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Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher. We use the values of freedom, sustainability and equality as the foundation on which we examine society’s most pressing challenges. We are committed to publishing cutting-edge thinking and new ideas from the most thought-provoking people. This archive page brings together Social Europe articles on ecology.

Venturing the green transformation?

Franziska Cooiman 16th March 2021

Under the European Green Deal, venture-capital firms are expected to play a vital investment role—one for which they are singularly ill-suited.

Leaving behind the EU’s deadly addiction to deregulation

Patrick ten Brink 3rd March 2021

Better regulation is benevolent and participatory, cognisant of complexity and future-oriented. Deregulation it is not.

Managing the unavoidable impact of climate change

Ludovic Voet 22nd February 2021

While doing all it can to arrest climate change, the EU must place workers and their concerns at the heart of its adaptation strategy.

Can we change the climate on climate change?

Karin Pettersson 22nd February 2021

Karin Pettersson is impressed by a fictional account of the existential challenge humanity faces.

Ursula von der Leyen’s mission ‘to the moon’

Michael Davies-Venn 16th February 2021

The European Green Deal rests on the commitment of the 27 member states. The fate of the renewable-energy directive shows the scale of that challenge.

EU-Mercosur free-trade pact risks irreversible destruction

Muhammed Magassy 9th February 2021

With environment issues rising quickly up the EU agenda, it’s time to get trade and ecological policies into coherent alignment.

Green intentions, brown outcomes

Rianne ten Veen 9th February 2021

If the EU does not address its role in domestic deforestation it will never reach its goal of carbon neutrality.

No time to spare for the Paris climate promise

Mary Robinson 12th January 2021

Having squandered past opportunities and shirked previous commitments, we now must start making up for lost time.

Legal hurdles facing a green and just transition

Ingo Venzke 24th November 2020

The irony of genuinely ‘free trade’ is only regulation enables it. Europe cannot lead the ecological transition without recognising this.

How public development banks can help nature

Elizabeth Mrema and Carlos Manuel Rodriguez 17th November 2020

Public development banks will be critical to global efforts to ‘build back better’. They should complement their climate investments with nature-based goals.

Trade unions and climate change: the jobs-versus-environment dilemma

Adrien Thomas and Nadja Dörflinger 12th November 2020

Unions can be torn between mitigating climate change tomorrow and saving jobs today. A significant Just Transition Fund could ease that dilemma.

Supporting the transition to post-pandemic sustainability

Denis Gregory and Maarten van Klaveren 9th November 2020

Executive remuneration packages not only drive a race to the top but do not account for companies’ environmental ‘externalities’. This needs to change.

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