Zia Weise

Brussels

Climate Policy Reporter at POLITICO Europe

Senior climate reporter @POLITICOEurope. Recovering news editor, ex-Istanbul correspondent. She/her. | https://t.co/fAtOORuDGp | ✉️ [email protected]

Articles

Austria walks back support for EU’s 2040 climate target

2 days 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.
This April was world’s second-hottest on record, EU scientists say

6 days 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.
Can Australia pay off Turkey to host COP31? The Brits did.

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.
E&E News: EU scientists sound alarm over escalating spring drought

1 week ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Zia Weise
Alarmujący raport UE: wiosenna susza w Europie się nasila. Problem zwłaszcza dla Polski i Ukrainy

1 week ago | wiadomosci.onet.pl | Zia Weise

W nowym raporcie Wspólne Centrum Badawcze Komisji Europejskiej (JRC) stwierdza, że susza zaczyna rozprzestrzeniać się na niemal wszystkie obszary kontynentu i nie widać oznak poprawy sytuacji. "W Europie Środkowej, Wschodniej i Południowo-Wschodniej, a także we wschodniej części regionu Morza Śródziemnego obserwuje się rozprzestrzeniające się warunki suszy na poziomie ostrzegawczym.
EU scientists sound alarm over escalating spring drought

1 week ago | politico.eu | Zia Weise

BRUSSELS — The spring drought plaguing Europe since March is worsening and spreading to more countries, the European Commission's scientific service warned today. A lack of rainfall and warmer than usual weather have dried out soils and sapped rivers across large stretches of Central and Eastern Europe, including the continent's grain production powerhouses Poland and Ukraine.
The mechanics behind Spain’s mega-blackout

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Zia Weise |Aitor Hernández-Morales |Victor Jack

BRUSSELS — The long-neglected web of cables, coils and switches that keeps Europe’s lights on is finally having its moment in the limelight — for all the wrong reasons. Energy concerns have dominated the continent’s politics in recent years, with the European Union shunning Russian imports after Moscow invaded Ukraine and ditching fossil fuels for cleaner alternatives.
Spanish grid operator rules out cyberattack in its facilities after power cut

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Sam Clark |Zia Weise

Spain's national transmission system operator has not found signs that a cyberattack was at the root of the massive power blackout in Spain and Portugal on Monday. “With the analyses we have been able to carry out so far, we can rule out a cybersecurity incident in the electricity grid facilities at the Red Eléctrica control center," Red Eléctrica's head of system operation services Eduardo Prieto said at a press conference on Tuesday.
E&E News: Mega power outage in Spain, Portugal threatens to last hours more

2 weeks ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Aitor Hernández-Morales |Zia Weise |Seb Starcevic |Max Griera
EU to float ban on new Russian energy contracts

3 weeks ago | politico.eu | Zia Weise |Victor Jack

BRUSSELS — The European Commission will suggest measures to forbid companies from signing new oil and gas contracts with Russia in an upcoming plan to end the bloc's reliance on Moscow's imports, according to a senior EU official. The plan, expected on May 6, is part of Brussels’ broader strategy to eliminate Russian energy imports by 2027. The document will float several options for legally binding proposals or trade measures, said the official, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly.