UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will not be attending the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt next month, Downing Street has confirmed. A Number 10 spokeswoman said on Oct. 27: “The prime minister is not expected to attend Cop27 and this is due to other pressing domestic commitments including preparations for the Autumn Budget. The UK…
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Won’t Attend Cop27 Climate Summit: Downing Street
King Charles Will Not Attend Climate Summit on UK Government Advice
King Charles III will not be attending next month’s Cop27 climate change summit in Egypt, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. Charles has a longstanding and passionate commitment to environmental issues. As Prince of Wales, he addressed the Cop26 summit in Glasgow last year. His elder son, William, the then-Duke of Cambridge, also spoke at the event,…
Rex Murphy: By Making Tyrants Strong, the Green Movement Has a Lot to Answer For
Commentary The great green high summits. There have been about 30 of these gigantic environmental misery-fests known as the conference of the parties (COP) sponsored by the dread Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since the very early ’90s. And the volume of ego-display and hot-air release has only expanded with each one of them. Ignore…
US Coal Stockpiles Near Historic Lows
January 18, 2022
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) latest short-term energy outlook (pdf) reveals that coal inventories in the electric power sector reached 93.7 million short tons as of December 2021—an increase since September when stockpiles hit a historic low not seen since the Carter administration. Isaac Orr, a policy fellow at the Center of the American…
‘No New Coal Plants Should Be Built’: UN Secretary-General to World Economic Forum
January 17, 2022
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In a special address to the World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda 2022, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that “no new coal plants should be built.” “This must be a priority for us all—to phase-out coal,” he said. Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal who also previously led the Socialist International, has served as…
Climate Policy and the Expansion of Government Power
December 15, 2021
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News Analysis Christmastime is here—well, almost—but talk of global warming hasn’t slowed down with the cooling weather. In fact, it seems like concern about the climate influences everything these days. In Washington, the solidly Democratic House has given a divided but Democrat-controlled Senate an expensive new piece of legislation. The $2 trillion “Build Back Better…
Western Australia Needs New Gas to Address Impending Shortfall: Market Operator
Western Australia (WA) will need to start developing new sources of gas very soon to avoid a deficit in the next few years, Australia’s energy monitor has said. Meanwhile, similar concerns are brewing nationwide. The Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) annual gas outlook for WA has projected a gap in supply between 2025 and 2027,…
Coming to Terms With the Labyrinthine World of Climate Change
December 6, 2021
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Commentary As the Glasgow Conference of Parties (COP26)—countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1994—fades into history, it is timely to assess the success, or lack of it, of this intergovernmental summit. Delegates at the Glasgow summit reviewed the progress made by 196 countries that embraced the legally binding…
David Richards: If Ottawa Wants Line 5 to Stay Open, Why Is it Dismissing Energy Ventures in the Rest of Canada?
Commentary Why is the Line 5 pipeline so important? Why are we invoking treaties and clauses in treaties, and pleading with Michigan to recognize treaties in order to keep this line open and the oil flowing? Our very woke government’s inclination has been, since its inception a very few years ago, to walk in lockstep…
Focus on Financial Regulation to Mitigate Climate Change Alarms Experts
To begin to access the trillions of dollars needed to transition to green energy, policy-makers are increasingly justifying climate change as a threat to the financial system and using regulation to steer funding away from fossil fuels.
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