TAG: Cities
Russian bombs failed to destroy Ukraine’s energy grid. Corruption could break its own
When Vladimir Putin landed in Khabarovsk on his tour of Russia’s Far East last week, he was given a...
8 months ago
‘Postcode lottery’ warning as UK energy chief weighs bills shake-up
LONDON — Claire Coutinho has promised to cut your energy bills. But she could end up hiking your neighbor’s in the process.The U.K. energy secretary is mulling sweeping reforms to the electricity market which, advocates say, could reduce bills by billions...
6 months ago
Putin bombards Ukraine but US tells Kyiv to stop targeting Russian oil
KYIV — Russia launched a huge barrage of missiles and drones at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure overnight, leaving several cities without electricity and damaging the Dnipro hydropower plant, Ukraine's biggest dam.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy s...
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
Anne Hidalgo’s vision of a greener Paris faces political reckoning
PARIS — Nearly 10 years ago, newly minted Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo made “a genuine energy and environmental transition” a cornerstone of her plans for the city.The Socialist politician stayed true to that platform — in the process becoming one of the most...
6 months ago
Floods, war and US inflation crash the IMF party
Warnings about risks to the global economy are so common these days that it’s easy to become inured to them, but the few days since the world’s finance chiefs assembled in Washington have seen a series of them materialize in quick succession.First it was...
5 months ago
EU energy supplies targeted in Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
Russia's latest missile attack on Ukraine hit energy infrastructure used to supply the European Union with natural gas, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.Ukraine's energy system was struck by 34 Russian rockets in a "massive missile attack" on...
5 months ago
Europe’s southerners want Brussels to save them from climate change
ATHENS — They make an odd couple: a Harvard-educated Greek conservative and a Spanish eco-socialist.But Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Teresa Ribera are united by a concern which is driving a wedge between Europe’s climate-hit south and the less-affected north.T...
2 months ago
Forget Olympic athletes — will Parisians ever want to swim in the Seine?
PARIS — In the minds of French officials, the plan was ambitious but simple: Clean up the Seine for the 2024 Olympics and convince the world that everyone could enjoy a carefree dip in the notoriously murky river next summer.Well, Olympic athletes did ult...
2 months ago
Panic on the canals: How a battle over wages in Venice highlights the complex reality overlooked by policymakers
Can Europe's firms be trusted to share their profits with the toiling masses?Ask the European Central Bank, and you'll get a resounding yes. In recent months, the Frankfurt-based institution has predicted that companies that have enjoyed bumper gains in t...
1 month ago
UK energy policy: 20 people to lobby at Labour conference
Ministers newly installed in their Whitehall offices. Special advisers moving from opposition to government. The first Labour administration for 14 years — and one marked in its early weeks by a raft of energy and climate promises which could, at least in...
3 weeks ago
Number of million-plus cities to jump 50% in 2024: SBI Research
The number of million-plus cities is expected to rise to 75-80 in 2024 compared with 52 in the 2011 census and 18 in 2001, SBI Research said on September 24.In its report “Precursor to Census 2024: The Fine Prints of a Rapidly Changing Nation”, SBI resear...
3 weeks ago
Too fast, too furious: Paris speed limit crashes into right-wing opposition
PARIS — France's new transport minister hadn’t even been on the job for a week when he sat down with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo in a last-ditch effort to get her to reconsider a controversial policy: slowing the speed limit on the capital's main ring road.T...
2 weeks ago
The EU’s plan to make housing more affordable
BRUSSELS — The European Commission wants to make housing more affordable by squeezing more cash out of European Union funding programs and revising rules, according to a draft policy document seen by POLITICO.Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has...
1 week ago