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Last week I wrote on LinkedIn: I have been following climate politics for a long time. I do not think I have ever felt this upset. As the cl
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1. Framework blocked (October 2025). The IMO adjourned a full year without adopting the Net-Zero Framework after the US pressured smaller states with tariff, port fee and visa threats, alongside Saudi Arabia.
2. Cancellation push (March 2026). Washington then asked for the framework to be cancelled outright.
đŞđş European Union
3. Carbon market (proposed, 17 July 2026). The Commission proposed weakening the the main ETS, the carbon market covering industry and power more than analysts expected, putting roughly 2.4 billion extra tonnes of CO2 at stake, after an EPP demand paper and pressure from Poland and Italy.
4. Methane (guidance, 20 July 2026). The Commission recommended suspending import penalties for 2027 to 2029, after the US, Qatar, Algeria and Nigeria wrote to Brussels and 17 member states demanded changes.
5. Sustainable finance (Council position, 24 June 2026). Member states deleted the ban on "transition" funds financing new fossil fuel projects. TotalEnergies had held about 35 meetings with MEPs in the months before.
6. Cars (proposed, December 2025). The Commission proposed dropping the 2035 combustion engine ban, cutting the target from 100 to 90 percent, after lobbying from Germany, Italy and their auto industry. Still in negotiation.
7. 2040 target (Parliament adopted 10 February; final Council approval 5 March 2026). The climate law allows up to 5 percent international offsets, so domestic cuts stop at 85 percent. Poland had pushed for 10 percent.
8. ETS2, the separate new carbon market (adopted, same law). The carbon price on heating and transport fuels was postponed a year to 2028, a demand won by Poland and eastern member states.
9. Corporate accountability (final approval 24 February 2026, applying in stages). The Omnibus package slashed sustainability reporting, weakened due diligence and removed the climate transition plan requirement. Investigations show eleven multinationals coordinated to derail the law and ExxonMobil was the most active corporate lobbyist on it.
10. Deforestation (adopted, December 2025). The EUDR was delayed a second time to end 2026 and diluted, under pressure from the EPP, the far right, producer countries and industry.
And during the July heatwave itself, ministers discussed further rollbacks, prompting Sweden's climate minister to publicly urge them to stop.
The European pattern in one sentence: keep the targets, weaken the machinery that delivers them.
đŠđŞ Germany
11. Heating (adopted, 10 July 2026). Parliament scrapped the 65 percent renewable requirement for new heating systems; new oil and gas boilers are permitted again, though blending requirements for climate neutral fuels phase in from 2029. Critics call it an unconditional fulfilment of the fossil fuel lobby's wishes.
Official projections now show the 2030 emissions gap widening from 25 to 30 million tonnes after the rollbacks.
đŤđˇ France
12. Soil (adopted, 15 April 2026). The Senate gave final approval to the law weakening the zero net soil sealing objective, in a vote driven by the right and far right, unravelling a pillar of the 2021 climate law.
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13. Green Deal reversal (coalition programme, November 2025). The new Babis coalition's programme outlines plans to reverse the European Green Deal and refuse ETS2 for households, and Babis has since written to Brussels urging delay of methane and due diligence rules.
14. Institutions (January 2026). The Motorists party's environment minister scrapped whole environmental departments linked to climate protection.
đŹđ§ United Kingdom
15. North Sea (reported shift, not yet a decision). New PM Andy Burnham's team reportedly asked officials to prepare approvals for the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields; the consultation closes 17 August, then the Energy Secretary decides. The industry and field owner Adura, a Shell and Equinor venture, lobbied intensively for the shift.
đşđ¸ United States
16. The foundation (final, 12 February 2026). EPA rescinded the Endangerment Finding and vehicle greenhouse gas standards, removing the legal basis of US climate regulation, straight from the Project 2025 playbook and largely unwanted even by industry.
17. Paris (effective 27 January 2026). The US exit from the Paris Agreement took legal effect.
18. UN climate institutions abandoned (directed 7 January 2026). A presidential memorandum directed withdrawal from 66 international organisations, including the UNFCCC, whose treaty withdrawal is expected to take effect in 2027, and ended US participation in the IPCC, a first for any country.
19. Power plants (final rule pending). The rule repealing all power plant CO2 standards has been at the White House since 14 May; utility industry groups asked for the repeal.
20. Offshore drilling (proposed plan). The most aggressive offshore leasing plan in decades, up to 34 auctions including California and Florida.
21. Offshore wind paused (December 2025). Interior halted all five offshore wind projects under construction, citing classified national security concerns.
22. Wind bought out for fossil fuel (agreement, March 2026). Interior agreed to terminate TotalEnergies' two wind leases, worth 928 million dollars, and reimburse the company dollar for dollar once it reinvests roughly one billion dollars in US LNG, oil and gas.
The 3 July Unified Agenda maps further rollbacks across every agency.
đ¨đŚ Canada
23. The cap abandoned (agreement, 27 November 2025). Ottawa committed not to introduce the proposed federal oil and gas emissions cap as part of its agreement with Alberta; environment minister Steven Guilbeault resigned over the deal. Alberta had run an explicit scrap the cap campaign backed by the oilpatch.
24. Methane deadline weakened (same agreement). The planned deadline for cutting oil and gas methane emissions by 75 percent was shifted from 2030 to 2035.
25. Clean electricity rules suspended in Alberta (same agreement). Ottawa suspended the federal Clean Electricity Regulations in Alberta, holding them in abeyance.
26. Trees (budget, 4 November 2025). The federal budget dropped the goal of planting two billion trees by 2031; the program is being wound down and no longer accepts applications.
27. Industrial carbon price (agreement, 15 May 2026). The agreement replaced the legislated 170 Canadian dollar per tonne 2030 benchmark with a lower pathway designed to produce an effective price of 130 dollars by 2040; Environmental Defence documented the full exchange, including up to 1.2 billion Canadian dollars of public money for polluter contracts.
28. Greenwashing rules (same agreement). As part of the package, Ottawa agreed to weaken the Competition Act's greenwashing provisions and extend oil and gas subsidies, per Environmental Defence.
29. The pipeline (referred, 2 July 2026). The Prime Minister referred Alberta's million barrel per day west coast pipeline to the Major Projects Office, fulfilling the deal industry made its precondition.
30. Assessment (proposed, May 2026). Ottawa proposed letting cabinet approve pipelines before technical assessments.
31. EV mandate (adopted, 5 February 2026). The government eliminated the national EV sales mandate after dealer and automaker pressure.
32. Quebec (autumn 2025). The province cut its own 2035 zero emission target to 90 percent.
The North American pattern is more direct: remove the rules, expand production, and use public money to lower the political cost.
đŚđş Australia
33. Gas to 2070 (final approval, September 2025). The government approved Woodside's North West Shelf to run until 2070; the Australia Institute estimates the extension means about 90 million tonnes of emissions a year, the equivalent of 12 coal fired power stations, now challenged in the Federal Court. The decision followed intensive lobbying by Woodside and the Australian Energy Producers.
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34. Arctic (announced, 5 May 2026). Norway opened 70 new exploration blocks, 38 of them in the Barents Sea, an expansion announced by the Prime Minister in person at a meeting with oil executives.
đ¸đŞ Sweden
35. Fuel taxes cut (adopted, 1 May to 30 September 2026). The Riksdag cut petrol and diesel energy taxes to the EU minimum.
36. Cut again (from 1 July 2026). A further CO2 tax cut, designed to lower pump prices by about 3 kronor per litre, making Sweden a European low price destination for fossil fuel; the government has even asked the European Commission for permission to go below the EU minimum. This caps a broader retreat: an early climate leader now projected to miss all its national climate targets for the next 20 years.
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37. Exploration (adopted). Parliament repealed the offshore exploration ban days after the world court affirmed the 1.5 degree duty; WWF called it kowtowing to industry lobbyists.
38. Methane (adopted under urgency). The 2050 target was cut from a 24 to 47 percent reduction below 2017 levels to 14 to 24 percent, with any levy ruled out; cabinet papers show ministers knew the rest of the country would carry the load.
39. Gas development fund (announced 18 December 2025, opened January 2026). The government established a 200 million New Zealand dollar fund intended to increase domestic gas supplies.
40. Climate disclosures weakened (Cabinet decision October 2025, legislation pending). The government proposed exempting all KiwiSaver providers and more than half of reporting companies from the world first disclosure regime, per Forest & Bird.
The Climate Change Commission now warns the time to correct course is short.
đ§đˇ Brazil
41. Licensing (vetoes overridden, 27 November 2025). Days after COP30, Congress overrode 56 of 63 presidential vetoes to resurrect the Devastation Bill, in a vote led by the farm lobby.
42. Amazon mouth drilling (approved, October 2025). Exploratory drilling was approved in the offshore Foz do Amazonas region near the Amazon River's mouth, a decision Climate Action Tracker identifies as directly contradicting Brazil's climate ambitions.
đŚđˇ Argentina
43. Governance (April 2026). The government dissolved the National Directorate for Sustainable Development and Climate Management and the Directorate for Climate Impact, further dismantling Argentina's capacity to implement climate policy, while its oil and gas sector experiences sustained growth around Vaca Muerta.
đŞđ¨ Ecuador
44. Ministry abolished (decree, July 2025). President Noboa abolished the environment ministry, handing its functions to the ministry promoting oil and mining.
45. Yasuni non-compliance confirmed (August 2025 to 2026). In an August 2025 letter the government acknowledged it had no final phase-out plan and had not revoked the Yasuni licences, despite a binding referendum and an Inter-American Court ruling; by 2026, just 10 of 247 wells had been closed.
đŽđŠ Indonesia
Not counted, because the rule change predates this article's window, but the consequences run through it: under coal production approvals relaxed to three year terms, approved plans exceed 900 million tonnes, far beyond previous targets, per Ember.
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The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar â with the data, raising concerns about the militaryâs readiness for future conflicts.
The missiles are principally the Armyâs surface-to-surface weapons, known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM). The U.S. has used âvirtually allâ of these weapons, according to two of the sources.
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Military leaders have for weeks warned the president that stockpiles of defensive weapons â including Patriot interceptors, which are effective against ballistic missiles â were dwindling, said two of â the sources. Last week, several media outlets reported Trump had decided not to launch another massive offensive inside Iran in part because his military advisers had warned about the U.S. stockpile.
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Last week, CSIS published a report estimating that between February and July about 65% of Patriot interceptors had been expended and that the number of THAAD ballistic missile interceptors in U.S. stockpiles was at least 38% lower than at the start of the war. Patriots and THAADs are systems that detect and destroy incoming missiles and are among the most effective in the countryâs arsenal.
While Reuters has not seen the supply figures, those numbers match internal U.S. data, two of the sources said.
The U.S. also burned through a little less than half of its global supply of Tomahawk cruise missiles, which are generally launched from ships, since the start of the war, one of the sources said.
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Why are there just blobs of fake rubber meat that a bunch of unrelated microbes can build in the dirt but they've only ever been found in china and can't be classified any further than "biological objects"
Last Friday, President Trump released an executive order directing officials to install signs outside the Smithsonianâs National Museum of A
Noel Sims and Rebecca Crosby at Popular Information:
Last Friday, President Trump released an executive order directing officials to install signs outside the Smithsonianâs National Museum of American History (NMAH) informing visitors that the museum presents history inaccurately.
The order is the latest attack in a lengthy campaign by the Trump administration to discredit and control the Smithsonian Institution. The Trump administration has argued that the institution, which includes 21 museums and the National Zoo, has a liberal bias.
The order cites a 162-page report released by the White House on July 4. The report, written by the White House Domestic Policy Council, argues that the âSmithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of American History in particular, under its current leadership and current interpretive ideology, cannot be trusted to tell Americaâs story honestly and in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic.â The report criticizes the NMAH for âextreme political activism,â âanti-White activism,â âtransgender activism,â and supporting illegal immigration.
The executive order states that the temporary signs outside the museum should tell visitors that exhibits should be altered to reflect the reportâs findings and âdirect visitors to locations and resources for accurate information regarding Americaâs history.â It does not specify where visitors will be redirected.
Trumpâs war against the Smithsonian began shortly after the start of his second term. In March 2025, Trump issued an executive order entitled âRestoring Truth and Sanity to American Historyâ that stated that the Trump administration would ârestore the Smithsonian Institution to its rightful place as a symbol of inspiration and American greatness.â The Trump administration has since threatened to withhold federal funding, ordered a comprehensive review of eight museums, and released a list of exhibits it did not agree with.
Congress has also gotten involved in the Trump administrationâs battle. Last week, Anthea Hartig, the director of the NMAH, was questioned by a House subcommittee, during which Republicans accused the Smithsonian of being âinfected by a woke ideology.â
âExamining the harder chapters of our history is not the same as hostility toward America,â Hartig said in her testimony. âWe can and do honor the Declaration, the Revolution, the Constitution, and our national symbols, and also tell the truth about the times the country fell short of its own founding ideals. Telling our history fully is not anti-American.â
So why does the Trump administration care so much about controlling the Smithsonian Institution? One factor: the influence of right-wing Christian nationalist âhistorianâ David Barton and his son Tim.
Who are David and Tim Barton?
The father and son are founder and president, respectively, of WallBuilders, a Christian nationalist advocacy organization founded in 1988. WallBuilders aims to âteach US history and how our beginnings were overwhelmingly rooted in Christian ideology.â
Despite having no degree in history, David Barton calls himself a historian. He has amassed a large collection of documents related to Americaâs founding and published several books. For decades, he has pushed the view that the founding fathers never intended for there to be a separation between church and state. David Bartonâs work has been rejected repeatedly by actual historians. Most notably, a book he published in 2012 about Thomas Jefferson was pulled from the shelves by its publisher after a group of historians from Christian universities accused him of including distortions and false information.
This has not prevented David Barton from gaining political influence. In Texas, David Barton has advised the Texas State Board of Education on public school curricula. According to Bartonâs own social media posts and statements, he has attended several meetings at the White House during Trumpâs second term and has been in communication with Trump officials about the âcrazy stuffâ in the Smithsonian museums.
Right-wing faux âhistoriansâ David and Tim Barton have been key advisors to Donald Trumpâs historical revisionist crusade against Smithsonian Institution.
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