Charlie Cooper

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Charlie Cooper

LONDON — A world leader took to the stage this week. The days of his voters being treated unfairly by global markets were coming to an end, he said. Manufacturing and jobs would be brought back home. In the “industrial heartlands” of the rust belt, “community, pride and purpose” would be restored. But this wasn’t Donald Trump. It was U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and he was talking about his country going green.

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Karl Mathiesen |Sara Schonhardt |Charlie Cooper |Nicolas Camut

LONDON — Trump administration officials are attempting to block the world’s most important energy research agency from producing data that the U.S. government argues favors renewable power over fossil fuels. At recent meetings of the International Energy Agency, U.S. officials pushed the body, which publishes influential energy market forecasts, to cease its work promoting the global shift to clean power and net-zero carbon emissions, according to two people briefed on the discussions.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Karl Mathiesen |Sara Schonhardt |Charlie Cooper |Nicolas Camut

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2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Charlie Cooper |Karl Mathiesen

LONDON — The U.K. can find a way to work with Donald Trump’s America on energy security while still retaining close cooperation with China on climate and renewables, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said. Speaking at a London energy summit, Miliband told POLITICO that, despite having a “different perspective” to the Trump administration on the role of fossil fuels in securing energy supply, the U.K. could still collaborate on low-carbon technologies like nuclear and geothermal power.

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Karl Mathiesen |Charlie Cooper

LONDON — A Trump administration official ripped into climate policies at an energy summit in London Thursday, claiming efforts to halt global warming were restricting energy supplies and handing power to China. “When and where their energy is scarce or restricted, humans suffer.