27.02.2024
Covas do Barroso: Local Resistance to Europe’s Lithium Race

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

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19.01.2024
Lessons from Germany for a Just Transition

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

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04.12.2023
Red Light for the Green Deal?

Philippa Nuttall examines the major achievements and uncertain future of the EU’s climate agenda.

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14.11.2023
Source of Division: Bulgaria’s Contested Green Transition

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

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03.11.2023
The Czech Republic Needs a Green Velvet Revolution

In 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.

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18.07.2023
Can the EU Lead the World on Climate?  

The Green Deal cannot succeed without a strong external dimension. This is an opportunity for the EU, says Nathalie Tocci.

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04.07.2023
A Battle for the Sea: Offshore Wind Crashes on the Galician Coast

Plans 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?

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23.06.2023
Why Ukraine’s Reconstruction Must Be Green

Ukraine’s reconstruction is only partly a matter for the future: housing, agriculture and the energy grid require immediate action.

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13.06.2023
A Convenient Transition for Europe

With the European Green Deal, the EU falls into a pattern of relations based on exploitation with Africa, risking to further sour relations.

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13.06.2023
Serbia’s Lithium: Sacrifice Zones or Opportunity for Europe’s Peripheries? 

Predrag Momčilović asks who will benefit from the extraction of Serbia’s bountiful reserves of lithium.

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