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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.

Exclusion of women could end up costing our planet 

Camilla Barungi 8th December 2022

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

Nick Meynen 1st December 2022

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

Lydia Korinek and Jakob Hafele 1st December 2022

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

Patrick ten Brink, Luke Haywood, Katy Wiese and Alberto Vela 23rd November 2022

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

Mariana Mazzucato 7th November 2022

As a much-touted green alliance of financial institutions crumbles, the private sector has once again proved unequal to the task of climate leadership.

A European initiative for a global green deal

Guido Montani 7th November 2022

COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh is now open but the European Union does not seem to have the will to achieve serious goals.

Global environmental governance: reform urgent

Michael Davies-Venn 6th November 2022

As COP27 opens in Egypt while famine sweeps Somalia, an outcome-based approach to climate change must replace the appearance of action.

Shrink finance, save the planet

Magdalena Senn and Jorim Gerrard 4th November 2022

It will take more than sustainable-finance rules to summon the investment required for the socio-ecological transformation.

Getting out of the coal black hole

Alexandru Mustață 2nd November 2022

Europe can replace all Russian fossil-fuel imports with clean solutions by 2025—but only if it avoids the coal trap.

From ‘green growth’ to a ‘good life’

Nora Räthzel and Valeria Pulignano 31st October 2022

The Green Deal assumes economic growth can be ‘decoupled’ from ecological damage. That’s wishful thinking.

A green growth and innovation paradigm

Jon Bloomfield 31st October 2022

Meeting the challenge of climate change requires social democracy to come up with a new social paradigm.

Green Deal: the light at the end of the crisis tunnel

Patrick ten Brink and Alberto Vela 12th October 2022

The faster we deploy the European Green Deal, the quicker we become crisis-proof. Brussels must resist siren calls for inertia.

From ‘free-market’ to subsidised capitalism

Paul Sweeney 6th October 2022

To deal with the climate crisis, governments must recognise that only the state has allowed the last three crises to be contained.

Climate change: what Europeans think

Rory Fitzgerald 27th September 2022

The latest European Social Survey shows rising concern about climate change. But is it enough?

Is ESG the solution to climate and social ills?

Carlos Joly 12th September 2022

Corporations tacking on environmental and social goals falls well short of an answer.

Municipalities can overcome Europe’s fossil-fuel addiction

Lavinia Steinfort and Andrew Cumbers 2nd September 2022

Europe’s municipalities are developing social and ecological solutions to the energy crisis.

Vehicles and just transition—turning the wheel

Sarah Mewes and Gloria Koepke 27th July 2022

Coal has been at the heart of the just-transition debate. Cars need to be central too.

Achieving Earth for all

Jayati Ghosh 14th July 2022

Because the changes to achieve sustainable wellbeing for all are so big, they require determined social movements.

Building just-transition policies out of fossil misery

Éloi Laurent 14th July 2022

Europe could go backwards on just transition in the face of the fossil-fuel supply crisis. Except that it can’t.

The coming green-hydrogen revolution

Jean Baderschneider 7th July 2022

A green revolution of low-cost energy for all keeps our future secure from global heating—and dictators.

Clean power by 2035

Elisabeth Cremona 28th June 2022

A clean, expanded power system can be achieved in Europe by 2035—at no extra cost above stated plans.

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