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Environmental policies
Policy and Affairs
Gaza war’s carbon footprint exceeds that of entire nations
The destruction and potential reconstruction of Gaza may have caused, and could still cause in the future, a total of over 32 million metric tons of carbon…
Editorial Team•4 June 2025
Environmental policies
Hawaii raises visitor tax to fund…
Hawaii raises its visitor tax to 11% to protect nature and address…
Editorial Team•29 May 2025
Policy and Affairs
EU opens consultations on new ecodesign…
The European Commission launches four calls for evidence on ecodesign and labeling…
Editorial Team•27 May 2025
Policy and Affairs
Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, Putin presses but Xi takes time
During the Chinese president’s visit to Moscow, the Russians tried to speed up the mega-pipeline dossier.…
22 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
Offshore hydrogen production, 300 TWh/potential in Europe
Investments of between 15 and 22 billion euros could allow realizing a new infrastructural net dedicated…
22 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
In 20 years we have wiped out 7% of global mountain forests
The worst losses in South-East Asia, where deep-sea forests are biodiversity hotspots. The world’s mountain forests…
20 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
Italy and 7 other EU countries against the ban on diesel and…
EU countries opposed to the farewell to endothermic cars in 12 years, despite the agreement already…
17 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
The protest of Dutch farmers descends from the tractor and enters in…
BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB), the Farmer-Citizen Movement that acts as a megaphone to the demands of farms and…
16 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
Energy Performance of Buildings, the Directive today to the vote of the…
Another decisive step for the revision of the Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings comes…
14 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
New Energy Efficiency Directive, there is the EU agreement
The negotiators of the Parliament and the EU Council have reached an agreement on the new…
13 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
From NASA, a new way to calculate national greenhouse gas emissions
Instead of starting from emissive sources, the US agency has developed a pilot project that can…
11 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
Joint gas purchases, interest for over 17billion m3 from 22 EU countries
Since the second meeting of the Steering Committee of the EU Energy Platform, European Commission Vice-President…
10 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
PM2.5 pollution is everywhere: only 0.001% of the world’s population breathes clean…
Only 0.18% of the Earth’s surface has annual fine dust thresholds below WHO limits. For daily…
7 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
105 countries support Vanuatu on the responsibility of states for the climate…
Born from an idea of the students of environmental law of Vanuatu, the request for an…
4 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
Coal power plants in China, boom again in 2022
There are 106 new GWs authorised last year. The highest figure since 2015. And plants under…
3 March 2023
Environmental policies
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