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Arthur Neslen

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Arthur Neslen is a freelance journalist based in Brussels. He was previously Europe environment correspondent for the Guardian and Climate Home News, and has also worked for the BBC, the Economist, Al Jazeera and EurActiv, where his journalism won environmental awards. He has written two books about Israeli and Palestinian identity.
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    Big polluters funnel 75% of profits to shareholders, not clean energy

    Research by Friends of the Earth found that Europe’s top high-carbon firms have handed shareholders most of their profits in the last 13 years – now they want public handouts
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    Aug 14, 2024
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    FAO draft report backs growth of livestock industry despite emissions 

    Experts say the UN’s food agency has shied away from recommending less animal farming, though cutting methane emissions is a quick way to curb warming
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    Despite dilution, officials say new nature law can restore EU carbon sinks

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    Jun 21, 2018
    Politics

    Eastern Europe turns to private sector as EU clean energy budget cut

    Czech officials warn the loss of EU structural funds and carbon market revenues leave a funding gap for renewable and energy efficiency projects
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    Mar 22, 2018
    News

    Macron: EU ‘mad’ to do trade deal with US after Paris climate withdrawal

    ‘I’m not in favour of showing any softness to those who decide to break those rules,’ the French president said about the deal struck in his capital in 2015
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    Feb 23, 2018
    Nature

    Tokyo 2020 Olympics confirms use of rainforest timber in stadium build

    Admission prompts calls for transparency over Tokyo 2020 supply chain with timber sourced from deforestation hotspot
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    Feb 21, 2018
    Energy

    Documents reveal UK push to water down EU biomass regulations

    Brexit-bound UK won big concessions for power stations that burn wood, while new research claims the technology will undermine carbon cuts for half a century
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    Feb 15, 2018
    Politics

    EU, US business lobbies seek closer access to UN climate talks

    Business Europe and the US Council for International Business are calling for a direct channel to influence the review process for national climate targets
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    Feb 2, 2018
    News

    Poland to put ‘common sense’ over climate ambition as host of critical UN talks

    In exclusive interviews, Poland’s climate chief said “calls for ambition bring nothing” while the environment ministry refused to back science on cause of climate change
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    Jan 23, 2018
    News

    Forest watchdog calls for protection of Estonia’s pagan heritage

    A board member of Estonias Forest Stewardship Council is threatening to strip “sustainable” certification from timber felled near sacred sites
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    Jan 16, 2018
    Nature

    Logging surge threatens a quarter of Estonia’s forest, warn conservationists

    Baltic state lobbied for flexibilities in EU rules to enable a dramatic increase in forestry, turning its thriving woodland into a net emitter of carbon by 2030
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    Dec 13, 2017
    News

    US ‘no position’ on how much humans are changing climate, says Trump envoy

    George David Banks speaks with Arthur Neslen about keeping the US in the Paris deal, morale in the state department and why he said he didn’t know what 2C means
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    Nov 23, 2017
    Energy

    German Greens reveal coal phase-out red line for joining government

    The Green Party will only join a coalition promising to close at least 7GW of coal power capacity by 2020, its lawmakers say, as Germany likely faces another election
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    Nov 15, 2017
    News

    Macron: France will replace US funding for UN climate science

    French president said Europe must step into the leadership role the US had abandoned, while Angela Merkel struggled with Germany’s political uncertainty
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    Nov 13, 2017
    Energy

    Trump’s climate official: ‘I actually don’t know what 2C means’

    The US came to sell fossil fuels as a solution to climate change, but were interrupted by protests as the divided US arrived in Bonn
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    Nov 11, 2017
    News

    Bloomberg demands seat at UN climate negotiating table for cities and states

    UN special envoy says non-state actors can deliver US carbon-cutting pledge despite president Donald Trump’s hostility to climate action
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    Nov 10, 2017
    Energy

    Coal deals ‘very possible’ as US holds industry event at UN climate talks

    Ghana and Ukraine are among countries for whom the presence of the US coal industry at UN talks in Bonn is opportunity to strike energy deals
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    Nov 7, 2017
    News

    Syria to join Paris Agreement, isolating US

    Syria will sign the Paris climate deal, it announced at UN talks in Bonn, meaning the deal includes every nation, for now
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    Nov 6, 2017
    Carbon markets

    Polish coal cash grab attacked by UK, France, Germany

    No support for coal, say several EU nations, as Poland asks for billions generated through emissions trading scheme for its ageing plants
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    Oct 31, 2017
    Energy

    Juncker’s ‘Rasputin’ moved to weaken EU electric car push – sources

    Martin Selmayr, the powerful Brussels chief of staff, ordered commissioners to drop sanctions that would punish carmakers for missing proposed electric vehicle targets
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    Oct 27, 2017
    Energy

    Supersonic, super-rich, super-polluting: the next generation of business jets

    Hundreds of extra fast jets could be flying over Europe within ten years, but documents show the EU preparing to cede oversight of their huge CO2 emissions
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    Oct 17, 2017
    Energy

    EU bank to decide huge public loan to Europe’s biggest fossil fuel project

    Experts refute EU claim that 3,500km gas pipeline from Azerbaijan is necessary for energy security, amid alarm over corruption and human rights issues
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    Sep 25, 2017
    News

    Anger at EU climate chief’s suggestion US can backtrack on Paris

    EU commissioner has signalled that the US can downgrade its pledge to the Paris deal, but poor countries say such an act would “undermine global solidarity”
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    Sep 13, 2017
    Politics

    China, EU and Canada to take lead on climate at Montreal meeting

    New partners move to take on global climate leadership at meeting in Canada this weekend as US influence declines
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