Analysing the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the climate-energy nexus, raises three important questions. First, what does this global health and economic crisis mean for the future of fossil fuels, particularly […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a clear and drastic effect on our daily lives and political priorities. But what implications does it have for the EU’s climate action and the […]
Commentaries
The European Commission’s proposal for a ‘Just Transition Mechanism’ has rapidly become a contentious aspect of the European Green Deal. The mechanism supports the EU’s goal of achieving climate neutrality […]
The EU’s ‘Just Transition Mechanism’ proposal has become highly contentious, bringing up issues of redistribution between countries. It faces three main challenges: overcoming a focus on national allocations; expanding the […]
The recently signed EU-Mercosur agreement has met with criticism from civil society, farmers and politicians around the EU. These criticisms have been amplified by recent forest fires in the Amazon. […]
Commentaries
In December 2016, the European Commission has presented a new package (entitled “Clean Energy for all Europeans”). This more or less completed the legislative program announced in 2014 in the […]
Conference with Mr. Jean-Pierre HANSEN, Member of the Executive Committee GDF SUEZ, Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain, the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), Visiting Scholar at MIT (Cambridge, US) More […]
Seminar. (Photo credit: zieak, Flickr )
Are we going towards a portfolio of domestic commitments made of voluntary pledges and legallybinding targets? What could be the legal form of the commitments (“legal differentiation” versus “legal symmetry”)? How […]
Expert seminar (restricted audience) (Photo credit : s-a-m, Flickr)