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.
The too-invisible hand of the EU emissions market
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
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
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
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
Without active participation of women, a carbon-neutral future will remain out of reach.
To quit Russian gas and oil, a green-transition jubilee
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
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?
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
Powerful industrial-agriculture lobbies are seeking to take advantage of the crisis to undermine EU commitments.
Europe needs drastic pesticide reduction
A leaked proposal from the European Commission would favour the agrochemical industry, not the citizenry.
Climate accountability now
Major emitters must deliver on critical ‘climate justice’ issues, such as financing for vulnerable countries.
Europe’s utilities: net zero or not zero?
Europe’s largest energy companies are failing on their net-zero pledges.
Green taxonomy: traffic-light coalition flashes amber
The EU’s controversial proposal to label nuclear energy ‘green’ could jeopardise the future of the German coalition.
Building back greener?
The Recovery and Resilience Facility is important but will not mobilise sufficient green investment by itself.
EU cash floodgates open for nuclear and gas
There is no environmental, climate or economic reason to include nuclear and fossil gas in the EU investment taxonomy.
Social-ecological policy options: free green services
How to avoid ecological policies having adverse social effects? Make the associated services (partly) free.
‘Leaving no one behind’: putting words into actions
The climate transition and its social dimension demand more powerful instruments than the European Commission proposes.
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