July 13, 2022
President Macron announced in February 2022 that he wanted to ‘restart the construction of nuclear reactors’ with six new reactors after the definitive closure of the nuclear power plant in Fessenheim (Haut-Rhin) in June 2020.
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July 1, 2022
Humans are currently faced with an energy transition in response to a challenge of unprecedented magnitude.
June 21, 2022
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, questions about energy independence in the EU and the various ways this could be achieved re-emerged.
November 19, 2021
While COP26 seems to have had lukewarm effects on the global approach towards more sustainable policies, a key takeaway is the promotion of market environmentalism.
November 16, 2021
The Carbon Borders Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is one of the key regulations to compliment the EU’s existing ETS scheme in tackling carbon leakages.
June 2, 2021
Most countries are not on track to meet their promises made under the Paris Agreement, as impactful climate action is often hindered by the high costs of decarbonisation.
December 11, 2019
The new European Green Deal plans to make the EU carbon neutral by 2050 while opening up new possibilities for development and employment. The European Commission wants to send a strong message to the world on dealing with climate change, but a number of thorny issues will need to be tackled.
March 1, 2017
It is widely believed that healthy eating is relatively expensive whereas ‘junk food’ is relatively cheap. This has led to an assumption that poor diets and obesity are directly caused by economic deprivation.
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.