In brief | 3 July '24
Bloomberg:
- Scholz’s government to deliver draft as early as Friday
- Budget sees cuts, but more spending on infrastructure, defense
Carbon Pulse:
Energy-intensive companies facing indirect emission costs in Germany will benefit from billions worth of state aid compensation
Financial Times:
Orders are surging but capital markets are becoming reluctant to fund infrastructure projects.
The Guardian:
Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres.
Bloomberg:
Atomic power producers in France, the UK and Sweden are having trouble finding the hundreds of thousands of welders, engineers and planners needed for reactors they’re building now and ones they’re eyeing for mid-century.
Reuters:
The European People's Party, the biggest lawmaker group in the European Parliament, will seek to weaken the bloc's planned 2035 phase-out of CO2-emitting cars, a draft document showed.
