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Clean energy policies are not to blame for recent spikes in gas and electricity prices, and the soaring prices should not derail Europe's green transition, International Energy Agency executive director Fatih Birol said on Monday (27 September).
The new cohesion policy legislative package has ben published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
The European Union and its member states should draw the consequences of the current stalemate in multilateral talks aimed at reforming the Energy Charter Treaty and consider a coordinated withdrawal, Paris has said in a letter seen by EURACTIV. Signed in the early 1990s to protect oil and gas companies from political risk when investing in the former USSR, the treaty has since been decried as outdated by the EU, which wants to reinstate its “right to regulate” and align the treaty with its international climate obligations.
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline company has taken an unusual legal step in its dispute with the European Commission by asking the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) to annul the amendments to the Gas Directive which the Gazprom-led project considers discriminatory.
The energy transition will hit the poor hardest unless it's balanced by a shift in taxation, says Christian Egenhofer. The EU needs to acknowledge this and get started by lowering taxes on electricity to achieve the EU’s carbon reduction goals at least cost, he argues.
The European Parliament voted on a proposed classification for sustainable assets on Thursday (28 March), voting to exclude nuclear power from receiving a green stamp of approval on financial markets.
During a recent discussion about the future of the EU, one of the speakers suggested that there should be a “Day without Europe”, in the same way that cities hold an annual day without cars, or some people go offline from the web for 24 hours. Tomislav Dontchev, the politician who came up with the idea, said it would be a day when people would need visas to cross borders and would pay customs duties to import goods. “This would drastically reduce the number of Eurosceptics”, he said.
Corina Crețu, the EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, supports the possibility for two member states working on cross-border cooperation projects to voluntarily choose the legislation from one of the two countries.
Comment faire du budget européen l’un des leviers de la transition écologique, en Europe, et avec ses pays partenaires dans le cadre de sa politique de coopération ? Comment en faire un levier d’investissement pour mettre l’Europe sur la voie des engagements internationaux qu’elle a pris : sur le climat à Paris, dans le cadre de l’Agenda 2030 des Nations unies ou, sur la biodiversité, en 2010 lors de la conférence d’Aichi et en 2020 lors de celle de Pékin ?
An EU sustainability taxonomy, a definition of priority investment areas, the clarification of investor duties and development of “official” European sustainability standards for green bonds are some of the recommendations experts made to the European Commission on Wednesday (31 January).
The EU High-Level Group on Sustainable Finance, whose report was published today, is to put “the EU economy on a more sustainable path”, a Commission official explained.
Against the backdrop of the US’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement, Europe has decided to take a step forward to guarantee that more resources are mobilised towards ‘green’ projects.
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The European Union is considering tightening rules on whether wood-burning energy can be classed as renewable and count towards green goals, according to a draft document seen by Reuters on Wednesday (16 June).
Confused by the range of EU and national climate laws? The EU-ETS, the Effort-Sharing Regulation, the Renewable Energy Directive, the Energy Efficiency Directive, the Clean Energy for all Europeans Package, LULUCF, and more? Which are the important ones? Who exactly is making policy, and how? What are the real world effects? Julian Wettengel at Clean Energy Wire has asked experts to improve our understanding by answering a list of questions on targets, which policy instruments are making a difference, National vs EU policy, autonomy (can Germany act alone on Nordstream 2), the Europe-wide power market (can Italians buy Danish electricity), relations with non-EU states, and Brexit.
Little has happened since Zittau filed an objection to the continuation of the Turów opencast mine in March 2020 and the scientific study by geologist Dr. habil. Ralf E. Krupp was presented at a press conference in the Citizens' Hall of the Zittau City Hall. The study revealed that a continuation of the Turów (PL) open-cast mine […]
In this episode, EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson discusses the energy taxation policy in EU and the challenges behind a just transition with Joana Freitas, Ambassador for the FSR Lights on Women i
Attention energy wonks, the EU’s revised electricity regulation is going to change the electricity grid as we know it. Not just physically, but in terms of market policy: no forbearance with grid …
In December 2018, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted the revised EED.The revised EED set the 2030 energy efficiency target to be at least 32,5 %. It also included a possible upward revision clause, which increases the level of ambition compared to efforts required to meet the 2020 targets. Energy efficiency is strong driver to achieve the 2020 and 2030 climate targets and also a key building block for the Commission’s proposal for ‘A European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate-neutral economy’ tabled in November 2018.In this context, it is important that the 2020 targets for energy efficiency are met with measures that can continue to deliver energy savings in the next decade.This report provides the latest insights into progress made up until 2017 to meet the 20 % target before 2020.
Despite improvements in recent decades, Europe's environment still faces considerable challenges. Natural capital is being degraded by agriculture, fisheries, transport, industry, tourism and urban sprawl. Local leaders denounce a lack of policy integration, funding, information exchange and coordination to effectively implement environmental legalisation in the EU. Ahead of the 8th Environment Action Programme to be presented by the next Commission, European cities and regions have put forward a set of recommendations to improve implementation of environmental policy and legislation in Europe for the next decade.
Member States, through the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER I), have voted to support the agreement laid out in the Electricity Market Design Directive, which maintains priority dispatch for small solar installations up to 400kW.
How can the EU budget become a driver of the ecological transition, both within Europe and with its partner countries as part of its cooperation policy? How can it become a driver of investment to put Europe on track to the international commitments it has made: on the climate in Paris in 2015, under the United Nations 2030 Agenda, or on biodiversity, at the Aichi conference in 2010 and at the Beijing COP15 in 2020?
Ahead of Wednesday's vote in the European Parliament, eight influential politicians from all the leading European parties explain why transnational lists will benefit European democracy.
An EU guarantee programme will significantly lower the financing costs and risks for renewable energy investments in Europe. Agora Energiewende makes a concrete proposal for the EU legislator.
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