{"id":166700,"date":"2025-11-06T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166700\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:13:09","slug":"as-un-decries-fossil-fuel-expansion-greece-starts-drilling-for-gas-in-mediterranean-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166700\/","title":{"rendered":"As UN decries fossil fuel expansion, Greece starts drilling for gas in Mediterranean \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It comes three weeks after the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-donald-trump-sinks-global-shipping-climate-pollution-tax\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">successfully halted<\/a> a global deal to put a carbon tax on shipping, with the support of Greece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no energy transition, there is just energy addition,\u201d said U.S. Interior Secretary and energy czar Doug Burgum, who was present at the signing ceremony in Athens on Thursday, alongside U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and the new U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreece is taking its own natural resources, and we are working all together toward energy abundance,\u201d Burgum added, describing Greece\u2019s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis as a leader who \u201cbucks the trend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only a few hours later, U.N. secretary-general Antonio Guterrez made an impassioned plea for countries to stop exploring for coal, oil and gas. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve consistently advocated against more coal plants and fossil fuel exploration and expansion,\u201d he said at a COP30 leaders\u2019 summit in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil. Donald Trump was not among the many world leaders present.<\/p>\n<p>Not listening<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica is back and drilling in the Ionian Sea,\u201d said Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador, at the Athens ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It comes three weeks after the U.S. successfully halted a global deal to put a carbon tax on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[15852,377,13178,882,44009,47570,36977,356,18,7520,440,20441,12364,19,4286,17,27454,95859,47615,56087,441,33111,47616,9951,3476,10676,133,41447,4520,551,384],"class_list":{"0":"post-166700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-bulgaria","11":"tag-carbon","12":"tag-cooperation","13":"tag-cop30","14":"tag-cyprus","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-eire","17":"tag-energy","18":"tag-environment","19":"tag-fossil-fuels","20":"tag-greece","21":"tag-ie","22":"tag-industry","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-kyriakos-mitsotakis","25":"tag-liquefied-natural-gas","26":"tag-lng","27":"tag-maritime","28":"tag-mediterranean-sea","29":"tag-moldova","30":"tag-natural-gas","31":"tag-oil","32":"tag-pollution","33":"tag-romania","34":"tag-science","35":"tag-shipping","36":"tag-tax","37":"tag-ukraine","38":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115504821306043750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}