Decarbonising housing fairly: a sufficiency approach
Housing is a huge source of carbon emissions. But decarbonising it effectively requires a sufficiency lens.
Society
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Rethinking the battle against homelessness
Eradicating homelessness starts with seeing beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to homeless people.
European elections: a call for accessibility
More is needed for visually impaired voters—and candidates—to exercise their political rights.
When less is more: reducing Europe’s material footprint
Beyond cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, the key to a sustainable planet lies in resource management.
Sex trafficking in Romania and Moldova
The charges faced in Romania by a high-profile ‘influencer’ highlight how the region has become a hub for sex trafficking.
Time for a European industrial strategy
The next phase of the European Green Deal can be centred on a European industrial strategy.
A global legal precedent on climate change
Older Swiss women have set a global legal precedent for challenging their nation’s climate-change policy.
EU leaders may miss a rendezvous with history
The emerging strategic agenda for the next EU mandate reveals an ecological step backwards Europe cannot afford to take.
Stepping up the EU agenda on social citizenship
In a more precarious Europe, social protection and minimum-income guarantees must be more strongly embedded.
Social Europe needs a new concept of ‘worker’
The distinction between employed and self-employed is becoming incoherent and outdated.
Rethinking universalism and social rights
Social rights in Europe today require marrying 20th-century universalism with the meeting of diverse, complex needs.
Beyond the ‘backlash’: the green electoral agenda
Voters want a just transition and more, not less, green investment ahead of the European elections.
Danger: hazardous medicinal products at work
Healthcare workers will be protected from hazardous drugs by an EU law which had to be transposed by member states by today.
Protecting EU health policy from tobacco lobbying
The European Commission should minimise meetings with the tobacco industry, publicise and fully minute them.
Grids risk holding back Europe’s energy transition
Europe must revise outdated grid plans to prepare for surging deployment of wind and solar power.
Honesty needed to save just transition in EP elections
Unless the political dial can be turned, this year’s European Parliament elections will put the environment on the line.