TAG: Carbon
John Kerry’s America First climate legacy
MAGA may really hate John Kerry, but under his leadership U.S. climate diplomacy has stuck to its Am...
8 months ago
Former Tory energy minister quits as MP over Sunak’s ‘harmful’ push for new oil and gas
The former energy minister who signed the U.K.’s 2050 net-zero target into law has quit the Conserva...
8 months ago
Europe is spending millions to trap carbon. Where will it go?
Tomaž Vuk has the carbon. Now he just needs somewhere to send it. Since 2020, Vuk, who sits on the b...
8 months ago
Europe needs more cash, Belgian PM says
The European Union needs more of its own money, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told POLITI...
8 months ago
EU conservatives are fueling far right with Green Deal crusade, Spain’s deputy PM warns
Europe’s center-right leaders assailing green policies are only feeding the rise of a Trump-style po...
8 months ago
EU heavyweights urge ‘ambitious’ 2040 climate targets — breaking silence
Several of Europe's most powerful countries implored Brussels to set "an ambitious climate target fo...
8 months ago
Ursula’s empty green Davos promise
Almost a year ago to the day, Ursula von der Leyen traveled to the snowy environs of Davos to make a...
8 months ago
Europe’s new energy risk: Trading Russia for America
On cloudy days, from his house John Beard can see the fireballs lighting up the dark sky, flares from the distant fossil fuel plants where he once made his living as a technician.The fiery discharge of excess gas is a constant reminder of the industry tha...
6 months ago
Tony Blair seeks climate role at COP29 in Azerbaijan
LONDON — Tony Blair was once hired to lobby for a gas pipeline from Azerbaijan that activists described as a “carbon bomb.” Now he wants to help the Baku government run its climate talks.The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), which was founded...
6 months ago
Net zero meets the NIMBYs: Inside the battle for the UK’s biggest solar farm
EYNSHAM VILLAGE HALL, OXFORDSHIRE, England — On a winter afternoon, dozens of local residents pour into a drafty village hall, tucked away in the picturesque English countryside. They wear thick coats and skeptical frowns, and are here to fight plans to b...
6 months ago
UK government scraps heat pump plan
LONDON — The government has scrapped controversial plans to fine boiler manufacturers if they miss targets for installing heat pumps.The Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM), which was due to start next month, has been “scrapped” until April 2025 in a bid t...
6 months ago
Claire Coutinho: The UK’s chancellor-in-the-wings?
LONDON — Late summer 2023. Claire Coutinho, a junior minister at the Department for Education and a rising star in the U.K. Conservative government, is enjoying a quiet morning at home when her phone rings.The caller has a message from one of Coutinho’s o...
6 months ago
UK vows to avoid Europe’s ‘clumsy’ green policies as protests rage
LONDON — Britain will not repeat the kind of “clumsy” climate policies which have caused social unrest elsewhere in Europe, the country’s energy secretary declared.Claire Coutinho told POLITICO in an interview that “riots and protest happening across Euro...
6 months ago
EU ‘very far’ from target to plant 3B trees, Commission admits
The European Union is nowhere near making good on its pledge to plant at least 3 billion trees by the end of the decade, a senior European Commission official said Wednesday. As part of the European Green Deal, the EU executive committed in 2020 to boosti...
6 months ago