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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Energy, environment tensions underpin Strasbourg high politics
To be secure, von der Leyen needs support from a forth political group. This will most likely come from the Greens. But Green support cannot be at the expense of alienating large parts of her own EPP group.
Waiting for a new French government, Brussels can breathe a bit
The Left’s victory in the French parliamentary elections has given Brussels a brief respite, even if the road to a coalition government in France is still long and uncertain.
What John Lennon got right – and wrong – about Europe’s energy and climate plans
John Lennon may not have known much about NECPs but he still has wisdom to share – particularly his observation that “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
Irish Greens show what can be achieved with 7.5%
The Greens took a hit in this month’s European Parliament elections – but the experience of their Irish colleagues shows that they can still wield considerable influence in the EU’s next cycle.
Europe’s centre backs nature protection
Monday’s vote on the Nature Restoration Law showed that left-leaning politicians believe that voters will reward them for supporting nature, while right-leaning politicians believe that their voters can live with more environmental law.
The show ‘can’ go on
Post elections, the EU’s climate advocacy space is forced to contend with an awkward reality: Contrary to its doom-laden warnings, the centre held, the far right is not in power, and progress remains possible.
Europe after the green tide
When Europeans awoke after the last European Elections in 2019, the EU was hit by a “green wave”, sending an unprecedented number of Green members of MEPs to Brussels. Five years later, what was the legacy of this wave?
Out with green hydrogen, in with carbon capture
Policymakers and industry’s love for green hydrogen – has cooled in recent months. Teething problems have made clear that this new industry is incapable of scaling up overnight
2024 could be hydropower’s year
As the cards in Brussels are being dealt anew, Europe’s hydropower industry is shooting for a greater slice of the attention pie in the EU capital.
Post-growth thinking in the Brussels Bubble
The ‘post-growth’ movement, which holds that economic growth is pushing us past fixed planetary boundaries, like the twin climate and biodiversity crises, without fundamentally making us happier, writes Donagh Cagney.
Has the G7 hammered the last nail into coal’s coffin?
Coal is the worst. If accounts for a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. Every year, anthracite, bituminous coal and lignite do significant damage to the worst damage to the climate. Are we finally getting out?