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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…
Editorial Team•19 December 2024
Policy and Affairs
The EU deforestation law has been…
An informal political agreement has been reached between the EU Council and…
Editorial Team•16 December 2024
Environmental policies
After 25 years, yes to the…
The final text includes guarantees on sustainability, deforestation, and climate commitments. However,…
Editorial Team•10 December 2024
Policy and Affairs
Renewable energy, France will pay dearly for its delay
The country is the only one in the bloc not to have achieved its 2020 targets…
30 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Vietnam boosts coal and rejects 14 billion to reduce dependency
The Vietnamese government assumes new energy targets in 2030 where coal rises and the share of…
29 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
With the Sharm Implementation Plan, COP27 will increase emissions
The text lacks a reference to the phasing out of all fossil fuels and a commitment…
22 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Here is the Global Shield: so the G7 “ensures” climate finance
Insurance, not compensation. Nor subsidies. The initiative led by Germany marks a point for the richest…
18 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Bali G20 saves 1.5 degrees but does not make progress on climate
On climate, the Indonesian-led G20 final communiqué repeats that - diluted of the original ambition -…
17 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
From the UN, global guidelines to create policies toward net-zero emissions
The United Nations body responsible for establishing international standards, ISO, has submitted to COP27 a document…
14 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Businesses, banks and cities all too often lie about net-zero goals
"Too many promises of climate neutrality are little more than empty slogans and announcements," says former…
11 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Euro 7 Regulation leaks new disappointing rumors
The proposal of the Euro 7 Regulation should be published on 9 November 2022 (sustainabilityenvironment.com) -…
8 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Final agreement in the EU to ban endothermic cars in 2035
Council and Parliament have given final approval to the measure that will make it almost impossible…
3 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
What do Europeans, US and Chinese think about global action against the…
Almost 9 out of 10 Italians think that we are heading towards a catastrophe of global…
2 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Global emission gap condemns us to a 2.8°C warmer world
Unep publishes the 2022 Emission gap report. The 2030 gap with the Paris thresholds is 15…
31 October 2022
Policy and Affairs
Not only coal: Beijing begins to finance fewer fossil power plants abroad
Of the 113 GW of electricity generation already installed abroad, 34% consists of coal-fired power plants.…