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
Climate neutrality, Beijing has a potential of 56,550 GW of wind and…
In this decade, China wants to reach 1,200 GW of installed wind and solar capacity to…
5 July 2022

Policy and Affairs
Common Agricultural Policy and big data: little exploited potential
The European Court of Auditors believes that the European Commission uses tools that do not provide…
1 July 2022

Policy and Affairs
Italy and Germany want to cancel G7 promises to stop fossil investments
Italy: there are "short-term needs" dictated by the war in Ukraine and the lower flow of…
29 June 2022

Policy and Affairs
Will Colombia be the next country to stop coal and oil?
In his election program, Petro promised a gradual reduction in economic dependence on hydrocarbons. Starting from…
29 June 2022

Policy and Affairs
International trade: EU wants sanctions for climate partners
The measure presented by the Commission will be used only as a last resort, but will…
27 June 2022

Policy and Affairs
The EU must leave the Energy Charter Treaty: “Violated our human rights”
Thanks to ECT, it is estimated that energy companies can ask states for as much as…
24 June 2022

Policy and Affairs
Norway: 30GW of offshore wind to 2040 to become a renewable superpower
The Norwegian government has launched a plan of investments on large scale face to assign marine…
22 June 2022

Policy and Affairs
Supreme Court acquits Japanese state for Fukushima disaster
The first sentence of the second degree only condemns Tepco. In the lower grades the courts…
21 June 2022

Policy and Affairs
Zero emissions cooling technologies, the key aspects
The European Commission publishes four new studies examining more closely the decarbonisation of the heating and…
20 June 2022

Policy and Affairs
Bad news at Bonn climate conference
The technical pre-conference that must prepare the field at the COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh next November…
17 June 2022

Policy and Affairs
Off gas from energy policies of common interest: 4 NGOs denounce the…
The EU has 22 weeks to demonstrate that 13 billion gas-related projects, benefiting from simplified and…
15 June 2022

Policy and Affairs
The global response to the energy crisis? Italy, Germany, Netherlands among the…
Together with Germany, Holland and Greece, Italy plans "a plethora of new gas projects", many of…