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June 21, 2022

GreenReads: EU Parliament fights over Fit for 55 - End of combustion engine cars in 2035? - Green Taxonomy: are gas and nuclear sustainable investments? – Australian elections

EU Parliament fights over EU’s Fit for 55 package On 8 June, the European Parliament failed to adopt three essential legislative proposals of the EU Commission’s ‘Fit for 55’ package. In a chaotic plenary session, MEPs were unable to agree on reforming the EU's carbon market (ETS), the introduction... Find out more

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May 31, 2022

The European sustainability competence framework versus the ETUI green competence framework approach

This year, the European Commissions' science and knowledge service published a report entitled "GreenComp The European sustainability competence framework". In this report, the Commission developed a reference framework based on a set of competences to "respond to the growing need for people to... Find out more

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April 25, 2022

Two IPCC reports eclipsed by war, but does geopolitics really trump physics?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published two new reports on climate emergencies last month. The two reports are part of a ‘trilogy’ of scientific assessments consisting of three dimensions: the physical science (working group I - report published in August 2021), impacts... Find out more

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April 25, 2022

Ukraine and the geopolitics of the energy transition: the EU at a crossroads

The die is cast. The worst scenario of an ‘unjust transition’ materialized with the Russian invasion and devastation of Ukraine. A scenario that brought back to Europe the spectre of the Third World War and the reconsideration of the EU strategy for a just transition. As the quintessence of the... Find out more

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April 25, 2022

Putin’s war redefines global security, the green transition and the future of the EU

It will be no surprise that this twelfth issue of the ETUI’s Green New Deal newsletter has a different story to tell. Whatever the outcome of Putin’s war against Ukraine, the 24th of February 2022 will be a watershed moment for geopolitics and global efforts to tackle the social-ecological emergency... Find out more

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December 23, 2021

Reconciling the rhythms of climate change and political change

December is often a time to look back on the year's events. If we had to pick out one striking aspect of 2021 concerning the climate issue, it would be the increasingly stark contrast between climate change and the pace that politics has moved at it to address it. The frequency of climatic events –... Find out more

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December 02, 2021

Inequality and climate change

The 2021 edition of our Benchmarking Working Europe report, which we have jointly published with the ETUC since the year 2000, is being finalised as we speak and will be officially launched on Friday 3 December (if you have not registered yet, now is your chance). I am sure that many of our... Find out more

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December 02, 2021

GreenReads: The new post-Merkel government: good for Europe’s green policies? - The ecological costs of artificial intelligence – what about the air pollution virus?

The new Post-Merkel government: good for Europe’s green policies? What will be the impact of the new ‘traffic-light’ government in Germany on Europe’s climate policies and the European Green Deal? Several commentators have tried to unravel the 177-pages coalition agreement between the social... Find out more

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December 02, 2021

Ecocide: a new path to addressing environmental abuse?

On 15 November, the ETUI held a webinar on the topic of ‘ecocide,’ bringing together Professor Philippe Sands QC (University College London), Samuel Cogolati (Ecolo, MP for Belgium) and Samantha Smith (Director of ITUC Just Transition Centre). Philippe Sands was the co-chair of the Independent... Find out more

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December 02, 2021

The ‘Penelope’s Web’ of Energy Transition

Decarbonising industrial capitalism is not straightforward. It comes with many contradictions, one of them being energy poverty induced by rising energy prices. Economic recovery, after the pandemic deadlock, produced an increasing demand for energy. Renewable energy sources are not yet able to meet... Find out more

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