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Trump-Xi summit: China’s rare earth export restrictions remain suspended, for now
Washington and Beijing have extended their trade truce through January 2027, preserving current tariff terms and keeping tighter restrictions on Chinese rare earth exports on hold. But…
Erminia Voccia•25 September 2026
Environmental policies
Brazil ties data center tax incentives…
Brazil is linking tax breaks for data centers to strict renewable energy,…
Stefania Del Bianco•10 September 2026
Environmental policies
What a China-Taiwan crisis would mean…
A disruption in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry would reach far beyond the technology…
Erminia Voccia•17 August 2026
Policy and Affairs
Fury of Berlin on the diesel and petrol cars stop: “Everything to…
Germany wants the Commission to accept the German line unchanged and apply it "without delay". And…
24 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
The EU gives in to endothermic cars stop in 2035: changes coming…
Yes to ICE vehicles even after 2035 provided that they use only electric fuels. And that…
23 March 2023
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
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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
Environmental policies
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