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’.
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Europe needs to shift from a system locked into climate-wrecking fuels, extractivism and autocracies—towards ‘energy justice’.
The step up to a sustainable economy is steep, but it is achievable with political leadership and unshackled public investment.
Patrick ten Brink, Luke Haywood, Katy Wiese and Alberto Vela
The European Union cannot rely on the United Nations process to deliver and must reinforce its own climate efforts.
As a much-touted green alliance of financial institutions crumbles, the private sector has once again proved unequal to the task of climate leadership.
COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh is now open but the European Union does not seem to have the will to achieve serious goals.
As COP27 opens in Egypt while famine sweeps Somalia, an outcome-based approach to climate change must replace the appearance of action.
It will take more than sustainable-finance rules to summon the investment required for the socio-ecological transformation.
Europe can replace all Russian fossil-fuel imports with clean solutions by 2025—but only if it avoids the coal trap.
The Green Deal assumes economic growth can be ‘decoupled’ from ecological damage. That’s wishful thinking.
Meeting the challenge of climate change requires social democracy to come up with a new social paradigm.
The faster we deploy the European Green Deal, the quicker we become crisis-proof. Brussels must resist siren calls for inertia.
To deal with the climate crisis, governments must recognise that only the state has allowed the last three crises to be contained.
The latest European Social Survey shows rising concern about climate change. But is it enough?
Corporations tacking on environmental and social goals falls well short of an answer.
Europe’s municipalities are developing social and ecological solutions to the energy crisis.
Coal has been at the heart of the just-transition debate. Cars need to be central too.
Because the changes to achieve sustainable wellbeing for all are so big, they require determined social movements.
Europe could go backwards on just transition in the face of the fossil-fuel supply crisis. Except that it can’t.
A green revolution of low-cost energy for all keeps our future secure from global heating—and dictators.
A clean, expanded power system can be achieved in Europe by 2035—at no extra cost above stated plans.
Europe should mitigate the protectionist threat in its climate agenda.