TAG: Green economy
A new inconvenient truth: Europe’s global plans all require money no one has
BRUSSELS — EU leaders are on a grandiloquent streak, even by their standards.The EU can stay relevant in a world of resurgent big power politics. Europe won’t drown in the sea of public cash the U.S. and China are throwing at futuristic industries. We can...
5 months ago
‘Drill, baby, drill’: America’s fossil fuel boom risks bust in Europe
From Texas to Pennsylvania, there's something more valuable than gold under the ground — and climate-anxious Democrats are too afraid to touch it.So goes Donald Trump's typically hyperbolic argument on new oil and gas ventures, which Republicans trumpeted...
2 months ago
Whatever happened to the climate kids?
Five years ago, hundreds of thousands of students walked out of their schools in a coordinated global “strike” to demand climate action — and turned the 2019 EU election into a triumph for the Greens. This month’s vote was different. Green parties crashed...
2 months ago
Finland says EU’s state subsidy bonanza has ‘gone too far’
BRUSSELS — European Union policies that allowed governments to pump cash into companies during recent crises "have gone too far," according to Finland's economy minister.Wille Rydman told POLITICO that rules that helped governments navigate the Covid-19 s...
2 weeks ago