BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 27, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – The latest Standard Eurobarometer survey published one year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, shows strong and continuing solidarity of Europeans with Ukraine. EU citizens support accelerating the energy transition, investments in renewable energy, and taking action to reduce the EU’s dependence on Russian energy sources.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 18, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – The European Commission has approved a €3 billion Austrian plan to support companies facing soaring energy costs due to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Solar photovoltaic capacity, both large utility-scale and small distributed systems, accounts for two-thirds of this year’s projected increase in global renewable capacity.
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The latest Standard Eurobarometer survey published one year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, shows strong and continuing solidarity of Europeans with Ukraine. EU citizens support accelerating the energy transition, investments in renewable energy, and taking action to reduce the EU’s dependence on Russian energy sources.
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The UN climate conference COP26 concluded late Saturday night with a deal among 196 governments to forestall catastrophic climate change that hinged on a surprise development. Minutes before the final decision on the text of the Glasgow Climate Pact was taken, India proposed a weaker version of the language on coal.
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Europe invested a record amount in new offshore wind farms last year – €26.3 billion – despite the unexpected financial demands of the coronavirus pandemic. These fresh investments will finance 7.1 gigawatts of new offshore wind energy, enough to power 2.13 million homes. But that’s not many compared to the millions of homes in the EU’s future plans.
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Under the European Union’s primary law to boost energy efficiency – and meet the EU target of cutting energy use by 20 percent by 2020 – all companies with more than 250 employees must conduct an energy audit within a common framework once every four years. The next deadline for compliance is December 5, 2019.
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Refugees who are more willing to take risks, who reciprocate friendliness, and who are more strongly convinced than others are that they are in control of their lives integrate into society faster, finds new research based on a study of over 4,500 refugees who settled in Germany at least 18 months ago.
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The European Union is already one of the world’s major consumers of minerals and metallic raw materials, and demand is expected to grow quickly. The EU wants to mine those minerals and raw materials on its own territory, but at the same time would like to avoid invasive, destructive mining practices that have given the industry a bad reputation throughout the world.
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This year’s UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, which opened Monday and continues through November 17 under the presidency of Fiji, gives nations an opportunity to showcase their own climate actions at this “climate-neutral” event.
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Incorporating climate change preventive actions into regular economic policy will have a positive impact on economic growth over the medium and long term, finds a new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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The Government of Germany and the Asian Development Bank Monday announced their intention to launch an Asia Climate Finance Facility (ACliFF) in 2017. The announcement came on the first day of the ADB’s 49th Annual Meeting, the first ever held in Germany, the bank’s biggest European shareholder.
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“There is a growing sense of inevitability about putting a price on carbon pollution,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on the eve of the April 22 signing ceremony at UN Headquarters of the Paris Climate Agreement.
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