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https://www.politico.eu/list/green-28-class-of-2023-the-ranking/vladimir-putin/>
"It took a war criminal to speed up Europe’s green revolution.
By invading Ukraine and manipulating energy supplies to undermine European
support for Kyiv, Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved something
generations of green campaigners could not — clean energy is now a fundamental
matter of European security.
The political response from the EU was swift: Within weeks of the February 24
invasion, a plan was sketched out aimed at unhooking the Continent’s energy
ties from Moscow. It leaned on three pillars: cutting oil, gas and coal
supplies from Russia; getting gas and other fossil fuels from elsewhere; and
massively speeding up the roll out of renewable power and energy saving
measures.
“Renewables give us the freedom to choose an energy source that is clean,
cheap, reliable, and ours,” EU Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans said less than
two weeks after Putin’s tanks rolled in.
Seven months on, a POLITICO survey of data on clean energy, energy savings and
policies shows that the first signs of that green surge are appearing. Analysts
are in little doubt that the change is structural, permanent and historic.
“We will look back at this situation in 10 years time and see, OK, that was the
moment where we really got serious about the green transition and we really had
the big green acceleration,” said Simone Tagliapietra, a research fellow at the
Brussels-based think tank Bruegel."
See also:
Green 28 class of 2023: The ranking
https://www.politico.eu/list/green-28-class-of-2023-the-ranking/
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Future Crunch Oct 28, 2022:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
