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date:  19/06/2023

  • Late push for coal subsidies upsets EU deal on energy reforms | Reuters – Click here
    • A late proposal to extend subsidies for coal plants has upset European Union countries' plans to approve today a reform of the bloc's power market, which was designed to shift the electricity system towards cleaner energy.
  • ‘Frustrated’ EU countries resolve renewables feud with concession for France | Politico – Click here
    • EU ambassadors on Friday agreed to new rules boosting green energy, overcoming a French-led deadlock by offering Paris a concession on hydrogen and nuclear energy.
  • India’s power minister accuses west of hypocrisy over energy transition | Financial Times – Click here
    • US and European efforts to subsidise domestic renewable energy industries are tantamount to western “protectionism” and will hold back developing countries’ climate ambitions, India’s power minister has warned.
  • India heatwave: nearly 100 dead amid warnings to stay indoors | Guardian – Click here
    • Temperatures of nearly 45C recorded, with people over 60 particularly at risk, as deaths strike Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states.
  • EU states back nuclear energy while diluting biodiversity reforms [OPINION] | Financial Times – Click here
    • EU countries have backed more allowances for nuclear energy and the weakening of a law to protect biodiversity amid an increasingly heated fightback against Brussels’ green agenda.
  • EU will regret making farmers scapegoats for climate change [OPINION] | Politico – Click here
    • Thanks to the bloc’s determination to position Europe as the global hero of climate action, Brussels is well on its way to alienating and impoverishing a large part of rural Europe.
  • Spain-France hydrogen link poised to receive EU funding for green shift | Bloomberg – Click here
    • A planned multibillion-euro hydrogen link between Spain and France is set to qualify for European Union aid as a cross-border project that is key to the bloc’s energy transition.