TAG: Energy efficiency
Czech industry minister vies to become EU’s next energy chief
Czech Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Síkela, who played a key role in coordinating Europe’s respo...
8 months ago
EU mulls ‘Industrial’ twin for Green Deal as election pressure bites
BRUSSELS — Move over Green Deal, there’s a new buzzword in town — and just in time for the EU electi...
8 months ago
Labour slashes green spending pledge in major U-turn
LONDON — Keir Starmer's Labour Party U-turned on its green investment plans after months of speculation.The party on Thursday ditched its totemic pledge to spend £28 billion a year on green policies — slashing those spending plans by nearly 75 percent.In...
6 months ago
EU countries dilute fuel tax hike as green anger mounts
EU countries are proposing major delays and exemptions to a fuel tax overhaul meant to push Europe toward a more climate-friendly future, wary of the growing discontent over environmental policies, according to documents seen by POLITICO.The legislation,...
5 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
Keir Starmer’s worst nightmare? Becoming Margaret Thatcher
LONDON — When Keir Starmer wanted to woo Conservative voters, he knew just who to talk about.Penning a column in the Daily Telegraph, a favorite for Tory supporters, the center-left Labour leader heaped praise on Conservative titan Margaret Thatcher.The l...
2 months ago
Italy’s budget mess leaves earthquake-stricken towns in limbo
AMATRICE, Italy — Gaetano Galli surveyed the quiet street and casually pointed out where the earthquake had wrought its havoc. There, the splintered wreck of a bungalow that caved in on a family of six; across the road, the spot where over a dozen were cr...
1 month 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
World fails first review of COP renewable energy goal
BRUSSELS — Reaching the landmark renewable energy targets agreed at last year’s global climate summit will remain a distant dream unless the world invests more than $30 trillion over the next six years. That’s the stark warning the International Renewable...
2 days ago
Pro-Ukraine pledges proving too contentious for EU-Gulf summit, leak shows
The EU is struggling to get Gulf countries on board with a series of pro-Ukraine commitments ahead of a leaders’ summit on Wednesday in Brussels, according to a draft statement seen by POLITICO. The EU-Gulf summit, the first of its kind, is meant as a sho...
1 day 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...
8 hours ago