Europe’s industry and the ecological transition
Tackling deindustrialisation and degradation requires not a technological fix but a political alternative.
Europe’s energy transition starts to speed up
When Russia invaded Ukraine, many feared Europe’s green-energy transition would be collateral damage. Far from it.
Flooded Pakistan, symbol of climate injustice
The $9 billion promised to Pakistan is only a sticking plaster until the west acknowledges the dire climate legacy in south Asia.
Towards a permanent EU investment fund
Meeting the EU’s climate and energy goals will mean ramping up public investment via a permanent fund.
Embedding sustainability in a government programme
Sustainable development is a global task largely to be delivered by national governments. What can they learn from the leader—Finland?
An annual check-up for the climate movement
The world made some progress in 2022 on climate change and protecting nature but entrenched interests remain to be overcome.
‘Gaslighting’ Europe on fossil fuels
Documents from the International Gas Union have revealed the strategy of disinformation pursued by the powerful lobby.
Legal challenges by NGOs, citizens key to climate battle
Strong climate governance means holding governments to account. The EU institutions have shied away from doing so.
Biodiversity: the EU and the race against time
The EU’s Nature Restoration Law must implement key COP15 outcomes on biodiversity—in very short order.
Avoiding ‘carbon leakage’—adjustments needed
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is ecologically justified but difficult to implement.
Exclusion of women could end up costing our planet
COP27 in Egypt was massively dominated by male leaders. Yet African women are key agents in battling climate change.
Injustice is fuelling Europe’s energy crisis
Europe needs to shift from a system locked into climate-wrecking fuels, extractivism and autocracies—towards ‘energy justice’.
Europe’s 2050 mission to a future-fit economy
The step up to a sustainable economy is steep, but it is achievable with political leadership and unshackled public investment.
Progress and setbacks from COP27
The European Union cannot rely on the United Nations process to deliver and must reinforce its own climate efforts.
The entrepreneurial state must lead on climate change
As a much-touted green alliance of financial institutions crumbles, the private sector has once again proved unequal to the task of climate leadership.
A European initiative for a global green deal
COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh is now open but the European Union does not seem to have the will to achieve serious goals.
Global environmental governance: reform urgent
As COP27 opens in Egypt while famine sweeps Somalia, an outcome-based approach to climate change must replace the appearance of action.
Shrink finance, save the planet
It will take more than sustainable-finance rules to summon the investment required for the socio-ecological transformation.
Getting out of the coal black hole
Europe can replace all Russian fossil-fuel imports with clean solutions by 2025—but only if it avoids the coal trap.
From ‘green growth’ to a ‘good life’
The Green Deal assumes economic growth can be ‘decoupled’ from ecological damage. That’s wishful thinking.
A green growth and innovation paradigm
Meeting the challenge of climate change requires social democracy to come up with a new social paradigm.
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