Analysis: Even as European scientists and policymakers recognize the need to adjust in the face of looming planetary peril, more immediate pressures are pulling governments in the opposite direction.
Yet even as European scientists and policymakers recognize the need to adjust in the face of looming planetary peril, more immediate pressures are pulling governments in the opposite direction.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine — which triggered chaos in global energy markets and stiff Western sanctions on Russian fossil fuels — has led to a spike in the cost of electricity across the continent, with some countries getting exposed for their overreliance on Russian natural gas and oil to power their economies.The onset of brutally hot temperatures has triggered new demands in a part of the world where air conditioning is not as ubiquitous as the United States.
Attention falls this week on Thursday, when the Nord Stream 1 pipeline linking Russian gas to Europe is set to resume operations after a scheduled 10-day hiatus for maintenance. Germany, in particular, is paralyzed over what may or may not happen, depending on whether Russian President Vladimir Putin and
— a move that would cost the Kremlin, too, but nevertheless throttle some of Europe’s major economies.“Anything can happen,” German economy minister Robert Habeck said in a radio interview. “It could be that the gas flows again, even more than before. It could be that nothing will come at all.”
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