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Why the Emissions Trading Scheme is not working, and how to fix it

By |2023-07-26T12:06:37+01:00April 20th, 2021|Tags: , , |

Emissions are not for free in Europe. As a carbon trade system, the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) sets an annual cap and a price for emissions. Wijnand Stoefs, policy officer at Carbon Market Watch, says it should become “a more ambitious tool”.

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How the Energy Charter Treaty might hamper emissions reductions

By |2023-07-26T10:29:28+01:00April 19th, 2021|Tags: , , |

The value of European fossil infrastructure protected by the Energy Charter Treaty is almost €345 billion, says research by Nico Schmidt and Oliver Moldenhauer at Investigate Europe. Lawsuits, allowed by the treaty, are likely to prevent states from adopting ambitious climate policies.

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The lobbyists behind EU response to migration

By |2023-07-26T11:36:13+01:00March 5th, 2021|Tags: , , |

A “fortress Europe” is being built thanks to a massive deployment of resources. The result is that the border agency Frontex embraced corporate interests rather than human rights, a new report from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) shows.

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The uncountable: How Covid-19 affected migrants and refugees’ health

By |2023-07-26T11:43:37+01:00January 15th, 2021|Tags: , , |

With COVID-19 in the spotlight, refugees and undocumented migrants disappeared from public attention. Precisely what swept these communities away from the agenda, however, disproportionately affected them.

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Climate change is happening now in Europe

By |2023-07-26T09:10:11+01:00February 11th, 2020|Tags: , |

Key climate hazards are already affecting Europe and will increasingly do so, a series of maps published by the European Environment Agency reveals. Impacts, calculated through different scenarios and models, can only be reduced by keeping the global temperature increase well below 2°Cs.

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