Inês Trindade Pereira discusses the state of Europe’s homes in an article on the Euronews website as we prepare for winter. Energy efficiency: Are EU houses ready for winter? More than 25% of the EU population lived in homes where energy efficiency has improved in the past five years. But not everyone benefits equally.…
Adrian Hiel, from Energy Cities, discusses how embracing geothermal to heat our homes can support Europe's efforts to end its reliance on Russian gas. He also sets out what he would like to see from the new European Commissioner for Energy and Housing
Comment lutter contre la précarité alimentaire, assurer un revenu juste aux paysan·nes, tout en expérimentant la démocratie directe ? Depuis février 2023, une Caisse locale d'alimentation s'est lancée à Montpellier, gérée par un comité citoyen. Reportage.
Most big-think essays like this end on a note of inspiration and hope. For once, I’ll resist the temptation to go that route. Can we humans make ourselves useful to the rest of life? It’s an open question.
The third edition of the EU Buildings Climate Tracker published this week by the Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) confirms that the EU is missing opportunities to increase energy security and reduce heating costs. It is definitely not on track to achieve its climate targets. Progress on decarbonisation has stalled, with the gap more than…
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The burning of fossil fuels that harms our climate also produces air pollution that damages ecosystems and harms our health. But we fail to tally up the benefits of reduced air pollution in our climate policies, and overlook opportunities to tackle these problems together.
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Investing in soil health, urban parks, and nature-based solutions for brownfield remediation is essential for creating resilient cities, restoring ecosystems, and improving community well-being.
The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat.
Teresa Ribera, forte de son expérience de ministre espagnole de la Transition Écologique et du Défi démographique, est sur le point de traiter les préoccupations actuelles de la Commission Transition propre et compétitive (2024 - 2029), dans un contexte où l'économie et l'écologie sont indissociables pour un avenir durable. L'audition de confirmation de Teresa Ribera pour l'une des six vice-présidences au Collège des commissaires européens a eu lieu le 12 novembre. Ses objectifs : garantir zéro émission de gaz à effet de serre d'ici 2050 tout en maintenant une économie attractive.
Freiburg is widely considered Germany’s environmental capital, earning the moniker “Green City” thanks to its sustainability principles. Mayor Martin Horn joins the Urban Report to discuss the city’s environmental ambitions and how Europe can avoid succumbing to “destructive frustration” in politics
Un outil d’aide à la discussion pour spatialiser les ambitions énergétiques d’un territoire CONCEPT . Imaginé par le Collectif Paysages de l’après-pétrole et ses partenaires, l’outil ETAPE Paysage aide à la spatialisation des actions énergétiques par la construction d’une démarche paysagère. Par son attachement aux ressources locales, son caractère transversal et son attention à l’harmonie du … Continuer la lecture de « Outil ETAPE Paysage »
“Some of the building blocks are there, but an enabling framework for energy communities is still needed,” Josh Roberts told journalists in Anderlecht.
According to Christian Brand, Associate Professor in Transport, Energy & Environment, Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford, in an article on The Conversation website, focusing solely on electric vehicles is slowing down the race to zero emissions. In new research, colleagues and I reveal that people who walk or cycle have lower carbon footprints from…
A leaked copy of Ursula von der Leyen's second EU executive's work programme reveals that clean industry and defence are on the agenda for the first 100 days, but also sets the path for other policy announcements in the months to come. #EuropeNews
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Ultimately, The Serviceberry is a hopeful book. It offers a way out of what Kimmerer calls a “cannibal economy”, where endless consumption depletes the world around us. Instead, she imagines a system where resources circulate through communities, creating webs of independence that nourish both humans and nature.
Was the outcome of COP29 a failure or a disaster? To argue that it was instead a success would be reasonable only if we were contrasting the agreement with an irrecoverable collapse (which would, alas, have been plausible, given the return of Donald Trump). But if one ignores this faint comfort, the assessment has to lie between failure and disaster — failure, because progress is still possible, or disaster, because a good agreement will now be too late.
One day at the COP29 climate conference in Baku last week, I ran into a veteran of these sprawling talks who said he had been rereading Getting to Yes, the best-selling book on how to negotiate.
“It just made me laugh,” said former EU negotiator, Kaveh Guilanpour, from the C2ES climate think tank.
COPs could deliver significant agreements, he said, but generally after messy, zero-sum wrangling that was the opposite of the book’s advice on how to negotiate successfully.
Le changement climatique s’accélère et ses impacts sont de plus en plus perceptibles, tandis que les températures atteignent des records. Cependant, ce qui est moins évident, c’est à quel point la lutte contre le changement climatique est liée à d’autres luttes sociales, dont celle pour l’égalité des genres.
No matter how many studies demonstrate the virtues of alternative ways of producing and distributing food, the destructive global food system is unlikely to change unless there is heavy pressure from the grassroots to change the entire system. That needs to start now.
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