Green Transition
While lithium is at the heart of the green transition, mining it is unsustainable. The residents of Covas do Barroso resist.
Read moreDespite recognising the need to fight climate change, Italy’s green transition is still lagging. How is the energy giant Eni involved?
Read moreTo win popular support, the green transition must address social concerns and allow for democratic participation.
Read moreGreen MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield reflects on institutional reforms, enlargement, and a different “European way of life”.
Read moreSpain’s Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz on the fundamental choices Europe faces. Interview by Rosa Martínez Rodríguez.
Read moreThe response to recent crises shows that the European project is simultaneously advancing and fraying. In the context of a newly found appetite for EU enlargement and with crucial elections just months away, progressives need to outline what kind of Europe they are striving for. From the Green European Journal’s winter 2023 print edition.
Read moreMedia coverage frames Bulgaria’s green transition as an imposition from Brussels that will damage the country’s coal-intensive economy.
Read moreIn the heavily industrialised communist Czechoslovakia, the democratic revolution of 1989 was also an environmental one, which produced important results in the 1990s. In today’s Czech Republic, that green momentum has run out: the country is among the most carbon-intensive in the EU, and fossil oligarchs control most of the media. But change may come when least expected.
Read moreFossil fuels have kept us hooked to large, impersonal energy systems. Could renewables re-politicise or even democratise our relationship with energy?
Read moreTo reconcile the physical reality of climate change with the attitudes of German society, pragmatism is key.
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