Energy in Demand News, February 9, 2025

The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aims to reduce carbon emissions, put a fair price on the carbon emitted during the production of carbon intensive goods imported into the EU, and encourage cleaner industrial production through a methodology for calculating embedded emissions according to the Paris Agreement and the EU Fit for 55 package. … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, February 9, 2025 →

Jeff Bezos’s $10bn Earth Fund cuts ties with Science Based Targets initiative

Phoebe Weston writes on the Guardian website about the decision of the Earth Fund to halt funding to the STBi. The decision to stop backing SBTi comes as Amazon founder seeks to curry favour with Donald Trump. Jeff Bezos fund ends support for climate group amid fears billionaires ‘bowing down’ to Trump Jeff Bezos’s … Continue reading Jeff Bezos’s $10bn Earth Fund cuts ties with Science Based Targets initiative →

Trump’s decision to turn his back on climate change policy is a direct challenge to his own economic agenda

In an article on The Conversation website, Thomas Stuart, Lecturer in Communications, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria writes about the impact from the Trump Administration’s reversal of green initiatives. What are your views? Trump’s reversal of climate policies risks undermining U.S. manufacturing — and could cost people jobs United States President Donald Trump’s … Continue reading Trump’s decision to turn his back on climate change policy is a direct challenge to his own economic agenda →

New EEA report on progress towards greater sustainability of Europe’s maritime sector

Europe’s maritime sector is making progress towards greater sustainability but will need to increase its efforts over the coming years to meet EU climate and environment goals aimed at reducing energy use, pollution, and GHG emissions as well as better protecting biodiversity. That is according to the second edition of the European Maritime Transport Environmental … Continue reading New EEA report on progress towards greater sustainability of Europe’s maritime sector →

Energy in Demand News, February 2, 2025

Who would have guessed? Norway’s coalition government has collapsed because of the EU’s energy efficiency directive, energy performance of buildings directive and renewable energy directive! The Eurosceptic junior coalition partner quit after the Prime Minister pushed to implement the energy directives. Norway (which is not a member of the European Union) adopts most of the … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, February 2, 2025 →

Worries of backtracking of EU’s green agenda

There is another post this weekend on the EC’s Competitive Compass. Marianne Gros wrote on the Politico website earlier in the week and this is good background for EiD readers. Brussels hopes simplifying green compliance rules will boost Europe’s flagging economy. Green groups fear something more sinister. Von der Leyen builds bonfire of EU’s … Continue reading Worries of backtracking of EU’s green agenda →

The EC’s Competitive Compass plots a course for policymakers to follow over the next five years

This week the Commission presented the Competitiveness Compass, the first major initiative of this mandate providing a strategic and clear framework to steer the Commission's work. The Compass sets a path for Europe to become the place where future technologies, services, and clean products are invented, manufactured, and put on the market, while being the … Continue reading The EC’s Competitive Compass plots a course for policymakers to follow over the next five years →

The new play Kyoto now in London, dramatising the intense negotiation of the world’s first climate change treaty, celebrates the potent power of consensus that we have lost today

Steve Waters, Professor of scriptwriting and playwright, University of East Anglia, writes on The Conversation website about what the new play Kyoto says about our climate change negotiations today. Robin McKie provides a review of the play in the Guardian saying the Kyoto climate treaty is hailed on stage but reality tells a different story. … Continue reading The new play Kyoto now in London, dramatising the intense negotiation of the world’s first climate change treaty, celebrates the potent power of consensus that we have lost today →

Energy efficiency taken seriously in Türkiye

A news item on the Daily Sabah news website shows the importance of improving energy efficiency in Türkiye. Improved energy efficiency is seen as crucial for sustainable development and combating climate change. For readers wanting more information on what the country is doing, there is a good assessment in the IEA’s Turkey 2021 Energy Policy … Continue reading Energy efficiency taken seriously in Türkiye →

New US energy secretary opposes saving energy

Fracking firm CEO Chris Wright has been nominated to lead the US Department of Energy, and his climate sceptic views do not augur well, writes Andrew Warren, chair of the British Energy Efficiency Federation, in an article on the Business Green website. More about the role of the Department of Energy is available here. … Continue reading New US energy secretary opposes saving energy →