Environment

Change is Happening and it’s Happening Fast Reading the Financial Times each day you learn of old and established multinationals fighting for their commercial life. It is full of stories of new CEOs, or incumbents fighting for their job, who are embarking on another round of cost-cutting and job slashing. Just as once mighty firms … Read more

Where is the Environment? Today, 27 October 2015, the Commission published their Annual Work Plan. It is bare reading on the environment front. There is only one substantive legislative proposal, the re-tabling of the withdrawn circular economy package. It falls under the title ” A New Boost for Jobs, Growth and Investment”. It’s like the Environmental … Read more

  President’s Juncker European Commission is accused of downgrading Europe’s environmental agenda. Green 10, a broad coalition of environmental NGOs, criticise him  (see their letter of 12 September 2014 here), for: For the first time in 25 years there will be no fully empowered Commissioner for the Environment Sustainability seems to have disappeared from EU priorities … Read more

On 18 March 2015 the EP’s Environment Committee met. Many of the members were absent attending a delegation visit to Washington DC. The next meeting will be on 26 March the Committee. They will meet only in the morning and have a discussion with Health Commissioner Andriukaitis. This will be lively. .The environment committee will meet … Read more