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...
Apr 19, 2023 | Climate Justice
The EACOP, a dilemma What happens when a country discovers fossil fuels in the face of a global climate crisis? Does it prioritize development or climate action? This is the case of Uganda. Uganda’s discovery of crude oil reserves in 2006 was the largest...
Jan 16, 2023 | EU - Current Affairs
Few houses, big significance: Lützerath, Garzweiler II and the German Coal Exit Lützerath is a small hamlet in the coal-rich and formerly industrial state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany. There were never more than 105 people living in the hamlet...
Dec 21, 2022 | All Posts, Biodiversity
Results of COP15 Heading into the CBD COP15 all eyes were on the 30 by 30 target, an ambitious goal that set out to protect 30% of the planet’s natural areas – both land and sea – by 2030 [2]. With over 100 countries pledging their support to the...
Nov 21, 2022 | All Posts, COP27
by Megan Corsano, Nadezhda Filina, Vincent Diringer, Charlie Bevis, and JP Arellano COP27 is officially over and the response on the progress made has been mixed. Many have celebrated the unprecedented agreement to provide ‘loss and damage’ funding to...
