Climate and Energy

After Europe’s summer heatwaves, climate salience is at its highest in years, yet it’s clear the past frameworks used to mobilise majorities are crumbling amid an ongoing cost of living crisis and energy insecurity. To penetrate politically, climate communications must fit within the material realities of voters’ lives. In other words, the key to mobilising climate action is to demonstrate that the green transition can make European countries more secure and people’s lives cheaper.

“Environmentalism without feminism is a patriarchy in the forest.”

How will Hungary approach the civil-society-drafted proposal?

Despite its traumatic nuclear history, Belarus is pursuing a new era of atomic expansion.

Human activity already modifies the atmosphere. But is solar geoengineering going a step too far?

In the US Gulf Coast area, the LNG craze is fuelling a new wave of infrastructure construction and extraction, threatening ecosystems and residents.

With shifting political priorities at the European level, could energy conflicts contribute to a fairer transition rather than slowing it down?

By allowing CO₂ removal and storage technologies as a way of lowering emissions, the target risks deterring direct emission cuts.

Though they have been fertile ground for disinformation, power outages can also open discussions about our energy infrastructure.

If energy communities are meant to reshape who holds power, the question of gender can no longer be treated as secondary.