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 ill-suited.
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.
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.
Can we change the climate on climate change?
Karin Pettersson is impressed by a fictional account of the existential challenge humanity faces.
Ursula von der Leyen’s mission ‘to the moon’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Executive remuneration packages not only drive a race to the top but do not account for companies’ environmental ‘externalities’. This needs to change.