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This is a climate science story, but it's also an economics, security, and everything else besides story.
It takes a staggering lack of imagination not to think through the implications of temperatures spiralling upwards even faster than previously thought.
www.businessgreen.com/news/4526640...
The remarkable thing about Pedro Sánchez is that he has faced everything modern European politics has to throw at a government - the scars of the eurozone crisis, a polarised and fragmented politics, snobbery from other Europeans - and built the most successful economy and foreign policy in Europe.
Fascinating to watch 🇫🇷, then 🇬🇧, then 🇮🇹, now 🇩🇪 start to acknowledge what 🇪🇸's government recognised from the very start: the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is a reckless intervention conducted without regard for rules of war and without a strategy for what comes next.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.
www.ft.com/content/ac77...
Alongside many other things, these kind of tactics from the Telegraph et al are just so excruciatingly, exquisitely embarrassing. The people involved must recognise how pathetic it is, even as they ratchet up their contempt for their audience by a couple more notches.
😬I'm sure this will be fine😬 "Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study"
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Bad news from Brussels for plant-based 'meat', but a reprieve for veggie 'sausages' and 'burgers'.
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[rocking, whispering]: this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real
Conservatives that are suddenly so gung ho about raising defence spending should follow their logic through and commit to cutting pensions to fund this.
Waiting to hear this principled view get voiced by the opposition.
Waiting....
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... thought so
Make yourself feel slightly better, or at least differently depressed, about bleak global news by reminding yourself that Kemi Badenoch thinks the *only* reason Keir Starmer could possibly have had any concerns about this war is his electoral dependency on British Muslims.
Some thoughts on how the financial and security case for clean technologies really has just got even better, albeit in the most horrendous of circumstances.
www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...
Big new $100m corporate push to tackle superpollutants launches. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526599...
Study shows how countries with high levels of nature degradation are facing higher borrowing costs. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526573...
Local councils today point out how court penalties for fly-tipping have become completely ridiculous.
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EV drivers about to enjoy even more substantial financial savings (although this will come as very cold comfort if oil prices do soar past $120 a barrel and trigger full blown economic crisis). www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...
Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving Nissan warns of Sunderland closure if UK excluded from ‘Made in Europe’ rules - www.ft.com/content/ac75... via @FT
Genuinely fascinating divergence.
Oil and energy market types: really beginning to freak out.
Global macro types: mostly relatively calm and expecting this to all blow over.
12 months and two days ago
A sickening society is clear in these statistics
So why is it not in the news?
Powerful wake-up call from @chakrabortty.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Deluded. Labour lost about ten points during the course of the 2024 campaign. A strategic triumph it was not.
It would be progressive, it should stop energy bills rising as a result of Trump's war, and it would reduce the differential between gas and electricity prices making heat pumps and EVs even more financially attractive.
The next few weeks is going to see an avalanche of calls for the Treasury to do what it should have done long ago and move policy costs off electricity bills and into general taxation. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
An influential industry petition criticizing the European Union’s core climate policy implied its demands were supported by some 1,350 companies and associations.
Now some firms deny they signed up.
www.politico.eu/article/big-...
Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.
Maybe we can have nice things... www.businessgreen.com/news/4526556...
