Environment.

Europe is fighting climate change. But is the Old Continent surely prepared for losing in this fight? – asks Dr Józef Sobolewski.

There is a draft policy from the Ministry, an idea what should be done, but the energy strategy and national energy and climate plan do not really match together. In the end, my impression is that the Polish utilities know pretty well what is going to happen – writes Filip Piasecki from Aurora Energy Research.

The Fridays for Future student climate protest movement will leave its mark on society, independent of its eventual duration, according to a working paper by the Institute for Social Movement Studies. The movement politicises and mobilises many young people that have had little contact with politics until now.

A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on land use shows that climate change is threatening the world’s food supply and livelihood, making it an „existential question”, said German environment minister Svenja Schulze. The agricultural and forest sectors are victims of this development, but also the cause of a large share […]

Scientists report that global temperature increases must be limited to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. With global greenhouse gas emissions continuing to increase and rising temperatures driving up the frequency of extreme weather events, the world needs a greater commitment to climate policy – writes Guntram B. Wolff for Bruegel think tank.

The new members of the European Parliament and European Commission who start their mandates in 2019 should put in place major policy elements to unleash the energy transition. It is becoming economically and technically feasible, with most of the necessary technologies now available and technology costs declining. The cost of the transition would be similar […]

The debate on climate change is vulgar. It is enough, however, to look at data* to understand that harmful myths start to dominate it – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

According to Mateusz Perowicz, collaborator of BiznesAlert.pl, Poles can make a significant contribution to environmental protection by cleaning the Baltic Sea from wrecks.

On Wednesday 17 July, the European Parliament held a debate to vote on Ursula von der Leyen’s candidacy for the position of President of the European Commission. The German politician outlined her vision and action plan. – An increasing number of measures in the EU will be taken through the assessment of their compliance with […]

High time for making the EU energy transition more inclusive and focusing more on social imbalances. What is the new idea for establishing Just Energy Transition Fund, JET Fund, about? Why it is worth considering by policy-makers? How is it different from other instruments mitigating adverse effects of the energy transition? – writes Jerzy Dudek, […]