Daniel Cook
@dan_c_cook
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Leader - Built & Natural Env, Innovation. Making a difference, strategy, climate action, EDI #bethechange🇦🇺🇧🇷🇬🇧🇵🇹
London
Joined October 2014
Good news for London’s open water swimmers - a new floating lido is coming to Canary Wharf’s Eden Dock. Great to see more opportunities to enjoy London’s blue spaces. And it looks spectacular ⬇
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Christmas Day may be over but London still sparkles. No other city does Christmas magic quite like London ✨
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Choose Love: the shop selling life-saving gifts for refugees ♥️ Great to spend time at their Regent Street store, which is open until Christmas Eve - and you can also shop online if you can’t make it in person. Highly recommended for last-minute gifts! 🎁
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Great news. This opens up exciting opportunities for young people, giving Londoners, Brits & their European counterparts access to a wealth of possibilities. At a time of global uncertainty, strengthening our partnership with the EU is a win-win for growth and prosperity 💙💛
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The hydrogen bubble has burst. Nearly 60 major low-carbon H₂ projects have been cancelled or paused — far more capacity than the world has actually built. The reason? Fundamentals still don’t add up: • Demand isn’t there • Costs remain high • Infrastructure is missing
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Offshore wind has been making waves in the British power system for 25 years, growing to become 🇬🇧’s SECOND largest source of power Starting with two small turbines in 2000, offshore wind has grown to generate nearly a fifth of British electricity. https://t.co/IXOOLr67Xf
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Grid scale batteries are coming and fast. Snapshot of grid BESS installations in YTD 2025 (Jan-Oct 2025) vs YTD 2024 (Jan-Oct 2024): • Global: +38% • China: +27% • Europe: +21% • North America: +21% • ROW: +242% Data from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
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#Graphicoftheweek: The UK has sharply downgraded near-term expectations for engineered carbon removals📉 Our chart shows the scale of this shift, highlighting the need to focus on delivering proven climate solutions like renewables and electrification⚡ https://t.co/UOn3JutcJn
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Kenya is one of Africa's clean energy leaders: In 2000 60% of electricity came from fossil fuels. Today: - 8% is from fossil fuels - 43% is from geothermal - 28% from hydro - 14% from wind and - 4% from solar.
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Wind is now the largest single electricity generator in 7 U.S. states (for the year from Oct 1 '24 - Sep 30, '25): SD, IA, KS, WY, OK, ND, NM Providing up to 85% of demand (in SD)
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Great news. @jpmorgan's landmark investment in a new building here in London is a huge vote of confidence in our capital’s future - and a testament to our enduring status as a global powerhouse for finance, innovation, and talent ⬇️
JPMorgan to build £3 billion mega tower HQ at Canary Wharf in boost for London https://t.co/PlFXRwSPYi
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Most people hear “heat pump” and think of small air-source units at home. But Germany is building one of the world’s largest heat pumps in Mannheim: a 162 MW river-source system using heat from the Rhine. Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can
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NEW: Fantastic news for London - the DLR extension to Thamesmead is going ahead with Government backing. It’s something I’ve long called for, will create jobs for Londoners and help deliver tens of thousands of new homes across our city ⬇️ https://t.co/DMdzJ0lxEG
cityam.com
The development is among the top infrastructure priorities for which Sadiq Khan has been seeking government funding.
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Europe's electricity system is changing rapidly and often in places that don't make the headlines. Look at Estonia - not that long ago and fossil fuels dominated around 90% of electricity generation. Today solar and wind eat more and more into the share of fossil
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"Momentum for renewable energy at #COP30 is now accompanied by solid evidence," writes @350 Two major reports from Ember and @IEA show how the clean energy transition is not something the world is preparing for, but something the world is already doing https://t.co/J37PnnyzzP
350.org
The biggest climate conference is buzzing about renewable energy, and the latest data explains why.
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10 years ago hydrogen buses were hyped and many cities ordered them. Today the picture is clear: electric buses rule, hydrogen buses whither.
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There was a hugely important announcement today at COP30: South Korea joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance, and in doing so, announced it will not build any new coal plants and will shut down 40 existing plants by 2040. As the country with the 7th largest coal fleet, this is a
koreatimes.co.kr
Korea on Monday announced that it has joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA), committing to close 40 coal-fired power plants by 2040. The an...
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Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says @IEA
https://t.co/HjXnNWQYQv
theguardian.com
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling
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UNEP: New country climate plans ‘barely move needle’ on expected warming | @AyeshaTandon Cecilia Keating @UNEP Read here: https://t.co/9wzJNmAIr0
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