Energy and the Climate Crisis

A European Energy Policy in the pipeline

At the current energy consumption rate Europe’s future imports, and accordingly its import dependency, will rise. World demand for fossil fuels is rising and supply is likely to drop, due to ending reserves and a lack in new investments. Environmentally the current situation won’t last as well. (...)

Sunday 27 December 2009

A European Energy Policy in the pipeline

From the start of the European integration process, energy has always been important. The European Coal and Steel Community (1952) and Euratom (1957) both demonstrate this. During the last years energy became a hot topic once again. The gas crises of January 2006 and 2009 revealed Europe’s (...)

Friday 25 December 2009

Good news from Copenhagen ’s failure: It is time to reform world environmental governance

The results of 2 years of negotiations to save the planet ended up in 2 pages of non-binding deals without any tool to enforce them. In short: Copenhagen negotiations are the biggest failure in world negotiations and diplomacy of the last decades. In the end, US and China , completely (...)

Wednesday 23 December 2009

Copenhagen 2009

The future of the planet is to be discussed from the 7th to the 18th of December in Copenhagen. The problem being, the actors and the stage are totally wrong. The environmental issue, especially the climate one, has gradually become over the last thirty years a topic strictly intertwined with (...)

Sunday 29 November 2009

A European Energy Policy in the pipeline

In January 2006 gas supply to Europe halted for approximately one day, due to a commercial dispute between Russia’s Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftogaz. At the time, available storage capacities alleviated the problems caused by the disruption. However, in January 2009 another gas dispute arose. Now (...)

Thursday 19 November 2009

The UN Summit on Climate Change

On 22nd September 2009 most of the world’s leaders met in New York in acceptance of the invitation sent by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He remarked that “The objective of the Summit on Climate Change, which I am convening on 22 September, is to mobilize the political will and (...)

Saturday 10 October 2009

Lithium – European Energy Security Recharged

Two consecutive Russo-Ukrainian gas disputes and the upcoming Copenhagen summit finally convinced European heads of state to make European energy security a priority. European member states tasked the European Commission to propose solutions to supply-side diversification and demand-side (...)

Tuesday 8 September 2009

Environmental refugees

1/5 of world population lives in coastal areas threatened by rising sea levels… 1 billion people will be affected by future melting of ice in the Himalayas... ¾ of the land now cultivated in North Africa threatened by desertification… to be continued… Experts point out that by 2080, 150-200 (...)

Sunday 2 August 2009

Nuclear safety – a step in the right direction or a fallacy of EU action?

The first EU Directive on the safety of nuclear installations has just been published. It is a profoundly watered-down document that falls short even of existing international law. Its usefulness is disputable, at best. Precisely because this is such an important and clearly cross-border issue, (...)

Monday 20 July 2009

Climate Change Fever: Without a World Environmental Community Temperature Will Go Up!

As the economic downturn and the swine flu dominate the pages of newspapers, a lot more important issue, for it affects our long term survival in this planet, disappears from the media: the fight against climate change. In December the next United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (...)

Tuesday 19 May 2009

It’s Time… for a European Energy & Environmental Agency

JEF Europe condemns the position taken by the governments of some Member States of the European Union, including Italy and Poland, on the reduction of the CO2 emissions and the energy consumption as well as the promotion of renewable sources of energy by 2020 (20-20-20). These positions aim to (...)

Monday 27 October 2008

Yves Lecocq: “hunting for the conservation of biodiversity in Europe”

Interview with Dr. Yves LECOCQ, Secretary General of FACE, the Federation of Associations for Hunting and Biodiversity in the EU. The New Federalist: Dr. LECOCQ, you are following European conservation and hunting politics since 1983. Could you briefly tell the readers some facts about your (...)

Saturday 6 September 2008
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