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Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher driven by the core values of freedom, sustainability, and equality. These principles guide our exploration of society’s most pressing challenges. This archive page curates Social Europe articles focused on ecological issues, offering a rich resource for innovative thinking and informed debate.

Greening eastern Europe’s growth engines

Soňa Muzikárová 10th May 2023

The region has moved far too slowly in an era in which decarbonisation and climate resilience are essential.

Steel’s power—and politicians’ lack of mettle

Sabine Frank 9th May 2023

The steel industry’s strategic importance and lobbying power have shielded it from a tightening of the Emissions Trading System.

EIB: dispensing billions to corporate profiteers

Frank Vanaerschot and Paul Creeney 2nd May 2023

The European Investment Bank is a public institution—yet the public good is not its agenda.

Environmental policy: avoiding a social backlash

Elizabeth Dirth and Christiny Miller 13th April 2023

The Netherlands has become the latest country to face a public backlash to environmental policy.

E-fuels: a synthetic solution to the real problem

Béla Galgóczi 11th April 2023

The European Union’s compromise on e-fuels opens the back door to an afterlife for the combustion engine.

Will this be the last European Gas Conference?

Pascoe Sabido 24th March 2023

The IPCC says the world is in the last-chance saloon. Yet fossil-gas executives eye deals in Vienna.

Confronting the global water crisis

Mariana Mazzucato, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Johan Rockström and Tharman Shanmugaratnam 23rd March 2023

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

Wijnand Stoefs 22nd March 2023

Preserving nature, restoring soils and safeguarding biodiversity is essential—but calling it carbon removal is harmful.

How to promote green industry beyond subsidies

Patrick ten Brink and Luke Haywood 13th March 2023

The EU has more to offer green industry—a stronger regulatory framework and credible carbon pricing.

Corporate greenwashing—misusing ‘net zero’ pledges

Lindsay Otis 9th March 2023

Companies are making ‘carbon neutral’ claims based on dubious emissions offsetting and ‘insetting’—rather than actual cuts.

Green subsidies: what about the global south?

Rachel Thrasher 10th February 2023

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

Charlotte Bez and Lorenzo Feltrin 2nd February 2023

Tackling deindustrialisation and degradation requires not a technological fix but a political alternative.

Europe’s energy transition starts to speed up

Dave Jones 31st January 2023

When Russia invaded Ukraine, many feared Europe’s green-energy transition would be collateral damage. Far from it.

Flooded Pakistan, symbol of climate injustice

Zareen Zahid Qureshi 30th January 2023

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

Philipp Heimberger and Andreas Lichtenberger 25th January 2023

Meeting the EU’s climate and energy goals will mean ramping up public investment via a permanent fund.

Embedding sustainability in a government programme

Johanna Juselius 25th January 2023

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

May Boeve 5th January 2023

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

Faye Holder 22nd December 2022

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

Frederik Hafen and Romain Didi 22nd December 2022

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

Laura Hildt and Ioannis Agapakis 21st December 2022

The EU’s Nature Restoration Law must implement key COP15 outcomes on biodiversity—in very short order.

Avoiding ‘carbon leakage’—adjustments needed

Werner Raza, Bernhard Tröster, Verena Madner, Birgit Hollaus and Stefan Mayr 14th December 2022

The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is ecologically justified but difficult to implement.

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