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Senior climate correspondent, POLITICO. Get in touch at kmathiesen@politico.eu. DMs open. Ask for signal, protonmail. From Tasmania.

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‘She’s pretty much alone’: The EU’s greenest leader fights the tide. Teresa Ribera, the EU's 2nd in charge, has won significant victories in secret against a wave of attacks and disinterest. w/ @ZiaWeise .
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NEW: Sudanese economist Mustafa Babiker — a long-term employee of the Saudi Aramco oil company — has been proposed as coordinating lead author of a crucial chapter of the next UN climate science report, a leaked document shows.
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RT @e_casalicchio: 🫖 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT . 🛩️ SCOOP from @KarlMathiesen: Keir Starmer once defended a protester who tried to….
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RT @l_guillot: The EU's 2040 climate target is set to be unveiled on July 2. So ahead of the big reveal, POLITICO surveyed all 27 climate m….
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NEW: EU climate chief lobbied Germany to back weakened 2040 goal.
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🇪🇺 I'm writing POLITICO's Brussels Playbook today – tell me what's happening in your world . kmathiesen@politico.eu.
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NEW: One camp wants the United States to compete with Beijing on clean energy. The other says playing in that game would make the United States the loser. With @zcolman .
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2 months
Lessons for Australia?. Unreported details of how UK paid off Turkey for COP26. Inward investment conference in London.Votes for Turkish UN candidates.Backing for UN positions. 😬 according to 1 diplo a broken promise to back Turkey over Aus for COP31.
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*be in* breach of. .
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NEW: Confidential EU report warns UK plans to strip nature protections in planning reforms could breach of the Brexit trade deal. Also notes senior UK politicians "ridiculing" of green laws and Rachel Reeves banging on about newts and bats.
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RT @e_casalicchio: NEW: How the UK lost respect for its veterans. "Once the old guard is lost, Britain will need to reconsider how it celeb….
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Karl Mathiesen
2 months
NEW: Trump officials arrived in the UK last week with a simple message: China is a malign actor, benefiting from misguided climate policies, and the world is better off copying America's newfound embrace of fossil fuels. It was met with a shrug.
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Karl Mathiesen
3 months
NEW: The IEA's research has shown increasingly optimistic outlooks for clean power and gloomy forecasts for oil. The Trump administration wants that to change. w/ @saraschonhardt, @CharlieCooper8 and @nicolas_camut .
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RT @CharlieCooper8: EXC: Ed Miliband walks the tight rope between US and China on energy and climate - even as Trump admin dumps on allies’….
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Karl Mathiesen
3 months
“There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.”. On the loss of a mighty moral voice on climate change.
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Karl Mathiesen
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RT @KingHanley27: Kermit the frog, ’felt amphibian’, courtesy of The Times TMS @secondmentions.
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Karl Mathiesen
3 months
My POLITICO colleagues are covering the hell out of Trump's move to burn down the apparatus of state governance, science and industry that was supposed to be the bulwark against his fossil fuel agenda.
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3 months
Major implications for the EU's climate efforts, about to be revealed. .
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🚨 BREAKING: Friedrich Merz seals coalition deal, paving way to become Germany’s next chancellor.
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3 months
Will the Trump 2.0 admin blithely ignore climate talks or try to derail them?. Strong evidence for the latter here with @FonieMits scoop.
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RT @subfossilguy: Cerros de la Plaza (4,865 m, PN Cocuy, COL). Another tropical glacier has disappeared this year! 😭. You can't say you did….
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