Thursday, 01 February 2018

This week had a very international feel at DeSmog Towers (ok, who are we kidding — DeSmog Shack), as we metaphorically whizzed from Switzerland to Trumpland to India before heading back to... Kirby Misperton.

From the meeting in the mountains of Davos, we outlined a few key items that may be of interest to climate and energy policy wonks — including Liam Fox's handshakes, Theresa May's robotics (oh hush), and perhaps the geekiest fisticuffs there ever was between BNEF and the IEA.

From those heights, we descended to the lows of Donald Trump's understanding of climate change. Didn't watch the interview? Good for you. All you missed was the President spewing the climate science denial of his key financial backers, the Mercers.

Talking of financial backing, turns out the UK government has been giving rather a lot of it to India's fossil fuel industry, despite supposedly having a commitment to helping the country go green. Hmmm.

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