Lebanon’s National News Agency. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/6wndd4