Analysis and opinion on environmental issues. Updated first of each month.
Europe’s auto industry has a decades-long track record of doing too little, too late.
Pope Francis’ recent Apostolic Exhortation on climate change
1 Nov 2023Critical need for citizen participation in EU National Energy and Climate Plans
1 Oct 2023Has the adoption of a EU 2040 climate target fallen in the hands of procrastinators?
1 Sep 2023Do cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin amount to climate arson or a clean-energy boon? Well, it’s complicated.
1 Aug 2023All gas cooking appliances release pollutants that are harmful to human health and the environment.
1 Jul 2023The commitment to prevent the proliferation of coal, oil and gas by ending all new exploration and production
1 Jun 2023Air pollution threats to children’s health
1 May 2023Intersections of pollution and climate change
1 Apr 2023The legal arsenal to tackle environmental crime is lacking both at national and European level.
1 Mar 2023Charge that oil producers are not being serious about investing in genuinely clean fuels, but choosing the easy, unsustainable biofuels option
1 Feb 2023Emission reductions in agriculture should take explicit priority in the EU’s climate policy
1 Jan 2023How prosumers (producer-consumers) of renewable energy can help to accelerate the transition to a decarbonisation of society
1 Dec 2022How agriculture can be transformed to help stabilize our climate.
1 Nov 2022A brief overview of the evidence on the environmental and occupational determinants of cancer in Europe and of EU policy responses.
1 Oct 2022The Irish government’s flaws in dealing with Sectoral Emissions Ceilings under the first Carbon Budget Programme
The world’s first Special Rapporteur on environmental defenders under the Aarhus Convention
1 Aug 2022So-called ‘green’ liquid natural gas (LNG) contains significant amounts of invisible methane being released into the atmosphere.
1 Jul 2022EACOP Must Be Stopped
1 Jun 2022The status of concentrations of pollutants in ambient air in 2020 and 2021 by pollutant, with both EU air quality standards and the WHO guidelines
1 May 2022On World Water Day 22 March 2022, an overview of the state of groundwater in the EU
1 Apr 2022Finance is uniquely positioned to save the planet, but has already financed 1.5֯ C of warming,
1 Mar 2022An Tasice’s role in protecting the heritage and environment of Ireland
1 Feb 2022Trying to preserve the EU Taxonomy for sustainable activities and warding off greenwashing
1 Jan 2022