Climate change: what Europeans think
The latest European Social Survey shows rising concern about climate change. But is it enough?
Is ESG the solution to climate and social ills?
Corporations tacking on environmental and social goals falls well short of an answer.
Municipalities can overcome Europe’s fossil-fuel addiction
Europe’s municipalities are developing social and ecological solutions to the energy crisis.
Vehicles and just transition—turning the wheel
Coal has been at the heart of the just-transition debate. Cars need to be central too.
Achieving Earth for all
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
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
A green revolution of low-cost energy for all keeps our future secure from global heating—and dictators.
Clean power by 2035
A clean, expanded power system can be achieved in Europe by 2035—at no extra cost above stated plans.
EU carbon border tax could hurt developing countries
Europe should mitigate the protectionist threat in its climate agenda.
Ukraine and the geopolitics of the energy transition
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
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
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
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
‘Just transition’ is an idea whose time has come. But where did the Just Transition Fund come from?
Dismantling the fossil-fuel economy at Stockholm+50
To address climate change, biodiversity loss and plastic pollution, Stockholm+50 must confront oil, gas and coal head-on.
EU hydrogen targets—a neo-colonial resource grab
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
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
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
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
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
Sweden needs a ‘joined-up’ approach to climate change or it will fall well short of its responsibilities.
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