This paper looks at the series of plans developed by the UK Labour Party under the progressive leadership of Jeremy Corbyn between 2016 and 2019 for re-establishing public ownership and operation of services and infrastructure which had been privatised over the previous 40 years.
The Prime Minister will speak later this week at the Conservative Party Conference and in line with his ‘Build Back Better’ slogan will announce a new major investment in renewables and nuclear energy, according to The Times.
Addressing the event which takes place in Manchester with around 10,000 delegates, Mr Johnson is expected to say that this move will underpin the UK’s net zero target.
In the last few days, rising energy prices and the fuel crisis have piled pressure on the government which is now exploring ways to reduce the reliance on gas and other fossil fuels.
At the start of the new decade, denial of the energy transition in the Energy Community is fading away and a path to the decarbonization of the energy sector is taking shape. While the days of opted-out thermal power plants are numbered, carbon pricing and renewables auctions, resulting in increasingly cheaper electricity, are gaining momentum. In creating this new energy landscape, the Contracting Parties should recognize and embrace the role end-consumers play in the energy transition. Giving consumers a right to generate, consume, store, and sell self-generated renewable electricity can accelerate the energy transition, whilst allowing renewables self-consumers to reap the benefits of technological development and lower their electricity bills.
Au printemps 2019, l’Union européenne finalisait le nouveau cadre légal de sa politique énergétique. L’une des grandes nouveautés de cette réforme est l’introduction d’un nouvel acteur sur le marché de l’énergie : « Les communautés d’énergie ». Celui-ci peut exercer quasiment toutes les activités possibles : production, vente, partage d’électricité, flexibilité, services d’efficacité énergétique, … Ce webinaire organisé par l'APERe se veut une opportunité pour les futurs membres des communautés d’énergie, de les informer sur ce que ce sont ces communautés, ce qu'elles peuvent y réaliser et les bénéfices pour leurs membres.
While both strategies nod towards climate change concerns and the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the NECP primarily aims towards a more advanced economy rather than a genuinely favourable state of the environment.
La Comisión de Urbanismo ha aprobado una declaración sobre procesos de participación ciudadana sobre medio ambiente y cambio climático. Se ha acordado “constituir un Órgano de Participación Sectorial – Elkargunea y un Observatorio – Behatokia para la planificación, gestión y evaluación de las acciones del Ayuntamiento de Pamplona en materia de medio ambiente y cambio climático”.
The World Energy Outlook series is a leading source of strategic insight on the future of energy and energy-related emissions, providing detailed scenarios that map out the consequences of different energy policy and investment choices. This year's edition updates the outlooks for all fuels, technologies and regions, based on the latest market data, policy initiatives and cost trends.
The Commission will monitor the progress of the EU as a whole, notably as part of the annual state of the energy union report. The new rules underline the importance of effective public participation and regional cooperation in the development and implementation of these plans, ensuring that the views of citizens and businesses as well as regional and local authorities are heard. Now that they have been submitted, the draft NECPs are being assessed by the Commission. If an individual country's draft NECP and its objectives, policies and measures do not sufficiently or not consistently contribute to reaching the energy union's objectives, or if the EU collectively does not make sufficient progress towards these objectives, the Commission may issue recommendations to countries by 30 June 2019 to amend the draft NECP. Member States then have until the end of 2019 to submit their final NECP.
Les SCoT et les PLUi sont les piliers de l’organisation du territoire pour les collectivités locales. Ces dernières disposent par ailleurs de compétences et responsabilités dans de nombreux domaines ayant des impacts forts sur le plan énergétique et climatique et se doivent de disposer d’outils méthodologiques pour améliorer la prise en compte de ces enjeux majeurs. Clim'Urba conçu d'abord comme un outil, vise aussi à accompagner les territoires dans la conception de leurs documents d'urbanisme en matière d'énergie et climat.
The European Investment Bank has approved a loan to the Southern Gas Corridor, in a move environmentalists described as a “historical mistake”, writes Karl Mathiesen of Climate Home News. The move brings the total public backing for Europe’s biggest fossil fuel project to $3.5 billion. Courtesy Climate Home News.
In 2015, the European Commission adopted moderating energy demand as a pillar of the Energy Union and “Efficiency First” (E1st) as a guiding principle underpinning it. Last Friday, the Commission released its third State of the Energy Union. So how is Europe doing on implementing “Efficiency First”?
The ELEEP Network podcast series focuses on current developments in climate and energy policy on both sides of the Atlantic, delivering in-depth discussion and expert interviews on a range of pressing topics directly to your mobile device.
Net zero will not be possible without urgent changes to national planning, a new report claims. Countryside preservation charity CPRE has conducted the research, sifting through 24 different local net zero plans outside of London adopted since 2019. The report states that these plans are not ambitious enough, claiming that government inspectors must do more to make having a concise plan to tackle climate change a necessity.
The Paris agreement recognises the key role of local authorities in reaching the 1,5 °C target. The Covenant of Mayors (CoM) has been an unprecedented phenomenon in the arena of transnational initiatives in climate action at local level. The initiative has expanded tremendously over the past 10 years, covering more than 9 600 local authorities and 327 million inhabitants as of June 2019. This study analyses policies and measures adopted and implemented by local authorities, signatories to the CoM, as reported in their Monitoring Emission Inventories (MEI). More than 12 000 policies reported in 315 MEIs have been assessed. The policies adopted in municipalities across Europe have been classified according to two criteria: (1) the type of policy tool and (2) the field of action. The aggregated policies have then be correlated with the grouping of signatories according to three 'contextual' drivers. The contextual drivers allow identifying the factors that may influence the distribution of climate and energy policies and successful examples and methodologies that may be replicated in other cities with comparable characteristics and similar contexts. Overall, results show that the most common policies cover municipal assets and structures. The policies adopted by local governments do change with the population and, therefore, the focus on municipal assets changes with the increase of population, while local authorities’ Gross Domestic Products and climatic conditions have limited influence on the selection and distribution of policies in the framework of this study.
Has coal consumption peaked? Who is turning away from coal? In a previous article published in 2019, we explained why global coal consumption was on the rise. Recent announcements by several governments on their coal phase-out plans, the advanced closure of old power plants and the freezing of some projects under construction may indicate a reversal of the trend for coal in the coming years. Do these signs herald the end of coal in the world? Using Enerdata’s databases and information sources, we decipher the major global coal trends in the short and medium term. This brief was prepared by Bruno Lapillonne, co-founder of Enerdata and Carine Sebi, Chair coordinator at Grenoble Ecole de Management.
The Commission’s proposal for a Just Transition Fund is encouraging as fossil fuels have been excluded. Special attention should be given though to key elements such as its mode of governance, geographical scope, and the types of activities eligible for funding.
European Greens claimed victory on Thursday (5 December) after EU negotiators reached agreement on a green finance taxonomy aimed at channelling billions of private investor’s money into clean technologies. Coal, and – in principle – nuclear power, are out.
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 climate change challenge is not technical nor even economic, but a matter of enacting the right policies, writes Silvio Marcacci, Communications Director at San Francisco-based think tank Energy Innovation. Based on new research, Marcacci outlines the the types of policies that are the most effective.
EU energy ministers met on Monday (18 December) in an attempt to find a common position on three crucial energy laws, ahead of fierce negotiations with the European Parliament expected early next year. Here is how EURACTIV reported on the latest developments.
The EU will exhaust its share of the global carbon budget within nine years and jeopardise the Paris Agreement’s two degrees target if emissions from fossil fuels continue at their current rate, a new study warns.
EiD has provided a few articles that have followed the publication of the latest energy efficiency report from the IEA. Kota Sriraj writes on The Pioneer website from India about the importance of building on the success to date and the need to accelerate the efforts. Energy efficiency needs better policies The rising concern…
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