http://3eintelligence.blogactiv.eu News, analysis and comments on energy, environment and sustainability policies Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:21:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "There is no silver bullet to solve the climate/energy crisis" is one of theses phrases which can be heard over and over again in each and every energy debate in Brussels. Most of the times, the phrase is used by someone who wants to push his or her own silver ... http://3eintelligence.blogactiv.eu/2008/12/22/in-search-of-the-silver-bullet-2/ The grandstanding of EU leaders on the adoption of the climate and energy package cannot hide that Europe's and the world's political elites have succumbed to short-term economic fears and have postponed the necessary start of the transition to a new energy regime. Let's hope and pray the climate/energy leadership ... http://3eintelligence.blogactiv.eu/2008/12/17/political-leaders-postpone-the-energy-revolution/ Climate negotiators in Poznan are starting to question whether the 2009 deadline for Copenhagen is realistic. Maybe there are good reasons to take a step back and reconsider the global climate diplomacy process. This week, a few non-suspect climate experts have uttered doubts about the end-2009 deadline for a ... http://3eintelligence.blogactiv.eu/2008/12/06/why-it-would-be-good-to-reconsider-the-copenhagen-process/ In the US, twenty-nine of the biggest NGOs published a 391-pages policy document with recommendations for the new Obama administration on how to start the transition to a green and clean economy. The impressive report includes detailed proposals on how to endorse legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by ... http://3eintelligence.blogactiv.eu/2008/11/30/green-wish-list-for-santa-obama/ Next week’s COP-14 meeting in Poland is likely to go down in history as the top where the European Union’s self-proclaimed global leadership on climate and energy policy got sacrificed on the altar of economic growth fundamentalism. With Poland and most of the new EU member states in ... http://3eintelligence.blogactiv.eu/2008/11/28/poznan-summit-the-king-has-no-clothes/ Could Arnold Schwarzenegger become the future energy and climate czar for the new Obama administration? If that were to be the case, the European Commission would have no other choice than to nominate Al Gore as our European "climate emperor" after 2009 :) . The "energy and climate czar" would ... http://3eintelligence.blogactiv.eu/2008/11/13/terminator-to-become-obamas-climate-czar/ For how long will the EU's self-acclaimed "climate leadership" survive the Obama revolution? Could a "green" Obama administration pose a bigger challenge to the EU's climate credentials than the temporary backlash of the financial crisis? Who will win the race for the new "eco-competitiveness"? These questions are hard to answer ... http://3eintelligence.blogactiv.eu/2008/11/12/eu-climate-lead-in-peril/ Whoever wins the US Presidency today will be facing the ultimate challenge: steering a self-destructing Western-based economic growth model through a painful transition towards a new global sustainability. This is a task far beyond any past Apollo project. These are indeed historical elections and it is appropriate that the ... http://3eintelligence.blogactiv.eu/2008/11/04/a-president-for-hard-times/ Friends of Europe’s annual energy summit (held on 30 October) saw tough exchanges between CCS defenders and the renewable energy sector but kept dodging the real question: can we solve the climate/energy crisis without questioning our economic growth and development paradigm? Energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs, as expected, defended his commission resolve ... http://3eintelligence.blogactiv.eu/2008/10/30/europes-climate-and-energy-debate-keeps-on-living-in-disneyland/ In times of crisis, people always need scapegoats in order to avoid having to look at one's own responsibilities and this financial crisis is no different. But blaming bankers is a bit too easy when one looks at this crisis from a systemic and sustainability point of view. We have ... http://3eintelligence.blogactiv.eu/2008/10/24/stop-blaming-the-bankers/