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Why the US and Europe Still Buy Russian Nuclear Fuel - Bloomberg

  2023-08-28 (or before) in Bloomberg

The US and its European allies moved fast to choke exports of Russian oil, natural gas and coal after Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine. When it comes to atomic energy, however, Kremlin-controlled Rosatom Corp. continues to be the dominant source of fuel for the world’s nuclear power stations — supplying about half of global demand for enriched uranium. Western nations are racing to reconstitute their own processing capacity, much of which withered amid a growing aversion to nuclear pow

  Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Vladimir Putin | US Politics | Russia


As the ice melts, a perilous Russian threat is emerging in the Arctic | Barry Gardiner

  2023-06-13 in The Guardian

Putin is weakened and fears Nato encirclement. His militarisation of Russia’s northern border is intensifying, says Labour MP Barry Gardiner

  Tagged under: Arctic | Vladimir Putin | Russia


How Putin made Europe go green faster

  2023-04-14 (or before) in YouTube

One year after Russia invaded Ukraine, analysts think Putin's aggression may have sped up Europe's energy transition. How's that?Credits:Reporter: Ajit Niran...

  Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Fossil Fuels | Vladimir Putin | Russia


Carbon Note 2: The "Western" energy transitions - narcissism of small differences.

  2023-04-09 (or before) by in Chartbook | Adam Tooze | Substack

Did Putin’s war on Ukraine and the ensuing energy crisis lead to a retreat from the energy transition in Europe? Did Russian aggression expose the vanity of green ideology? Was a war what we needed to relearn the “basic math” that modern societies cannot do without some combination of fossil fuels and nuclear? This was the contention of pieces in

  Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Fossil Fuels | Vladimir Putin | Russia


Putin's Brexit Coup - by Byline Supplement and Peter Jukes

  2023-01-02 (or before) by in Bylines Supplement

In this reprint of his exclusive from March last year, Peter Jukes explains why the pro-Brexit establishment aided Russia's long war against democracy and how Britain was compromised

  Tagged under: Vladimir Putin | Russia


The UK needs better insulated homes to free us from Putin and the fossil fuel giants | Helena Bennett

  2022-09-13 in The Guardian

Government investment should be targeted at cutting bills by cutting waste. Until then we will remain dependent, says Helena Bennett of the Green Energy Alliance

  Tagged under: Housing | Vladimir Putin


The Guardian view on the global food crisis: this is just the beginning | Editorial

  2022-09-07 in The Guardian

Editorial: Prices are soaring as climate shocks and the effects of war in Ukraine exacerbate structural problems

  Tagged under: Vladimir Putin


‘Putin rubbing hands with glee’ after EU votes to class gas and nuclear as green

  2022-07-06 in The Guardian

Parliament backs plan to classify some projects as clean power investments

  Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Nuclear Power | Vladimir Putin | Russia


A Border Adjustment Would Promote U.S. Energy Security and Weaken Russia

  2022-06-06 in Climate Leadership Council | The Bipartisan Climate Solution

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent the West searching for tools to weaken Vladimir Putin and deter Russian aggression. There’s a way to neutralize Russia, promote American energy independence, and accelerate global decarbonization all in

  Tagged under: Vladimir Putin | Russia


'This will encourage the world to go for green solutions': Boris Johnson touts plan for fresh UK energy supply strategy

  2022-03-07 in Business Green

UK may look to domestic oil and gas sources to reduce reliance on Russia in short term, but Prime Minister insists government will not be abandoning net zero transition

  Tagged under: Net Zero | Vladimir Putin | Russia


Toxic Nostalgia, From Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys

  2022-03-03 (or before) in The Intercept

War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?

  Tagged under: Donald Trump | Vladimir Putin


A shift to clean energy would halt Russia's petro-thuggery and more

  2022-02-28 by in The Hill

Now imagine a world where petro-states no longer have the power to blackmail other countries or impact the international price of energy.

  Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | Vladimir Putin | Russia


Cosmonauts exhibition success leads to Pushkin Medal for Director of the Science Museum Ian Blatchford | Science Museum

  2022-02-28 (or before) in Science Museum

Ian Blatchford, received the Pushkin Medal from Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise the acclaimed Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition.

  Tagged under: Vladimir Putin | Russia


BP to Exit Rosneft Stake and May Take a $25 Billion Hit

  2022-02-28 (or before) in Bloomberg

BP Plc moved to dump its shares in oil giant Rosneft PJSC, taking a financial hit of as much as $25 billion by joining the campaign to isolate Russia’s economy.

  Tagged under: Vladimir Putin | Russia | BP


The link between Putin and climate change

  2022-02-28 in Politico

The war in Ukraine is, like everything, tied to the climate crisis in multiple ways.

  Tagged under: COP26 | Climate Change | Vladimir Putin | Russia


This is how we defeat Putin and other petrostate autocrats | Bill McKibben

  2022-02-25 in The Guardian

After Hitler invaded the Sudetenland, America turned its industrial prowess to building tanks, bombers and destroyers. Now, we must respond with renewables

  Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Fossil Fuels | Vladimir Putin | Russia


Putin sounds methane alarm, under satellite surveillance and EU pressure

  2021-04-27 in Climate Home News

The Russian president has raised concern about the warming impact of methane emissions, calling for research collaboration but making no policy promises

  Tagged under: Methane | Vladimir Putin | Russia


The Hidden Author of Putinism

  2020-05-23 (or before) by in The Atlantic

How Vladislav Surkov invented the new Russia

  Tagged under: Vladimir Putin | Russia


Trump, Putin and the Pipelines to Nowhere | by Alex Steffen | The Nearly Now

  2020-02-22 (or before) by Alex Steffen in The Nearly Now

American journalists, pundits and media executives have largely convinced themselves that climate change is not a serious political issue, because they think the polls tell them that. A majority of…

  Tagged under: Vladimir Putin | Carbon Bubble | Global Warming | Donald Trump | Climate Change


Russia announces plan to ‘use the advantages’ of climate change

  2020-01-05 in The Guardian

Kremlin website recognises global heating as a problem but lists ‘positive’ economic effects

  Tagged under: Russia | Climate Change | Greenhouse Gases | Vladimir Putin | Economics


Russia’s Thawing Permafrost May Cost Economy $2.3 Billion a Year

  2019-10-22 (or before) in Bloomberg

Russia plans to pay more attention to the impact climate change is having on its vast permafrost area.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics | Vladimir Putin | Russia


How liberal democracy can die, in our lifetimes: a summary in 30 pictures and charts – Jeremy Leggett

  2019-07-02 (or before) in Jeremy Leggett - Climate, energy, tech, and the future of civilisation

  Tagged under: Vladimir Putin


How the GRU spy agency targets the west, from cyberspace to Salisbury

  2018-08-06 in The Guardian

Accusations mount against the Russian army’s main intelligence directorate

  Tagged under: Vladimir Putin | Russia


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