Policy and Affairs

Environmental policies
Liquefied natural gas market braces for record expansion by 2030
Liquefied natural gas is set for record growth: between 2025 and 2030, nearly 290 bcm per year of new liquefaction capacity is expected, according to the IEA.
Editorial Team•10 June 2025

Policy and Affairs
Gaza war’s carbon footprint exceeds that…
The destruction and potential reconstruction of Gaza may have caused, and could…
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
China is authorizing new coal-fired power plants
The surge of new plants started last autumn continues, when China had to deal with an…
2 August 2022

Policy and Affairs
With more than 2800 deaths, Italy is the worst in Europe for…
In the report "Methane emissions in Italy" presented by the WWF and the Greenhouse Gas Management…
29 July 2022

Policy and Affairs
The EU Court of Auditors rejects the Repower Eu plan
The main problem? Ursula von der Leyen talked about EUR 210 billion ready. But the Commission…
28 July 2022

Policy and Affairs
Europe sets its sights on gas from Nigeria: “We double import”
In 2021, the EU imported 23 billion cubic meters of liquid natural gas from Nigeria. To…
27 July 2022

Policy and Affairs
The dossier that the richest countries did not want to discuss at…
The "COP of the implementation" has risked not to have on the agenda one of the…
23 July 2022

Policy and Affairs
New EU Gas Plan saves winter by cutting consumption by 15
The cuts will be voluntary, but can become mandatory for everyone in the event of a…
22 July 2022

Policy and Affairs
Berlin rethinks: maybe it’s better to keep nuclear power plants on
The phase-out should be completed on 31 December this year. But the government, for the first…
20 July 2022

Policy and Affairs
Climate neutrality: India finally announces new NDCs
In September, New Delhi will officially deposit its updated National Voluntary Contributions to the UNFCCC, which…
15 July 2022

Policy and Affairs
From Berlin the plan to bring German renewables to 80% of consumption
New targets for renewable energy sources and less bureaucratic constraints. The German government prepares to accelerate…
13 July 2022

Policy and Affairs
Moratorium on deep sea mining, Palau and Fiji against underwater mines
The two island states join the IUCN, the largest conservation organization in the world, in calling…
12 July 2022

Policy and Affairs
Brazil’s Supreme Court: Paris Agreement Prevails over National Laws
Brazil is the first state in the world to recognize that the Paris agreement, being a…
8 July 2022

Policy and Affairs
Ok to the state of emergency for the drought for Italy
A first tranche of 36.5 million of aid for the emergency will serve for the most…