Europe cannot afford to wait for new disasters to strike before investing in resilience. A well-known saying among the scientific community is that hazards are natural...
Tag - Climate Change
Polish authorities claim that they are prepared to close Europe’s most polluting power plant by the end of 2036. Not soon enough, say environmental campaigners. Poland’s...
Consumer demand for clean, environmentally-friendly, carbon-neutral nickel is driving change and innovation at the world’s largest producer of the commodity, Norilsk...
An agreement between the Polish government and the country’s coal miners is “very unlikely” to get the green light in Brussels, says the environmental...
Serbia appears to have finally committed to exiting coal. Workers and miners at the Thermal Power Plant Nikola Tesla (TENT) and the Kolubara mine in central Serbia this...
Poland looks set for a new row with the European Union after a leading government minister declared on May 24 that the country would defy a ruling by the EU’s top...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
For the past year, governments from across Central and Eastern Europe have been pressuring the European Union to include less restrictive criteria for biomass energy...
The leader of Poland’s Green party Małgorzata Tracz speaks to Emerging Europe about how better, not more government could boost the country’s energy...
Writing on the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk quipped that my fellow Istanbulites treat their streets as if they were their own...
A European Commission report has concluded that the burning of most forest biomass produces more greenhouse gas emissions than coal, oil and gas. The problem is...
The Czech government looks set to formally announce an exit from coal in February, but its plans lack ambition, claim environmental groups. The Czech government is...
