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The role of the EU in the UN climate process has traditionally been to drive the talks and build the needed high ambition coalition.  But, according to green groups, diplomats, observers and allies, the EU appeared at COP26 ineffective, constrained and inept at times.  Where the EU was present and represented in negoti ...

Building designers are attempting to integrate the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into projects.  This has limited the development of novel approaches as well as new building design methodologies that specifically aim at attaining the agenda’s targets.  To help building design teams achieve th ...

Tourism in many countries, particularly in developing economies, depends largely on such natural assets as forests, coastlines and wildlife and are linked to such environmental conditions as clean air and water.  Given the interdependency of tourism and the environment, the environmental impacts of COVID-19 have short- ...

EU countries have been arguing for three years whether to include nuclear and gas as green investments in the taxonomy.   The decision will shape EU climate and energy policy for decades and have effects far beyond the financial sector.  France, the UK, and Eastern European countries threatened to veto the EU taxonomy ...

Germany's environmental minister from the Social Democrats (SPD), Svenja Schulze, has affirmed that the country will work towards excluding nuclear power from the EU taxonomy for sustainable investments.  She says that they don’t want nuclear energy, don’t think it’s sustainable, and don’t want the EU to support it.  T ...