No country has signed up to the Starmer Alliance for Clean Energy

The Clean Energy Climate Alliance, launched with much fanfare by Britain and Brazil last year, has not yet gained any new members, The Times has revealed.

The initiative, described by Keir Starmer as "the opposite of OPEC", was supposed to bring renewable energy states together, but has suffered from a lack of coordination, bureaucratic ambiguity and a parallel European Commission project, the Global Energy Transition Forum, according to government sources.

Attempts to merge the initiatives with Brussels have failed. Although officially still a priority for London, the alliance has lost political clout and turned into a technical platform without significant influence.

The UK claims to be working with partners such as Canada, Australia and France to promote clean technologies, but the biggest emitters - China, the US, India and Russia - remain on the sidelines.

Critics, including Greenpeace, accuse London of underfunding and diplomatic weakness. They warn that without concrete efforts, the alliance will be a marketing illusion.

(mja)