Europe’s plan to decarbonise its economy by 2050 could be turned on its head at a summit today (22 May) if EU heads of state and government sign off on measures prioritising industrial competitiveness over climate change in draft conclusions seen by EurActiv.
Powers is the artist who keeps reinventing himself in difficult trades—brain science and modern musical composition before this. And now: The Overstory, about Trees: Lean into the trunk of a pine tree or an oak, a beech or an alder and listen, Rick Powers is telling us.
Energy projects that are incompatible with Europe’s climate goals are about to be granted priority status by the European Commission, EU lawmakers warned on Thursday (11 November).
Liberal democracies are today confronted with a wave of popular distrust in their ability to serve the majority of their citizens and solve the multiple crises that threaten our future. This threatens to lead us into a world of dangerous populist policies exploiting the anger without addressing the real risks, ranging from climate change to unbearable inequalities, or major global conflicts. To avert major damages to humanity and the planet, we must urgently get to the root causes of people’s resentment.
Les deux semaines de négociations dans le cadre la COP26 ont accouché d’un accord en deçà de l’urgence climatique. Les États riches, principaux émetteurs de gaz à effet de serre, ont refusé de soutenir financièrement les pays du Sud, premières victimes du dérèglement climatique.
Trade union delegates, including representatives from IndustriALL Global Union and industriAll Europe, spent two intense weeks lobbying and organizing at COP26 in Glasgow to make sure that workers’ issues were on the agenda at the climate conference.
A startup called H2 Green Steel, is on its way to launching the world’s first large steel production plant powered by green hydrogen in northern Sweden as it aims to begin production in 2024 and reach its full production potential of five million tons of carbon-free steel by 2030.
This project, “The Road Towards a Carbon Free Society A Nordic-German Trade Union Cooperation on Just Transition”, is a collaboration between the Council of Nordic Trade Unions (NFS), the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung (FES) and the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB).
S. Monserrate. MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, (Jan 27, 2022)https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/the-cloud-is-material.
Convention citoyenne pour le climat. PDF, (June 2020)Rapport de la Convention citoyenne pour le climat à l’issue de son adoption formelle dimanche 21 juin 2020..