Abby Wallace

Belfast, London

Energy and Climate Reporter at POLITICO Europe

Energy & climate reporter @POLITICOEurope • ✉️ [email protected]

Articles

Ed Miliband buys off his critics on Chinese forced labor … for now

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Abby Wallace

LONDON — Labour ministers have a vision. By the time of the next election, they want to see energy churning out across the country thanks to the power of the sun. But the plans have alarmed some members of parliament and peers on Labour’s own benches who fear that, as the United Kingdom rushes to go green, supply chains will become ever more exposed to China’s grip on the global solar market — and to goods made using slave labor.
E&E News: It’s not just British Steel. Here’s where the UK is hooked on China.

4 weeks ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Mason Boycott-Owen |Charlie Cooper |Abby Wallace |Nicholas Earl
It’s not just British Steel. Here’s where the UK is hooked on China

1 month ago | politico.eu | Mason Boycott-Owen |Charlie Cooper |Abby Wallace |Nicholas Earl

But its formulation has also been heavily influenced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who visited China in January to drum up Chinese investment in Britain. This same Whitehall tug-of-war between “securocrats” and growth has snagged a second U.K. policy — the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS), a public register of the activities of hostile nations in Britain, which will launch in July after long delays.
Surgeons transplanted a pig’s liver into a human

1 month ago | sciencenews.org | Meghan Rosen |Abby Wallace

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and liver proteins inside the brain-dead transplant recipient, researchers reported March 26 in Nature. Such a transplant could one day buy time for people waiting on the liver transplant list.
This newbie UK minister faces a baptism of fire on a key Labour promise

2 months ago | politico.eu | Abby Wallace

LONDON — Miatta Fahnbulleh is a new MP juggling one of Whitehall’s trickiest tasks: slashing Brits' energy bills at a time the government is strapped for cash. Elected for the first time in July, she was handed a ministerial brief within days. It is a rise so rapid that Fahnbulleh has a red box but still not a constituency office.
Keir Starmer’s aid cuts threaten to undermine UK climate mission

2 months ago | politico.eu | Karl Mathiesen |Abby Wallace

LONDON — Keir Starmer’s decision to underwrite a major new defense commitment by slashing overseas aid spending was supposed to signal the British prime minister’s seriousness about global security. But along the way it has provoked a ministerial resignation, an internal party row — and left those in charge of the country’s ambitious international climate policies wondering if they, too, have been hobbled.
The Tories set the UK net zero target. Now they are dumping it

2 months ago | politico.eu | Abby Wallace

LONDON — Kemi Badenoch’s new-look Conservative opposition is still working out the policies it wants to put before voters. But the U.K.’s net zero target is already firmly in the party’s firing line. The Tories, while in government, passed legislation to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. Now Badenoch and her shadow team say the target damages the country — and they want to ditch it. Setting that aim in 2019 was a “mistake,” argued interim Shadow Energy Secretary Andrew Bowie.
Giving Day 2025

Feb 5, 2025 | givecampus.com | Abby Wallace

Why is our goal 1831? Our goal of 1,831 honors the year Wesleyan was founded and reflects our shared history. Every gift helps us reach this meaningful milestone. What is "This is Not a Campaign. This is Wesleyan."? Our most ambitious fundraising initiative to date. We aim to raise $600 million dollars in support of Wesleyan and our students. Learn more about our commitments. Is there a minimum donation amount? Yes, there is a $5 minimum donation. If I make a gift can my company match it?
Nigel Farage’s next act: Hammer Labour on energy costs

Jan 29, 2025 | politico.eu | Abby Wallace

LONDON — Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is surging in the polls. Buoyed by a trip to Washington for Donald Trump’s inauguration, the populist leader boasts he will be the U.K.’s next prime minister. Now he and his insurgent party, best known for staking out populist positions on immigration and cultural issues, have found a new way to gun for the Labour government: net zero.
We won’t let local opposition block energy projects, UK minister says

Nov 21, 2024 | politico.eu | Abby Wallace

READING — The government will not let local campaigners block its “nationally important” mission to build clean energy schemes across the U.K., Energy Minister Michael Shanks vowed. Britain's new Labour government has promised to build more climate-friendly infrastructure — including wind and solar farms — as well as bulking up the electricity grid with miles of new electricity pylons. It's a bid to hit Labour’s end-of-decade goal of cleaning up the power system.