Green Transition

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

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

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

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

The heavily industrialised Czech Republic, overly focused on productivity, has lost its green momentum. But this can change.

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

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?

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

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

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