Becoming the Gulf countries’ main partner on green hydrogen would give Europe huge commercial and geopolitical advantages
Media mentions – Climate & Geopolitics
Gulf Monarchies have understood that both Europe and the US have become serious about climate issues. As a result, they seek to use this momentum to their benefit
The trick is to make these things beneficial for the country’s national affairs. They can either be in control of their energy revolution or watch other countries steal the march on them
After Glasgow, we are still likely to be faced with insufficient climate action (…)This is where the EU will come in, as facilitator of a gradual green grand bargain
It is inexplicable to me how one can talk for so long about climate action and how to make Germany fit for the future without mentioning the EU, which plays a massive role in this
The decisions that will be taken in the next four years might mean that we make or break the ambition that we get to net zero by 2050
While European leaders agree that this issue is urgent, they are still deeply divided over how to share the cost of transitioning away from carbon
I think the Greens might win a couple of percentage points just because climate again is at the centre of the political agenda back to where it was in pre-Covid times
The external dimension of the Green Deal also reveals unresolved tensions about what kind of climate leadership the EU wants to portray
ECFR’s researchers found that in 19 out of 27 member states, mitigating the socio-economic consequences tops of the list of perceived challenges in implementing the EU Green Deal