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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, Oct. 13.
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From Politico Europe’s “Green 28” list, Oct. 12:
Vladimir Putin
The invader making the EU green
OVERALL No. 1 . . .
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. . . .
“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. . . .
Putin’s influence on Europe’s green agenda in 2022 is inarguable. Every decision on investment, research and policy is now being filtered through the lens of energy as a matter of European security.
This has broadened the political coalition for green energy. Politicians who considered the safety of the climate a softer imperative than the economy or military can now embrace a heat pump as if it were a howitzer. . . .
While Ukrainians are the primary victims of the war, Europeans have been hit hard by Putin’s weaponization of energy. But the consequences mean an EU that becomes greener, faster, than before Russian troops marched across the Ukrainian border. That impact will be more than a footnote in the history of the war. . . .
Influence score: 19/30
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Appeared in the October 14, 2022, print edition as ‘Notable & Quotable: Putin Tops the List.’
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