Will this be the last European Gas Conference?
The IPCC says the world is in the last-chance saloon. Yet fossil-gas executives eye deals next week in Vienna.
Confronting the global water crisis
To safeguard this most fundamental natural resource, we urgently need a global strategy for water as a common good.
Environmental stewardship yes, ‘carbon farming’ no
Preserving nature, restoring soils and safeguarding biodiversity is essential—but calling it carbon removal is harmful.
How to promote green industry beyond subsidies
The EU has more to offer green industry—a stronger regulatory framework and credible carbon pricing.
Corporate greenwashing—misusing ‘net zero’ pledges
Companies are making ‘carbon neutral’ claims based on dubious emissions offsetting and ‘insetting’—rather than actual cuts.
Green subsidies: what about the global south?
The new green race between the United States and the European Union threatens to leave developing countries behind.
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.
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