Karl Mathiesen
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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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NEW: Backroom deals, embassy contacts and brown liquor built a booming trade of American LNG to Europe. Now, the lobbyist who saw it all says the U.S. president’s dalliances with Vladimir Putin are an incoming “asteroid” for the industry.
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Backroom deals, embassy contacts and brown liquor built a booming export trade. Now, the lobbyist who saw it all says the U.S. president’s dalliances with Vladimir Putin are an incoming ‘asteroid’ …
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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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The European Commission’s second-most powerful politician is isolated, beleaguered and under attack — just like the green policy she has vowed to protect.
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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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The proposed selection of a Saudi Aramco oil company staffer as one of the authors of a key science report has been denounced as “political capture.”
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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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A loophole-free 2040 emissions-reduction goal has little support, a POLITICO survey of 27 ministries shows.
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NEW: EU climate chief lobbied Germany to back weakened 2040 goal.
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Wopke Hoekstra successfully pushed the incoming coalition to back foreign carbon credits, helping shift the EU-level 2040 talks.
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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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Efforts to preserve Biden-era tax breaks for green technology are running into an administration focused on fossil fuels — and unwilling to play on what it sees as Beijing's turf.
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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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A previously unreported package of investment pledges and U.N. support got Turkey to back down last time.
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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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Leaked EU report raises alarm about U.K.’s planned bonfire of environmental rules — and harsh rhetoric from ministers.
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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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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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The U.S. argument against the green transition felt “quiet and out of place,” said one official.
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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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U.S. and European officials are sparring in meetings of the International Energy Agency, which helps guide global investments and policies.
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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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The U.S. has used the U.K.-hosted energy summit to boost fossil fuels over the transition to net zero.
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“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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In the weeks before his death, Francis repeated a decade-old plea for a break from both Trumpian greed and the left’s economic rationalism.
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RT @KingHanley27: Kermit the frog, ’felt amphibian’, courtesy of The Times TMS @secondmentions.
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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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Major implications for the EU's climate efforts, about to be revealed. .
🚨 BREAKING: Friedrich Merz seals coalition deal, paving way to become Germany’s next chancellor.
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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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The attack on the shipping deal is part of a wider U.S. rejection of policies to fight climate change.
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