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Environmental policies
EU strategy aims to steer energy-intensive industry through transition
The EU backs a plan to support energy-intensive industry with reforms to cut costs, emissions, and boost strategic autonomy
Editorial Team•7 April 2025
Environmental policies
EU hydrogen targets at risk: cost,…
EU hydrogen targets face major challenges in cost, dependency, and project delays,…
Editorial Team•6 April 2025
Policy and Affairs
Italy, France, and Slovakia push to…
Carbon border tax under pressure: Italy, France, and Slovakia call for fewer…
Editorial Team•1 April 2025
Environmental policies
The unsustainable expansion of new fossil deposits in 2024
If all the new oil and gas deposits discovered this year were put into production, in…
Editorial Team•30 July 2024
Markets
Global demand for coal, IEA: stable consumption until 2025
After reaching a new peak in 2023, global coal demand seems to have embarked on a…
Editorial Team•24 July 2024
Environmental policies
Portugal’s NECP targets 93% renewable electricity 2030
The draft put in consultation,ins the previous government’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55%…
Editorial Team•24 July 2024
Policy and Affairs
PNIEC Italy: the 2030 targets on renewables and emissions
The National Plan Energy Climate (PNIEC) of Italy acquires its definitive size. Among the 2030 targets,…
Alessia Bardi•20 July 2024
Policy and Affairs
European electricity demand rises due to heat (including prices)
In the second week of July 2024, prices in the main European electricity markets increased, driven…
Editorial Team•19 July 2024
Policy and Affairs
The gap in investment needed in the EU for the green transition…
Europe will manage to find, between public finances and markets, only 1/3 of the resources needed…
Editorial Team•18 July 2024
Policy and Affairs
Climate crisis, wars and instability: The recipe for dealing with the polycrisis…
A polycrisis is a period in which crises of a different nature overlap, intertwine and reinforce…
Editorial Team•17 July 2024
Policy and Affairs
PNIEC France, finally the target renewables: only 41.3% by 2030
Paris has set the share of renewables in gross final energy consumption to 570 TWh (out…
Editorial Team•15 July 2024
Policy and Affairs
France also adopts its CCUS strategy: 8.5 Mt per year by 2030
Paris has put into public consultation the new strategy for the capture, storage and industrial use…
Editorial Team•9 July 2024
Policy and Affairs
France will no longer develop its technology for Small Modular Reactors
EDF has announced a stop to work at Nuward, its subsidiary that has been developing an…
Editorial Team•4 July 2024
Policy and Affairs
Climate and Environment Priorities in the EU Strategic Agenda 2024-2029
On 27 June, the Heads of State or Government approved the strategy paper for EU policies…
Editorial Team•30 June 2024
Policy and Affairs
Carbon removals market, $100 billion potential within 10 years
A report by the consulting firm Oliver Wyman calculates the possible development trajectory of the carbon…
Editorial Team•28 June 2024
Environmental policies
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