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Green hydrogen from Morocco – no magic bullet for Europe's climate neutrality
There are great hopes pinned to the Moroccan energy transition – not just in the North African kingdom itself, but also in Europe and Germany.
A crushing defeat for British progressives
The Conservative election victory has killed the last hopes of averting Brexit and set the stage for disaster capitalism and climate chaos. The work of building an alternative world must take place not in government offices, but on the streets.
A changing European Parliament
The European Parliament has become more pluralist and more diverse, which may mean opportunities for its future work. As part of a broader pro-European alliance the Greens will unquestionably play an important role in the newly elected Parliament.
Governing the Big Bad Fix? What to do about geoengineering
Geoengineering – large-scale manipulation of the Earth's natural systems – is increasingly being presented as a strategy to counteract, dilute or delay climate change. Which international legal norms and agreements would contradict the different measures?
The geoengineering fallacy
Geoengineering technologies are not yet deployable globally, but support for them is advancing fast, thanks to backing by powerful advocates eager to start experiments. But no silver bullet for climate change exists, and we must not abandon proven methods for the sake of a promise that one will be found.
Gene Editing and Seed Stealing
Published: 3 November 2016
At the moment regulations for the trade with genetic material help to safeguard the rights of providers of genetic resources. This could change with the use of digital gene sequences.
Inside the Green Economy
The economic and ecological bases of a general prosperity are in danger. The Green Economy offers a model, based primarily on large-scale technological innovation. A solution if it results in even more consumption?
For a Progressive and European Response to Security Challenges
The recent attacks in Brussels have left everyone in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe in shock. People feel more and more helpless in the face of what seems to be, after the attacks in Paris last November and in January 2015, an increasingly destructive threat.
Germany's energy transition is not an island of its own
A quick overview of the world's state of affairs with regard to energy shows that the global energy transition is now picking up speed, as Ralf Fücks points out.
The Curse of Resources: Why the new gas boom endangers the solar revolution
The continual discovery of new oil and gas reserves by ever-improving technological advances drives the idea of resource scarcity into absurdity. But at what price? In the foreseeable future, the critical boundaries of growth are not in the exhaustion of fuel sources and raw materials, but rather in the burden placed on critical ecosystems.