Policy and Affairs

Policy and Affairs
Italy, France, and Slovakia push to rewrite EU carbon border tax rules
Carbon border tax under pressure: Italy, France, and Slovakia call for fewer burdens and stronger protections for EU industry in CBAM revision plan
Editorial Team•1 April 2025

Environmental policies
How to decarbonize steel in Europe
The steel industry accounts for over 25% of the EU’s industrial emissions…
Editorial Team•20 March 2025

Policy and Affairs
UN: 5 actions to accelerate renewables before “burning the planet”
UN Secretary-General António Guterres proposes a five-point plan to restart the energy transition, which he called…
24 May 2022

Policy and Affairs
Emissions Trading System, all the news for ETS, ETS 2 and ESR…
It holds up the agreement (on the downside) on the parallel Emissions Trading System ETS for…
20 May 2022

Policy and Affairs
Energy efficiency: What does the 210 billion REpower EU maxi plan provide?
Raise the 2030 targets for renewables (from 40 to 45%) and energy efficiency (from 9 to…
19 May 2022

Policy and Affairs
State of Climate 2021: all climate change records according to the OMM
Four key climate change indicators set new records last year. A clear sign that man’s contribution…
19 May 2022

Policy and Affairs
Clean hydrogen, EU prepares 20 million tons of H2 plan
European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans spoke at the World Summit on Hydrogen to reiterate the EU’s…
16 May 2022

Policy and Affairs
Energy crisis, Europe can say goodbye to Russian gas in 3 years…
In a dossier, CAN Europe explains what the EU must focus on in the EU Repower…
13 May 2022

Policy and Affairs
The oil & gas projects planned will devour all the CO2 budget…
In all, the oil and gas projects that will go into production within the next 7…
12 May 2022

Policy and Affairs
What has the G7 decided on the Russian oil embargo?
The 7 most developed economies announce - or reiterate - the stop to Russian oil. Concrete…
11 May 2022

Policy and Affairs
Overshoot day 2022, the worst Canada and US, both on March 13th
For Italy the Overshoot day 2022 will be on May 15, It would take 2.7 planets…
9 May 2022

Policy and Affairs
New sanctions on Russia, the EU will say enough to Moscow crude…
Stop oil within 6 months, 8 months for derivative products. Also hit the 1st Russian bank,…
5 May 2022

Policy and Affairs
How the energy transition can reduce the risk of future crises
The adoption of low-carbon technologies can improve energy security and accessibility by strengthening resilience to future…
2 May 2022

Policy and Affairs
ARERA: ok to emergency measures to encourage the filling of gas storage
Defined criteria for the "two-way contract" to be associated with gas storage capacity and some measures…