What Does the EU’s First BTR Say About Its Climate Action?

May 11, 2025 | Europe, International Climate Policy, Uncategorized

EU’s National Inventory Report Relative to 1990 levels, the EU’s emissions dropped 32.6% by 2022 (31.8% when including international aviation and shipping as in its NDC). Most reductions came from electricity and heat production [1].  Figure 1. EU...

EU Parliament Elections: The 7 Blocs and their Climate Policies

Jun 7, 2024 | EU - Current Affairs, EU - Policies, Europe

What are the seven blocs (also called groups) of the European Parliament and what are their climate policies? We have analysed them in the context of the 2024 EU Parliament election from 6th to 9th June drawing particulary on their election manifestos. The following...

UK’s Third National Adaptation Programme: Missed Opportunity

Oct 9, 2023 | Europe

What is the National Adaptation Programme? The Third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) was released in July 2023. NAP3 was designed to set forth a five-year plan to enable the UK to deal with the consequences of climate change, starting 2023 with aims to achieve...

How Did The Fracking Vote Lead To Liz Truss’ Resignation?

Oct 31, 2022 | All Posts, Europe

What Was The Fracking Ban Vote? Liz Truss, former British Prime Minister, declared her resignation from the post just one day after the Labour opposition tabled a motion in the House of Commons to ban fracking. Conservative whips initially said that the vote (which...

What Is The UK’s Net Zero Strategy?

May 9, 2022 | Europe

Understanding Net Zero The nation that, by being the cradle of the Industrial Revolution, opened the door to accelerated climate change plans to lead the world into a Green Industrial Revolution [1, 2]. Building upon the legally binding Climate Change Act of 2008 and...