Archive for the 'European Union' Category
Its January, must be time for a Russian energy dispute
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell January 11th, 2010 in Energy Security, European Union, Gas, Gas Prices, Russia, Russian oilIt’s that time of year again.
It’s January, snow is on the ground (and no that doesn’t mean that climate change is not happening), it’s freezing outside and … Russia is having an energy dispute with its neighbours.
Somethings never change. This time it is Belarus and the spat is about oil rather than gas, but even [...]
“Spend as much on climate change as war”
1 Comment Published by Andy Rowell December 11th, 2009 in Climate Change, Copenhagen Conference, European Union, US foreign policy, War, carbon tradingWhen the Nobel Peace Prize committee decided earlier this year to award the prize to President Obama, they could not have envisaged that it would be in the same month as he sent 30,000 more troops to war.
Giving the peace prize to the Commander in Chief of American forces involved in two brutal and bloody [...]
EU Stance on Climate Undermined by its Dirty Bank
1 Comment Published by Andy Rowell December 2nd, 2009 in Climate Change, Copenhagen Conference, European Union, financing oil and gasOn the eve of the Copenhagen Summit, the EU’s attempts to portray themselves as leading the international effort to reduce carbon dioxide have been shown to be completely hypocritical by a new report.
Despite the promises by the EU’s politicians to lead on climate change, the EU’s own bank continues to invest heavily in fossil fuels, [...]
Electric Vehicles May Increase CO2
1 Comment Published by Andy Rowell November 13th, 2009 in Climate Change, European Union, electric vehicles, transportFinally someone has stated the blindingly obvious…
For years the car industry has argued that electric vehicles are the answer to climate change. They have even had the audacity to call them “zero emission vehicles”.
At the moment, electric vehicles are all the rage. At this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show visitors would have been left with only [...]
EU “Deadlocked” over Climate Deal
1 Comment Published by Andy Rowell October 29th, 2009 in Climate Change, Copenhagen Conference, EU politics, European UnionMuch of the political chatter across Europe this morning is about the prospect of ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair becoming the new President of the European Council, if and when the Lisbon Treaty is ratified by all Member States.
But behind the scenes at today’s Brussels Summit a huge political row is raging over not only [...]
