UKโ€™s Starmer to meet Trump next week

Prime minister heads to Washington to meet with US president as European capitals fret over Ukraine’s future.

ล efฤoviฤ to visit Washington as trade war looms

The European Commission is trying to head off a transatlantic trade conflict.

Trump sets out process for imposing global reciprocal tariffs

The president tasked top Cabinet officials to study the matter further before deciding on specifics.

Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support

“We have to get something. We canโ€™t continue to pay this money,โ€ U.S. president says.

Bank of England cuts interest rates and lowers growth forecast

Double blow for Reeves as BoE cuts growth forecasts but raises its estimates for inflation.

Trump in โ€˜no rushโ€™ to talk to Chinese leader

โ€œWeโ€™ll speak to him at the appropriate time. Iโ€™m in no rush,โ€ Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

EU leaders to travel to UK for Brexit reset summit in May

European Council President Antรณnio Costa said the summit would focus on devising โ€œthe closest relationship it will be possible to build together.โ€

How Britain can escape Trumpโ€™s tariffs: Buy American gas

As the threat of a trade war looms, Britain hopes it has a few secret weapons.

Keir Starmer tells EU countries to โ€˜step upโ€™ for Ukraine

U.K. prime minister also wants the EU to target Russia’s energy revenues to keep the pressure on โ€œrattledโ€ leader Vladimir Putin.

Trump says Britainโ€™s โ€˜out of lineโ€™ on trade โ€” but wants to work it out

“Prime Minister Starmer has been very nice,” says U.S. president as he suggests trade disputes with the U.K. can be ironed out.

Nigel Farageโ€™s next act: Hammer Labour on energy costs

Reform UK has started tying green policies to grimly high energy bills โ€” and some government MPs are getting nervous.

Britainโ€™s Rachel Reeves needs a growth miracle

A major speech Wednesday promises a host of pro-growth policies to turn the UK economy around. But the hurdles in the chancellorโ€™s way are huge.

UK climate chief Ed Miliband is fighting a losing battle

The Treasury is gung-ho about airport expansion โ€” despite longstanding climate concerns of the government’s energy secretary.

Trump says itโ€™s Putinโ€™s fault Ukraine war isnโ€™t over

U.S. president also says he’ll ask NATO allies to raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP.

100+ NGOs urge banks to pull funding from massacre-linked gas project in Mozambique

Pressure from human rights organizations follows a POLITICO investigation into TotalEnergies plant.

Brussels holds its breath for Trumpโ€™s first move

This time around, Europe isnโ€™t panicking about what America First will mean โ€” in part because it has prepared.ย 

What Trumpโ€™s exit from the climate deal really means

Quitting the Paris Agreement triggers a cascade of real-world impacts and signals the beginning of an aggressive agenda to undo U.S. climate policy.

Trump not expected to impose tariffs as part of Day One orders

The decision from incoming President Donald Trump contradicts his promise to impose a 25 percent tariff on Mexico and Canada on his first day in office.

Trumpโ€™s got a radioactive time bomb under Greenlandโ€™s ice

The U.S. would inherit an environmental time bomb of its own making if it lays claim to the massive Arctic island.

Elon Musk stands to get even richer off this UK government plan

The billionaire Tesla owner might be feuding with Keir Starmerโ€™s government, but he can expect a big payday thanks to one of Labourโ€™s key schemes.

How Saudi Arabia became the worldโ€™s plastic cheerleader

The rich oil state has built a team of silver-tongued U.N. negotiators with a simple mandate: keep plastic production growing.

Keir Starmer appoints former New Labour spin doctor as EU negotiator

Michael Ellam was No. 10 director of communications before working for HSBC.

Starmer banks on AI as UKโ€™s savior as growth agenda falters

Rishi Sunak positioned the U.K. as a world-leader on AI safety. Keir Starmer is adopting a more boosterish stance.

World โ€˜teetering on edgeโ€™ of breaching Paris Agreement, scientists say

2024 was the first year to break through the 1.5C temperature barrier, an EU agency finds.

The method in Trumpโ€™s Greenland madness

The climate skeptic is responding to the reality of the Arctic’s melting ice: more resource extraction, faster trade routes, new military bases.

2024 by the numbers โ€• from victims of war to a warming planet

Out with the old, in with the … old. Familiar trends characterized a year of elections and bloodshed.

Wanted: An early-warning system for the end of the world

Some experts believe we could hit catastrophic climate โ€˜tipping pointsโ€™ in a matter of years. The U.K. government, with a bit of help from Dominic Cummings, is trying to prepare.

Toxic slime and gassy trees: 3 ways Christmas is busting the planet

Curious about how this fiesta of consumerism is impacting the environment? We have the festive details. Humbug!

Post-Brexit Britain has a new best friend: Brazil

The love-in between Keir Starmer and Lula centers on climate and trade. Just don’t mention Ukraine.

Who is Peter Mandelson, Britainโ€™s โ€˜prince of darknessโ€™ US ambassador pick?

He’s an anti-Brexit advocate for closer China ties โ€” but could Peter Mandelson charm Trumpworld?

Peter Mandelson will be UKโ€™s next US ambassador

An announcement on the Blair-era heavyweight’s new role is expected from No.10 Downing Street Friday.

2024 temperatures set to break last yearโ€™s global record

The new heat record comes as Donald Trump prepares to return to office and undo the Biden administrationโ€™s efforts to combat climate change.

UK energy secretary to visit China in early 2025

The planned visit comes as the Labour government looks to renew relations with China.

Top advisers say EU should ban solar geoengineering โ€ฆ for now

The bloc’s scientific advisers say the EU should push for an international treaty regulating the controversial technologies.

UN plastic treaty talks end without a deal

It was a disappointing conclusion to a summit that many hoped would yield a landmark treaty to tackle a worsening global plastic pollution crisis.

UN plastic talks on verge of collapse in final hours

Oil-rich nations and high-ambition countries were in deadlock with just hours to go at the negotiations in Busan, South Korea.

TotalEnergies invites Mozambique to investigate gas plant massacre

The French energy giant said it could not corroborate allegations of killings and torture but called for a probe โ€œas soon as possible.โ€

Republican lawmakers channel Trump at COP29: Drill more fossil fuels

Their message about expanding U.S. gas production came at a global meeting thatโ€™s focused on moving the world away from fossil fuels.

EU going too fast on climate, Cyprus president says

โ€œI do not consider it possible to achieve those goals within the timeframe we have set,โ€ Nikos Christodoulides said, according to Ekathimerini.

China must now lead global warming fight, UN climate chief says

The U.S. has traditionally taken a key leadership role, but Donald Trumpโ€™s return has thrown that into doubt.

Israel to Trump: It would be โ€˜betterโ€™ to stay in the Paris Agreement

Middle East conflict has been inescapable at the COP29 climate talks.

Trumpโ€™s power plays overshadow global climate summit

Donald Trump isn’t at COP29, but his rapid-fire personnel moves to dismantle Joe Biden’s climate legacy are being felt there.

US โ€˜likelyโ€™ to pledge new climate target, says White House

Donald Trump’s return raised doubts over whether the Biden administration would still produce the plan ahead of a February deadline.

Starmer warns against climate โ€˜inactionโ€™ as Trump looms over COP29

UK leader says “lesson from historyโ€ is that countries that seize on energy transitions reap the benefits.

Azerbaijan president lauds fossil fuels, knifes Western โ€˜hypocrisyโ€™ in COP29 opener

Opening speeches rarely contain such frank and unsparing political attacks, nor such open fossil fuel defenses.

Trumpโ€™s return provokes worry, not shock, at world climate talks

Beneath the brave words at the president-electโ€™s victory were real worries that action will stall without the United States.

Trump picks Lee Zeldin to lead EPA

If confirmed, Zeldin would lead the Republican effort to roll back Bidenโ€™s key climate change regulations โ€” including rules tightening the pollution from power plants and tailpipes.

Britain hugs oil giant BP while preaching climate action

BP is a global force in fossil fuel drilling โ€” and a major player with COP29 summit host Azerbaijan.

Optimistic EU climate chief: We will talk to Trump

‘I can actually see a range of topics where we can have a fruitful discussion,’ EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told journalists.

Climate world absorbs a reality theyโ€™d hoped to avoid: Trump is back

Green stocks wobble as officials rush to respond and activists brace for the unknown. ‘It’s going to suck,’ one said.

Britain braces for a Trump tariff war

The Republicanโ€™s protectionist trade posture would hit enemies and allies alike. U.K. officials are preparing for every outcome.

EU shrugs off Trumpโ€™s threats to scrap green handouts

Trump may cut Europe out of Americaโ€™s subsidy splurge, but EU industries aren’t seeing many benefits yet anyway.

COP16 fizzles out as rich countries block global nature fund

The outcome left African and Latin American nations furious and prompted some to refuse to engage on other biodiversity issues.

EU greenhouse gas emissions down 8 percent in 2023

Accelerating rollout of renewable energy sources drives stunning drop.

EU foreign policy chief warns French energy giant on human rights violations

Josep Borrell said legislation going into effect in 2027 would require compensation to victims of abuses, after POLITICO revealed links between TotalEnergies and a massacre in Mozambique.

UK budget: 5 things you need to know as Labour hikes taxes

Big swings from the new chancellor will reshape the British state.

UK open to restarting China trade talks

JETCO forum was frozen by the Conservatives amid Beijingโ€™s crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

What Boris Johnson can teach the EU about restoring nature

The European Commission hopes capitalism can help solve the biodiversity crisis. Britain might have the answer.

EU steps up fight with the UK over โ€ฆ sand-eels

A big legal fight is on the cards, with snakey fish at the center.

World on track for catastrophic 3 degrees Celsius warming, UN warns

Current plans and policies will lead to global temperatures rising between 2.6C and 3.1C this century, a new report finds.

IMF upgrades UK growth forecast ahead of budget

The revised 2024 forecast puts the U.K. ahead of Germany, Italy and Japan, and equal with France. But it comes after tricky borrowing data for Britain’s new chancellor.

Keir Starmerโ€™s biggest enemy: The great-crested newt

Keir Starmerโ€™s environment secretary wants to turn DEFRA into a growth department. That means a fight with the green lobby.

Britainโ€™s heading for a nuclear power crunch. Blame the French.

A once proud fleet of power plants is about to be reduced to one last, lonely nuke.

This possible Trump adviser says electric cars, walkable cities and even talking about climate change are harmful

Former Ambassador Carla Sands focuses on energy issues at the America First Policy Institute, a Trump-aligned think tank.

UK presses China on weapons to Russia

On trip to Beijing, Britain’s foreign secretary says practice “risks damaging China’s relationships with Europe.” But the two sides agree to disagree on human rights.

No one has a plan to fix Britainโ€™s old, cold homes

The Tories promised to upgrade insulation and heating in millions of U.K. homes. They failed โ€” and Labour’s plans are already in trouble.

UKโ€™s Keir Starmer: Donโ€™t be scared of AI

The previous U.K. government emphasized the potential risks of the technology and focused on AI safety.

Woke guns? Banks want weapons badged as a social good

It’s a discussion that enrages left and right, and risks importing culture wars from the U.S.

World fails first review of COP renewable energy goal

A dramatic spending surge is needed to course correct, the International Renewable Energy Agency warned.

Most of Europe is fine without Russian gas

But the end of the supply contract through Ukraine at the end of this year could prove costly for Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.

Revealed: How Liz Truss lobbied for UK role in project now linked to Mozambique massacre

In the summer of 2020 Britainโ€™s then-trade secretary defied her Cabinet colleagues to secure financial support for the controversial development.

Israel could bomb Iranโ€™s oil. Energy markets are noting it but not panicking.

President Joe Bidenโ€™s remarks about a possible Israeli strike on Iranโ€™s oil facilities caused a jolt Thursday. But the worldโ€™s oil supply has new ways to get around.

Brexit talks are back โ€” forever

Starmer came away from his first visit to Brussels as prime minister with an agreement to keep talking.

British government split over new-look Brexit deal

Keir Starmer travels to Brussels with the prospect of a new youth mobility scheme high on the agenda.

Meloniโ€™s street protest crackdown prompts concerns of growing repression in Italy

Beefed-up anti-protest laws take aim at climate activists and allow nonviolent protesters to be jailed.

Top UK civil servant Simon Case quits

In a message to staff, Case said “whilst the spirit remains willing, the body is not.”

Just Stop Oil protesters jailed for throwing soup at van Goghโ€™s โ€˜Sunflowersโ€™

“The action you took was extreme, disproportionate and criminally idiotic,” said the judge.

Summer 2024 was Europeโ€™s warmest on record, scientists say

Southeastern Europe dealt with strong heat stress for most of the season, scientists said.

UK energy policy: 20 people to lobby at Conservative conference

LONDON โ€” The Conservative Party โ€œgot trounced in the polls,โ€ ex-Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho admitted earlier this month. After 14 years controlling Westminsterโ€™s levers of power, voters dumped the Tories unceremoniously from office overnight in July. And yet โ€” the party is already regrouping, jumping on energy bills and cost-of-living as one basis for a [โ€ฆ]

โ€˜All must be beheadedโ€™: Revelations of atrocities at French energy giantโ€™s African stronghold

Mozambican soldiers operating out of TotalEnergies’ natural gas plant abducted, raped and killed dozens of civilians.

Ed Miliband is Britainโ€™s minister for good vibes

Amid much Labour doom and gloom, the energy secretary appeared to be having the time of his life.

Nigel Farage is right: Britainโ€™s Remainers are back

For the first time since the 2016 Brexit referendum, Britain’s pro-Europeans have the upper hand.

UK energy policy: 20 people to lobby at Labour conference

Who to look out for in Liverpool this weekend.

Saudi oil giant spends well over a billion on โ€˜sportswashing,โ€™ new report says

Fossil-fuel companies are the new patrons of Big Sport, according to think tank New Weather Institute.

Brussels questions whether Starmer really wants a Brexit reset

EU officials and diplomats say when push comes to shove, the new PMโ€™s position is so far so similar to his Tory predecessorโ€™s.

The UK is backing away from oil

Britain has been drilling off the Scottish coast for generations. But the new Labour government has greener plans.

The Metsola exception: The European Parliament president and her lobbyist husband

The chamberโ€™s new conflict-of-interest rules donโ€™t apply to its most powerful member.

Donโ€™t expect Britain to copy EU and American tariffs on Chinese cars

The UK is mulling an alternative strategy to its allies that could lead to a surge of imports of Chinese EVs.

Ukraine drones target refinery, power plants near Moscow, Russia says

Ukraine’s drone offensive comes after a week of massive missile and drone attacks by Russia.

Hungary FM teases more Gazprom contracts after huge blowup with EU ministers

Foreign Minister Szijjรกrtรณ sat down for three hours with the CEO of the Russian energy giant.

I went to Iceland for a road trip. I left with climate anxiety.

As Iceland melts, visiting eco-tourists face a wake-up call.

I went to Iceland for a road trip. I left with climate anxiety.

As Iceland melts, visiting eco-tourists face a wake-up call.

I went to Iceland for a road trip. I left with climate anxiety.

As Iceland melts, visiting eco-tourists face a wake-up call.

UKโ€™s Starmer wants to โ€˜turn a corner on Brexitโ€™

Britain’s new leader heads to Berlin and Paris to talk up a fresh pact with Germany โ€” and closer ties with Europe.

UK Labour faces a scandal of its own making

Keir Starmer promised to clean up Whitehall. Heโ€™s already engulfed in a cronyism scandal.