US succeeds in erasing climate from global energy body’s priorities – POLITICO

Unusually, there was no joint communique from the ministers at the end of this week’s meeting. The chair’s…
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US succeeds in erasing climate from global energy body’s priorities

Trump’s energy chief had threatened to leave the International Energy Agency if it continued to focus on climate.

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US pressures global energy body to drop net zero modeling

Trump’s energy chief Chris Wright told other ministers in Paris that a net zero world was fantasy.

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Newsom signs California-UK clean energy pact – POLITICO

The pact will enable better access for U.K. firms including Octopus Energy — the country’s biggest energy supplier…
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Good to see MPs have cottoned on to the enormous environmental impact of #LLM #GenAI technologies: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yjr9mp92po

Now let's see them actually take action and outlaw the building of these wasteful behemoths.

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MPs fear data centre boom could derail Miliband's net zero plans

A senior Labour MP says emission from data centres "have been highlighted as a key area of concern".

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Green transition targets are not realistic – how to decarbonise at the right pace | The-14

Green transition delays come from systems built for fossil-fuel speed. Decarbonising needs realistic timelines and redesigned infrastructure.

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Shadow minister Andrew Hastie says he will be ‘without a job’ if Liberals don’t abandon net zero

Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie has indicated he will quit or be dumped from the shadow cabinet if the Coalition…
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How to get the money for Europe’s defense

It’s well past time the bloc reconsidered hemorrhaging money on an unaffordable and ineffectual climate policy that no other continent is emulating.

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Nigel Farage is surging in Britain’s rust belt — and Labour is panicked

The U.K.’s ruling Labour Party has a 103-year winning streak in Wales, but that could end next May. POLITICO talked to officials, politicians and disillusioned steelworkers to track the rapid rise of Farage’s Reform UK.

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Sorry you hated us: 5 grovelling apologies from UK politicians

Taken over as the leader of a wounded political party? Try some self-flagellation.

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