🇮🇩 NEW | BRIEFING - Branded as an #EV-driven boom, 83% of #Indonesia’s 2025 #nickel production was absorbed by stainless steel
Only 17% goes into the EV battery supply chain, a major mismatch between ‘green nickel’ marketing & actual market demand
Full briefing 🧵⤵️
http://energyandcleanair.org/publication/indonesias-nickel-aimed-at-evs-but-still-parked-in-stainless-steel/
🌐 NEW | Analysis: Global fossil power generation fell in March after Hormuz closure due to solar & wind growth
⚠️ Fall in gas-fired generation offset by large increases in solar & wind power, not coal
w/CREA's @laurimyllyvirta
https://energyandcleanair.org/fossil-power-fell-in-march-after-hormuz-blockade/
🇨🇳 NEW | OP-ED: China’s air pollution control enters ‘deep water’ phase
Progress to depend less on conventional reductions, more on structural changes: electrifying heavy industry & transport, clean power generation growth & reduction in coal consumption
https://dialogue.earth/en/pollution/chinas-air-pollution-control-enters-deep-water-phase/
🇷🇺 NEW | Monthly analysis of Russian fossil fuel exports & sanctions
In Mar 2026, Russia’s monthly fossil fuel export revenues rose to their highest levels in 2 years, to EUR 713mn/day
Early estimates show a 114% MoM rise in Russia’s Mineral Extraction Tax revenues, ~EUR 7.4bn
🏛️ CREA reiterates the need to practice strong enforcement of the price cap policy & address attestation fraud to adequately crunch Russian revenues
❗ In March 2026 alone, full enforcement of the USD 44.1 per barrel price cap would have reduced revenues by EUR 6.62 bn
🇷🇺 CREA’s March analysis on fossil fuel exports from Russia is now available here in EN & 🇺🇦 UA soon to follow:
Find all related CREA data here:
http://energyandcleanair.org/financing-putins-war/
Financing Putin’s war: Fossil fuel imports from Russia during the invasion of Ukraine – Centre for...
energyandcleanair.org
🇨🇳 NEW | #China #AirQualityTrends | March 2026 | EN & CN
⚠️💨 Air quality worsened in 15 of China’s provincial capitals in Mar 2026, with 18 failing the tightened annual PM2.5 standard, up from 6 in Feb
Monthly PM2.5 and ozone levels rose YoY in over half of those cities
🔴 Worst PM2.5: Harbin in Heilongjiang, followed by Changchun in Jilin, & Shenyang in Liaoning
🔴 Worst ozone: Kunming in Yunnan; Lhasa in Tibet; & Jinan in Shandong
🔴 Worst NO2: Shenyang; Tianjin, & Harbin
🇨🇳 CREA's March 2026 China Air Quality Trends is now available in EN & CN👇
China Air Quality Trends – March 2026 Snapshot – Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air
energyandcleanair.org
🇮🇳 NEW | #India #NCAP FY 2025-2026 progress & March #ambientairquality snapshot out now
❗️In FY 2025–26 only a few cities met the NCAP targets after 7 years of implementation
⚠️Ghaziabad recorded the highest annual average PM10 concentration
⚠️ Haryana accounted for 4 of India’s top 10 most polluted cities, followed by 2 cities each from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, and 1 each from Rajasthan and Gujarat
🇮🇳 CREA's India NCAP FY 2025-2026 progress & March ambient air quality snapshot is now available here:
NCAP FY 2025-2026 progress and March ambient air quality snapshot for India – Centre for Research...
energyandcleanair.org
🇨🇳 NEW | Stronger #greensteel pathways in #China could deliver a 37% emissions cut from peak by 2035
They could also help the sector to recover ~CNY 220Bn in lost profits, shore up debt & maintain market credibility
http://energyandcleanair.org/publication/reclaiming-credibility-in-chinas-steel-industry/
@ShenXinyi313, @BelindaSchaepe
🇨🇳 🎥 WEBINAR | Recording | Implications of China’s 15th five-year plan for climate & energy transition
🔍️ In case you missed it: Join experts as they take a closer look⤵️
https://energyandcleanair.org/aspi-crea-webinar-implications-of-chinas-15th-five-year-plan-for-the-climate-and-energy-transition
w/@BelindaSchaepe; @LauriMyllyvirta; @Kate_K_Logan & @AsiaSociety
🇧🇷⚕️NEW | REPORT | CANDIOTA COAL - Health impacts of coal mining & power generation cluster in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
☠️ Candiota 2017–2040 coal use risks 1,300 deaths & BRL 11.7 billion - avoidable w/earlier phase-out
w/@arayaraoficial
@arayaraoficial 🏛️ CREA & ARAYARA call for:
-Accelerated coal phase-out in Candiota
-Termination of public subsidies, preferential financial treatment for coal
-Strengthening environmental licensing & emissions enforcement
-Health evidence in judicial & regulatory decisions
-A just transition
@arayaraoficial 🇧🇷⚕️CREA & ARAYARA's health impact assessment (HIA) report on the Candiota coal mining and power generation cluster in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil is now available in English & Portuguese:
https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/coal-in-candiota-health-impacts-of-a-coal-mining-and-power-generation-cluster-in-rio-grande-do-sul-brazil
