Charlie Cooper
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Senior UK Energy & Climate Correspondent @POLITICOEurope Co-write daily Morning Energy & Climate UK newsletter [email protected]
London, UK
Joined April 2010
Friedrich Merz upbeat on result of talks with U.S. and Ukraine in Berlin: “The legal and material security guarantees that the US has put on the table here in Berlin are remarkable,” he said at presser with Zelenskyy. “For the first time since 2022, a ceasefire is conceivable.”
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"This is deeply unfashionable, I've started to think where it all comes from..." Timothy Spall says that the spirit of Christmas is that "simple, practical love is gonna be the answer to save us all." #Newsnight
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Francois, a past Crisis at Christmas guest, was in and out of homelessness for much of a decade. He often found warmth and refuge at the @StPancrasInt station piano, where he taught himself to play through cold nights. Support Crisis at Christmas: https://t.co/I9acOs9ey1
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NEW This is a significant intervention from government's independent energy advisers Ministers have acknowledged warning and on Budget Day have slipped out plans to potentially build more gas infrastructure to ensure security of supply in 2030s https://t.co/wvX0ef4ADY
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Britain will hit a gas crisis if a long cold spell coincides with a loss of key infrastructure, advisers say.
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UK ministers must act now to address an “emerging risk to gas supply security,” the government’s official independent energy advisers have warned. https://t.co/duSyX2LCaM
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Britain will hit a gas crisis if a long cold spell coincides with a loss of key infrastructure, advisers say.
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NEW This is a significant intervention from government's independent energy advisers Ministers have acknowledged warning and on Budget Day have slipped out plans to potentially build more gas infrastructure to ensure security of supply in 2030s https://t.co/wvX0ef4ADY
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Britain will hit a gas crisis if a long cold spell coincides with a loss of key infrastructure, advisers say.
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£150 off energy bills no doubt the most important measure in the budget for public opinion. All our research shows the cost of living crisis esp high energy bills are key driver of national unhappiness. This govts fortunes rest on being able to convince people they can tackle it
🧵More than anything the political success of the budget will be determined by the extent to which it helps to tackle the cost of living. The cost of living crisis is the key driver of national mood of unhappiness with a record 57% now saying aren't sure it will ever end.
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Reeves confirms plans to scrap levies or shift them from energy bills into taxation will save households £150 a year from April 2026 As we reported last week, hope in HMT is that this is a sum large enough to win some prominent headlines today Let's see https://t.co/ayCV9BmSTu
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Britain’s chancellor wants to start making good on a flagship Labour promise … just don’t mention the tax increases.
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@nearlblog @CharlieCooper8 @abby_wallace3 BBC and Guardian both reporting this evening -- as we did Friday -- that North Sea licensing decision coming tomorrow with ministers backing 'tiebacks'
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New: @abby_wallace3 on how a govt insulation scheme unravelled. There were “failures at every level of the system,” DESNZ's top mandarin told MPs this month. Now ministers, committed to lower bills & emissions, must regain public trust - somehow. https://t.co/5cTJfGigpF
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The British government says it will force down bills and emissions by insulating millions of cold, drafty homes. That plan is unraveling.
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Stardust. The Israeli-U.S. company with a strange and totally real plan to block out the sun and reverse global warming. Reporting this story involved a complete relearning of what I thought I knew about how the climate future will play out. https://t.co/2puY5EoVsH
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A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
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(1/2) Story by @nearlblog @CharlieCooper8 @abby_wallace3: The U.K. government is under pressure from its own MPs - both the greenest backbenchers and the economic hawks - as it finally decides the future of oil and gas 👇
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Fire forces evacuation from climate summit as talks reach critical stage
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More than 50,000 people from nearly 200 nations are attending the COP30 gathering in Brazil.
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Extraordinary line from senior White House official on latest Trump push for a Ukraine peace plan in Playbook, via @Jack_Blanchard_ & @DashaBurns
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The under-fire UK finance minister Rachel Reeves is gearing up for a tricky budget next week — and cutting energy bills could give her something to shout about. https://t.co/WrwjQlSI7e
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Britain’s chancellor wants to start making good on a flagship Labour promise … just don’t mention the tax increases.
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The initial impact of oil sanctions against Lukoil and Rosneft seems to be bigger than I expected: Discounts are widening even more, to 24 dollars, as Chinese and Indian refiners are reluctant to buy. Bloomberg reports that Russian Urals fell to 36 dollars.
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A rail line linking Warsaw to the eastern Polish city of Lublin and onward to Ukraine was blown up yesterday in an “act of sabotage,” Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said today. https://t.co/rCk6oKJRQp
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Warsaw is on guard against foreign espionage and operations linked to Russia’s war in neighboring Ukraine.
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Now. All the bells in Paris are ringing in unison in memory of the victims of the Paris attacks ten years ago.
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There are so many funny details in this piece by @danbloom1 and @patrickxrbaker But it's also a deadly serious look at whether the tired, dysfunctional building the state is governed from is part of the reason the state itself so often seems ... tired and dysfunctional?
Inside No. 10 Downing Street, the creaky old house that runs Britain. https://t.co/0SFOfYYj6o
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Downing Street has been quietly building relationships with hundreds of the U.K.'s biggest and most trusted content creators to spread their message. But are they free to speak their minds? I spoke to influencers and insiders about the project. https://t.co/ZmvfdZM4r0
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An embattled administration is hugging online creators close. Are they free to speak their minds?
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