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- Controlling fuel poverty during the transition
- The transition from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable one, and the use of low-carbon bridge technologies like nuclear power and carbon capture and storage ... — last modified 01 December 2009, 19:33 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy, features — Relevance: 1%
- How to Preserve Trust in Anti-trust
- Let it be known: yesterday was European Competition Day. With a one-day conference in Stockholm, hosted by the Swedish EU Presidency, the European Commission ... — last modified 25 August 2010, 21:32 CET — filed under: EU Law, features, Competition — Relevance: 1%
- New EUbusiness study: only 2% of MEPs have financial experience
- Who are the people responsible for reviewing and legislating on around 75% of all laws enacted in the 27 EU member states on behalf of 375m voters? As Europe ... — last modified 29 January 2013, 17:04 CET — filed under: features, ANALYSIS, European Parliament — Relevance: 1%
- What the EU should do about CCS
- This morning, the Centre for European Reform launched the report which Simon Tilford and I have written about what the EU should do about CCS (carbon capture ... — last modified 03 March 2010, 23:43 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy, features — Relevance: 1%
- Major progress on wind in 2009
- 2009 is in danger of being remembered as the year of the Copenhagen ‘failure’ and Obama’s failure to get a cap-and-trade bill through the US Senate. However, ... — last modified 15 February 2010, 16:35 CET — filed under: features — Relevance: 1%
- Economic mayhem and the 2009 European elections
- At a time of financial turmoil, electing 700-odd representatives to the European Parliament in Strasbourg this June may seem somewhat of a sideshow. — last modified 29 January 2013, 17:04 CET — filed under: features, Finance, ANALYSIS, European Parliament — Relevance: 1%
- Renewing and decentralising Iraq’s electricity
- The European Union and Iraq on 18 January signed an agreement to strengthen their energy cooperation in areas such as natural gas, energy security and ... — last modified 04 February 2010, 23:27 CET — filed under: Environment, Iraq, features — Relevance: 1%
- Imagination, Entrepreneurship and the EU
- Each year the European Union spends billions of euros on an array of programmes with aims that include developing new technologies and encouraging Universities ... — last modified 23 May 2009, 22:28 CET — filed under: Research & Technology, Finance, entrepreneurship, Commission, EU, SMEs, features — Relevance: 1%
- How can the EU best meet its 2020 renewables target?
- Climate change: Europe needs to move more than three times as fast over the next 12 years as it has over the last 12. — last modified 24 September 2009, 16:22 CET — filed under: Environment, features — Relevance: 1%
- Will Merkel II be green?
- Angela Merkel’s victory in Germany’s election was not unexpected. What was less clear was who her coalition partner would be. The decline in the Social ... — last modified 01 October 2009, 22:40 CET — filed under: Environment, features — Relevance: 1%
- Ireland votes for a more effective EU
- The Irish have voted to accept the Lisbon Treaty so, unless the Czech Republic or Poland decide unexpectedly to refuse to do so, the Treaty of Lisbon will come ... — last modified 08 October 2009, 10:38 CET — filed under: Environment, treaty, Institutions, features — Relevance: 1%
- Acting locally, thinking globally
- “Think global; act local” – the phrase often used by of Friends of the Earth – is an excellent philosophy. — last modified 17 October 2009, 15:07 CET — filed under: Environment, Cars, Energy, features — Relevance: 1%
- Major economies talk money, not targets
- Most international discussion about climate change this week has been about finance, not targets. This is good news. Targets are important, but mainly for ... — last modified 23 October 2009, 15:29 CET — filed under: Environment, features — Relevance: 1%
- Little progress, just a dustpan and brush
- The Finance Ministers of the G20 economies met over the weekend in Scotland. UK Prime Minister Brown, who attended the meeting, won headlines for his support ... — last modified 12 November 2009, 23:36 CET — filed under: Environment, features — Relevance: 1%
- The EU and energy efficiency
- The now-ratified Lisbon Treaty says that there will, in the future, be a common energy policy, but this is unlikely to have much practical impact. Yet the EU ... — last modified 20 November 2009, 22:47 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy, features — Relevance: 1%
- EU talks finance as well as targets
- The EU is prepared to push for funding to help developing countries control emissions and deal with the effects of climate change, according to the current ... — last modified 11 September 2009, 23:36 CET — filed under: Environment, features — Relevance: 1%
- We have much to learn from Scandinavia
- The Danish government has said that it will pay for poor nations, including the Maldives, to send people to the Copenhagen climate conference in December. This ... — last modified 11 September 2009, 23:36 CET — filed under: Environment, features — Relevance: 1%
- Is the ‘peak oil’ debate relevant?
- Should we worry about oil and gas running out? No. — last modified 17 September 2009, 12:04 CET — filed under: environment, oil, features — Relevance: 1%
- Brazil must look after the Amazon - with our help
- Brazilian president, Lula da Silva, says (quite often) that “Brazil is in charge of looking after the Amazon” and, to be fair, his government has tried to ... — last modified 11 August 2009, 17:44 CET — filed under: Environment, features — Relevance: 1%
- Ukraine is more than just a transit country
- Ukraine is one of the top 20 countries in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and it is the site of Chernobyl. It is also a country which, after it became ... — last modified 25 February 2010, 23:23 CET — filed under: Environment, Ukraine, Energy, features — Relevance: 1%
- Focus on forests and finance
- During the last two days of the Copenhagen Summit, world leaders should focus less on targets and more on forest protection and finance. — last modified 17 December 2009, 15:40 CET — filed under: Environment, features — Relevance: 1%
- Copenhagen + Obama = progress?
- The single most important thing that must be agreed at Copenhagen is to provide substantial extra money to protect forests. — last modified 10 December 2009, 23:47 CET — filed under: Environment, features — Relevance: 1%
- Substantial EU progress on CCS
- On Tuesday 2 February 2010, European Union member states agreed to European Commission proposals on how to distribute billions of Euros collected under the ... — last modified 10 February 2010, 23:40 CET — filed under: Environment, features — Relevance: 1%
- Carbon and energy taxes in Europe
- The demand to ‘make the polluter pay’ by putting a price on the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced has been a major point of ... — last modified 01 July 2010, 23:03 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy, features — Relevance: 1%