Ukraine: renewable energy, war and reconstruction
Key to Europe’s future energy security is rebuilding Ukraine’s Infrastructure with renewable energy.
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Key to Europe’s future energy security is rebuilding Ukraine’s Infrastructure with renewable energy.
To scale up, the EU needs clear pathways for clean-energy supply chains in mining and manufacturing.
Making the global food system more sustainable and equitable is hugely complex and involves difficult trade-offs.
Russia’s war on Ukraine creates momentum for a breakthrough in adopting ecocide as an international crime.
Equating circularity with narrowing and slowing lets virtually all businesses join the bandwagon.
CEE countries have large wind and solar potential. Greening power supplies would also reduce prices.
The EU needs to redouble efforts to build coalitions and form alliances with key states—especially in the global south.
The World Circular Economy Forum meets today in Helsinki—construction is one of the biggest challenges.
If it holds on to ‘green growth’ and tight fiscal constraints, the EU will be unable to negotiate a just transition.
Cities have the agility to lead the transition to circularity and already have a body of good practice to show.
Without a global awareness, Europe’s transition to ‘net zero’ will be a zero-sum game.
The region has moved far too slowly in an era in which decarbonisation and climate resilience are essential.
The steel industry’s strategic importance and lobbying power have shielded it from a tightening of the Emissions Trading System.
The European Investment Bank is a public institution—yet the public good is not its agenda.
The Netherlands has become the latest country to face a public backlash to environmental policy.
The European Union’s compromise on e-fuels opens the back door to an afterlife for the combustion engine.
The IPCC says the world is in the last-chance saloon. Yet fossil-gas executives eye deals in Vienna.
Mariana Mazzucato, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Johan Rockström and Tharman Shanmugaratnam
To safeguard this most fundamental natural resource, we urgently need a global strategy for water as a common good.
Preserving nature, restoring soils and safeguarding biodiversity is essential—but calling it carbon removal is harmful.
The EU has more to offer green industry—a stronger regulatory framework and credible carbon pricing.
Companies are making ‘carbon neutral’ claims based on dubious emissions offsetting and ‘insetting’—rather than actual cuts.