Category: Society - Page 26

EU hydrogen targets—a neo-colonial resource grab

The REPowerEU plan to end Europe’s dependence on Russian gas would still leave it in hock to fossil-fuel companies.

Biodiversity receives less attention than climate, although the collapse of the planet’s biomass is as worrying as climate change.

The EIB must resist pressure to finance liquefied-natural-gas projects and champion zero-carbon public transport instead.

Lisa Pelling explains how ‘freedom of choice’ has wrought a vicious circle of inequality and underperformance.

Implementing the ‘Fit for 55’ package depends on citizens and NGOs being able to hold governments to account.

After a decade of inertia, the EU has made little progress on the deinstitutionalisation of disabled people.

Europe Day should be a day of celebration. Today it is an affirmation of resolve.

Sweden needs a ‘joined-up’ approach to climate change or it will fall well short of its responsibilities.

In public vaccination programmes, all humans should be equal. But some have proved more equal than others.

From Ukraine to the cost-of-living crisis to the pandemic, the social challenges of the moment demand a solidaristic response.

Europe has lost almost two precious decades to decarbonise industry due to one of the worst designed EU policy instruments.

Women face the greatest risks from environmental crises and have been shown to deliver better environmental policy results.

The forthcoming European Care Strategy must seek to return long-term care to public control.

Recent crises have exposed the shortcomings of our international institutions and growth-obsessed economic models.

We are facing two huge crises: Ukraine and the pandemic. But no one is putting them together.

Europe’s problem isn’t just dependence on Russian oil and gas. It’s dependence on fossil fuels, period.