Mathis Hampel

The future of press freedom depends on basic income 2
- Op-ed
- 09/08/2018
There is a viable policy to protect freedom of press in the age of social media platforms: universal basic income. It shifts the focus from click rates towards deepening public debate. Our democracy may well depend on it.
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EU climate policy: Energy market integration as political disintegration?0
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 29/03/2016
Climate and energy policy are no match made in heaven. For Poland the EU’s climate policy ambitions are particularly hard to swallow. The government’s reluctance to transform its coal-based electricity sector puts the EU climate policy and energy market integration to the test.
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Cradle-to-cradle™ and the circular economy: are we kidding ourselves on consumption?2
- Op-ed, Social and Economic Policy
- 20/01/2016
With the recently presented Circular Economy Package (CEP) the EU wants to implement what chemist-turned-business visionary Michael Braungart and his architect friend William McDonough have trademarked cradle-to-cradle™: In a circular economy no product goes to waste that is from cradle to grave, every material re-enters the production/consumption cycle – from cradle to cradle. Let’s not get carried away by a good idea.
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COP21, success or failure?1
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 05/12/2015
In Paris, climate politics is normalizing. Unsuccessful coercion gives ways to voluntary measures; the top-down approach gives way to bottom-up climate diplomacy. After twenty long years, and in times of political turmoil, this can only mean progress.
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