Green Transition
While lithium is at the heart of the green transition, mining it is unsustainable. The residents of Covas do Barroso resist.
Read moreTo win popular support, the green transition must address social concerns and allow for democratic participation.
Read morePhilippa Nuttall examines the major achievements and uncertain future of the EU’s climate agenda.
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 moreThe Green Deal cannot succeed without a strong external dimension. This is an opportunity for the EU, says Nathalie Tocci.
Read morePlans 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?
Read moreUkraine’s reconstruction is only partly a matter for the future: housing, agriculture and the energy grid require immediate action.
Read moreWith the European Green Deal, the EU falls into a pattern of relations based on exploitation with Africa, risking to further sour relations.
Read morePredrag Momčilović asks who will benefit from the extraction of Serbia’s bountiful reserves of lithium.
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