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Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher. We use the values of freedom, sustainability and equality as the foundation on which we examine society’s most pressing challenges. We are committed to publishing cutting-edge thinking and new ideas from the most thought-provoking people. This archive page brings together Social Europe articles on ecology.

Which comes first—Big Toxics’ profits or health?

Vicky Cann 25th September 2023

Stricter European Union regulation of toxic chemicals is being jeopardised by corporate lobbying.

Air quality critical for social justice and the environment

Jana Hrckova and Daniel Lissoni 13th September 2023

New European air laws can save lives and help the climate. A key vote takes place in the European Parliament today.

Feeling the heat: Europe’s firefighters need support

Chloe Kenny and Paola Panzeri 13th September 2023

Firefighter numbers have been cut, when investment—especially in prevention—is key to stemming Europe’s wildfires.

Cutting methane emissions: greater ambition needed

Enrico Donda 8th September 2023

A proposed EU regulation on methane emissions must be strengthened, not diluted, to address a planet on fire.

Europe must unite to stop deep-sea resource grab

Guy Standing 6th September 2023

The ban on deep-sea mining risks losing its traction—and Europe is divided on the issue.

Five years of ‘Fridays for Future’: what future now?

Carina Siebler, Leonhard Schmidt, Lennart Schürmann and Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti 5th September 2023

The movement is adapting its strategy to advocate for social climate policies.

Facing the social realities of the green transition

Hans Dubois and Ana Jesus 1st September 2023

Europe faces many challenges on the road to climate neutrality. Broad civil-society involvement is crucial for getting there.

The answer to an anti-green backlash is to be redder

Paul Mason 31st July 2023

Labour must not follow the Tories downwards, Paul Mason writes, as they grasp at electoral straws.

Three choices for a more strategic Europe

Linda Kalcher and Neil Makaroff 24th July 2023

The EU aims to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 55 per cent by 2030. It must make strategic choices to realise 90 per cent by 2040.

Nature Restoration Law: an opportunity crucial to seize

Patrick ten Brink, Faustine Bas-Defossez and Laura Hildt 20th July 2023

The EU Nature Restoration Law has been saved but with its ambition deeply eroded—negotiators must restore its aspirations.

We only have one planet left to save

Guido Montani 14th July 2023

The ecosystem is a global public good. Partisan European divisions on the nature-restoration law cannot be justified.

Why the Paris financing summit failed

Jayati Ghosh, Sandrine Dixson-Declève and Johannah Bernstein 14th July 2023

The June summit promised to catalyse a revolution in climate finance but concluded without a single firm commitment.

Ukraine: renewable energy, war and reconstruction

Svitlana Romanko and Małgorzata Wiatros-Motyka 23rd June 2023

Key to Europe’s future energy security is rebuilding Ukraine’s Infrastructure with renewable energy.

Europe’s green transition: securing the material base

Mike Hemsley 22nd June 2023

To scale up, the EU needs clear pathways for clean-energy supply chains in mining and manufacturing.

The fertiliser conundrum

Jayati Ghosh 20th June 2023

Making the global food system more sustainable and equitable is hugely complex and involves difficult trade-offs.

The dam has burst: making ecocide a crime

Joanna Hosa 16th June 2023

Russia’s war on Ukraine creates momentum for a breakthrough in adopting ecocide as an international crime.

The circular economy: a geometry lesson

Maira Babri, Hervé Corvellec and Herman Stål 13th June 2023

Equating circularity with narrowing and slowing lets virtually all businesses join the bandwagon.

Central and eastern Europe: a renewable-energy win-win

Paweł Czyżak 7th June 2023

CEE countries have large wind and solar potential. Greening power supplies would also reduce prices.

How green Europeans can cure Earth’s climate blues

Mats Engström 6th June 2023

The EU needs to redouble efforts to build coalitions and form alliances with key states—especially in the global south.

Decarbonising the built environment: circularity key

Ivan Thung and Megan Murdie 1st June 2023

The World Circular Economy Forum meets today in Helsinki—construction is one of the biggest challenges.

Europe’s just transition—still out of reach

Amandine Crespy and Mario Munta 31st May 2023

If it holds on to ‘green growth’ and tight fiscal constraints, the EU will be unable to negotiate a just transition.

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