Environment

Has Juncker Junked Europe’s Environmental Policy?

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  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

Environment Committee Meets 18 March

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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

Peter Thiel’s Lessons for Green Firms

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  There is a lot of good advice from Peter Thiel in Zero to One. I recommend reading it. Every environmentalist should read chapter 13, ‘Seeing Green’. It gives some great advice on what it will take make clean technology successful. He also explains why too many green firms flop.   7 Basic Questions To … Read more

Wither European Environmental Law?

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I am clearing out some old papers and came across some old reports on the Implementation of EU Environmental Law. Well, to be fair, the reports are so old they refer to Community Environmental law.   In light of the new direction in Europe of doing very little, if anything, on the environmental front, and … Read more