Environnement et
Changement Climatique

Impact investing in Europe has seen significant growth, but faces challenges in regulation, impact measurement, and risk management. Regulatory reform is needed to define impact investment and implement clearer guidance on impact measurement, and standardised impact measurement frameworks and risk mitigation strategies are essential for fostering a more supportive environment for impact investing in Europe.

Europe has taken the lead in sustainable energy, focusing on clean hydrogen, energy independence, and climate diplomacy. This approach aims to reduce CO2 emissions, improve climate justice, and engage local communities. By championing clean energy, Europe can enhance its geopolitical influence and global leadership while combating climate change.

In the current landscape of emerging green claims, consumer trust in environmental claims is eroded due to the unreliability of such assertions. However, the PEF methodology could serve as an excellent means of conveying information about the environmental performance of products.

Negative emissions technologies (NETs) could be a key player in the EU reaching climate neutrality by 2050. However, they also face substantial challenges, such as cost-effectiveness, sustainability, and regulatory frameworks.

The European Commission’s introduction of the CSRD is a major step towards promoting sustainable finance and responsible corporate behaviour in the global challenges of climate change and other sustainability issues.

As of 01 January 2023, both France and Germany ushered in new policies impacting fashion and textile firms aimed at curbing misleading labelling practices, bolstering environmental standards, and encouraging transparency along an opaque globalised supply chain.

As the interlinkages between climate change and conflict are highly contextual, the pursuits for generalisations and one-size-fits-all approaches to climate security are doomed to fail.

The transportation sector accounts for a third of Europe’s energy use. With an energy crisis looming ahead, a re-evaluation of the systems that flow through our urban environments is central to transforming energy efficiency.

Around 60-70% of current European soils are not healthy, and so the European Commission acknowledging the severity of the soil crisis has certainly been a positive development.

The European Union has emerged and asserted itself as a global leader within the climate discourse. It is essential that its current plans for actions at the transnational level avoid retracing history and instead provide a model of stewardship that will set a precedent for other nations to follow.

Since the OECD formally launched its Green Growth initiative in 2011, policy makers and business leaders alike have demonstrated significant interest in what has been presented as a new growth paradigm. Rather than placing emphasis on economic growth for its own sake, the Green Growth model prioritises purposeful, sustainable, and inclusive growth.

For the EU to succeed in an increasingly resource-scarce world, greater self-sufficiency and defence of robust supply chains will be of paramount importance.

The circular economy enables EU citizens to participate in, and benefit from, positive aspects from tackling the environmental problems by changing consumption and production and favouring the sustainable counterpart.

The European Parliament must prioritise the restriction of SUP waste by limiting its use and informing the consumers of its effects on the environment in order to prevent it from entering and polluting the ecosystem and to protect our environment.

With increasing mainstream financial appeal and other international trading systems being developed, the EU’s ETS will be a useful tool in the fight against climate change. Policymakers will need to remain vigilant to keep it working effectively.

If the EU truly aims to tackle biodiversity loss and to lead the way in facing the global biodiversity crisis, then it must learn from previous failures and follow through on the ambitious targets laid out in the new strategy.

The uncertainty of Brexit provided an excuse for EU policymakers to delay reaching their sustainability targets, but it also shone a light on the outdated inadequacies of the current EU fisheries policy.

The unprecedented economic measures that governments have taken to help deal with Covid-19 makes you wonder about another global emergency that needs the same response – climate change.