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Liberia and Panama Support Global Shipping Emissions Tax, Covering 66% of Fleet
Liberia and Panama back the global shipping emissions tax, representing 66% of the global fleet. Learn how this tax could reduce CO2 emissions and fund green innovations.
Editorial Team•9 January 2025
Environmental policies
Russian Gas Transit via Ukraine Ends:…
The EU is prepared for the end of Russian gas transit through…
Editorial Team•3 January 2025
Environmental policies
USB-C Charging: The Universal Standard Takes…
The EU mandates USB-C charging ports for all electronic devices, reducing e-waste…
Editorial Team•1 January 2025
Policy and Affairs
WBA: only 5% of enterprises are attentive to the environmental impacts
The index on the environmental impacts of business activities developed by the World Benchmarking Alliance’s (WBA),…
13 December 2022
Policy and Affairs
London will open its 1st coal mine in 30 years
After months of multi-level assessments and protests, the government gave the green light to the project…
12 December 2022
Policy and Affairs
Biden’s IRA can trigger US-EU trade war
The American Inflation Reduction Act provides subsidies and tax advantages for those who buy American and…
7 December 2022
Policy and Affairs
Agreement on the Oil price cap to 60 $, but remains the…
To work, the price cap must be below the Ural market price but not too much,…
6 December 2022
Policy and Affairs
Bolsonaro’s legacy: Record-breaking deforestation in Brazil since 2019
The last year recorded a relatively positive figure, with deforestation falling by 11%. But the balance…
2 December 2022
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
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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
COP27 on climate, a small step towards biodiversity protection
The final text of the agreement reached in Sharm finally mentions the "urgent need" to address…
25 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
COP27, carbon trading will be secret
In the fourth report on the results of the Sharm climate summit, we analyze what COP27…
23 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
COP27 by Sharm: historic agreement on loss & damage, but stutters on…
The climate summit finally establishes a loss and damage fund that has been demanded by the…
21 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Fossil phase down, even the EU is to approve it at COP27
The negotiations in Sharm are always slow, but there may be a small, perhaps almost symbolic,…