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5 days ago | 
politico.eu | Karl Mathiesen |Jon Stone
LONDON — Britain has it in for its bats and newts — and Brussels is alarmed. A confidential EU report, seen by POLITICO, warned that U.K. plans to strip away nature protections in pursuit of economic growth could put the British government in breach of the Brexit trade deal.
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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Karl Mathiesen |Zia Weise
LONDON — Australia’s bid to host next year’s climate conference depends on convincing Turkey to step aside. If they need tips, there’s a British playbook — the details of which are previously unreported — that worked before, involving investment wheel-greasing and support for Turkey’s international priorities.
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2 weeks ago | 
subscriber.politicopro.com | Karl Mathiesen
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Karl Mathiesen
LONDON — The Trump administration arrived in the United Kingdom last week with a simple message: China is a malign actor, benefitting from misguided climate policies, and the world is better off copying America's newfound embrace of fossil fuels. It was met with a shrug. The gathering of 60 nations, together in London to debate the future of energy security, had a few warm words for their United States guests.
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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.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Karl Mathiesen |Sara Schonhardt |Charlie Cooper |Nicolas Camut
10 hours agoTrump’s Global Tariffs Are Meant For China – OpEdThe latest tariff blitz has China in the crosshairs. Building on earlier efforts by previous administrations, Trump’s abrasiveness risks weakening …5 hours agoPost Office paid £600m to continue using HorizonThe Post Office has paid more than £600m of public money to continue using the faulty Horizon IT system despite deciding to ditch it more than a decade ago, the BBC can reveal.
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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.
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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.
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3 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Karl Mathiesen
Nearly 10 years ago, Pope Francis released a brutal diagnosis of climate change: It was a profound failure of human morality. Read today, in the week of his death, the pamphlet feels both more distant and more urgent than ever. Its message of unity and healing with nature is worlds away from today’s discourse of clashing greed, national competition and climate-trashing populism in places like the U.S. and his homeland of Argentina. Francis’ intent was revolutionary.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Zia Weise |Karl Mathiesen
BRUSSELS — Germany’s incoming government will throw its weight behind an ambitious EU climate target for 2040, but only if the European Commission allows countries to offset a portion of their planet-warming emissions instead of slashing them. The stance was revealed Wednesday in a coalition agreement between the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU), which won February’s snap election, and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD).
