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UK Tories’ anti-green turn suggests they’re ready to lose – POLITICO
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Karl Mathiesen is a senior climate correspondent at POLITICO Europe.
Rishi Sunak’s anti-green swerve is the clearest sign yet that his Conservative party is preparing for opposition.
It’s been coming. Sunak started his tenure needing to be bullied into attending the 2022 U.N. climate talks in Sharm El-Sheikh. But, encouraged by the result of the Uxbridge by-election and campaigning tabloids, the famously climate-ennui prime minister is now openly
How climate change will widen Europe’s divides – POLITICO
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This is the first chapter in The Road to COP26 series.
Climate change isn’t just coming for Europe. It’s coming for the European Union.
Europe’s north will struggle with floods and fires, even with warming at the lowest end of expectations — the Paris Agreement limits of 1.5 or 2 degrees above the pre-industrial global average. But the south will be hammered by drought, urban heat and agricultural decline, driving a wedge