Valérie Masson-Delmotte is hard to get in touch with. This is because the paleoclimatologist and research director at the national research center for nuclear energy “Commissariat for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies” (CEA) is swamped with requests. A specialist in “past climate change,” she has already won numerous awards and was voted by Time magazine […]
In the trilogue on the Renewable Energy Directive (RED3), Tuesday night, negotiators failed to agree on deadlines set for member states to map renewable energy acceleration areas. According to people involved in the trilogue, “Everything still needs to be negotiated.”These zones are referred to as “go-to-areas.” The article defining these privileged zones provides flexibility in […]
The Brussels bubble loves acronyms, and today’s topic is no exception: We’re talking about the negotiations to revise the Renewable Energy Directive, or RED for short. But since that would be too simple, the negotiations are divided into five categories, RED 1, 2, 3, and so on.Today, the focus is on RED 3. Although the […]
EU negotiators have agreed on the introduction of a standard for green bonds. It is intended to help unify the fragmented market. This is overdue due to the growing financial importance of this financial instrument, especially in Europe. The compromise aims to:Identify “high quality” green bonds and companies to avoid greenwashing;Make it clear to issuers […]
Representatives of the European Parliament and the Council will meet for trilogue this Thursday evening to make progress in negotiations on the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED). The two sides are at odds over the ambition level of the targets and the legally binding nature of the measures.On the agenda of the negotiations are the binding […]
As the European Union is looking to Ukraine, Iran is also pushing its way onto the political stage. Reza Pahlavi, son of Iran’s last Shah, is visiting Brussels after 6,000 people from the Iranian diaspora and their allies marched through the city on 20 February calling for democratic rights and more freedom for women in […]
Mr. Hrechanyk, what is the financial cost of the war’s impact on the environment in Ukraine?In one year of war, the environmental damage already amounts to $51.65 billion, or €48.65 billion.Kyiv is building a legal case against Moscow to force it to finance the reconstruction of the country and its ecosystem. The environment will play […]
On Tuesday, the European Commission unveiled an action plan to phase out bottom trawling in marine protected areas by 2030. The flagship measure is one of several documents in which the agency sets out the EU’s ambitions for marine environmental protection, decarbonization of the fisheries sector, and sustainable fisheries management.The ban on bottom trawling is […]
Ecocide is broadly defined as massive damage to and destruction of ecosystems – that is, widespread or long-term serious damage to nature.“When I came to the European Parliament in 2019, the concept was completely unknown to the European institutions,” says French MEP Marie Toussaint, who is taking the ecocide fight to Brussels. In the meantime, […]
Movement in the silent world of green finance: At a stage when US corporations were buying up European ESG rating “nuggets,” Europeans are responding with their own activities. In February 2022, for example, Ethifinance was founded after the French company Qivalio, acquired Axesor Rating, Spain’s No. 1 credit rating company. The goal is to become […]