Policy and Affairs

Rinnovabili • liquefied natural gas capacity set for historic growth by 2030
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.

Rinnovabili • Gaza carbon footprint exceeds emissions of 36 nations
Policy and Affairs
Gaza war’s carbon footprint exceeds that…

The destruction and potential reconstruction of Gaza may have caused, and could…

Rinnovabili • Hawaii visitor tax increase supports climate and nature protection
Environmental policies
Hawaii raises visitor tax to fund…

Hawaii raises its visitor tax to 11% to protect nature and address…


Rinnovabili • Coal-fired power plants
Policy and Affairs
Coal-fired power plants, the emissions in Europe rise for the first time…

All top 10 emission plants are anthracite and lignite and concentrated in Poland and Germany. The…

Rinnovabili • oil-sanction
Policy and Affairs
Oil sanctions on Russia, Opec leaves the match in the hands of…

OPEC says it will not increase crude oil production to fill the gap left by Russian…

Rinnovabili • global-warming
Policy and Affairs
Global Warming, COP26 commitments lead us to +2.6% C

If all the promises made in Glasgow are fulfilled, for the first time, being able to…

Rinnovabili • food-emergency
Policy and Affairs
Food emergency, “war” agriculture rips apart the new CAP

Today the Commission is publishing the EU response to the food emergency on the horizon due…

Rinnovabili • industrial-emissions
Policy and Affairs
Industrial Emissions: Brussels amends directive but displeases environmentalists

The European Commission has presented a proposal for a revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED).…

Rinnovabili • renewables
Policy and Affairs
Ukraine, Brussels to raise EU targets on renewables

Timmermans announces: in May, the EU executive will present in detail the measures of the EU…

Rinnovabili • Climate misinformation
Policy and Affairs
Climate misinformation: facebook still feeds the fakenews

An experiment by Global Witness reveals all the flaws of the social network algorithm. Zuckerberg promised…

Rinnovabili • Innovation Fund
Policy and Affairs
Innovation Fund: EUR 1.1 billion for climate-saving projects

The European Commission has signed seven grant agreements with as many large-scale technology projects: from the…

Rinnovabili • world energy transition outlook
Policy and Affairs
World energy transition outlook 2022, the four priorities according to Irena

For the International Renewable Energy company, on a global level we are not respecting the transition…

Rinnovabili • green-communities
Policy and Affairs
Green communities: where will they be born and what are they?

The Italian regions Piedmont, Emilia Romagna and Abruzzo will host the first three pilot projects of…

Rinnovabili • global-warming
Policy and Affairs
A new method to calculate global warming rewrites records

The researchers of the CICERO institute have developed a way of evaluating global warming that is…

Rinnovabili • electricity prices
Policy and Affairs
The Iberian exception: cap on electricity prices for Spain and Portugal

The European Council and the Commission are granting the two countries special treatment because of the…