Policy and Affairs

Rinnovabili • Desertification: COP16 in Riyadh Ends in Failure, No Agreement Reached
COP
Global Accord on Desertification Fails: COP16 in Riyadh Ends Without Consensus

The COP16 summit in Riyadh concluded without a global accord on desertification, highlighting a divide between Africa and Western nations. Progress included $12 billion in funding for…

Rinnovabili • Climate Risk Insurance: Toward a Unified European System?
Environmental policies
Towards a European Climate Risk Insurance…

Discover how the European Central Bank (ECB) and EIOPA are paving the…

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

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


Rinnovabili • new EU Commission
Policy and Affairs
All the names of the new EU Commission: who will oversee energy…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has presented the team for the next 5 years.…

Rinnovabili • COP29 Negotiations
Finance
COP29 Negotiations: A Climate Finance Deadlock Persists

Reaching an agreement on climate finance is becoming increasingly difficult at the COP29 negotiations. The latest…

Rinnovabili • EU Competitiveness Report
Environmental policies
Draghi, EU Competitiveness Report: The Decarbonization Chapter

More coordinated policies that connect ambitious climate goals with coherent plans to achieve them. This is…

Rinnovabili • Draghi Report: The Energy Chapter
Policy and Affairs
Draghi Report: The Energy Chapter

The report on the future of EU competitiveness, presented this morning by Mario Draghi, offers a…

Rinnovabili • State of the Energy Union
Environmental policies
State of the Energy Union: Challenges Remain, a Change of Pace is…

State of the Energy Union: The Commission Publishes the 2024 Energy Union Report Highlighting Progress and…

Rinnovabili • Hydrogen Auction
Policy and Affairs
EU to Introduce New Protectionist Criteria for Upcoming Hydrogen Auction

The announcement comes from newly appointed Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, who stated that the goal in…

Rinnovabili • Hidden Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Environmental policies
Hidden Fossil Fuel Subsidies Cost $30 Billion: A Growing Burden

Between CO2 capture and hydrogen production from fossil sources, North America and Europe have spent tens…

Rinnovabili • Air quality
Environmental policies
Air quality improves in the EU, but in cities, pollutants exceed the…

The air quality in the EU is improving. Yet, despite the gradual reduction of emissions, the…

Rinnovabili • offshore wind sector
Policy and Affairs
The offshore wind sector will install 11 GW in 2024

Rystad Energy's forecasts rely on strong growth in the global offshore wind sector, supported by increased…

Rinnovabili • Nature Restoration Law
Environmental policies
The EU Nature Restoration Law has entered into force

On 18 August 2024 the “Nature Restoration law” came into force, the EU law that for…

Rinnovabili • lithium mine in Serbia
Environmental policies
Protests widen against lithium mine in Serbia

Concerns about the use of arsenic and sulfuric acid in the lithium mine in Serbia. Health…

Rinnovabili • wind and photovoltaic capacity
Policy and Affairs
Historic surpass, in China wind and photovoltaic capacity exceeds coal

According to consulting company Rystad Energy, photovoltaic will become the main source of electricity in China…