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Wasting food or creating waste?1
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 12/10/2016
Organisations working to reduce food waste, and those calling for a reduction in packaging, are competing for attention these days. Which of the issues is the most pressing? When looking at the bigger picture there can be no doubt; wasting food is creating hunger and potentially a lot more environmental problems than surplus packaging.
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Warm Arctic, cold Europe: warnings from last February0
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 23/05/2018
Pioneer investors are bringing globalization in the Arctic, in exchange for natural resources and strategic outposts. Is it worth the money?
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Waltraud Schelkle: “Eurozone must build risk-sharing mechanisms”0
Joseph Stiglitz can certainly not be counted among the friends of the Euro. His new book, The Euro and Its Threat to the Future of Europe, provides ammunition for Eurosceptics, on whichever side of the political spectrum: a harsh critique of the Single Currency, unrealistic policy proposals on how to save it (e.g. a fiscal federation), the conclusion that an “amicable divorce” would be best. In this interview, Waltraud Schelkle, Associate Professor in Political Economy at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, provides an alternative read of the euro area crisis.
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Walking the talk: Going national to make the SDGs beneficial for Indigenous Peoples0
- Environment and Energy, Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 15/09/2017
Even though indigenous peoples are very vocal in advocating for their rights at the United Nations and supranational level and have been included into several Sustainable Development Goals, their position remains precarious. Their needs need to be addressed by implementation programs on a national level.
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Waiting in Vain: What we can learn from Europe’s inept diesel policies1
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 28/01/2016
Since the mid-1990s, the EU has endorsed diesel fuel and promoted it as the green alternative to petrol. A policy not only harmful for the environment but which also steered the industry into a blind alley: The farfetched dream of “clean diesel” has turned out to be a dirty nightmare.
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Urban agriculture: Not just for hipsters0
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 11/03/2016
Growing food in urban areas can bring resilience to our food, our environment and our cities.
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