Green Transition

From workers’ rights to questions of wellbeing, redistribution, global resource justice, and energy and food security, adjusting to the impacts of climate change is fraught with difficult political choices. Any credible attempt to “stay with the trouble” must entail a visionary political project of radical transformation.

Can energy communities help get people on board the green transition and turn the tide against the rising far right?

Can Vienna reach its ambitious climate goals while ensuring that the burden of the effort is not passed down to the city’s residents?

While lithium is at the heart of the green transition, mining it is unsustainable. The residents of Covas do Barroso resist.

Despite recognising the need to fight climate change, Italy’s green transition is still lagging. How is the energy giant Eni involved?

To win popular support, the green transition must address social concerns and allow for democratic participation.

Green MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield reflects on institutional reforms, enlargement, and a different “European way of life”.

Spain’s Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz on the fundamental choices Europe faces. Interview by Rosa Martínez Rodríguez.

The 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.

Media coverage frames Bulgaria’s green transition as an imposition from Brussels that will damage the country’s coal-intensive economy.