Heat pump sales plummet, nuclear re-evaluates incoming EU Commission, Energy Charter Treaty crusade continues
Euractiv’s Green Brief brings you a roundup of energy and environment news of the week from across Europe.
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The Green Brief – Von der Leyen plans for five more years of furious energy, climate rule-making
Euractiv’s Green Brief brings you a roundup of energy and environment news of the week from across Europe.
The Green Brief – What Brussels players think about the Energy Union
Euractiv’s Green Brief brings you a roundup of energy and environment news of the week from across Europe.
MEPs gear up for COP29 climate negotiations
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The Green Brief – Climate litigation week in Brussels
Euractiv’s Green Brief brings you a roundup of energy and environment news of the week from across Europe.
Vienna’s climate plan kicks off la rentrée
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Europe still debating its Green Industrial Strategy
In this week’s Green Brief, Euractiv’s Donagh Cagney explores whether Europe can make the fundamental changes to deliver a real Green Industrial Strategy. Either it can or cannot – either outcome will be a critical moment for the EU.
Europe’s Energy Union: ever closer, but not ever calmer
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Avoiding grid expansion gridlock
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Keeping climate at the top of the agenda
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Geopolitics and the Green Deal
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Talking to humans about nature protection
Irrespective of whether the Commission’s nature restoration law proposal survives or falls, we need to learn how to talk to humans about nature protection – and fast.
Truly on Track?
‘Germany is on track!’ economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck confidently declared, hailing his country’s 2030 carbon reduction efforts.But behind the sunny headline lies a more complex reality.
Citizens may just hate EU climate policy
Last year was the hottest in recorded human history. The necessity of action is becoming a worldwide consensus, with the EU hoping to be a beacon showing the world its best-in-class climate policy. There is just one problem: citizens hate it.
Gas is back on the agenda
Reminiscent of late 2022, natural gas has crept its way back up the political agenda ahead of a solidarity fight between Germany and its neighbouring countries – and growing pressure to ditch all Russian gas.
The EU’s Green Deal is going out with a whimper
Flushed with their successful defense of the watered-down nature restoration law, progressive lawmakers in the European Parliament would have you believe that the Green Deal is alive and well: a misleading narrative at best.
Climate investment gap looms over next EU mandate
A gap of €406 billion remains to be filled annually in order to meet the EU’s 2030 climate goals, according to new research published on Wednesday (21 February).
A foretaste of EU climate policy debates to come
The EU got a foretaste of climate policy debates to come last week when lawmakers in the European Parliament debated the EU’s climate target for 2040.
EU’s looming green election backlash – here’s what to expect
Over the past weeks, several European political parties have circulated draft versions of their manifestos for the upcoming EU elections on 6-9 June. Euractiv walks you through the implications for energy and environment policy.
Planning for the future
The end of the European five-year term and the start of the new year have the climate community thinking about the upcoming period. Euractiv has you covered on the key debates in Brussels.
A French-led energy insurrection
The final days of 2023 were marked by what could end up being a turning point for Europe’s energy and climate policy. Find out more in this week’s Green Brief.
Ploughing on with the Green Deal
As 2023 draws to a close, the European Union is racing against the clock to close as many Green Deal files as possible before the European Parliament goes into recess for the June EU elections.
For climate action, look to Brussels, not Dubai
While the world’s attention is focused on the COP28 international climate summit in Dubai, the European Union has been quietly leading from behind in Brussels when it comes to climate action, writes Frédéric Simon.
COPping out
The COP28 climate conference is in full swing in Dubai and not a single day has passed since the grand opening on Thursday (30 November) without new announcements being made.
Hydrogen under the spotlight, CCS back in fashion
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The four years that revolutionised EU climate policy
As the EU slowly shifts focus from the maelstrom of policymaking to the upcoming elections, it seems a good time to reflect on how much of the Green Deal has actually been achieved, write Kira Taylor.
Dirty deals in clean energy – the EU’s worst nightmare
The resignation of Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa last week over suspicion of corruption in the concession of lithium mining and hydrogen projects should serve a warning shot for similar projects in Europe, writes Frédéric Simon.
Europe’s climate laws need a guardian angel
With the EU’s first climate targets likely to be missed, the European Commission must be more proactive in pushing EU member states to abide by the rules – because if the Berlaymont doesn’t, then who else will? asks Nikolaus J. Kurmayer.
Sticks or carrots? The West’s balancing act with China at COP28
A global green new deal – not a green trade war – is what world nations should aspire to at COP28, writes Frédéric Simon.
Time to bring back heat shaming
With gas markets anxious again, is there a cause to bring back the heat-shaming culture that dominated last winter’s conversations?
How America is pushing its energy interests in Europe
Energy security and independence should be top of mind as the EU prepares for a bilateral summit with the US in Washington on Friday, writes Frédéric Simon.
EU’s butchered buildings directive is the price of democracy
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EU nominees fall victim to mounting Green Deal acrimony
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Hydrogen: A reality check
Politicians should manage expectations about the hydrogen economy or risk hitting a brick wall when market realities contradict their ever-increasing ambitions, writes Nikolaus J. Kurmayer.
The green case for von der Leyen 2.0
An increasingly serious candidate to head the next European Commission is the incumbent, Ursula von der Leyen, argue Kira Taylor and Frédéric Simon.
Brussels ‘staying the course’ on EU Green Deal, despite headwinds
From ongoing negotiations to blank spaces in the European Green Deal, there’s still a significant amount of work to be done in the coming months, even as policymakers turn their attention to the EU elections next year, writes Kira Taylor.
Greek wildfires – an avoidable tragedy
28 dead, thousands of animals burned, properties and businesses destroyed, and 935.000 acres of land incinerated – this is the provisional toll of the unprecedented wildfires that have ravaged Greece over the past days. But it didn’t have to be this wa…
Nuclear vs renewables: Dialogue of the deaf continues in Brussels
France was again snubbed from a meeting of the “friends of renewables” group of EU countries earlier this month – this time on the pretext that only “like-minded” countries could participate, writes Paul Messad.
Europe’s troubled hydropower legacy
Europe’s hydropower industry is flagging in the face of climate change and lack of support from policymakers, leaving a key low-carbon energy sector by the wayside, writes Nikolaus J. Kurmayer.
Will the EPP survive feud over EU Nature Restoration Law?
The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) has come out all guns blazing on the EU Nature Restoration Law ahead of a make-or-break vote on Wednesday (12 July) that is high stakes for the European Green Deal and for the EPP itself, writes Kira Taylo…
Spain gets thrown EU power market reform hot potato
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