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  • Waiting in Vain: What we can learn from Europe’s inept diesel policies

    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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  • Christmas is a meat feast: Let it at least be special!

    Christmas is a meat feast: Let it at least be special!0

    • Environment and Energy, Op-ed
    • 02/01/2016

    Ensnared by the heavily subsidized meat industry, our growing ‘desire’ for meat is one of the major causes of health problems and environmental degradation. Not only does our excessive meat consumption put a heavy strain on resources, it also contributes to climate change. Since we are literally eating up our chances for a sustainable planet, Europe’s New Year’s resolution should be to cut down on meat.

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  • Fragmented, incoherent & chaotic – Global goals need better orchestration

    Fragmented, incoherent & chaotic – Global goals need better orchestration0

    • Environment and Energy, Op-ed
    • 29/12/2015

    A new universal agenda including 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets was established in New York this September. It is a complex agenda with interlinked issues, which requires an “orchestrator of orchestrators” to ensure an effective and fair implementation process.

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  • Waiting in Vain: What we can learn from Europe’s inept diesel policies
    Pokémon GO: To regulate or not to regulate?
    • Digital Policy and Internet Governance, Op-ed, Social and Economic Policy
    • 03/08/2016
  • The paradise paradox: Maldives, a sinking country?
    • Environment and Energy, Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
    • 24/03/2019
  • Policy Research Internship
    • Opportunities
    • 22/10/2018
  • The Devil’s Duplicates: The trouble twins of Madagascar
    • Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
    • 28/01/2019
  • Apple, Ireland and the EU: considerations on just corporate tax regimes
    • EU Governance and Politics, Financial Policy and International Markets, Op-ed
    • 16/10/2016
  • Waiting in Vain: What we can learn from Europe’s inept diesel policies
    Supplying sustainable fashion: traces of promises, but no accountability
    • Environment and Energy, Op-ed
    • 22/12/2019
  • The paradise paradox: Maldives, a sinking country?
    • Environment and Energy, Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
    • 24/03/2019
  • Policy Research Internship
    • Opportunities
    • 22/10/2018
  • Pokémon GO: To regulate or not to regulate?
    • Digital Policy and Internet Governance, Op-ed, Social and Economic Policy
    • 03/08/2016
  • Apple, Ireland and the EU: considerations on just corporate tax regimes
    • EU Governance and Politics, Financial Policy and International Markets, Op-ed
    • 16/10/2016

Latest Posts

  • Waiting in Vain: What we can learn from Europe’s inept diesel policies
    Waiting in Vain: What we can learn from Europe’s inept diesel policies
    • Environment and Energy, Op-ed
    • 28/01/2016
  • Christmas is a meat feast: Let it at least be special!
    Christmas is a meat feast: Let it at least be special!
    • Environment and Energy, Op-ed
    • 02/01/2016
  • Fragmented, incoherent & chaotic – Global goals need better orchestration
    Fragmented, incoherent & chaotic – Global goals need better orchestration
    • Environment and Energy, Op-ed
    • 29/12/2015

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