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Britain will start its own market for trading fossil fuel emission permits this week, but with no sign of a link to the European Union's market, prices could end up being more volatile than the EU's. When Britain left Europe at the end of 2020, it also quit the EU’s carbon market. The two sides agreed in a post-Brexit trade deal to give “serious consideration” to linking their carbon markets, allowing permits to be traded between them to create one shared carbon price. But with the British ETS about to launch, there is no sign of negotiations starting on a link – stoking fears among emitters that separate schemes could put British and EU firms on an uneven footing.
Ireland will receive more than €1 billion from the EU's Brexit Adjustment Fund, making it the biggest single beneficiary of the €4.24 billion Fund, according to figures released on Wednesday (13 January).
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) has launched a UK Contact Group intended to maintain lines of communication between local and regional authorities in the European Union and the UK. The Contact Group is chaired by Loïg Chesnais-Girard (FR/PES), president of Brittany's regional council. Mr Chesnais-Girard said: "The current stalemate between the European Union and the United Kingdom should not close the door to maintaining cooperation at regional and local level, because – whatever the outcome of the negotiations – local and regional authorities will need to work together beyond 2020. We are heartened that members of local governments, devolved parliaments and assemblies across the UK have shown a strong interest in keeping a link with us. Brexit will have major consequences on many European regions and cities, like Brittany. Our voice must be heard and support schemes available to regions, such as the Brexit adjustment reserve, put in place now."
Climat, éolien, nucléaire… Bien que dense, le volet « énergie » de l’accord de commerce et de coopération entre Londres et Bruxelles ne bouscule pas le statu quo. Le Royaume-Uni conserve un accès au marché européen de l’énergie, sous réserve de laisser les Européens pêcher dans ses eaux.
Over four years since the controversial Brexit referendum, the prospect of a no-deal exit from the EU seems increasingly likely for the UK. Amid this uncertainty, the Green Party of England and Wales must adopt a clear position on the future UK-EU relationship, tackling key questions about the role of the UK in today’s world. While the challenges of operating as a small party in a Conservative-dominated political landscape cannot be underestimated, opportunities also emerge to strengthen old collaborations and build new ones with allies across Europe.
Where were you on the night of 31st January 2020? In future years it might become one of those frozen moments in time. Like, where were you when you heard that Michael Jackson had died?
That late January night I was travelling back from the EU Cities Forum in Porto, a bi-annual gathering of Europe’s urban policy makers. Coming through passport control, about 90 minutes before the BREXIT hour, I was confronted with an ‘Arrivals from the EU’ channel already barricaded with red barriers...
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It no can longer be denied that we live in the ruins of capitalism, observes Bruno Latour. The French philosopher’s latest work, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (Où atterrir?), argues that the ecological disaster that is both the present and near future shapes today’s politics, forcing people to drastically reassess their outlooks on the world. For Latour, the populist ‘conservative revolution’ caters, through denial and rejection, to political questions posed by climate change and ecosystem breakdown. If the European Greens start asking the right questions, he argues, they too are well placed to offer a positive response.
As EU leaders convene today to discuss the way forward for Britain’s departure from the European Union, they shouldn’t forget about the future ahead of them – including the all-important question of climate change objectives for 2050, writes Brook Riley.
EU heads of states are expected to reiterate earlier commitments on climate action when they meet in Brussels later this week, despite growing calls from youths across Europe to step up the fight against global warming, according to a draft EU summit statement seen by EURACTIV.
As Britain Brexits, Ireland stalls on climate action. Meanwhile, the EU is Ireland’s only pressure point for moving on climate while under the expansive shadow of Brexit.
The European Union should raise taxes on fossil fuels to help meet goals on climate change and plug a budget gap after Britain leaves the bloc, former senior EU officials said in a letter to EU leaders.
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In this interview, Paula Fernández Viaña (ES/Renew Europe) spoke about the impact of Brexit and COVID-19 on the Atlantic regions. In response to the current challenges, the Minister for the Presidency, Home Affairs, Justice and External Action of the Government of Cantabria has put forward a series of proposals to strengthen cooperation between the Atlantic regions. In particular, she proposes creating an Atlantic macro-region, as well as taking tangible steps towards a sustainable and resilient blue economy in the Atlantic. These proposals are set out in an opinion due to be presented by the Cantabrian Minister on 17 March at the European Committee of the Regions' plenary session.
Brexit will reduce whatever income people have remaining for discretionary expenditure, not to mention making servicing debt more difficult.
Local and regional leaders express relief at agreement, but identify major losses, uncertainties and challenges for regions and cities.
Local and regional politicians from the European Union voiced short-term relief mixed with long-term caution and concern at their first meeting with UK counterparts since the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement was settled on 24 December. Politicians from both the EU and the United Kingdom emphasised a wish to develop new ties in the wake of an agreement that ended most region-to-region programmes and envisages no role for regions in overseeing and developing the deal.
C'est une première : l'accord commercial sera suspendu en cas de non-respect de l'accord de Paris, et se donne pour objectif la neutralité carbone.
Six years on from the referendum on Scottish independence, polls suggest Scots are keener than ever to dissolve their 300-year-old union with England. Brexit is the driving force, analysts have told Euronews.
On Friday 31st January the UK will leave the European Union, its laws and its institutions. But what does Brexit mean for the UK’s environment?
2020 is the most crucial year yet for humanity's plan to dodge the bullet of catastrophic global warming, experts said Saturday, warning that the narrow path to safety was riddled with pitfalls, from the US election to Brexit.
With the climate emergency at the forefront of British voters’ minds as found by a recent poll, the Green Party made a dramatic campaign pledge on Wednesday to spend £100bn a year to tackle climate change.
Theresa May's numerous Brexit related trips over the years have had the same environmental impact as 126 UK residents or 2,642 Kenyans over the same period of time.
Leaders from the other 27 EU countries meet on Wednesday to decide on the UK’s request for a Brexit delay until June 30.
We can’t let nationalists exploit public anger. I want an ambitious project that lets the people really take back control, writes the president of France, Emmanuel Macron
The European Union revised its 2030 energy consumption objectives on Wednesday (30 January) in order to take account of the United Kingdom’s anticipated departure from the bloc.
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