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
New EU rules on gas storage coming soon to share costs
Debate in Brussels this week on how to share out Twenty-seven. Original news It remains the…
27 April 2022

Policy and Affairs
Update of the Energy Performance Buildings Directive: EESC green light
Greenlight on EU Energy Performance Buildings Directive to combat energy poverty, decarbonize by 2025 and ensure…
22 April 2022

Policy and Affairs
Coal-fired power plants, the emissions in Europe rise for the first time…
All top 10 emission plants are anthracite and lignite and concentrated in Poland and Germany. The…
22 April 2022

Policy and Affairs
Oil sanctions on Russia, Opec leaves the match in the hands of…
OPEC says it will not increase crude oil production to fill the gap left by Russian…
20 April 2022

Policy and Affairs
Global Warming, COP26 commitments lead us to +2.6% C
If all the promises made in Glasgow are fulfilled, for the first time, being able to…
15 April 2022

Policy and Affairs
Food emergency, “war” agriculture rips apart the new CAP
Today the Commission is publishing the EU response to the food emergency on the horizon due…
14 April 2022

Policy and Affairs
Industrial Emissions: Brussels amends directive but displeases environmentalists
The European Commission has presented a proposal for a revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED).…
13 April 2022

Policy and Affairs
Ukraine, Brussels to raise EU targets on renewables
Timmermans announces: in May, the EU executive will present in detail the measures of the EU…
12 April 2022

Policy and Affairs
Climate misinformation: facebook still feeds the fakenews
An experiment by Global Witness reveals all the flaws of the social network algorithm. Zuckerberg promised…
11 April 2022

Policy and Affairs
Innovation Fund: EUR 1.1 billion for climate-saving projects
The European Commission has signed seven grant agreements with as many large-scale technology projects: from the…
7 April 2022

Policy and Affairs
World energy transition outlook 2022, the four priorities according to Irena
For the International Renewable Energy company, on a global level we are not respecting the transition…
5 April 2022

Policy and Affairs
Green communities: where will they be born and what are they?
The Italian regions Piedmont, Emilia Romagna and Abruzzo will host the first three pilot projects of…