Zia Weise

Big EU lobby groups exaggerated industry support for attack on carbon price A letter to EU leaders was issued ‘on behalf of’ 1,300 signatories. Some firms deny they supported the demands.

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-...

Big EU lobby groups exaggerated industry support for attack on carbon price A letter to EU leaders was issued ‘on behalf of’ 1,300 signatories. Some firms deny they supported the demands.

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-...

Why the EU’s new industry act is climate policy in disguise  The Industrial Accelerator Act’s green ambitions have evaded scrutiny. POLITICO takes a closer look. 

The European Commission’s flagship plan to breathe new life into the bloc’s struggling manufacturing sectors has governments fretting about trade relations and interventionist industrial policy.

But make no mistake: This is a climate law in disguise.

Italy calls for suspension of carbon price in major attack on EU climate policy The call would allow businesses to pollute for free, undermining the 20-year-old emissions trading scheme.

Italy is pushing to suspend the European Union's most important climate policy until it undergoes a “deep revision,” arguing the carbon market has become a burden on European industry.

The week the EU’s climate foundations started to shake An assault on Europe’s most important climate law, the Emissions Trading System, took the fight against green rules to a whole new level.

NEW: With back-to-back summits bashing carbon pricing, the very foundations of the European Union's climate efforts started creaking under pressure last week.

www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

(yes this is wildly outdated)

imo "two-speed Europe" is only a radical departure from the status quo if you forget diagrams like this exist

Omnibusted: The EU’s competitiveness conundrum European leaders have spent the week talking about how to make the EU more competitive — first with industry heavyweights in Antwerp, then behind closed doors at a leaders’ retreat in Belgium. On t…

Today on EU Confidential its all about castles and competitiveness

The EU wants to deregulate it's way to economic greatness, but at what cost?

Listen and find out
w/ @ziaweise.bsky.social @carlomartu.bsky.social, @aitorehm.bsky.social & @swheatonjourno.bsky.social
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Von der Leyen and Merz clash over future of EU’s core climate law  German chancellor joined industry in attacking the EU carbon market as the Commission president defended its “clear benefits.”

Ursula von der Leyen has come to the defense of the European Union’s embattled carbon market, hitting back at complaints that the bloc’s flagship climate policy is threatening factories and jobs.

European industry revolts over EU plan to weaken carbon border tax From fertilizers to cement, manufacturers warn against introducing a kill switch into the just-launched CBAM scheme.

For once, Europe’s heavy industry is lobbying to save a climate law.

Manufacturers are worried the European Commission is undermining the bloc’s new carbon tariff regime, a key pillar of EU climate policy.

scrolled past this with zero context and genuinely thought wait, what did I do

Global warming reaches 1.4C after third-hottest year on record The world will shoot past the Paris climate agreement’s lower target by 2030, data shows.

The world is rapidly closing in on the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming limit that serves as a threshold for ever more dangerous climate change, European scientists have warned.

🔴Info @politico.eu : La justice va se pencher sur les deepfakes de femmes déshabillées par Grok. Le parquet va étendre l'enquête ouverte sur X aux milliers de contenus non consentis qui prolifèrent sur la plateforme. Avec @klaradurand.bsky.social @emilemarzolf.bsky.social pro.politico.eu/news/210702

Europe’s Alps on track to lose 97 percent of glaciers by century’s end, study finds Stricter climate policies would save hundreds of glaciers in Europe’s Alps and tens of thousands worldwide, study finds.

Current plans to tackle global warming will only save 3 percent of Europe's Alpine glaciers from disappearing this century, with most melting away within the next two decades, a new study has found. 

Dans la bande de Gaza, au moins 13 morts après des pluies torrentielles, selon la défense civile De fortes intempéries balayent depuis mercredi les tentes et les abris de fortunes, aggravant la détresse des habitants, dont la quasi-totalité a été déplacée par plus de deux années de guerre avec Israël.

Dans la bande de Gaza, au moins 13 morts après des pluies torrentielles, selon la défense civile

Interesting bit in an interesting thread on EU/US economy

(also English really needs a good word or abbreviation for combustion engine car that isn't "ICE")

Germany wants to undermine the EU's 2035 clean car mandate and allow "highly efficient combustion engine cars" after that.

What, you may ask, is a "highly efficient combustion engine car"?

"A highly efficient combustion engine car is a combustion engine car that is highly efficient," per the govt.

How the EU banished its climate demons and salvaged a weak COP30 deal The Europeans took a stand but struggled to build a coalition to push for more climate action at this year’s U.N. summit.

Arriving in Brazil after a messy fight over new emissions targets, the EU salvaged some of its climate pride at COP30.

Final dispatch from Belém w/ @karlmathiesen.bsky.social

www.politico.eu/article/how-...

The world is fractured. The climate talks reflected that. Delegates from nearly 200 nations — not including the U.S. — showed they could make some progress. But they deferred the hardest decisions.

Two weeks of climate negotiations hardly ended in triumph Saturday.

But they did end, with a deal that even critical delegates said shows that a divided, leaderless collection of nearly 200 nations can make some progress.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

EU threatens to block ‘weak’ COP30 deal The bloc and its allies raged at a draft agreement presented by the Brazilian hosts on Friday morning.

The EU is threatening to block final COP30 deal over a "weak" draft agreement on stepping up climate action

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Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.

“We are not fighting fossil fuels, we are fighting the emissions from fossil fuels," Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said, just as the EU's negotiators are trying to push for a global deal on transitioning away from fossil fuels at COP30.

www.politico.eu/article/von-...

EU strains to defend carbon levy as trade tensions engulf COP30  India, China and other countries are challenging CBAM in climate talks.

The EU is under pressure to defend its new carbon tariff as trade tensions flood this year’s global climate talks at #COP30.

China’s top envoy blasts EU climate goals and Trump’s ‘bad example’ Liu Zhenmin also defended Beijing’s own climate efforts as “very ambitious.”

I interviewed China's climate envoy Liu Zhenmin about the EU's climate targets, Washington's absence and trade troubles at COP30: www.politico.eu/article/chin...

Protests return to climate summit with calls for Indigenous rights (and a dash of Trump mockery) Saturday’s march through the streets of Belém, Brazil, was a contrast to the muzzling of dissent at past years’ U.N. summits.

After three COPs in autocratic states with little tolerance for demonstrations, climate protests are back in full force in Belém: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Germany seeks to avoid becoming next UN climate host by accident Australia and Turkey both want to host the COP31, and if neither back down the talks will be held in Germany.

COP31 in Bonn? Nein danke, says Germany www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Trump’s COP30 snub thrusts Europe into a role it’s not ready for Without the US, the EU will bear the brunt of demands leveled at rich countries during the talks.

For decades, the European Union has relied on the United States to act as shock absorber and chief powerbroker at global climate talks. No longer.

www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Europe’s climate bubble bursts on the eve of crucial summit The EU heads to the COP30 climate summit with watered-down goals and dwindling green consensus.

For six years, the European Union’s efforts to fight climate change have been on an upward swing. That came to an end this morning in messy, exhausted scenes.

Draft deal sets weaker 85 percent domestic climate target for EU After 18 hours of negotiations, countries gave preliminary approval to a “take it or leave it” text on the 2040 target.

Free to read, just before ministers return to formally vote: Details of draft deal on 2040 climate target.

www.politico.eu/article/draf...

Don’t weaken new climate goal, EU’s top green official warns on eve of crunch vote Teresa Ribera told ministers reducing the EU’s 2040 target would be an “invitation to waste money.”

Voting for a weaker climate target means weakening the EU's economy, the European Commission's second-in-command warned ministers ahead of a key summit.