Policy and Affairs
Policy and Affairs
Is the EU weakening methane rules to favor gas from the US?
To boost US LNG imports and ease trade talks with Washington, the European Commission is reportedly considering a more flexible approach to its new methane emissions regulation
Editorial Team•23 April 2025
Policy and Affairs
Meloni at the White House: high-stakes…
Meloni visits Trump at the White House to address US tariffs on…
Editorial Team•18 April 2025
Environmental policies
EU strategy aims to steer energy-intensive…
The EU backs a plan to support energy-intensive industry with reforms to…
Editorial Team•7 April 2025
Policy and Affairs
Renewable energy, France will pay dearly for its delay
The country is the only one in the bloc not to have achieved its 2020 targets…
30 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Vietnam boosts coal and rejects 14 billion to reduce dependency
The Vietnamese government assumes new energy targets in 2030 where coal rises and the share of…
29 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
COP27 on climate, a small step towards biodiversity protection
The final text of the agreement reached in Sharm finally mentions the "urgent need" to address…
25 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
COP27, carbon trading will be secret
In the fourth report on the results of the Sharm climate summit, we analyze what COP27…
23 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
With the Sharm Implementation Plan, COP27 will increase emissions
The text lacks a reference to the phasing out of all fossil fuels and a commitment…
22 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
COP27 by Sharm: historic agreement on loss & damage, but stutters on…
The climate summit finally establishes a loss and damage fund that has been demanded by the…
21 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Fossil phase down, even the EU is to approve it at COP27
The negotiations in Sharm are always slow, but there may be a small, perhaps almost symbolic,…
18 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Here is the Global Shield: so the G7 “ensures” climate finance
Insurance, not compensation. Nor subsidies. The initiative led by Germany marks a point for the richest…
18 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Bali G20 saves 1.5 degrees but does not make progress on climate
On climate, the Indonesian-led G20 final communiqué repeats that - diluted of the original ambition -…
17 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
From the UN, global guidelines to create policies toward net-zero emissions
The United Nations body responsible for establishing international standards, ISO, has submitted to COP27 a document…
14 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Businesses, banks and cities all too often lie about net-zero goals
"Too many promises of climate neutrality are little more than empty slogans and announcements," says former…
11 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
COP27, US and EU want global standards on methane emissions
Brussels and Washington will present in Sharm el-Sheikh another initiative against the CH4, a kind of…
11 November 2022
Environmental policies
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