Policy and Affairs
Environmental policies
Biden’s US Promises a 61-66% Emissions Cut by 2035—But What About Trump’s?
One Month Before Trump Takes Office, Outgoing President Biden Sets New U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Targets for 2035
Editorial Team•23 December 2024
COP
Global Accord on Desertification Fails: COP16…
The COP16 summit in Riyadh concluded without a global accord on desertification,…
Editorial Team•19 December 2024
Environmental policies
Towards a European Climate Risk Insurance…
Discover how the European Central Bank (ECB) and EIOPA are paving the…
Editorial Team•19 December 2024
Policy and Affairs
The Stop fossil fuels “is not supported by science”: Cop28 throws the…
The words of the rotating president of the summit, who is also the head of the…
4 December 2023
Policy and Affairs
There is an agreement on the Loss and Damage Fund, surprise at…
At the first plenary session, the nearly 200 member countries agreed to the draft compensation mechanism…
2 December 2023
Policy and Affairs
Global stop to fossil fuels: phase out those who want what to…
For the first time, an international climate summit tackles the fossil phase-out dossier head-on. Many options…
30 November 2023
Policy and Affairs
Cop28 to test the first Global Stocktake, the collective budget on climate…
Provided by the Paris Agreement as a monitoring of global climate action and a tool to…
29 November 2023
Policy and Affairs
Cop28 in Dubai, climate finance is at the top of the agenda
Mechanism for Losses and Damages and post-2025 objective: these are the 2 most important climate finance…
28 November 2023
Policy and Affairs
New Belt and Road Initiative: 128 GW installed of which 39 renewable
The Belt and Road Initiative launched in 2013 by the Chinese government has implemented over 300…
20 November 2023
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Fossil Companies Must Take Peak Oil & Gas Demand Seriously
In order to be prepared for the future decline in demand, fossil companies must focus their…
15 November 2023
Policy and Affairs
Climate negotiations, EU priorities at COP28
Use Global Stocktake to boost global climate ambition. Cut fossil subsidies by 2025 at the latest.…
7 November 2023
Policy and Affairs
Portugal: 149 hours of renewable energy
Portuguese renewable production met national electricity consumption from 4:00 local time on 31 October to 9:00…
7 November 2023
Policy and Affairs
The Loss and Damage Fund may not see the light at Cop28…
On 3 and 4 November an extraordinary summit was held in Abu Dhabi to find agreement…
4 November 2023
Policy and Affairs
The EU pays millions of euros for green mines projects, but gives…
Since 2014, through the research funding programmes Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, the European Commission has…
27 October 2023
Policy and Affairs
World Energy Outlook IEA: the energy system is already changing
WEO-2023 proposes a global strategy to put the world back on track by 2030, consisting of…