2030 Climate & Energy Targets
As part of the dynamic leading up to the Paris Climate Summit, almost all European countries have developed greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for 2030. An overview of these targets
28/10/2015
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Innovative sources of climate finance: How the EU can guarantee to provide consistent and predictable support
At the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, developed countries committed to contribute 100 billion dollars annually by 2020 to assist developing countries in tackling climate change by 2020. More than
21/10/2015
Renewable energy is the only way forward! Wrong solutions for climate protection
Economic stakeholders will continue play a huge role in the energy transition and have a real responsibility. Their (investments) decisions will be crucial in the struggle to tackle climate change.
21/10/2015
Three reasons (and more) why renewable energy is the only way forward
With the Paris Climate Summit fast approaching, we hear more and more talk about an energy transition towards a 100% renewable energy future and the urgency to phase out fossil
02/10/2015
The Bonn download: CAN Europe reflections on climate finance in the UNFCCC June Inter-sessional
As the UNFCCC negotiations wrapped up at the newly finished World Conference Centre in Bonn, there was a feeling of slow and fractional progress towards the climate summit in Paris.
22/06/2015
Climate Change and Financing for Sustainable Development (FfsD)
In July 2015, the third International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD) will be held in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The conference will set the tone for international ambition on
12/05/2015
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Citizens’ energy revolution allowed to start in Poland
Last month the President of Poland signed the new Renewable Energy Act, which will, among others, grant support for renewable power production in microinstallations. Owners of the smallest RES installations
01/04/2015
Post-2020 ETS reform
Europe is currently discussing how it should reform its ETS for the post 2020 period. In July 2015, the European Commission released its proposal on the reform.
20/02/2015
Positivity without pace: UN climate meeting finishes in good spirit and with plenty of work to do
The gavel went down two hours earlier than the scheduled finishing time of the first UNFCCC meeting of 2015. It is difficult to tell whether this is good or bad,
18/02/2015
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Latvia to set the stage for the Energy Union
Today the EU decision makers are meeting in Latvia, the holder of the EU presidency, to kick off the debate on how to create the Energy Union. The strengths and
06/02/2015