Zia Weise

1 week ago | politico.eu | Zia Weise

BRUSSELS — The European Commission will tell countries to cut 90 percent of their planet-warming emissions by 2040, but offer “flexibilities” to make the goal politically palatable, EU climate chief Teresa Ribera told POLITICO. Yet she warned that giving too many concessions risks excessively weakening the target — which the EU executive is hoping to present on June 4 or the week after, according to two officials.

3 weeks ago | antinuclear.net | Karl Mathiesen |Zia Weise |Christina MacPherson

Can Australia pay off Turkey to host COP31? The Brits did. A previously unreported package of investment pledges and U.N. support got Turkey to back down last time. May 8, 2025 By Karl Mathiesen and Zia WeiseLONDON — Australia’s bid to host next year’s climate conference depends on convincing Turkey to step aside.

3 weeks ago | politico.eu | Zia Weise

BRUSSELS — Austria’s new government has declined to endorse the European Commission’s recommendation for a 90 percent cut in planet-warming emissions by 2040, depriving Brussels of an expected ally for the embattled target. Vienna never explicitly agreed to support the target, but former Austrian Climate Minister Leonore Gewessler was among the first to welcome the EU executive’s suggestion for a 90 percent reduction in February 2024.

1 month ago | politico.eu | Zia Weise

BRUSSELS — Last month was the world’s second-warmest April on record, European scientists found. This past April was 1.51 degrees Celsius hotter than the pre-industrial average, continuing the now nearly two-year-old trend of months breaching the symbolic barrier, the European Union’s Copernicus climate monitoring agency said in its latest monthly bulletin published Thursday. Twenty-one out of the past 22 months crossed the 1.5C threshold.

1 month 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.