Policy and Affairs

Environmental policies

Rinnovabili • Climate Risk Insurance: Toward a Unified European System?
Environmental policies
Towards a European Climate Risk Insurance System: The BCE-EIOPA Proposal

Discover how the European Central Bank (ECB) and EIOPA are paving the way for a robust climate risk insurance system in the EU, addressing natural disaster costs…

Rinnovabili • EU Deforestation Regulation: Postponed to December 30, 2025
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The EU deforestation law has been…

An informal political agreement has been reached between the EU Council and…

Rinnovabili • EU-Mercosur Agreement: Green Light After 25 Years
Environmental policies
After 25 years, yes to the…

The final text includes guarantees on sustainability, deforestation, and climate commitments. However,…


Rinnovabili • Stop fossil fuels
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Stop fossil fuels, 43 Ngo: “The EU thinks about phase out by…

The weekend saw the global event to abandon gas, oil and coal just days before the…

Rinnovabili • EU Renewable growth
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EU Renewable growth pits Putin gas

Electricity generation from wind and sun, in August, grew by 9 TWh compared to the same…

Rinnovabili • geoengineering
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“Global moratorium on geoengineering needed”: appeal from 12 global climate leaders

The report of the Climate Overshoot Commission curbs on the management of solar radiation, the most…

Rinnovabili • Paris Agreement
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Published 1°Global Stocktake: we are out of the way to comply with…

It serves the phase out of all fossil and subsidies. Cut emissions by 60% by 2035…

Rinnovabili • us photovoltaics
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US Photovoltaics, expected record of 32 GW added in 2023

The policies of the Inflation Reduction Act are hitting home. Wood Mackenzie and SEIA preview an…

Rinnovabili • Dredging the seabed
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Dredging the seabed, the alarm: every year we extract 6 mld t…

Over-exploitation endangers both the marine ecosystem and coastal communities which are particularly dependent on it. The…

Rinnovabili • environmentally damaging subsidies
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For every euro of climate finance, 20 go into environmentally damaging subsidies

In the new NGO report, the merciless map of environmentally damaging subsidies provided by banks and…

Rinnovabili • Wind turbine
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Wind turbine orders, in six months a record 69 GW

According to Wood Mackenzie’s latest analysis, global orders for wind turbines reached new peak volumes in…

Rinnovabili • renewable energy production cost
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How much does renewable energy production cost? 520 billion less than fossil…

Despite the increase in the prices of materials and components, in 2022 the LCOE of photovoltaic,…

Rinnovabili • Coal-fired power plant
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Coal-fired power plant in As Pontes, Spain towards total phase-out 5 years…

The plant was held in standby during the energy crisis. The stop is scheduled for August…

Rinnovabili • Oil demand
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Oil demand: record 2023 but electric vehicles gnaw at growth

Global demand for oil is expected to reach 102.2 mb/d this year, but the first major…

Rinnovabili • Gas storage in Europe
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Gas storage in Europe, 90% deposits more than 2 months in advance

The filling of European stockpiles proceeds expeditiously reaching in mid-August the target set for 1 November…