Ed Miliband has been left isolated over his Net Zero policies after the European Union dropped “indefinitely” a flagship pledge to ban sales of new petrol cars.
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Trump’s Eisenhower Moment: COP30 and the End of Europe’s Green Agenda
The COP30 process will proceed, but its authority is broken. The IMO will reconvene, but without US money or muscle, its “Net Zero framework” will remain aspirational. Europe will continue…
Europe’s Last-Minute Climate Scramble: Brussels Waters Down Its 2040 Target Just in Time for COP30
Europe’s climate ambitions are fraying at the edges, caught between utopian promises and economic realities.
Europe’s Terminal Decline: The Philosopher Queens and Their Ruinous Rule
The geopolitical humiliation of Europe is already manifest. The continent once balanced the world’s powers; it is now a mere appendage of American strategy. Its energy policy is dictated by…
UN, EU, ICJ, Climate Cabal want to keep world’s poor impoverished
Poor and developing nations need to band together, finance their own energy infrastructure, development, health and prosperity – and tell the carbon colonialists to take a hike.
‘Green’ Europe’s Industrial Masochism
European leaders are driving not a bandwagon onto which the world is jumping but rather a hearse toward self-destruction.
EU’s ETS-2 Climate Tax: A Costly Green Nightmare Hits in 2027
Going green in Europe means going expensive – and unfree. The EU’s new climate tax, ETS-2, set to begin in 2027, will expand the existing ETS-1 system, which requires heavy…
Airbus’s Hydrogen Fantasy Crash Lands
It shows, once again, that green policies too often chase headlines, not hard science, engineering, or econonmics.
The European Commission Faces Its Biggest Scandal in 20 Years
The European Commission has long been financially supporting non-governmental organizations (NGOs) lobbying for the green policies of former EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans. Lobbyists, funded from the EU budget, were tasked…
Scholz’s Green Fantasy Government Collapses – Proof That Climate Policy Mania Is Ruining Germany
It’s time to stop pretending that throwing money at solar panels and wind turbines is a substitute for a stable energy policy. Germany just proved that, and Europe better be…
Heat-Pump Sales Plummet by Almost 50% Across Europe
Just 765,000 heat pumps were sold in 2024 across the 13 European countries that represent 80% of the market, the European Heat Pump Association said.
As Europe Deindustrializes: Is it Undergoing Economic Suicide
…over time, ‘net zero’ climate policies have become increasingly unbearable for ordinary people as they reach beyond the power sector to cover agriculture, transport, homes, and buildings”.
Conrad Black: Washing away the Climate Lunatics
Black’s article serves as a cautionary tale about the potential pitfalls of hasty and ideologically driven climate policies.
The War On Cars
In a fit of self-loathing, the European Union has begun to destroy the economic engine that pays its bills. Some of this is well known, but some is not, and…
The EU’s net zero retreat is gathering steam
Only a “consensus” of climate activists with their heads in the clouds – plus Ed Miliband – thinks we could save consumers money by closing down all our gas power…
Sobering Up? EU May Scrap Its Plans To Ban Internal Combustion Engines By 2035
The EU plans to reassess the phase-out of combustion engines, based on the latest data and developments.
Green Movement Is Failing…Now They’re Trying to Force Citizens to Love Them
…governments in Europe are now resorting to heavy-handed tactics to force citizens to “like” them again.
The Deindustrialization of Europe in Five Charts
Industrial electricity use in the EU is collapsing. US policymakers “Have no excuse for not looking at Europe and learning.”
Thanks, Associated Press, For Reporting on E.U. Farmers’ Victory over Harmful Climate Regulations
The E.U. commission’s backtracking on its draconian climate proposals suggest that when enough peoples’ daily lives are disrupted, and store shelves are empty, even authoritarian leaning politicians can take the…
Europe’s solar industry warns of bankruptcy risk as prices drop
“This is creating concrete risks for companies to go into insolvency as their significant stock will need to be devalued,” SolarPower Europe said.
Unreliable Green Energy Has the World Running Back to Coal and Nuclear
…the reality of energy demand beckons these advanced economies to fall back on trustworthy fossil fuels and embrace highly efficient nuclear energy.
EU abandons ban of combustion engine cars – Britain needs to follow suit
Net Zero Watch is calling on Rishi Sunak to follow suit and abandon its 2030 ban of the sale of ICE cars.
