TAG: Decarbonizing
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
Climate protection is now a human right — and lawsuits will follow
Governments be warned: You must protect your citizens from climate change — it’s their human right.The prescient message was laced throughout a dense ruling Tuesday from Europe’s top human rights court. The court’s conclusion? Humans have a right to safet...
6 months ago
Labour’s top policy priorities
LONDON — Keir Starmer has arrived in Downing Street with his new Cabinet. So what are their first priorities?Big-ticket items include decarbonizing the electricity grid by 2030, building 1.5 million homes over five years, hitting long-missed health servic...
2 months ago
Cooking oil won’t be enough to make aviation sustainable
Making jet fuel from used cooking oil or crops is more sustainable than burning kerosene, but the industry warns it doesn't represent a long-term solution to decarbonizing aviation.Reducing its carbon footprint is a growing issue for a sector that generat...
2 months ago
Teresa Ribera faces nuclear hurdle to running EU green policy
BRUSSELS — On paper, the European Union’s leading candidate to guide green policy for the next five years has it all: decades of experience, endless high-profile contacts and a shining reputation. There’s just one problem: Teresa Ribera is a hardened nucl...
2 months ago
How Ed Miliband became Britain’s most divisive government minister
LONDON — Six weeks on from Labour’s resounding election victory, no one in Keir Starmer’s Cabinet has moved quite as quickly as Ed Miliband. A former (failed) Labour leader, who critics deemed too left-wing and awkward to win over the British public, Mil...
2 months ago
Ed Miliband is Britain’s minister for good vibes
LIVERPOOL, England — Never mind the fiscal blackhole, here’s Ed Miliband.A rainy Labour Party conference in Liverpool was haunted this week by the specter of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ imminent, cost-cutting Budget. It was overshadowed by a row over top go...
3 weeks ago
UK government warned not to ‘run before it can walk’ on clean power
This article is the product of a POLITICO roundtable hosted by Photovolt Development Partners.LIVERPOOL, England — It was the moment a new government tried to stamp its green credentials on Westminster and the country.Labour Energy Secretary Ed Miliband,...
2 weeks ago
No one has a plan to fix Britain’s old, cold homes
LONDON — It is, says one former U.K. energy minister, “the biggest problem” blocking the country's efforts to go green.How do you kit out the U.K.'s millions of old, cold, drafty homes with better insulation and cleaner heating systems?After years in gove...
11 hours ago