Tag: Net zero
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
My daughters aren’t eco-zealots – POLITICO
LONDON — Rishi Sunak’s daughters might be climate-conscious — but they aren’t “eco-zealots,” the British prime minister insisted Wednesday.
Sunak used an LBC radio phone-in to mount a defense of his government’s decision to this week green-light hundreds of new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea, amid a backlash from environmental campaigners warning it flies in the face of a promise to reduce the U.K.’s carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050.
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Not so fast on electric cars, says UK’s business minister – POLITICO
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LONDON — Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch is hoping to persuade Cabinet colleagues to soften new rules on electric cars, as the row over Britain’s net-zero targets rumbles on.
U.K. automakers could be hit with fines of up to £15,000 per car if they miss production goals on electric vehicles (EVs) next year.
But Badenoch — a Conservative rising star often talked about in Westminster as a future
High Court rules London’s pollution-busting ULEZ expansion is lawful – POLITICO
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan can press on with a controversial expansion of the ultra low emissions zone (ULEZ) which penalizes high-polluting vehicles in the capital, a High Court judge ruled Friday.
Five Conservative councils brought a legal challenge against the Labour mayor’s plan, which has sparked a major political debate about green policies in the U.K. But the judicial review was dismissed Friday morning, meaning the scheme can now be extended to outer London areas, as planned, on August
The Potemkin lobby shaping the EU’s agricultural policy – POLITICO
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s biggest farming lobby claims to represent all the bloc’s agricultural workers, but Stela Zămoiu doesn’t believe it speaks for farmers like her.
Zămoiu, 61, remembers when the land around her was full of smallholders. Today, her three hectares in eastern Romania are surrounded by large, industrial farms. When she dies, she expects her property to be swallowed up by one of her neighbors.
“The village has grown old,” she says. “After the elders die, the
20 people who matter in the UK’s race to net zero – POLITICO
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LONDON — The U.K. has net zero targets. Now it’s just got to figure out how to get there — fast.
In the space of four years, the U.K.’s legal net zero target has gone from words on paper to a vast national effort touching the lives of everyone in the country. Despite ambitious goals, enshrined in law, some in industry criticize what they see as the lack of