Renewables

For Europe to successfully transition to renewables, reforms must empower energy actors on the local level.

Post-Trump, should Greens embrace the potential of negative carbon emissions?

Is Morocco’s promising progress on renewable energy reliant on repression & human rights abuses in Western Sahara ?

Where does the key to the divestment movement’s success lie? And how much does the success of COP 22 depend on divestment?

An interview with French Green MEP Yannick Jadot.

An interview with Danielle Paffard and Melanie Mattauch from the UK and EU branches of 350.org.

The effective grassroots campaigning of Scottish communities, who have fought the Scottish government and unconventional gas companies, is an inspiring story for those across the UK and the rest of Europe.

On Sunday, June 16th, 2013, between the hours of 2:00 and 3:00 p.m., the price of electricity in Italy (the PUN or Single National Price) hit zero for the first time in history. In other words, electricity demand was fully covered by renewables. For the Italian energy sector and consumers this was an historic moment and an historic date.

Their worlds are still far apart: national security and foreign policy experts have traditionally thought of energy mainly in terms of the need to secure access to energy resources from abroad while avoiding strategic dependence on the suppliers.

The European Union can find a democratic revival by supporting social innovation and by extension contribute significantly to the ecological transition. That is the primary conclusion of the framing paper that was just published by Professor Olivier De Schutter in preparation for the Francqui International Conference that will take place on May 8-9th, 2014 in Brussels.