June 1, 2014
We need clean energy if we are to meet the world’s growing energy needs while avoiding an environmental disaster. But a large part of the subsidies go to projects that will never be profitable.
- All
- Agriculture Publications
- Blog
- Briefings
- Digital Briefings
- Digital Publications
- Energy & Environment Briefings
- Energy & Environment Publications
- Finance Briefings
- Finance Publications
- Fiscal & Taxation Briefings
- Fiscal & Taxation Publications
- Foreign Policy Briefings
- Foreign Policy Publications
- Health & Lifestyle Briefings
- Health & Lifestyle Publications
- Media
- Publications
- Regulation Briefings
- Regulation Publications
- Rule of Law Briefings
- Rule of Law Publications
- Trade Briefings
- Trade Publications
May 1, 2014
Economic growth is not necessarily bad for the environment. On the contrary, a richer world is in many ways a prerequisite for a greener existence. But it is crucial to understand how the market economy can help us release our creativity and learn from our mistakes. It helps us adapt and fix environmental problems.
March 1, 2014
Current obligations by the EU to decrease GHG emissions by 20% by 2020 are the most ambitious among industrialised nations. Because of these obligations EU citizens and businesses are experiencing an increasing fnancial burden, EU businesses are losing competitiveness vis-à-vis other industrial or industrialising nations, and a huge bureaucracy has been created that shall perforce have an interest to perpetuate itself.
March 1, 2014
It is regrettable that, as the United States achieves energy independence, Europe still lacks a strategy to pursue it.
December 1, 2013
For a short period, around the turn of the millennium, the UK energy market was highly competitive, offering choice to consumers and keeping prices in check.
November 1, 2013
The EU has a clear framework to steer its energy and climate policies up to 2020.The 2030 framework should build on the experience and lessons from the current framework.
November 1, 2013
The European Commission wants to gather views and additional information on the possible introduction of EU wide measures to achieve better environmental performance of buildings.
November 1, 2013
A growing number of analyses question the long-term sustainability of the current trends in the production and consumption of food. Many of today´s food production systems compromise the capacity of Earth to produce food in the future.
April 1, 2013
By 2050 the world will need to produce almost twice as much food and feed in the same agricultural area as today. Modern genetic engineering – with crops that use water, nutrients, energy, and land more efficiently – is one of the keys.