In a move aimed at reinforcing the European Union’s commitment to combating climate change, the European Commission has urged France to establish more ambitious renewable energy targets. This decision comes despite France’s substantial reliance on nuclear power, which already significantly reduces its carbon footprint. The European Commission’s directive, part of the broader EU Green Deal, […]
Following the agreement on the EU’s new external carbon tariff CBAM, Ron Stoop, a Dutch political economist, takes a closer look at this new “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism”. He writes: “The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a new EU law that attempts to protect low-carbon production in Europe against ‘dirty imports’, which are often
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The Renewable Energy Sources Act In 1999, a group of German parliamentarians drafted the Renewable Energies Sources Act, known as EEG, a simple but revolutionary policy that fundamentally transformed the renewable energy market. The EEG stipulated that anyone who constructed a renewable power plant, such as a solar PV project or a wind farm,
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