No gala for gas: annual jamboree postponed
The European Gas Conference in Vienna has been postponed in anticipation of climate-justice protests.
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The European Gas Conference in Vienna has been postponed in anticipation of climate-justice protests.
The economic transformation required by ecological crises implies new capabilities for workers to develop alternative plans.
The untapped potential of European welfare states must be unleashed in light of the climate emergency.
In the next mandate, the EU needs to set clear rules for private investment in the green transition, to avoid past mistakes.
Europe has a leaky buildings stock but the revised directive on their energy performance will still leave some in the cold.
Europe’s re-engagement with industrial policy needs to address its social as well as environmental dimensions.
The decarbonisation of Europe must be accelerated—which requires a new European social model.
Europe must invest heavily in its decarbonisation. Yet the expenditures are manageable, the alternatives unconscionable.
The EU must stop giving ground on its climate vows—unless it wants to help the far right ride to victory.
Anna-Sophie Hobi, Lara Santos Ayllón and Håkon da Silva Hyldmo
Strategic autonomy meets local democracy at the resource frontier while Europe pushes ahead with the green transition.
The EU’s power sector is in the middle of a monumental shift from fossil-fuel to renewable generation.
Women, though disproportionately affected by climate change, are an afterthought when it comes to climate action.
Mutually-reinforcing measures, plus finance and labour, are needed to bend a linear economy into a circle.
Many voters regard investment in decarbonisation and socially and environmentally beneficial outcomes as economically harmful.
To ensure broad-based support for wholesale change, policy-makers will need to pursue an equitable transformation.
The European Commission’s plan to extend the Emissions Trading Scheme to the sector falls short in driving decarbonisation.
Patrick ten Brink, Faustine Bas-Defossez and Christian Skrivervik
The European Green Deal faces a fork in the road—between the politics of hope and the politics of fear—as the June elections loom.
Pursuing energy efficiency will generate more construction jobs—but that requires tackling labour shortages and skills mismatches.
Fossil-energy prices have played a big role in the cost-of-living crisis—and renewables are a big part of the solution.
The climate blueprints from EU member states are inadequate—and would forgo major socio-economic benefits.
The richest 10 per cent of Europeans are responsible for the same carbon emissions as the poorer half of the population.