Policy and Affairs

Environmental policies
What we know about the nuclear contamination risk in Iran
The nuclear contamination risk in Iran grows as 60% of uranium stockpiles remain hidden and targeted attacks increase regional concerns
Editorial Team•25 June 2025

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EU Commission ready to pull back…
The EU may withdraw the Green Claims Directive due to political pressure,…
Editorial Team•23 June 2025

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G7 Summit in Canada, the wildfire…
While world leaders were gathered in the scenic mountains of Kananaskis, an…
Editorial Team•20 June 2025

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…