Policy and Affairs
Policy and Affairs
Global coal demand stalls at record highs, Asia leads shift
After years of post-COVID growth, coal demand hits a plateau in 2025, with regional shifts and falling prices reshaping global energy dynamics.
Alessandro Petrone•30 July 2025
Policy and Affairs
Trump and von der Leyen set…
Two days after the US-EU trade deal announcement, the European Commission confirms…
Paolo Travisi•30 July 2025
Markets
Trump’s latest move deals a blow…
A new directive from the Department of the Interior raises federal scrutiny…
Erminia Voccia•29 July 2025
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…
13 June 2022
Policy and Affairs
Methane emissions from mines, Australia’s Achilles heel
Coal mines account for 68% of all methane emissions in the country: a larger contribution from…
10 June 2022
Policy and Affairs
Towards the COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, the preparatory meetings begin
At the meeting in Bonn, the Subsidiary Bodies will begin to define the agenda of the…
9 June 2022
Policy and Affairs
Environmental crimes in the Amazon, Peru crushed by traffickers and corruption
In the report "The roots of environmental crime in the Peruvian Amazon", prepared by the NGO…
7 June 2022
Policy and Affairs
Climate action, EU “invented” 72 billion euros
In the period 2014-2020, Brussels reported as climate spending a long series of measures that, on…
3 June 2022
Policy and Affairs
Coal Phase out: G7 Climate and Energy postpone decarbonisation and stop coal
The phase-out of coal is essential, says the final communiqué, but only the unabated one (that…
1 June 2022
Policy and Affairs
Introduced the first report on the legislations against the greenwashing
In Circonomia, the festival of circular economy and ecological transition presented the dossier on the anti-greenwashing…
31 May 2022
Policy and Affairs
The wind farm of the future? Will it have turbines more than…
Higher wind turbines, bigger designs but lower prices. This is the 2035 painting by over 140…
30 May 2022
Environmental policies
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