Green Deal

Europe for years aspired to lead climate progress — but also, for years the EU seemed unable to grasp the scale of the actions needed to become, as French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed, "Europe, la Puissance" (that is, "the power").  France skillfully landed the Paris agreement, but its foundation was…

Covid-19 testing in Mumbai, June 9. (Photo by Satyabrata Tripathy/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) Hindustan Times via Getty Images As the world emerges from Covid-19 lockdown we are now being told that the economic recovery from the pandemic-panic needs to be “green.” Political leaders and mass media editors cite the…

Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/PA Images Once every seven years, a uniquely European courtship ritual takes place. Member States iron out the details of the bloc’s seven-year, long-term EU budget, outlining how much to spend on everything from railroads to farming and space exploration.Typically the waltz includes infighting between the ‘frugal’ northern states…

The United States has now put out several relief packages to deal with the economic impacts of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, and lawmakers are considering even more. But a glaring hole in these economic stimulus proposals is aggressive new climate policies and targets, which are desperately needed as that crisis…

News reports are confirming that the European Union’s seven-year, €1-trillion budget proposal and its €750-billion coronavirus recovery package will both have green strings attached, with 25% of the funds devoted to climate action and a “do no harm” clause to prevent environmentally damaging investments. “The recovery plan turns the immense…

The European Union unveiled a €750 billion ($825 billion) recovery package for the coronavirus pandemic yesterday that includes plans to address another global crisis: climate change. Notable is that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen views the proposal as a vehicle to steer the continent toward carbon neutrality by…

European Commissioners for European Green Deal Frans Timmermans, left, Elisa Ferreira and Nicolas Schmit, speak at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on Thursday, May 28, 2020. ARIS OIKONOMOU, POOL /AP By SAMUEL PETREQUIN | Associated Press | Published: May 28, 2020 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus…

Written by Abhimanyu Chakravorty | New Delhi | Updated: May 30, 2020 5:30:26 pm European Union green deal: As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, governments across the world are under pressure to balance the transition from managing a health crisis to charting out an economic recovery.In a bid…

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. Image credit: Renew Europe / Flickr Commentators have hailed the EU’s launch this week of a COVID-19 comeback plan set to make renewables a key recovery engine, with question marks still looming on how the sector will be supported specifically. The so-called ‘Next…

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