Driving the next stage of European green recovery
Amid much rhetoric of a green recovery, only about a quarter of associated spending in Europe fits the bill—despite the benefits.
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Amid much rhetoric of a green recovery, only about a quarter of associated spending in Europe fits the bill—despite the benefits.
by Katharina Pistor on
Markets are an unreliable guide for navigating a problem as large and complex as climate change.
by Adam Tooze on
Adam Tooze writes on the roadmaps to net-zero by 2050. Is a just transition for Europe realistic?
by Franziska Cooiman on
Under the European Green Deal, venture-capital firms are expected to play a vital investment role—one for which they are singularly ill-suited.
by Patrick ten Brink on
Better regulation is benevolent and participatory, cognisant of complexity and future-oriented. Deregulation it is not.
by Ludovic Voet on
While doing all it can to arrest climate change, the EU must place workers and their concerns at the heart of its adaptation strategy.
by Karin Pettersson on
Karin Pettersson is impressed by a fictional account of the existential challenge humanity faces.
by Michael Davies-Venn on
The European Green Deal rests on the commitment of the 27 member states. The fate of the renewable-energy directive shows the scale of that challenge.
by Muhammed Magassy on
With environment issues rising quickly up the EU agenda, it’s time to get trade and ecological policies into coherent alignment.
by Rianne ten Veen on
If the EU does not address its role in domestic deforestation it will never reach its goal of carbon neutrality.
by Mary Robinson on
Having squandered past opportunities and shirked previous commitments, we now must start making up for lost time.
by Ingo Venzke on
The irony of genuinely ‘free trade’ is only regulation enables it. Europe cannot lead the ecological transition without recognising this.
Public development banks will be critical to global efforts to ‘build back better’. They should complement their climate investments with nature-based goals.
Unions can be torn between mitigating climate change tomorrow and saving jobs today. A significant Just Transition Fund could ease that dilemma.
Executive remuneration packages not only drive a race to the top but do not account for companies’ environmental ‘externalities’. This needs to change.
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