This special issue is one of the outputs of the 5 International Conference on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis held in Brussels 27-28 November 2014. The articles in the special issue were selected from the manuscripts presented at the conference considering their relevance for Foresight and Innovat...
This is a tacit admission that Europe’s climate policies are failing. …European consumers won’t pay higher prices for greener goods unless the Brussels tax man forces them to. …Foreign companies and governments have raised concerns about the European carbon border tax, which imposes complex an...
(2024). N2O emissions are more difficult to address in the context of rewetting, as the relationship between WTD and N2O is much less clear than for the other two GHGs. Koch et al. (2023) found no clear relationship between N2O emissions and WTD. For grassland on organic soils in ...
"; "Don't you think Brussels is pretending it has a strategy toward Russia?"; came from the other side. Soon we began to look deeper into the trends we were discussing and zeroed in on the interaction between the Western understanding of Russian realities and the direction of events and ...
This chapter reviews the evolution of EU climate change policy and discourse from just before the conclusion of the Paris Agreement in 2015 to the recent proclamation of the European Green Deal and the adoption of a European climate law in July 2021. Adopting the heuristic of the policy cycle ...
While the cancellation of allowances represents a further intervention in the ETS, it would at least address the issue of environmental leakage to other Member States. But the simple alternative is to leave the EU ETS to perform its job and phase coal out as part of a lowest cost driven tr...
How to define a quantified long-term global goal to address climate change is one of the core issues for subsequent scientific assessment and international climate negotiation. Previous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports have made assessments of rising temperature and ...
Sky 2050andArchipelagos. They explore the tension that now exists between what world leaders promise on climate change at events such as COP26 in Glasgow and the reality those same leaders face when near term energy system disruption occurs, and immediate decisions must be taken to address the ...
One example was the “Caomhnu Arann – managing the habitats of the Aran Islands” (Ireland, No. 25) program. Such advice helps address challenges and technical issues or find alternative approaches to reach the biodiversity or environmental target thus motivating farmers to participate. Other ...
I went to Change The World MUN in Brussels and everything was so professional. From workshops, visiting official institutions to chairboard, organizing staff… would always do this again! All the amazing people I’ve met just made my life richer! Date of experience: December 10, 2024 ...