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- Connecting Europe's energy systems
- In this policy brief published by the Centre for European Reform, Stephen Tindale argues that Europe’s energy infrastructure urgently needs to be modernised, ... — last modified 11 October 2012, 23:15 CET — filed under: Energy — Relevance: 1%
- EUR 8bn available for energy efficiency in Europe
- Energy efficiency is the quickest and most cost-effective way to create jobs in green industries, improve energy security and reduce emissions. Improving homes ... — last modified 20 January 2011, 16:40 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy, FEATURE — Relevance: 1%
- Delivering energy savings and efficiency - CER Policy Brief
- The EU should not waste its time arguing about whether to make its energy efficiency targets binding. Instead, it should focus on practical steps to improve ... — last modified 20 January 2011, 16:53 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy — Relevance: 1%
- Saving emissions trading from irrelevance
- Allowances under the European Emissions Trading System are trading at less than €8 per tonne of carbon dioxide. This is far too low to stimulate increased ... — last modified 02 July 2012, 19:09 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy — Relevance: 1%
- European Investment Bank increases lending to climate projects
- The European Investment Bank (EIB) increased its lending to projects to help control climate change to €19bn in 2010. This was a 19% increase over the 2009 ... — last modified 01 March 2011, 18:54 CET — filed under: Environment, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- Norway leads
- Last week, the Norwegian government announced that it is on track to meet its new renewables target for 2011. On the face of it, this isn’t significant – the ... — last modified 25 March 2010, 23:55 CET — filed under: Energy, Norway, FOCUS — Relevance: 1%
- So it is getting warmer
- James Hansen, the top scientist at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and one of the first to warn world leaders of climate change, back in ... — last modified 03 June 2010, 16:59 CET — filed under: FOCUS — Relevance: 1%
- Energy efficient homes
- Too much of the general political and media discussion is about making new buildings efficient. This must be done, but is nowhere near enough, as most of the ... — last modified 06 May 2010, 16:56 CET — filed under: Environment, FEATURE — Relevance: 1%
- Germany planning several new fossil fuel plants
- The German trade association for the energy and water industry, the BDEW, says that the country’s utilities and other investors intend to build or update 84 ... — last modified 30 April 2012, 11:49 CET — filed under: Energy — Relevance: 1%
- Prospects for nuclear power after Fukushima
- The German government has said that all the German nuclear power stations must close by 2022. The Swiss government has said that no new ones will be built. The ... — last modified 08 June 2011, 23:49 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy — Relevance: 1%
- 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%
- What the EU should do at and after the Durban climate summit
- The next climate summit takes place in Durban, South Africa in late November/early December. This follows the unsuccessful 2009 Copenhagen summit and the ... — last modified 24 October 2011, 00:00 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- Was Durban a significant step forward?
- The Durban agreement was essentially an agreement to keep talking. All countries promised to negotiate commitments, but no actual commitments were made. — last modified 19 December 2011, 16:34 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- Earth Day – what have we achieved in the last 40 years?
- 22 April is the fortieth Earth Day, so it is an appropriate time to consider what the environmental movement has achieved globally over the last four decades. ... — last modified 23 April 2010, 16:17 CET — filed under: Environment, FEATURE — Relevance: 1%
- UK bills and bonfires
- The new UK government has now announced its legislative programme for the next 18 months and there is to be another energy bill. This is a good bill and should ... — last modified 27 May 2010, 17:01 CET — filed under: Energy, FOCUS, UK — 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%
- How to deliver energy efficiency in the EU
- Using energy more efficiently is the cheapest way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It also has economic, energy security and employment benefits. In a ... — last modified 14 October 2010, 11:10 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy, FEATURE — Relevance: 1%
- The UK and European energy co-operation post-Brexit
- The UK Government has said that Britain will not seek to remain part of the Single Market post-Brexit. However, sectoral deals to retain access to parts of the ... — last modified 27 April 2017, 13:42 CET — filed under: Brexit, Energy, FEATURE, Environment, Britain — Relevance: 1%
- 'Green Ed' Miliband
- Ed Miliband has been elected Labour leader. This is good news for UK climate politics, as he was a good energy and climate change secretary, taking the right ... — last modified 28 September 2010, 23:13 CET — filed under: Environment, FOCUS, UK — Relevance: 1%
- How to expand renewable energy after 2020
- The EU should set targets for renewable energy for 2030 and the end of each subsequent decade, to reach full reliance on renewables by 2060. The policy brief ... — last modified 20 December 2012, 23:34 CET — filed under: Energy — Relevance: 1%
- Merkel punished for opportunism
- Yesterday’s election in the German region Baden-Württemberg, one of Germany’s richest regions, saw Angela Merkel’s CDU lose power after over half a century in ... — last modified 29 March 2011, 19:01 CET — Relevance: 1%
- Courts block Spanish coal subsidies
- The European Court of Justice has issued a temporary injunction preventing the Spanish government from subsidising the use of domestically produced coal in ... — last modified 11 November 2010, 17:14 CET — filed under: Environment, FOCUS — 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%
- EU budget: the Union risks having the wrong debate
- In the forthcoming EU budget talks, the EU should move its debate about taxes beyond dogmatic arguments about subsidiarity and sovereignty, and instead ... — last modified 11 April 2011, 17:03 CET — Relevance: 1%
- The EU must support clean energy, not dirty coal
- The EU aspires to be a world leader in reducing carbon emissions. It seeks to develop renewable sources of energy and new ways of making coal and gas cleaner. ... — last modified 25 August 2010, 21:34 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy, FOCUS — Relevance: 1%
- Europe must follow Germany and Spain
- For the next six months, Spain holds the Presidency of the EU and, from the start of February, there will be a new European Commission, with the German Gunther ... — last modified 07 January 2010, 16:23 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy, FEATURE — Relevance: 1%
- Carbon capture and storage: EU advancing, but not fast enough
- Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is not only essential to meet the EU’s climate objectives; it is also a major business opportunity. So it is welcome that the ... — last modified 23 February 2011, 23:26 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy — Relevance: 1%
- Has Europe given up on fighting climate change?
- The EU has long prided itself on leading international efforts to control climate change. Today, the issue is nowhere near the top of the EU’s agenda, having ... — last modified 07 October 2011, 16:37 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- Subsidies should be switched
- The debate should not be between subsidy and no subsidy, but between subsidy for low carbon energy and energy efficiency and subsidy for high carbon energy. — last modified 09 June 2010, 00:55 CET — filed under: Environment, FOCUS — Relevance: 1%
- European Commission's new energy strategy
- Yesterday the European Commission presented its proposals for a new energy strategy for the next decade. In Brussels jargon this is known as the Energy Action ... — last modified 11 November 2010, 17:12 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy, FOCUS — Relevance: 1%