In Depth

Interview

Making a European energy network possible

Europe’s grid operators are facing up to the challenges the transmission network needs to overcome to make the EU’s energy and environmental goals achievable.

Analysis

US climate bill flop threatens global progress

Following the American Senate’s decision to abandon comprehensive climate change legislation, how will the US meet its 17% emissions reduction commitment? And what does it mean for the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) and Cancún?

Opinion

The full cost of environmental liability

With the implementation of the EU’s 2004 Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) there comes a need to reconsider the scope of environmental damage events that could give rise to liability, and to consider the potential scale of damage that could be caused.

Analysis

Wind power to dwarf other RE technologies in 2020

Wind looks set to consolidate its standing as the winning renewable energy technology across the EU over the next decade, according to data contained in the national renewable energy action plans (NREAPs) released so far by EU member states.

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ENDS Europe's Sonja van Renssen asks the EEA’s Jacqueline McGlade how she expects the agency’s new biodiversity tools to help shape EU policy