Energy

Plans for the expansion of offshore wind in Spain were met by protests from the fishing sector, environmentalists, and civil society. The biggest backlash has come from the North Atlantic marine region. Where the lack of dialogue has led to confrontation, can climate citizens’ assemblies pave a way to just transition?

Ukraine’s reconstruction is only partly a matter for the future: housing, agriculture and the energy grid require immediate action.

The culture wars around climate policy seem set to become the new normal, as the heating law debate in Germany exemplified.

Marie-Monique Franssen speaks to the communities at the frontlines of the global lithium frenzy.

To solve its exacerbating urban-rural divide, Spain needs to decentralise energy production.

The world’s foremost institution for climate science steers an impossible path between evidencing climate change and avoiding controversy.

Swen Ore looks back at the history of rationing to imagine how a progressive decline in energy use might be managed.

How the cost of living crisis affects the everyday lives of people around Europe.

Helen Thompson uncovers the roots of the energy crisis and the fractures within Europe when it comes to energy policy.

The number of data centres in Ireland has grown rapidly in recent years, triggering a debate around fair resource consumption.