UKโs Starmer to meet Trump next week
Prime minister heads to Washington to meet with US president as European capitals fret over Ukraine’s future.
Prime minister heads to Washington to meet with US president as European capitals fret over Ukraine’s future.
The European Commission is trying to head off a transatlantic trade conflict.
The president tasked top Cabinet officials to study the matter further before deciding on specifics.
“We have to get something. We canโt continue to pay this money,โ U.S. president says.
Double blow for Reeves as BoE cuts growth forecasts but raises its estimates for inflation.
โWeโll speak to him at the appropriate time. Iโm in no rush,โ Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
European Council President Antรณnio Costa said the summit would focus on devising โthe closest relationship it will be possible to build together.โ
As the threat of a trade war looms, Britain hopes it has a few secret weapons.
U.K. prime minister also wants the EU to target Russia’s energy revenues to keep the pressure on โrattledโ leader Vladimir Putin.
“Prime Minister Starmer has been very nice,” says U.S. president as he suggests trade disputes with the U.K. can be ironed out.
Reform UK has started tying green policies to grimly high energy bills โ and some government MPs are getting nervous.
A major speech Wednesday promises a host of pro-growth policies to turn the UK economy around. But the hurdles in the chancellorโs way are huge.
The Treasury is gung-ho about airport expansion โ despite longstanding climate concerns of the government’s energy secretary.
U.S. president also says he’ll ask NATO allies to raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP.
Pressure from human rights organizations follows a POLITICO investigation into TotalEnergies plant.
This time around, Europe isnโt panicking about what America First will mean โ in part because it has prepared.ย
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.
The decision delivers a blow to the effort to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels.
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.
The U.S. would inherit an environmental time bomb of its own making if it lays claim to the massive Arctic island.
The billionaire Tesla owner might be feuding with Keir Starmerโs government, but he can expect a big payday thanks to one of Labourโs key schemes.
The rich oil state has built a team of silver-tongued U.N. negotiators with a simple mandate: keep plastic production growing.
Michael Ellam was No. 10 director of communications before working for HSBC.
Rishi Sunak positioned the U.K. as a world-leader on AI safety. Keir Starmer is adopting a more boosterish stance.
2024 was the first year to break through the 1.5C temperature barrier, an EU agency finds.
The climate skeptic is responding to the reality of the Arctic’s melting ice: more resource extraction, faster trade routes, new military bases.
Out with the old, in with the … old. Familiar trends characterized a year of elections and bloodshed.
Some experts believe we could hit catastrophic climate โtipping pointsโ in a matter of years. The U.K. government, with a bit of help from Dominic Cummings, is trying to prepare.
Curious about how this fiesta of consumerism is impacting the environment? We have the festive details. Humbug!
The love-in between Keir Starmer and Lula centers on climate and trade. Just don’t mention Ukraine.
He’s an anti-Brexit advocate for closer China ties โ but could Peter Mandelson charm Trumpworld?
An announcement on the Blair-era heavyweight’s new role is expected from No.10 Downing Street Friday.
The new heat record comes as Donald Trump prepares to return to office and undo the Biden administrationโs efforts to combat climate change.
The planned visit comes as the Labour government looks to renew relations with China.
The bloc’s scientific advisers say the EU should push for an international treaty regulating the controversial technologies.
It was a disappointing conclusion to a summit that many hoped would yield a landmark treaty to tackle a worsening global plastic pollution crisis.
Oil-rich nations and high-ambition countries were in deadlock with just hours to go at the negotiations in Busan, South Korea.
The French energy giant said it could not corroborate allegations of killings and torture but called for a probe โas soon as possible.โ
Their message about expanding U.S. gas production came at a global meeting thatโs focused on moving the world away from fossil fuels.
โI do not consider it possible to achieve those goals within the timeframe we have set,โ Nikos Christodoulides said, according to Ekathimerini.
The U.S. has traditionally taken a key leadership role, but Donald Trumpโs return has thrown that into doubt.
Anti-fossil fuel protesters have stuck several historic sites.
The EU warns that Ilham Aliyevโs combative rhetoric is undermining negotiations.
Middle East conflict has been inescapable at the COP29 climate talks.
Donald Trump isn’t at COP29, but his rapid-fire personnel moves to dismantle Joe Biden’s climate legacy are being felt there.
Donald Trump’s return raised doubts over whether the Biden administration would still produce the plan ahead of a February deadline.
UK leader says “lesson from historyโ is that countries that seize on energy transitions reap the benefits.
Opening speeches rarely contain such frank and unsparing political attacks, nor such open fossil fuel defenses.
Beneath the brave words at the president-electโs victory were real worries that action will stall without the United States.
If confirmed, Zeldin would lead the Republican effort to roll back Bidenโs key climate change regulations โ including rules tightening the pollution from power plants and tailpipes.
BP is a global force in fossil fuel drilling โ and a major player with COP29 summit host Azerbaijan.
PM Dick Schoof says “major social impact” of last week’s clashes will keep him from climate summit in Azerbaijan.
‘I can actually see a range of topics where we can have a fruitful discussion,’ EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told journalists.
Green stocks wobble as officials rush to respond and activists brace for the unknown. ‘It’s going to suck,’ one said.
The Republicanโs protectionist trade posture would hit enemies and allies alike. U.K. officials are preparing for every outcome.
Trump may cut Europe out of Americaโs subsidy splurge, but EU industries aren’t seeing many benefits yet anyway.
The outcome left African and Latin American nations furious and prompted some to refuse to engage on other biodiversity issues.
Accelerating rollout of renewable energy sources drives stunning drop.
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.
Big swings from the new chancellor will reshape the British state.
JETCO forum was frozen by the Conservatives amid Beijingโs crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
The European Commission hopes capitalism can help solve the biodiversity crisis. Britain might have the answer.
A big legal fight is on the cards, with snakey fish at the center.
Current plans and policies will lead to global temperatures rising between 2.6C and 3.1C this century, a new report finds.
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 Starmerโs environment secretary wants to turn DEFRA into a growth department. That means a fight with the green lobby.
A once proud fleet of power plants is about to be reduced to one last, lonely nuke.
Former Ambassador Carla Sands focuses on energy issues at the America First Policy Institute, a Trump-aligned think tank.
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.
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.
The previous U.K. government emphasized the potential risks of the technology and focused on AI safety.
It’s a discussion that enrages left and right, and risks importing culture wars from the U.S.
A dramatic spending surge is needed to course correct, the International Renewable Energy Agency warned.
But the end of the supply contract through Ukraine at the end of this year could prove costly for Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.
In the summer of 2020 Britainโs then-trade secretary defied her Cabinet colleagues to secure financial support for the controversial development.
President Joe Bidenโs remarks about a possible Israeli strike on Iranโs oil facilities caused a jolt Thursday. But the worldโs oil supply has new ways to get around.
Starmer came away from his first visit to Brussels as prime minister with an agreement to keep talking.
Keir Starmer travels to Brussels with the prospect of a new youth mobility scheme high on the agenda.
Beefed-up anti-protest laws take aim at climate activists and allow nonviolent protesters to be jailed.
In a message to staff, Case said “whilst the spirit remains willing, the body is not.”
“The action you took was extreme, disproportionate and criminally idiotic,” said the judge.
Southeastern Europe dealt with strong heat stress for most of the season, scientists said.
LONDON โ The Conservative Party โgot trounced in the polls,โ ex-Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho admitted earlier this month. After 14 years controlling Westminsterโs 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 [โฆ]
Mozambican soldiers operating out of TotalEnergies’ natural gas plant abducted, raped and killed dozens of civilians.
Amid much Labour doom and gloom, the energy secretary appeared to be having the time of his life.
For the first time since the 2016 Brexit referendum, Britain’s pro-Europeans have the upper hand.
Who to look out for in Liverpool this weekend.
Fossil-fuel companies are the new patrons of Big Sport, according to think tank New Weather Institute.
EU officials and diplomats say when push comes to shove, the new PMโs position is so far so similar to his Tory predecessorโs.
Britain has been drilling off the Scottish coast for generations. But the new Labour government has greener plans.
The chamberโs new conflict-of-interest rules donโt apply to its most powerful member.
The UK is mulling an alternative strategy to its allies that could lead to a surge of imports of Chinese EVs.
Ukraine’s drone offensive comes after a week of massive missile and drone attacks by Russia.
Foreign Minister Szijjรกrtรณ sat down for three hours with the CEO of the Russian energy giant.
As Iceland melts, visiting eco-tourists face a wake-up call.
As Iceland melts, visiting eco-tourists face a wake-up call.
As Iceland melts, visiting eco-tourists face a wake-up call.
Britain’s new leader heads to Berlin and Paris to talk up a fresh pact with Germany โ and closer ties with Europe.
Keir Starmer promised to clean up Whitehall. Heโs already engulfed in a cronyism scandal.