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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.

EU carbon border tax could hurt developing countries

Miriam González Durántez and Calli Obern 28th June 2022

Europe should mitigate the protectionist threat in its climate agenda.

Ukraine and the geopolitics of the energy transition

Béla Galgóczi and Paolo Tomassetti 21st June 2022

The worst scenario of an ‘unjust transition’ has hoved into view with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But another Europe is possible.

The urgent need for a post-growth society

Dominique Méda 15th June 2022

Converting to an economy based on need rather than accumulation is not just an ecological imperative but a social desideratum.

Why countries should scrap the Energy Charter Treaty

Rachel Thrasher 13th June 2022

The treaty stands in the way of signatories implementing the IEA’s exhortation to stop investing in fossil fuels.

Climate and security—never more closely linked

Paweł Czyżak 9th June 2022

Far from reversing EU action on climate change, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has boosted a wave of more ambitious policies.

A social approach to climate change

Anna Kyriazi and Joan Miró 9th June 2022

‘Just transition’ is an idea whose time has come. But where did the Just Transition Fund come from?

EU hydrogen targets—a neo-colonial resource grab

Pascoe Sabido and Chloé Mikolajczak 24th May 2022

The REPowerEU plan to end Europe’s dependence on Russian gas would still leave it in hock to fossil-fuel companies.

Australian Labor’s climate policy

Anna Skarbek and Anna Malos 22nd May 2022

The ‘teals’ and Greens will turn up the heat on Labor’s climate policy. Here’s what to expect.

COP15: negotiations must come out of the shadows

Sandrine Maljean-Dubois 18th May 2022

Biodiversity receives less attention than climate, although the collapse of the planet’s biomass is as worrying as climate change.

Ukraine is no reason to invest in gas

Xavier Sol 17th May 2022

The EIB must resist pressure to finance liquefied-natural-gas projects and champion zero-carbon public transport instead.

Access to justice in the ‘Fit for 55’ package

Frederik Hafen 16th May 2022

Implementing the ‘Fit for 55’ package depends on citizens and NGOs being able to hold governments to account.

No time for silos amid global heating

Kristina Persson 4th May 2022

Sweden needs a ‘joined-up’ approach to climate change or it will fall well short of its responsibilities.

The too-invisible hand of the EU emissions market

Riccardo Nigro 27th April 2022

Europe has lost almost two precious decades to decarbonise industry due to one of the worst designed EU policy instruments.

Climate leadership needs more women

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr 26th April 2022

Women face the greatest risks from environmental crises and have been shown to deliver better environmental policy results.

What we need for long-term peace and prosperity

Margaret Kuhlow 21st April 2022

Recent crises have exposed the shortcomings of our international institutions and growth-obsessed economic models.

Why Europe can’t break free from the gas lobby

Pascoe Sabido 13th April 2022

Europe’s problem isn’t just dependence on Russian oil and gas. It’s dependence on fossil fuels, period.

Climate justice requires women’s leadership

Laura Chinchilla and María Fernanda Espinosa 28th March 2022

Without active participation of women, a carbon-neutral future will remain out of reach.

To quit Russian gas and oil, a green-transition jubilee

Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen 23rd March 2022

Europe must exit from its dependence on Russian fossil fuel by designating the next year as one of state-financed domestic conversions.

Europe’s solution to its energy dependence

Michael Davies-Venn 23rd March 2022

Europe could simply buy fewer fossil fuels from Russia, maybe more from elsewhere—but there is a more fundamental answer.

Who should be responsible for emissions reductions?

Jayati Ghosh 21st March 2022

The wealthy are the biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, Jayati Ghosh writes, yet carbon taxes hit the poor hardest.

Ukraine underlines urgency of EU green food goals

Isabel Paliotta and Célia Nyssens 17th March 2022

Powerful industrial-agriculture lobbies are seeking to take advantage of the crisis to undermine EU commitments.

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