Shell has ditched its major green pledge to spend £20-25bn in the UK over the current decade - most of which was earmarked for clean energy.

The energy giant told POLITICOEurope it dropped the target last November.

More here for pro readers!

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Scoops ahoy in today's newsletter including:

- London is at loggerheads with Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast over carbon budgets
- Shell ditches its £25bn UK green spending pledge
- A fresh batch of oil and gas licences will be announced this morning

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As yer man says in this morning's London Playbook -- tons more from Charlie Cooper interview for Politico energy subs.

Including Stuart on Whitehall heat pumps row ... battling the Treasury for green tech funding ... & why he bought a blood pressure monitor.

Labour’s 2030 clean power target is doable, but would require a “herculean effort,” outgoing CCC boss Chris Stark tells me
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Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie 🇪🇺🌈 tells BBC Radio Scotland Drivetime that his group of MSPs would vote no confidence in Humza Yousaf if a straightforward motion on that question comes before Holyrood

How a climate U-turn broke the Scottish government👇
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🚨Polling guru John Curtice reckons there’s just a 1% chance of the Conservatives forming the next government 🚨

Read all about the dire warnings of Rishi Sunak’s electoral chances in this morning’s London Playbook: politico.eu/newsletter/lon…

Climate envoys from 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇩🇪🇫🇷🇩🇰 are heading for a Beijing meeting with Chinese envoy Liu Zhenmin. A new format for EU-China climate talks when the future of US participation is uncertain.

w/ Stuart Lau and Zia Weise

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Such an interesting Sienna Rodgers & Sophie Church piece on John Bew — the Clement Attlee biographer turned seemingly indispensable No 10 foreign policy adviser

A 'proper Tory'? Or an Atlanticist social democrat who'd stay in Downing Street for Starmer? politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

Energy Sec. Claire Coutinho has criticised the EU for buying Russian LNG

But the govt has signed a contract w/ TotalEnergies, one of the largest buyers of Putin's gas

For a govt focused on energy security, deals with Total should be a non-starter

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UK strikes energy deal with firm linked to Putin’s gas exports politico.eu/article/uk-gov…

#UK hospitals, town halls and government departments will be heated via a massive energy deal with a subsidiary of a firm still importing Russian gas to Europe — just days after U.K. ministers boasted they were “driving Putin out of the market.” politico.eu/article/uk-gov…

Rishi Sunak’s Brexit trade agenda is faltering. Are the Gulf states his last hope?

From me and my excellent colleague Graham Lanktree

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Remembering PC Keith Palmer who died defending parliament, and the four other people who were killed and the 48 injured in the Westminster attack seven years ago today.

🚨Ukrainian energy campaigners call out the UK government's huge NHS + public sector gas contract with firm linked to Russian gas exports

How Barack Obama helped Keir Starmer open up... fascinating read from Sam Blewett

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