Europe’s decarbonisation challenge? ‘Wir schaffen das’
Adam Tooze writes on the roadmaps to net-zero by 2050. Is a just transition for Europe realistic? In the 18th century, Europe was the cradle of … [Read more...]
Social Europe Articles on Ecology
Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher that publishes content examining issues in politics, economy, society and ecology. This archive brings together Social Europe articles on ecology.
Venturing the green transformation?
Under the European Green Deal, venture-capital firms are expected to play a vital investment role—one for which they are singularly … [Read more...]
Leaving behind the EU’s deadly addiction to deregulation
Better regulation is benevolent and participatory, cognisant of complexity and future-oriented. Deregulation it is not. In mid-March, the … [Read more...]
Managing the unavoidable impact of climate change
While doing all it can to arrest climate change, the EU must place workers and their concerns at the heart of its adaptation strategy. Parts of … [Read more...]
Can we change the climate on climate change?
Karin Pettersson is impressed by a fictional account of the existential challenge humanity faces. It is five years since 196 countries signed the … [Read more...]
Ursula von der Leyen’s mission ‘to the moon’
The European Green Deal rests on the collective commitment of the 27 member states. The fate of the renewable-energy directive shows the scale of that … [Read more...]
EU-Mercosur free-trade pact risks irreversible destruction
With environment issues rising quickly up the EU agenda, it’s time to get trade and ecological policies into coherent alignment. From 2004 to … [Read more...]
Green intentions, brown outcomes
If the EU does not address its role in domestic deforestation it will never reach its goal of carbon neutrality. Even the most well-intentioned … [Read more...]
No time to spare for the Paris climate promise
Having squandered past opportunities and shirked previous commitments, we now must start making up for lost time. Covid-19 turned the world … [Read more...]
Legal hurdles facing a green and just transition
The irony of genuinely ‘free trade’ is only regulation enables it. Europe cannot lead the ecological transition without recognising this. The … [Read more...]
How public development banks can help nature
Public development banks will be critical to global efforts to ‘build back better’. They should complement their climate investments with nature-based … [Read more...]
Trade unions and climate change: the jobs-versus-environment dilemma
Unions can be torn between mitigating climate change tomorrow and saving jobs today. A significant Just Transition Fund could ease that … [Read more...]
Supporting the transition to post-pandemic sustainability
Executive remuneration packages not only drive a race to the top but do not account for companies’ environmental ‘externalities’. This needs to … [Read more...]
