The UN rights chief has said the “triple planetary crises” of climate change, pollution, and nature loss represented the biggest threat to human rights globally, at the opening yesterday of a month-long…
Category: Blue Economy
The Reality of Climate Financial Risk
Those who argue that climate change has little to do with macroprudential risk management are offering a counsel of despair. If the 2008 global financial crisis revealed anything, it is that regulation…
Surging wind industry faces its own green dilemma: landfills
Siemens launches first recyclable wind turbine blade • Anti-wind groups use dumping of blades as rallying issue • Industry calls for EU landfill ban Wind turbines have become a vital source of…
SEMINAL BOOK ON SETTLING MEDITERRANEAN BORDER DISPUTES NOW AVAILABLE IN TURKISH
Study stresses diplomacy, international law as pathways to energy boom and regional stability Washington D.C. – 27th July 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C.: A highly influential book about maritime boundary disputes in the Eastern…
Economics needs a climate revolution
By Tom Brookes And Gernot Wagner/ Brussels/New York • There is no excuse for continuing to adhere to an intellectual paradigm that has served us so badly for so long Nowhere are…
Why hybrid cars are popular in an increasingly electric world
By Kyle Stock Bloomberg Confession: I’m an auto writer and I drive one of the world’s most boring vehicles. It’s a minivan and a hybrid, though not a particularly robust one. The…
GREECE-TURKEY: ENERGY AS A MECHANISM FOR COOPERATION
“Climate crisis gives Greece and Turkey opportunity for ‘historic compromises” By: Roudi Baroudi – Washington D.C. 23 June 2021 Greece and Turkey have one of the world’s most complicated relationships. We all…
Roudi Baroudi: Μπλε οικονομία στη Μεσόγειο
Οι χώρες της Μεσογείου πρέπει να είναι από τους μεγαλύτερους νικητές στη μετάβαση από τα ορυκτά καύσιμα στις ανανεώσιμες πηγές ενέργειας, δήλωσε ειδικός σε θέματα ενέργειας την Τετάρτη σε ένα βασικό συνέδριο πολιτικής. «Εδώ…
Renewables boom unleashes war over talent for green jobs
Clean energy giants are finding a shortage of workers with the skills needed to support their ambitious growth plans. The renewables jobs market is heating up and candidates with the right abilities…
BLUE ECONOMY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
ATHENS, Greece: Mediterranean countries should be among the biggest winners in the transition from fossil fuels to renewables, an energy expert told a key policy conference on Wednesday. “Here in the Mediterranean…