The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 75: Guns, Grids and Green Budgets: Europe’s Next Industrial Policy Collision

Join SYNI, your hostess whose idea of summer fun is unlocking more value-added content for her listeners, for Episode 75: Guns, Grids and Green Budgets: Europe’s Next Industrial Policy Collision. Europe has found a new pressure point for policies on defence and sustainable development. Governments that spent the last 5 years calling clean energy a security strategy are now being asked to spend far more on their national defence to meet NATO targets, far faster, with the same treasuries, the same voters, the same public debt, and the same political appetite for pretending every bill can be paid by someone else. The fuse for the latest debate was lit by the resignation of the UK Defense Secretary. But really policy collision has already been arriving across Europe. SYNI looks at which European countries are most at risk and why. Europe’s new defence era should push clean-energy industrial policy into a more serious phase, force governments to identify dual-use infrastructure, protect long-term energy contracts, harden grids, accelerate permitting, back critical manufacturing, and stop confusing environmental branding with industrial delivery. The risk is that weak governments do the opposite.