Environment
With loosened cohesion rules, EU money is channelled away from climate action
Tuesday 16 March 2021 |
Louise Rozès Moscovenko Philipp Grüll
Vlagyiszlav Makszimov
| Euractiv
EU countries have reallocated €3.8 billion of EU structural funds away from climate action to enable a rapid response to the Covid-19 crisis. However, the European Commission hopes that the incoming fresh cash will reverse that trend.
It's time for Croatia to embrace the European Green Deal
Tuesday 06 October 2020 |
Toni Gabrić | H-Alter
Average temperatures are rising more and more in the Zagreb region, while snow cover is decreasing year after year. However, Jagoda Munić, Director of Friends of the Earth Europe says that “Croatia is a very passive observer of developments around the European Green Deal.”
There are more forests in barren Greece than in Hungary
Tuesday 19 May 2020 |
Laszlo Arato | EUrologus
Less than 4 per cent of the world's forests are in the European Union, shared by no fewer than 16 million owners. There is no common EU forestry policy, but the European Green Deal is set to put a new emphasis on reforestation.
If Brussels wants to reduce fertilisers and pesticides
Tuesday 27 April 2021 |
Cédric Vallet | Alternatives Economiques
With its "farm to table" strategy, the European Commission aims to reduce the use of pesticides and fertilisers and at the same time increase organic production by 2030. But how?
Can the green transition help in solving fiscal and monetary divergencies in the EU?
Thursday 27 August 2020 |
Petter Aspestrand | OBC Transeuropa
The COVID-19 pandemic may have opened a window of opportunity for the European Union to strengthen its fiscal cohesion and to put the climate transition on the right track.
The energy transition yet to come
in depth
Thursday 06 February 2020 |
Gianluca De Feo | OBC Transeuropa
The European Union wants to abandon coal by 2050, but this will require significant help from European banks, which still finance 26 per cent of all coal power plants in the world.
Climate change cost Europeans €446 billions over the last 40 years
Friday 16 April 2021 |
Daniele Ruzza | Voxeurop
Climate change-related extreme events have seriously damaged the countries of the European Economic Area, accounting for loss of almost 3 percent of GDP for each country per year, according to a new report by the European Environment Agency.
How the Energy Charter Treaty might hamper emissions reductions
Monday 19 April 2021 |
Emanuela Barbiroglio | Voxeurop
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.
Why the Emissions Trading Scheme is not working, and how to fix it
Tuesday 20 April 2021 |
Emanuela Barbiroglio | Voxeurop
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”.
The Global Wind Atlas
Thursday 29 October 2020 |
OBC Transeuropa The Global Wind Atlas displays the typical amount of wind flowing in all areas of Europe, making it easier to identify valuable ares for wind power generation.
