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In this episode, we speak with Emily Iona Stewart to unpack the complex and deeply political dynamics behind the global rush for critical minerals.Why are these minerals—like lithium, cobalt, copper, and nickel—so important? Where are they found? What are the implications of their extraction for Indigenous communities, ecosystems, and the development trajectories of post-colonial nations?We explore how critical minerals sit at the intersection of climate technologies, militarism, and digital technologies. From defense-for-minerals deals between the US and Ukraine or the DRC, to stockpiling strategies that prioritize military use over energy justice, this conversation highlights the geopolitical, economic, and ethical stakes of today's mineral boom.As Emily reminds us, it's not enough to decarbonize. We must ensure that the transition to a zero-carbon world doesn't reproduce the same systems of exploitation, dispossession, and inequality.Emily is the Head of Policy and EU Relations at Global Witness, a leading international NGO known for its investigative work exposing the connections between natural resource exploitation, environmental destruction, corruption, and human rights abuse.Emily has played a major role in shaping European climate and sustainability policy, including contributions to the European Green Deal. At Global Witness, she leads efforts to ensure that the extraction and use of transition minerals is not only responsible, but also just—centering the rights of affected communities and advocating for transparency and accountability.About Global Witness:For over 30 years, Global Witness has been investigating and exposing the systems that enable environmental harm, conflict, and corruption. Their work holds powerful actors accountable and supports movements fighting for climate justice and the protection of human rights. Learn more at ⁠globalwitness.org⁠.Resources: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/1/2/modern-plunderers-lobito-corridor-plans-bring-fear-hesitation-in-drchttps://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/transition-minerals/fuelling-the-future-poisoning-the-present-myanmars-rare-earth-boom/https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/congo-eyes-us-minerals-deal-by-end-june-ft-reports-2025-05-25/https://globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/clean-energy-dirty-consequences-mining-for-renewable-technologies-linked-to-global-social-unrest/https://smi.uq.edu.au/article/2022/12/54-per-cent-projects-extracting-clean-energy-minerals-overlap-indigenous-lands

As Pernod Ricard celebrates 50 years since its founding and 30 years in Brussels, Euractiv sits down with CEO Alexandre Ricard to discuss the importance of free trade, the role of the EU, and how a business rooted in geographic origin depends on open global markets to succeed.He also shares his views on how the sector can contribute to the European Green Deal, the need for simpler regulation, and the importance of promoting safe and informed alcohol consumption. Providing clear information, he says, empowers consumers to make better choices and supports a balanced approach. Watch the full interview for more.

Welcome to a new season of the Inner Green Deal podcast.In this season, we turn our attention to the role of inner development in NGOs and other impact organisations—at a time when many are navigating deep uncertainty, political pressure, and increasing resource constraints. We've seen incredible commitment and creativity across the sector. And yet, in the face of today's complexity, many NGOs and funders still focus primarily on external action—often viewing inner development as a personal pursuit rather than a powerful lever for organisational, cultural, and systemic change.But what if inner development were not a luxury, but a foundation? What if investing in inner capacities could help us respond with greater clarity, compassion, and collective intelligence?In this season, we'll explore:How inner development supports staff wellbeing and strengthens mission deliveryWhat it takes to shift organisational culture toward trust, resilience, and regenerationWhy this work is often underfunded or misunderstood—and how that's beginning to changeAnd how inner work connects to outer impact, through stories, tools, and lived examplesThis series is part of the lead-up to the 2025 Inner Development Goals Summit in Stockholm, where the Inner Green Deal will curate a full-day track on this theme—bringing together NGO leaders, funders, and changemakers to deepen this field of practice.We're grateful to the Robert Ho Family Foundation for supporting both the podcast and this work at the summit.Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This first episode of the season explores the question why inner work matters for NGOs and funders—and their efforts to change systems. We consider concrete examples of the linkage between inner-led change and systemic change but also discuss how to overcome obstacles in today's time of uncertainty, polarisation and funding cuts.  Our guide in this discussion is Luis Camargo, founder and director of the Colombia and US-based Organization for Environmental Education and Protection (OpEPA) which works to reconnecting people to nature as a way to accelerate the transition to sustainable and regenerative cultures.Luis also serves as a Board Member of WWF Colombia and Regional Vice Chair of the IUCN's South America Commission on Education and Communication.https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisalbertocamargo/?locale=es_EShttps://opepa.org/ (in Spanish)If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing to our podcast or leaving a review. In doing so you make it easier for people to discover our podcast. We thank you for your support.  Season 5 is part of the lead-up to the 2025 Inner Development Goals Summit in Stockholm, where the Inner Green Deal will curate a full-day track on this theme.Over the course of six episodes, we'll be speaking with inspiring guests about the role of inner development in organisational and systemic transformation—and what it takes to fund and support this work meaningfully. If you are interested to join the Inner Development Goals Summit, we have a special discount code to offer: “MeSummit2025" gives our listeners a 15% discount on in-person and 50% discount on digital tickets.We thank the Robert Ho Family Foundation for their kind support to the Summit and the podcast.For more information on the Summit, go to: https://innerdevelopmentgoals.org/events/summit2025/About the Inner Green Deal The  Inner Green Deal supports changemakers in cultivating the inner capacities needed for meaningful action in the face of today's interconnected climate, ecological and social crises.The Inner Green Deal is a mission-driven non-profit based in Cologne and Brussels, with a growing global community. Its mission is to serve as a catalyst for deep, regenerative change—within individuals, organisations, and systems.Our podcast is hosted and produced by Tamsin Walker. Executive producer is IGD co-founder Jeroen Janss. For more information, visit us on LinkedIn, innergreendeal.com or write to info@innergreendeal.com.  Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The European Green Deal was launched in 2019 to make Europe the world's first climate neutral and resilient economy, and to decouple economic growth from resource use. Six years later, the ambition has become even more important for Europe, and for the world, but the global context has considerably changed. In his address to the IIEA, Director General Vandenberghe explains the relevance of the Green Deal and how it will be taken forward, in Europe and internationally, amid rapidly changing and increasingly volatile global circumstances. This event is part of the IIEA's REthink Energy series, organised in partnership with ESB. Speaker bio: Kurt Vandenberghe was appointed Director General of DG CLIMA in January 2023. From December 2019 to January 2023, he was the Green Deal and Health Advisor to President Ursula von der Leyen. Previously, he was Acting Director for Research & Innovation Outreach, Director for Policy & Programming, and Director for Climate action and resource efficiency at DG Research and Innovation. He also served in the Cabinet of Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin (1999-2004), and as Head of the Cabinet of Janez Potočnik, who was Commissioner for Research and Innovation (2004-2009) and subsequently for Environment (from 2010). Mr Vandenburghe joined the European Commission in 1996 as co-ordinator of the Commission's Intermodal Transport Task Force and of the Transport Research Programme. Before entering the Commission, Mr Vandenberghe worked as a manager at Ernst & Young Association Management, where he set up, managed and represented international trade associations. He holds a degree in French and Italian literature from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), a degree in Public and International Affairs from the University Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL), and a MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

In this Policy Triangle, supported by European Movement International, we delve into civil society and the Green Deal. The European Green Deal emerged from a political landscape shaped by growing climate awareness and the electoral green wave. However, successive crises—from COVID to energy instability—have reshaped priorities, making the path forward more complex. As concerns over competitiveness, security, and strategic independence grow, how can the Green Deal adapt while staying on track?  This discussion explores whether the European Commission is truly listening to civil society, the role of disinformation in shaping public perception, and how to align environmental and economic goals for a just transition. We're thrilled to host three experts and hear their thoughts on this topic: Elina Bardram, Director, Adaptation & Resilience, Communication, and Civil. Society Relations, DG CLIMA, European Commission; Raquel García Hermida-van der Walle, Member of the European Parliament; Petros Fassoulas, Secretary General, European Movement International.This collaboration was done in the context of the REAL DEAL, a research project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101037071.

Der Guidohof ist ein kleiner Biohof in Sachsen. Er generiert Solarstrom, verzichtet auf chemische Dünger und Pestizide, achtet auf ein vielfältiges und schonendes Angebot an Brot und Gemüse, das regional verkauft wird. Der Betrieb ist damit prädestiniert für Förderung aus dem European Green Deal. Das finanzstarke Werk der EU-Kommission will soziale, ökologische und wirtschaftliche Faktoren verknüpfen, um nachhaltige Landwirtschaft und Lebensmittelproduktion kleinerer Betriebe zu fördern.Davon kommt bei Paule Lucht wenig an: "Die Anforderungen an die Förderung werden immer mehr, der Aufwand ist immens", sagt er im "Klima-Labor" über das Bürokratiekonstrukt. Dazu kommen eine Fördersoftware zum Verzweifeln, unfaire Lohnunterschiede in Europa und eine Gesellschaft, die nicht genau weiß, welche Form von Landwirtschaft sie eigentlich haben möchte.Gast? Paule Lucht, landwirtschaftliche Leitung GuidohofModeration? Clara Pfeffer und Christian HerrmannIhr habt Fragen? Schreibt uns eine E-Mail an podcasts@ntv.deIhr möchtet uns unterstützen? Dann bewertet das "Klima-Labor" bei Apple Podcasts oder SpotifyDas Interview als Text? Einfach hier klickenAlle Rabattcodes und Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern findet ihr hier: https://linktr.ee/klimalaborUnsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://datenschutz.ad-alliance.de/podcast.htmlWir verarbeiten im Zusammenhang mit dem Angebot unserer Podcasts Daten. Wenn Sie der automatischen Übermittlung der Daten widersprechen wollen, klicken Sie hier: https://datenschutz.ad-alliance.de/podcast.htmlUnsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

The EU Forest Strategy for 2030, a key component of the European Green Deal, aims to strengthen the protection, restoration, and resilience of forests across the EU. Forests play a critical role as carbon sinks, as well as preserving biodiversity, and supporting ecosystems. Enhancing their resilience and diversity is essential for better managing environmental challenges and adapting to climate change.The strategy includes a mix of regulatory, financial, and voluntary measures for 2021-2030, focusing on forests' multifunctional role. Key actions involve promoting sustainable forest management, increasing forest size and biodiversity by planting 3 billion trees by 2030, and offering financial incentives for forest owners and managers to adopt environmentally friendly practices. And currently under review by the European Parliament and the Council is the introduction of regulation on EU forest monitoring, reporting, and data collection.Listen to this Euractiv Virtual Conference to reflect on the EU Forest Strategy for 2030 and assess its progress as it nears the halfway point.Questions to be addressed include:- As the halfway mark approaches, what are the key achievements of the EU Forest Strategy so far, and where does it fall short?- Have member states aligned their efforts, or are there significant disparities in implementation? Which countries have seen the most success, and why?- How have forest owners, managers, and the broader forest industry responded to the strategy? Are the financial incentives and support measures sufficient to enable them to adopt environmentally friendly practices?- Has the planting of 3 billion new trees by 2030 progressed as planned, and what challenges remain in achieving this goal?Life Terra is co-financed by the European Commission through the LIFE Programme (LIFE19 CCM/NL/001200).The content of this publication represents the views of the author only and is his/her sole responsibility. The Agency does not accept any responsibility for use that may be made of the information it contains.

The energy transition will accelerate the demand for labour. As the European Green Deal unfolds and is now being paired with the Clean Industrial Act, it is crucial to monitor its impact on the labour market in terms of changes in demand and supply. The energy transition and the expansion of EU manufacturing capacity could require over 1 million new jobs by 2030 at a time when the industry is already struggling with labour shortages. How can this problem be solved? What models are there? And what would appropriate support for the industry look like? These are the main questions in this episode, which we discuss with Tom Essex, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Kigyo Solutions. About Tom Essex Tom Essex is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Kigyo Solutions. He co-founded Kigyo Solutions after 10 years of experience in the world's top recruitment agencies, intending to shake up the industry and break the status quo. About Kigyo Solutions Kigyo Solutions is an International Recruitment Agency. It specialises in recruiting senior to c-suite level supply chain and manufacturing professionals for international companies and, more recently, recruiting diverse talent for international solar and wind energy companies.

Stāsta teātra kritiķe, LU Literatūras, folkloras un mākslas institūta pētniece Kitija Balcare 2019. gadā aizsāktais Eiropas zaļais kurss (European Green Deal) paredz tiekšanos uz klimatneitralitātes sasniegšanu Eiropā laikā līdz 2050. gadam. Lai šādam ambiciozam mērķim pietuvotos, līdzšinējie darbības principi ir jāpārvērtē, mainot ne tikai individuālus paradumus, bet arī rīcības modeļus dažādās nozarēs. Tas nozīmē pārmaiņas arī skatuves mākslu radīšanas principos. Publisku diskusiju par ilgtspēju skatuves mākslās jau 2007. gadā uzsāka britu nevalstiskā organizācija “Julie's Bicycle”, mudinot kultūras jomas profesionāļus apzināties ekoloģisko krīzi un rīkoties klimata vārdā. 2013. gadā organizācija publiskoja labās prakses vadlīnijas, kas attiecas uz skatuves darbu radīšanu. Pēc mazo teātra apvienību ierosmes Lielbritānijā 2021. gadā tapa Teātra zaļā grāmata (Theatre Green Book), kas ir brīvpieejas rīks teātra praktiķiem Eiropā kā mazām, tā lielām teātra apvienībām ar virzību uz klimata mērķu sasniegšanu. Šī ir praktiska rokasgrāmata ilgtspējas principu iedzīvināšanai teātru darbībā, ko izveidojuši teātra praktiķi kopā ar ilgtspējas ekspertiem. To sāk ieviest praksē aizvien vairāk teātru ne tikai Eiropas valstīs, bet arī citviet. Rokasgrāmata jau iztulkota ne tikai čehu un somu, bet jau arī japāņu un korejiešu valodās. Rokasgrāmatas pirmā daļa “Ilgtspējīgas izrādes” (Sustainable Productions) ir veltīta ilgtspējīgu izrāžu veidošanai, ieviešot praksē ekoscenogrāfijas idejas un tiecoties pēc iespējas samazināt jaunu materiālu iegādi izrādes vajadzībām. Tā vietā ir rosinājums domāt radoši un pēc iespējas atgriezt apritē vai pārradīt jau teātra rīcībā esošus materiālus. Dažviet teātri šo principu jau iestrādā līgumos ar māksliniekiem, citviet teātri iznomā, izpārdod vai ziedo savus noliktavas krājumus citiem teātriem vai izglītības vai labdarības mērķiem. Piemēram, Ģertrūdes ielas teātris savā manifestā ir norādījis, ka “izrādes scenogrāfija nedrīkst pārsniegt 20 kubikmetrus, tai jābūt ievietojamai mikroautobusā, ko var vadīt ar B kategorijas autovadītāja tiesībām”. Otrā rokasgrāmatas daļa “Ilgtspējīgas ēkas” (Sustainable Buildings) pievēršas teātru ēkām un to energoefektivitātei, ņemot vērā to daudzveidību – gan vēsturiskas ēkas, kas ir kultūras pieminekļi, gan renovējamas ēkas, kurās ir iespējams veikt uzlabojumus, gan jaunbūvētas telpas, kam jāatbilst Jaunā Eiropas “Bauhaus” principiem – skaistumam, ilgtspējai, iekļaušanai. Trešā rokasgrāmatas daļa “Ilgtspējīgas darbības” (Sustainable Operations) vērš uzmanību uz teātra darbinieku un skatītāju ikdienas paradumiem un to ekoloģisko pēdu, ko rada pārvietošanās, maltītes, biļešu iegāde, lietvedības principi, repertuāra plānošanas politika un citi aspekti. Piemēram, divpadsmit Eiropas Ilgtspējīgu teātru alianses STAGES dalībteātri praksē testē zaļās tūrēšanas idejas, kad no valsts uz valsti neceļo ne mākslinieki, ne scenogrāfija, bet pārvietojas tikai britu režisores Keitijas Mičelas un franču horeogrāfa Žeroma Bela izrāžu koncepcijas ar teātrī uz vietas atjaunīgi radītu scenogrāfiju. Būtiski, ka Teātra zaļā grāmata piedāvā trīs pakāpes, kurās vērtēt savu darbību, un tā ir pieejama arī saīsinātā versijā, kas ir īpaši pielāgota mazām teātram apvienībām un mazā formāta izrādēm, ņemot vērā to ierobežotās iespējas kā izrāžu radīšanai atvēlētajā laikā, tā līdzekļos. Praktiski uzskaites un plānošanas rīki rokasgrāmatā ir radīti ne tikai teātra izrādēm, bet arī dejas izrādēm un operas iestudējumiem. Līdz ar Teātra zaļo grāmatu teātra pasaulē ienācis jauns jēdziens “ekoscenogrāfija”. Tas nozīmē scenogrāfiju, kas radīta ekoloģiski ētiskā veidā, apzinoties tās atstāto ietekmi uz vidi un tiecoties to pēc iespējas mazināt. Jēdziena ieviesēja pētniece Tanja Bīra (Tanja Beer) uzsver, ka ekoloģiski dzīvotspējīgam teātrim nav tikai saturiski jākoncentrējas uz ekoloģiskiem jautājumiem, bet teātra veidotājiem pašiem jāstrādā sociāli atbildīgi un ilgtspējīgi, iemiesojot to arī praksē teātrī un izrādēs. Ekoscenogrāfijā liela nozīme ir izvēlētajai izrādes vietai un materiāliem, kuri top arī par izrādes vēstījuma līdzautoriem. Tā Ģertrūdes ielas teātrī tapusi vizuālā teātra izrāde bez vārdiem “Gadalaiki. Faux Pas” (aut. Andrejs Jarovojs, Kristīne Brīniņa, 2024), kas vēsta par ātro modi un kur mainīgo scenogrāfiju veido sintētisku apģērbu kalni. Ilgtspējas principi skatuves mākslā nav vis jautājums par minimālismu uz skatuves vai vēsturiski apnicīgo taupību finansiālu ierobežojumu dēļ, bet gan par radošu pieeju, kā izmantot to, kas mums jau ir, ar pēc iespējas mazāku kaitējumu videi. Teātra zaļā grāmata pieejama šeit! 

The event will bring together a broad range of individuals, communities, local authorities, and organisations, all united in their efforts to address climate change. It will provide a platform for both newcomers and those already engaged in sustainability initiatives to network, share ideas, and collaborate. The aim is to strengthen Ireland's commitment to building a climate-neutral future and inspire more grassroots action to tackle the climate crisis. The conference will feature keynotes and presentations from a diverse group of speakers. Senator Malcolm Noonan, Green Party Senator, will deliver the keynote address on Restoring Nature as a Climate Action. Robert Mooney from the Department of Environment, Climate & Communication will discuss code signing Pathways to a Carbon Neutral Ireland through the National Dialogue on Climate Action. Elina Bardram, Director for Adaptation & Resilience, Communication, and Civil Society Relations, will also be delivering a message from DG CLIMA. The conference will also feature contributions from several EU Climate Pact Ambassadors, each bringing valuable insights into different aspects of climate action. For example, Dr Lydia Cumiskey, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the MaREI Centre, UCC, will share creative solutions for climate resilience, focusing on co-creating change with flood-affected communities. Dr Laura Kirwan, Sustainability Lead at Nutritics, will discuss improving efficiency and sustainability in food service and how the Foodprint Tool is transforming operations. Lydia Cuminsky, Climate Pact Ambassador, highlighted the importance of local action, saying: "As an engaged researcher, the EU Climate Pact Conference is an opportunity to connect with people interacting daily with communities around climate action. "I'm looking forward to sharing creative outputs from the Creative Ireland funded BluePrint project which highlight the power of creative and artistic processes bridging arts, science and government, for amplifying the voices and lived-experiences of flood affected communities while bridging connections with policymakers and building local capacity to strengthen climate resilience." The EU Climate Pact, which is part of the European Green Deal, is a grassroots initiative aimed at uniting individuals and groups across Europe in the fight against climate change. This conference is a vital step in furthering this movement and encouraging more sustainable practices across Ireland. See more stories here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

Az elmúlt évtizedben biztató előrelépések történtek a globális környezeti politikában, de ez Donald Trump elnökségének kezdetével megváltozni látszik. Hogyan rendeződik át napjainkban a globális politikai színtér és milyen hatása lesz ennek a klímacélokra?Az elmúlt évtizedben biztató előrelépések történtek a globális környezeti politikában, de ez Donald Trump elnökségének kezdetével megváltozni látszik. Hogyan rendeződik át napjainkban a globális politikai színtér és milyen hatása lesz ennek a klímacélokra? Glied Viktorral Gébert Judit beszélget.A Párizsi Megállapodás, a European Green Deal, a Green New Deal kiemelkedő lépések voltak a globális környezeti politikában. A közelmúlt eseményei, különösen Donald Trump elnökségének kezdete, alapjaiban változtattak a nemzetközi klímapolitikán. A globális politikai átrendeződésről, trendváltásról Glied Viktor a Pécsi Tudományegyetem Politikatudományi és Nemzetközi Tanulmányok Tanszékének docense és Gébert Judit beszélget.Milyen esélye van a globális környezeti politikának a polikrízis korában? Mi a jelentősége annak, hogy Donald Trump kilépett a Párizsi Egyezményből? Mi lesz a klímadiplomácia jövője, mi fog történni a nemzetközi együttműködésekkel? Milyen stratégiát követ Trump környezeti kérdésekben? Milyen mozgástere marad az Európai Uniónak a klímacélok elérésében? Mi lesz az európai zöld törekvésekkel? Milyenek a lakossági attitűdök a zöld célokkal kapcsolatban?

This year, the European Union will be working on amending the European Climate Law. The importance of this law cannot be understated: it is the European Climate Law that defines the goal set out in the European Green Deal to become climate-neutral by 2050. Of the many ways possible to become climate-neutral, in this episode of Policy Voices we are focusing on what is a rather niche topic: carbon dioxide removal. Host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with Anna Costova, Senior Policy Analyst at Carbon Gap, an organization focusing on scaling up just and effective carbon dioxide removal. They talk about what carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is and disentangle the concepts surrounding this conversation, such as net zero and climate neutrality. Anna also explains the different ways CDR occurs – from trees to the most technologically advanced methods – and what is the cost of not doing CDR. If you want to comment on this episode you can send us an e-mail: press@friendsofeurope.org

Watch The X22 Report On Video No videos found Click On Picture To See Larger PictureThe green new scam is not just dead in the US but is spreading across the EU. The ECB has made it clear they will not have a bitcoin reserve. The ECB cut rates and Trump is now calling out the Fed for not cutting rates. He is going to show the people how to control inflation. The [DS] is panicking over Trump's nominees, they know that once the are confirmed they will begin dismantling their criminal syndicate. In DC there was a helicopter and plane that collided. Was this an accident because of DEI or was this a targeted hit. Blackhawk pilots are trained to quickly maneuver. Trump is now creating EOs that he is preparing for the next phase of his plan, draining the swamp.   (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:13499335648425062,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-7164-1323"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="//cdn2.customads.co/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs"); Economy The Green New Deal Is Dead, Even In Europe. Thank Trump Trump pulls the US out of the Paris Accord. And the long-suffering Green New Deal is on the deathbed in Europe. Joining Forces in Europe Euractiv reports France's Far-Right Asks EPP to End the Green Deal Together. French far-right leader Jordan Bardella senses an opening for a right-wing coalition to tear down the European Green Deal.   The European far right has long opposed the Green Deal. But Bardella's comments came after several leading EPP figures — as well as France's centrist government — demanded revisions or outright repeals of core Green Deal legislation last week.   Source: zerohedge.com   https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1884973645895700864 https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1885049309369970761   https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1884954629638664274   https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1884954631123435702   https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1884954634839617838 Donald Trump lashes out after Federal Reserve keeps interest rates steady US president had called on the central bank to sharply reduce borrowing costs Trump bashes Fed after bank doesn't cut rates      climate change, Inflation would never have been a problem. Instead, we suffered from the worst Inflation in the History of our Country! https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1884988865229832492 Political/Rights https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1884752000518181357 https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1884720835644022843 https://twitter.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1884770928879341953  aliens to come to them and they will get them across. They're not just operating inside the United States, they're operating on the outside “We're not spending another dime to help with the destruction of this country.” That means NGO's… like HIAS NGO's which have been destroying this country via human trafficking, Drug trafficking, and resettling illegal aliens all across the United States.. not to mention the funding of terrorism.   https://twitter.com/Patri0tContr0l/status/1885025821603033261   are going to counter man missing children and exploited children going forward.” Geopolitical/Police State Trump Settles with Meta Platforms for $25 Million After Social Media Giant Suspended His Accounts in 2021 President Donald Trump settled with Meta Platforms for $25 million after the social media giant suspended his accounts following the January 6, 2021, protests at the US Capitol. $22 million from the settlement will go to President Trump's presidential library. The rest will go to legal fees and to fellow plaintiffs who signed on to the case. Meta did not admit to any wrongdoing in the settlement.

With the new legislative cycle, the need for a clean energy transition has never been greater. In this context, energy companies need to align their strategic objectives within the broader priorities of the European Green Deal. The Draghi report also emphasised competitiveness and the need for an increased number of public and private investments to support this transition.As Europe shifts to greener energy, businesses are struggling with higher energy costs, making it harder to compete globally. Energy companies face several challenges: accessing and balancing investments in renewable energy and grid modernisation, with the need to ensure stable and affordable energy supplies.With the EU's multiannual financial framework and the Clean Industrial Deal on the horizon, the newly appointed European Commission will face the challenge of harnessing these tools for Europe's energy transition, while addressing the pressure of global competition.Listen to this Euractiv Hybrid Conference to discuss the financing of the EU energy transition in the context of increasing global competition. Questions to be addressed include:- How can Europe remain an industrial leader while pursuing its climate objectives?- How can EU legislation be improved to provide a clear, long- term framework for the green transformation?- How can private and public sectors collaborate effectively to accelerate investments in renewable energy?

Sustainability has moved from the fringes to the core of modern investment strategies, reshaping not just financial systems but the way we define progress itself. In an era where environmental urgency meets technological innovation, the convergence of sustainable finance and green technologies is setting the tone for a new economic reality. This shift demands more than token gestures; it calls for a complete rethinking of how capital is deployed and value is measured. As green bonds fund renewable energy projects and ESG investing aligns profit with purpose, financial markets are becoming pivotal to solving global challenges like climate change and resource depletion. Carbon trading platforms are monetizing emission reductions, while fintech innovations streamline transparency and efficiency in these efforts. This article explores how these tools and strategies are rewriting the rules of finance, making sustainability not just a responsibility but a competitive advantage. What is Sustainable Finance? Sustainable finance incorporates environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into financial decision-making. It channels investments toward projects and practices that mitigate environmental harm while fostering economic growth. This framework supports initiatives like climate change mitigation, biodiversity preservation, pollution prevention, and transitioning industries toward eco-friendly practices. At its core, sustainable finance underscores the shift from short-term profitability to long-term value creation. This transformation is crucial for achieving global objectives like the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Green Bonds in Financing a Sustainable Future Green bonds are one of the most prominent tools in sustainable finance. These debt instruments allocate capital to environmental projects such as renewable energy, sustainable infrastructure, and conservation efforts. Key characteristics of green bonds include transparency and accountability, ensuring that funds are exclusively directed toward eco-friendly projects. The appeal of green bonds lies in their dual benefits: financial returns and measurable environmental impact. For example, Apple's $4.7 billion in green bonds in 2022 funded renewable energy initiatives and low-carbon technologies. Globally, Europe leads in green bond issuances, with countries like France and Germany setting benchmarks, while emerging markets such as China rapidly expand their green finance portfolios. ESG Investing: Aligning Profit with Purpose ESG investing evaluates companies based on environmental stewardship, social impact, and governance practices. This approach has gained significant traction as investors recognize the link between strong ESG performance and financial resilience. High ESG ratings often correlate with lower operational risks, enhanced innovation, and improved stakeholder trust. For example, institutional investors increasingly favor companies prioritizing reducing carbon emissions, fostering diversity, and maintaining transparent governance. The financial benefits of ESG are well-documented. Studies reveal that companies with robust ESG frameworks often outperform their peers regarding profitability and risk mitigation, making ESG investing an ethical and financially sound choice. Renewable Energy Funding and Carbon Trading Platforms The push for renewable energy funding is a cornerstone of sustainable finance. Investment in solar, wind, and hydropower technologies has surged, driven by both public and private sectors. Initiatives like the European Green Deal aim to mobilize billions in renewable energy projects, setting a global precedent. Carbon trading platforms, another pivotal innovation, allow businesses to buy and sell carbon credits. These platforms incentivize emissions reductions by assigning monetary value to carbon savings. Blockchain technology has enhanced the transparency and efficiency of these ...

Helfried Carl in conversation with Erik Jones HOW TO PREPARE THE EU FOR THE PERFECT STORM?The New European Commission FACING TRUMP, PUTIN and the Multi-Crisis   True to the slow pace of European decision making, the new European Commission under its President Ursula von der Leyen will take office half a year after the elections to the European Parliament. The challenges for the new Commission are obvious: the war in Ukraine is still raging, the European economy is comparatively weak and the European Green Deal is an immense challenge. Europe has little or no influence on the ongoing war in the Middle East. In addition, on November 5, 2024, Donald Trump was elected the 47th US president after a triumphant election victory – this time with an even more radical agenda than during his first term. His friends in the EU, like Hungary's Prime Minister Orbán and his right-wing allies, will try to block any movements towards greater foreign policy cohesion towards his administration, but also that of Putin's Russia. Europe is facing a crucial test. How can it manage to protect its interests independently and develop its own defense policy in the face of US disengagement? Will the democratic forces prevail? And what role does the EU Commission play in this? Prof. Erik Jones is Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and Member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute's renowned annual State of the Union Conference.  He has published extensively on topics related to European politics, with a special focus on political economy. He is co-editor of the Journal Government & Opposition. His commentary has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, and other major newspapers and magazines across Europe and North America. Helfried Carl, diplomat, since 2019 partner of the Innovation in Politics Institute in Vienna and founder of the European Capital of Democracy initiative. From 2014-2019 he served as Austria's Ambassador to the Slovak Republic. From 2008-2014, he was Chief of Cabinet and foreign policy advisor to the late President of the Austrian Parliament (National Council), Barbara Prammer.

Im 190. Special bei den WildMics wollten mehr mehr über den European Green Deal erfahren. Bereits 2019 wurde dieses Maßnahmenpaket von der Europäischen Kommission vorgestellt. Sein Ziel ist es, den europäischen Kontinent bis 2050 klimaneutral zu machen. Über den Deal berichtet uns Peter Jelinek. Diese Sendung wurde am 03.09.2024 aufgezeichnet. Wie man uns unterstützen kann, könnt ihr hier nachlesen. Zum HOAXILLA Merchandise geht es hier

In 2020, as an integral part of the European Green Deal, the EU presented its Farm to Fork Strategy, aimed at making Europe's food systems more resilient, healthier and more sustainable. The Farm to Fork strategy was the first to integrate all aspects of the food chain (agricultural, ecological, and nutritional) into a unified approach to food systems, moving beyond traditional farm policy.Scientific evidence underlines the urgent and exacerbated need for more sustainable and healthier food systems. This is due to factors related to the climate crisis, such as soil degradation and a decline in biodiversity, as well as other factors such as increased obesity levels in many countries.Many stakeholders argue that the transition to sustainable food systems needs to be accomplished in a manner that respects and preserves Europe's natural resources. Farmers play a key role in this transition. Recent protests throughout the EU highlighted that the upcoming mandate will be critical in delivering the necessary assistance and funding farmers' needs for this transition.Listen to this Euractiv Hybrid Conference to discuss the way forward to more resilient and sustainable food systems in the EU. Questions to be discussed include:- What are the main financial challenges currently faced by farmers in the transition towards sustainable food systems?- How can EU policy frameworks be adapted to provide more flexible and financial support to farmers transitioning to sustainable practices?- How can we create favourable market conditions that protect natural resources while transitioning to sustainable food systems?

In this episode, Marta and Willem explore the latest developments in EU Public Procurement, focusing on the new exclusion grounds introduced by sectoral legislation following the European Green Deal. They begin by outlining the framework of mandatory and voluntary exclusion grounds established under European Directive 2014/24/EU before delving into specific examples of new sectoral legislation that has expanded these grounds. Throughout the conversation, they address key questions such as: How do these new exclusion grounds align with the traditional goal of ensuring contractor reliability, and to what extent do they represent a shift towards a more punitive approach? What roles do contracting authorities and enforcement agencies play in ensuring compliance with these new measures? And do the penalties incentivize contractors to engage in self-cleaning? In the final segment, the hosts share their current personal reading recommendations and reflections.

Europe is facing a critical challenge. When it comes to advanced technology innovation, labor productivity, and affordable energy, it's not keeping up with the U.S. and China. At least that's the take from Mario Draghi, former European Central Bank president, in his European Commission report last month titled, “The Future of European Competitiveness.” The last five years for the European Union have been tumultuous – from the pandemic to an energy crisis sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, to the European Green Deal. How Europe moves forward in the face of these challenges will directly impact its short and long-term energy security, and the pace of its transition to clean energy. And it's all playing out against the backdrop of an ever-worsening climate crisis.  This week, host Jason Bordoff talks with Kadri Simson. Kadri has been the European Commissioner for Energy since 2019. Before that, she was the Estonian minister for economic affairs, and held various other positions in the Estonian government.  Kadri visited the Columbia campus during Climate Week in New York City. They discussed the impact of Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, Europe's progress in weaning itself off Russian gas, and member states' attitudes toward nuclear power, among other topics.

Nadia Calvino, President of the European Investment Bank discusses the EIB's role in the European Green Deal and how they're investing in digital infrastructure and sustainable projects. She is joined by Bloomberg's Alix Steele and Damian Sassower.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The European Green Deal provides much-needed reason for optimism in the fight against climate change, offering a comprehensive roadmap for the EU's transition to a sustainable future. Join Christopher Chapman, Agoro Carbon Alliance's Value Chain Manager to discuss his thoughts on the recent European Green Deal and the impact on the EU economy.  Over the past 7 years Christopher has worked to ensure private sector funding for climate change mitigation is directed to credible activities that contribute to sustainable development. Prior to joining Agoro Carbon, he worked for a voluntary carbon market standards organization, managing two sustainable development focused standards. Listen in to the conversation and learn about what criteria the European Commission is setting for certifying carbon removals, certification requirements, how the certification process for carbon removals will be monitored and verified, who is buying these credits and many more topics surrounding the European Green Deal's impact on carbon credit certification.

The Arctic is changing more rapidly than anywhere else on earth due to climate change, and this is profoundly impacting the people that live in and depend on the ecosystems in these cold regions. In Season 7, Episode 13, host Sarah Thorne and cohost Jeff King, National Lead of the Engineering With Nature (EWN) Program, US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), welcome back Laura Wendling, Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF Community in Trondheim, Norway. We continue our conversation on how innovative nature-based solutions (NBS) are being used in cold regions. After recording Episode 12, Laura was headed to the Gaia Arctic Summit held in Vesterålen in Northern Norway. The summit focused on how to accelerate the transition to climate resilience in the Arctic. She returned inspired: “It was fabulous from start to finish. The landscape there is absolutely stunning, and I think seeing it really brought home how important it is that we protect this beautiful area and the people who live there.” The summit brought together people from policy, finance, business, research and innovation, and public administration. “The main message for me is the need to collaborate across disciplines in how we work every day—not just having a meeting once a year but how we work in our daily life and how we plan things.”Laura goes on to discuss the policies, challenges, and opportunities for advancing NBS in cold regions and some of the efforts going on in Europe. She notes that there is strong explicit support for NBS within the European Green Deal and associated strategies such as the Biodiversity Strategy for 2030—policies designed to set goals to deliver on international commitments. One of the challenges that Laura notes is aligning policy at various levels, from the high-level European national policies to those on the ground at the local level. Jeff notes a similar challenge in the US: “Even those individuals or organizations that are receptive to the idea of NBS still have their own set of policies, rules, or regulations that they must adhere to and sometimes those can be contrary to the overall goal of integrating NBS into a landscape. We must find that common ground and be able to highlight the value of NBS and what that means for local economies, sustainability, and resilience.”Laura also notes challenges in valuing NBS and making trade-offs are particularly evident in the Arctic. “Where we see the sea ice dissolving and opening up new transport routes and revealing previously unknown mineral resources, there are all sorts of development possibilities. How do we ensure that the Arctic is developing in a way that's consistent with the needs and desires of the local populations?”Looking forward, Jeff highlights the ongoing work at ERDC's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. “We are continuing to prioritize NBS and look for opportunities to integrate NBS concepts and projects into our Arctic communities. International collaboration is something that I want to see EWN continue to support.” Laura agrees with this effort and has a call to action for listeners: “I would ask everybody listening—our global community—to think about a consolidated action plan to engage the full range of stakeholders and move across borders to address the issues of climate change because climate change doesn't stop at borders. We all have to work together. Only global action is going to have the outcome that we all need.”We hope you enjoy our final Season 7 episodes on NBS in cold regions with Laura Wendling. Season 8 kicks off in September. For more information and resource links, please visit the EWN Podcast page on the EWN website at https://www.engineeringwithnature.org/  •      Jeff King at LinkedIn•      Laura Wendling at LinkedIn 

The European Climate Pact National Conference is taking place today in Dublin, bringing together individuals, communities, Local Authorities and organisations as part of a grassroot movement across the continent against climate change. The landmark conference encourages people across the country to take action, whether they are new to climate initiatives or already active in promoting sustainability. It represents an important step towards building a climate-neutral Europe by 2050, and aims to enhance networking, engagement and collaboration among the Pact Community in Ireland. The Conference will feature notable speakers, including Paolo Caridi, Head of Unit, Communication and Civil Society, DG CLIMA, also in charge of the Climate Pact, and Helen Kearns, Head of Communications, European Commission Representation in Ireland. Also speaking at the event will be David Boles, one of Ireland's Climate Pact Ambassadors; Jannette O'Brien, Climate Action Coordinator, Carlow County Council, as well as representatives from University College, Cork, and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). The European Climate Pact, launched by the European Commission as part of the European Green Deal, aims to make the EU the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. The Pact is a grassroot movement aimed to foster a broad and inclusive climate action community across Europe that unites groups and people in the fight against climate change and helps them adapt to its consequences. David Boles, Climate Pact Ambassador said: "This event marks an important moment in Ireland's climate action journey, and underscores the power of community-driven initiatives in creating lasting environmental impact. Local action is key to tackling global challenges like climate change. It's inspiring to see individuals, communities and organisations coming together to forge a path towards a sustainable future." Michael Doran, the Climate Pact Country Coordinator for Ireland said: "The EU Climate Pact National Conference exemplifies that collective strength is important in combating climate change. It also underscores the importance of community engagement in driving impactful climate solutions. This gathering reaffirms our collective responsibility to address climate change and build a resilient future for generations to come. In Ireland, there is much to be done, in terms of acceptance, policy changes, advocacy and awareness, if we intend to reach climate neutrality by 2050." See more stories here.

Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened up 193-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 22,690 on turnover of 8.7-billion N-T. The market lost ground on Monday after initial gains were eroded. Investors took cues from a lackluster (黯淡無光) performance on Wall Street at the end of last week. Hon Hai managed to buck the downturn, to hit a 16-year high at the close. This provided some support to the broader market amid optimism toward the company's efforts in artificial intelligence development. ---------------------------- MOI Warns Against Chinese Influence in Political Parties In news from and about Taiwan this morning, The Ministry of the Interior is warning members of the public against forming political parties under the influences of foreign forces. The call comes amid allegations that a Chinese entity (實體) has recently attempted to recruit Taiwanese celebrities to establish the "Taiwan Pro-Peace Party." According to the interior ministry, people have the right to form political parties. But the ministry says they cannot accept instructions (指示) or funding from foreign forces. The ministry says that would violate the National Security Act and the Anti-Infiltration Act. ---------------- Consumers' Foundation to File Class Action in Fatal Food Poisoning Case The Consumers' Foundation has announced it has begun the process of collecting documents from victims of the Malaysian restaurant chain food poisoning outbreak. The foundation is set to file a class action. Foundation Chairman Wu Rong-da says 30 people have so far expressed support for the filing of a lawsuit on their behalf. This includes the families of the six individuals who died. The foundation's legal team says defendants in the case will include the restaurant chain as well as the chef, Far Eastern Department Stores, which hosts the restaurant branch and FoodRepublic, the company that runs the food court at the department store. ------------------------------- Russian President Putin Visits NKorea Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting North Korea today, It's his first state visit to Pyongyang in 24 years. Chris Gilbert reports. ------------------------------------ EU Gives Final Approval for Nature Restoration Plan European Union countries have given final approval to a major and long-awaited plan to better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc. The Nature Restoration plan is part of the EU's European Green Deal that seeks to establish the world's most ambitious (要求高的；需要極大努力的) climate and biodiversity targets. Under the new law, EU countries will be required to restore at least 30% of habitats such as forests, rivers, grasslands, wetlands, lakes and coral beds deemed in poor condition by 2030. This percentage is set to increase to 60% by 2040 and 90% by 2050. The law also introduces specific requirements for measures to reverse the decline of pollinators. The plan was finally adopted at a meeting of environment ministers in Luxembourg after rallying the required support from a qualified majority. Austria's vote in favor of the plan helped to break the stalemate. －－－－以下訊息由 SoundOn 動態廣告贊助商提供－－－－ 中彰投分署為鼓勵轄區企業團體共同精進成長及經驗分享，廣徵各事業單位及團體在勞動力開發與運用或勞動力提升優良之提案，並透過本活動提供轄區企業團體交流學習之平台，一起為在地的人力資源永續發展努力。 [https://tcnr.wda.gov.tw/ContentList.aspx?n=B8A915763E3684AC] (https://tcnr.wda.gov.tw/ContentList.aspx?n=B8A915763E3684AC)

Last weekend's EU elections marked the end of the bloc's greenest parliament ever with the overall “shift to the right”, though centrist parties still retained the majority. Whilst the post 2030 climate agenda could be weakened in ambition, Ehsan Khoman, Head of Research – Commodities, ESG and Emerging Markets (EMEA), believes that there is unlikely to be any major overhaul on sustainability, but rather there may be fresh emphasis on integrating economic attractiveness and sovereignty components into the existing European Green Deal, with a focus on regulatory simplification. Disclaimer: www.mufgresearch.com (PDF)

With the latest round of elections for the European Parliament just around the corner, and the formation of a new Commission following closely behind, issues around the energy sector are at the forefront of political discourse. Joining us on Watt Matters this week to discuss how the next era of European lawmakers could approach decarbonisation efforts is Linda Kalcher, executive director of think tank Strategic Perspectives.In this episode, we discuss how energy politics have changed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, whether the European Green Deal is still as strong as it could be, and how the inter-European diplomatic relations are changing as the energy transition advances. Want a free trial? Sign up, download the award-winning app, and enjoy complimentary access to all exclusive features for one month. Click here to access. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Krzysztof Bozak, a Polish Member of Parliament and Deputy Speaker of the Sejm joins Hearts of Oak to outline his political journey, beginning with his participation in a youth movement and the founding of the Confederation of Freedom and Independence Party.  Krzysztof lifts the veil on the Law and Justice Party's EU stance, economic policies, and immigration management.  He tells us of the significance of upholding conservative and nationalist values amidst mainstream narratives.  Krzysztof highlights his role in the Polish Parliament and his openness to collaborating with like-minded international entities. This interview offers deep insights into Polish politics, party distinctions, and the importance of ideological integrity in a changing political landscape. Krzysztof Bosak began his political career as an activist and spokesman for the organisation All-Polish Youth. In 2005, he became one of the youngest Polish MPs in history, elected as a candidate of the League of Polish Families, a conservative party, at the age of 23.  Krzysztof is now the leader of Confederation of Freedom and Independence Party, Member of Parliament and Deputy Speaker of the Sejm. Connect with Krzysztof... X/TWITTER               twitter.com/BosakKrzysztof    (English account)                                    twitter.com/krzysztofbosak Confederation of Freedom and Independence Party         WEBSITE                    konfederacja.pl X/TWITTER                https://konfederacja.pl/ Interview recorded  30.4.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... X/TWITTER                twitter.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE                    heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS                heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA          heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP                          heartsofoak.org/shop/ TRANSCRIPT (Hearts of Oak) And I'm delighted to be joined by a member of the Polish Parliament, that is Krzysztof Bozak. Krzysztof, thank you for your time today. (Krzysztof Bosak) Thank you for the invitation and welcome everybody. Great to speak with you. I had the privilege of meeting you back, goodness, 18 months ago, I think, with Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff , a good friend of both of ours. And you are a member of the Polish parliament and I'm looking forward to understanding a little bit about the Polish parliament setup. Each country is different but you are the president of the national movement and you're the leader of the confederation or confederation of Freedom and Independence Party, and you're the Deputy Speaker of the House, which is called the Sejm. And your a husband, father, you're a Christian, and I want to delve into all of those. But Krzysztof, you became a member of the Parliament back in 2005. You were very young back then. Tell me why you got involved in politics. How did that happen and how did you end up standing as a member of parliament and being elected? It's a long story. In fact, this time I was the youngest MP in this term and I started being involved in politics by a youth movement, a Catholic Eurosceptic and Catholic Nationalist youth movement. Since I was in high school. I was 17 or 18 years old when I joined. It was the time of the debate about joining the EU. All mainstream parties, mainstream medias, mainstream bishops, mainstream everything was in favour of joining EU. And a small minority of speakers and social leaders were against defending principles of independence, sovereignty, traditional values, and so on. And I was sure that they are right and I joined this movement, being against joining European Union at that time. I joined a youth movement, then in 2001 a conservative pro-family, pro-life Eurosceptic party was created. It was League of Polish Families. It was kind of coalition of very different right-wing conservative or Eurosceptic or nationalist groups. And four years later I became the youngest MP being elected from my home town and constituency. From the 10th place on the list. So I was not a leader of the list, I was on the 10th place and people elected me from this list as the only MP in this constituency. So it was a very big success and a very big surprise for many people. And it was short term, only two years, because this was a time of big political instability. We had two government changes. It was, let's say, right-wing government, many scandals, and after two years, earlier elections, and my political party didn't succeed. League of Polish Families disappeared from Polish politics. Law and Justice political party took everything, every right-wing voters. We were against, we were competitors of law and justice, competitors from the right. They were centre-right from our perspective. and after that for 12 years I was outside the Parliament involved in social movement and working in right-wing NGOs, in think tanks like Republican Foundation, defending the same values on the social level with my colleagues and people who didn't lose faith in being active and trying to create truly right-wing political movement. We tried many times different attempts to get into the Parliament we have 5% threshold and proportional system so it's quite hard if you do not have support from big business big media or big money and we succeed in 2019 I went back to Parliament this time as a co-leader of of Confederation, Freedom and Independence. It is a coalition now, coalition of three political parties, three political movements. My movement, national movement, still the same values, still the same political tradition. So national conservative Catholic tradition, national democratic tradition of Polish political independence movement, and we created this national movement as a new political party ten years before, in 2013. So for six years we were outside the parliament, and after that we made a coalition with conservative libertarians and traditionalists. So conservative libertarians were created by long-term defender of economic freedom and civil liberties. Janusz Korwin-Mikke, now he's not in his political party, he's pleaded, but he created this political party and now they have a younger leader, Sławomir Manczan from Next Generation, very popular young businessman and tax advisor and also a big defender of economic freedom and conservative values. So this is the second pillar first is national conservative Catholic second is let's say conservative libertarian and the third is citizens movement traditionalist movement of Jagger Brown is a quite popular right-wing movie a documentary movies director an artist and intellectual who who were involved in politics also a few years before, first being on anti-communist and right-wing position, and then shifting more to the right and building the coalition with us. So now we have Confederation as a coalition, or let's say umbrella party, coalition party, for these three different movements and many smaller groups who joined us. And we work collectively, we have collective leadership and we challenge law and justice from the right. We were in opposition during eight years of law and justice government. From our perspective they are not very conservative and they are, I know that sometimes media call them nationalists, but from our perspective they were a typical centre-right political party. And we made an alternative right party for Polish voters and now we even extended the number of voters who support us. So now we have 18 MPs and more than 7% in polls and now we fight to get into the European Parliament. Because for now there are only people from Law and Justice and their allies parties. And we believe that Polish voters deserve to have better representation in European Parliament. Built by truly critical to European Union politicians, not supporters of EU who change only some narrative, but they always vote in favour of you. Well, tell us about the... Because when I, as a Brit, maybe read the newspapers here in the UK, it would have talked to the Law and Justice Party as being an extreme right party. In a similar way, they mock Orbán in Hungary. But I'm curious to see where you fit in, Because when I went over and met with you, I begun to understand the Law and Justice Party were maybe not as wonderful as the West may think. So what makes the Confederation different than the Law and Justice Party? Yeah. It's a very complicated topic, but I think that it's easier to propose some metaphor or some example. So it's quite similar in my opinion like in the United States where you have mainstream Republicans and you have Trump supporters and for example Rand Paul or some people who are more nationalist-oriented. So, in Polish politics, law and justice is like mainstream republicans. They use some words, some phrases, some ideas of conservative or even pro-national right, but they use it intentionally rather for propaganda and they act like centre-right politicians. When they were in government in Poland, they even introduced many policies. We can say that these policies that they developed on social level or in economic policy, these are rather social democratic policy, not conservative or right-wing or not nationalist in any way. So, to go into the details, we criticise them because they supported European integration on the new level. First, many years ago, they supported Lisbon Treaty. They negotiated Lisbon Treaty being in government. Then their president signed the Lisbon Treaty. They made a propaganda with mainstream and center-left and leftists that the Lisbon Treaty is good for Poland. And we believe the opposite, that it was a disaster. Our situation is much worse in the EU under the Lisbon Treaty than before. Then, during the last eight years, they supported the European Green Deal and their Prime Minister accepted the European Green Deal in the European Council. Now farmers oppose, they even criticise in the current electoral campaign. They made a pledge that they will stop the European Green Deal, but they do not say that their prime minister accepted it on the European Council in 2019 then in 2020 their prime minister Morawiecki accepted fit for 55. So they increased the goal of reducing these emissions 15 percent percent more and they introduced many new policies in European union and it is all possible because they are accepted in European council on a 2020 meeting in fact prime minister Morawiecki also proposed us as a polish prime minister in Brazos creating new pan-European taxes it's completely It's completely against our Constitution, it's completely against our values. We believe that our phrase is that we need small taxes and only paid in Poland and they three or five new pan-European taxes and they accepted it and we paid this to Brussels, not to Warsaw and we have no influence on how this will be used, this money. Then they accepted European debt, we strongly opposed any idea of giving this right to Eurocrats in Brussels to introducing their own debt and building their own sources of income by that. And they, of course, accepted. Then they accepted also in 2020 a special pan-European COVID fund called Next Generation EU, even this phrase, next generation EU is evil and of course they accepted it and they made a campaign in Poland that it's a big success of Poland and that we will have billions of euros because of this success of Prime Minister Morawiecki and law and justice. And there was a small minority of their MPs who criticised this but they were silenced in the party and in the media and in fact from the perspective of Polish voters we were the only one independent voice in Parliament. I took part in this debate in Parliament and criticised this next, please check this by some search engines, what is this, next generation EU. This is not only a European debt program. It is paid by European taxes and by European debt for many years, but it's also a new attitude towards European funds. They accepted that we will have funds only under many new political conditions. So now we got some milestones, they call these milestones, and this is the list of tasks, of political tasks, and they program Polish policy by Polish so-called democratic government from Brussels without any base in constitution. We have more than 100 milestones and these are the conditions to get this money. So, we made a new debt. This is not our debt, this is the European debt. And to use this debt, we have conflict with EU for almost 3 or 4 years. And they now lecture us on every issue from this list of 100 milestones. And Prime Minister Morawiecki from the Law and Justice Party in the Polish parliament said that he is not ashamed of this deal because, for example, Italians have more than 400 milestones, tasks. So it's a nightmare from the perspective of somebody who is in favour of Polish independence and sovereign policy and democracy and even democracy in Poland. They made a secret agreement in Polish parliament with leftists to support this, because even in their own political camp, they call it United Right, which is false, because the right in Poland is not united. But they use this phrase united right and theywere afraid that not every MP will support this but because it was so controversial so they made a secret agreement with leftists. They took some leftist agenda in this deal and they made majority with leftists to push it through the parliament. Then they never discussed all this deal and this 100 milestones in parliament. We had never any debate on this issue. In fact, this negotiations were secret also against people in government. Not every member of government knew what they discussed in Brussels. Now we know this only from media. They never introduced this deal in parliament and explained what's going on. Then they accepted very, in my opinion, bad new rule called rule of law conditionality. So now without base in European treaties, Eurocrats in Brussels can lecture us what is rule of law. They can stop money for us. So these were some examples of their EU policy. There are many more, for example, their member of European Committee was in favour of European Green Deal. He even said that it's in line with political agenda on agriculture of law and justice. So they had a big conflict, of course, with EU on this rule of law. And in this conflict they it was completely complete disaster for Polish state because they started this conflict and then they missed everything because they never finished any reform of courts in Poland and they made even leftists stronger in Poland because they tried to make some compromise with Brussels. This compromise was never accepted by Brussels because it was not, let's say, 100% what Brussels wanted. But in fact we have a very big mess in courts and in law about courts and about independence of judiciary. And now after this conflict and these reforms never finished as I said the situation is worse than when it started worse on the sovereignty worse on the justice and the time that you need to wait in the court for the justice. And worse, from the perspective of the power of liberal lobby in judiciary and right-wing people who, trusted law and justice government are in a very bad situation now because they took some positions or some propositions, and now they are nowhere, in the middle of nowhere. It's a very sad story. Then we have economic policy. Their economic policy was, in fact, social democratic. So they raised taxes, they raised debts, they extended public spending. They tried to centralize every policy. They took money from local governments. they put this money to their national budget and they try to influence every policy by their political nominees and they work like, let's say, Maybe not autocratic, but it was a typical one-party government which tried to centralize and control everything. It's the opposite that I understand the pro-national policy or conservative policy. It was, in my opinion, it was elitist and even social democratic when you analyse. For example, they were strongly against home-schooling and against independent schools. They proposed some legislation to ban homes chooling. After some protests of conservatives and leftists united, they stepped back. But after protests in their party and outside and from many directions. But their first goal was to centralize everything under the government rule. And we said that it's stupid because they will not rule for forever and after them the left will come to the government and exactly this is what we have in Poland. Now we have center-left government, liberal and leftists, and the left took Ministry of Education, everything was centralized. And now they try to switch, oppose every institution and every policy that law and justice created. And we said that it will be so. And now we see the consequences of their stupid policy, which was not conservative, not Christian, not supporting any citizens' movement. They believed only in their political party and that's all. This is their philosophy. Then we have a very important issue for us in Poland, let's say, immigration. Law and Justice government was introduced in Poland, open borders policy. They were against illegal immigration and at the same time they opened borders. For biggest immigration, legal immigration in Poland since maybe 300 years. Last time that we have so big immigration was maybe in 16th or 17th century. Now we have millions of legal immigrants in Poland, the majority of them are Ukrainians, but there are also people from different Asian and especially Asian countries. They didn't want immigrants from Africa, but they invited people from Asia. They made, being anti-Russian party, they made a special easier way for Russian citizens to come to Poland, to be a part of our labor market. They opened our market for people from Belarus, from Central Asia, from Caucasus. Now Georgian immigrants are the biggest group when you analyze crimes in Poland, they are in the first place. When you analyse people who smuggle illegal immigrants, Ukrainians are in the first place. We have, it's strange, but there is no official statistics how many immigrants do we have in Poland. Nobody can count them, because these are millions and they opened borders for legal immigration, but they didn't build any administration to control the immigration. So, in fact, the best data that we have is not from the government, but from telecom operators, from big telecom business who can say how many people use different languages on their phones. So this is how we know. Or from banks, because these people from abroad open bank accounts. But it's not all. It's not started with the war in Ukraine. This is what I would like to underline. We had much more than a million Ukrainian people in Poland before the war. They were intentionally invited and government worked also on some agreements with some Asian countries to increase legal immigration to Poland. These were also Muslim countries. During the law and justice government, Muslim population in Poland increased, in my opinion, more than ten times. In fact, to be honest, it is still small, but they started this. So now we have information that a third mosque will be built in Warsaw, and the biggest one, of course, with the money from abroad, because they never, they always criticized any foreign influence, and they never proposed any legislation to stop the influence by money from abroad, for the politics, or for example, to found Islam, or Muslim movement in Poland. Then, when the war in Ukraine started, they opened borders for refugees and in fact not only for refugees but for everybody with Ukrainian passport because they made some legislation. Giving every privilege that Polish citizens have for everybody with Ukrainian passport, even for people who came here from Western Europe. It's strange, but it's true. They made a special amendment, because their first goal was always to encourage as many foreigners to live and work in Poland as it is possible. It has two reasons. First is that they believe in multicultural society. It is a part of, this is some branch of Polish pre-modern tradition, that we had a commonwealth with different nations and some of them are from this tradition and they believe that they can rebuild this commonwealth with different nations in encouraging these nations to build some community, not let's say Polish community, but they call it a Republican community, a new commonwealth of nations. From our perspective, it sounds very similar to globalist agenda, but they say, no, no, no, it's not a multiculturalism by globalists, This is our tradition of Polish multiculturalism. We as a national movement completely do not believe in this concept. We believe it's anachronic, pre-modern, and it didn't work. In fact, we had a commonwealth with different nations, but these nations don't want commonwealth with us. These nations like Belarusians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, all of them wanted independent states. And it's normal, it's normal that every nation want to have their own independent states. So, some of law and justice politicians are people older age with their heads in the clouds, reading historical books and believing in some ideas, for example, from 17th, 16th or 18th century. And in my opinion they don't understand nothing from our times and especially they don't understand that mass immigration is a big threat for the society. In Poland this process started, especially in bigger cities. Warsaw under the Law and Justice government became much closer to London when we analysed the population. There are not many African people, but many people from Asia, as I said, and especially from Russia and Ukraine. The situation is changing very fast. They made a legislation and as I said, they gave every privilege, every policy for Polish citizens. They gave it also to the people with Ukrainian passports. And these are many millions of people who would like to live abroad. We are the only European nation that pays for everything. And, of course, we have nothing in exchange. We have some agenda towards Ukraine, but they did nothing from our agenda, and we gave everything. And this is what we're against because we believe that it's impossible for one country to have two nations on the payroll, and this is how it works now. Then you have also Ukraine and supporting Ukraine agenda. At the beginning of the war we were not against, because we believed that this horrible Russian attack, is a crime and is a threat, but after two years we see that their government gave all that we have to Ukraine and the result is still not clear and other European nations do not act this way. They negotiate some things for them. Americans are also not very fast to give everything what they have. And now, for example, our army do not have enough weapons because they gave new weapons from Polish army to Ukraine. And at the beginning they said that Americans or Germans will give us in change new equipment, all the equipment and the thing, but they didn't. So it's very hard being a Pole and seeing all of that. It's very hard not to be critical to law and justice and their government. In fact, we are not surprised. We know these people for many years. We know that during the debate about joining EU they were in the same camp as leftists, as centrists, progressives and all of them. In fact, they were never national or truly traditionalist or truly conservative right. They are a mix of people of different ideas and their leader of law and justice. It's not easy to understand this, being a foreigner, but to understand the situation you should know that the leader of law and justice Jaroslaw Kaczynski. He always were against Polish nationalist tradition. He is rather from the tradition of Polish patriotic socialism. We had some pre-war tradition from interwar period of Polish, let's say, Polish patriotic socialists and this is their first choice. They do not talk about this last decades because they know that people would like to vote right-wing party, not patriotic left-wing party. But the leader is rather from, let's say, centrist or centre-left patriotic republican tradition, the leader of law and justice. The members of the party are very mixed and very different. I would not say that every MP is bad. There are many probably MPs with good views but they vote bad or act bad being in government. I will give you one more or two more examples. For example, we had a very big debate in Poland about pro-life. Law and justice was always pro-life in declaration but when they got majority they did everything thing not to vote on pro-life bill so two times polish pro-life movement collected more than hundreds of thousands of signatures having majority so-called pro-life majority people had to collect hundreds of thousands of signatures to put citizens bill to parliament and they voted against. They voted against for two times, then we as right-wing MPs, some of their MPs and every MP from Confederation made written request to Constitutional Court and Constitutional Court with some nominees, right-wing nominees from Law and Justice waited few years to analyse this request, but after they analysed this, they made a judgement that it is against Polish constitution to kill unborn babies with some disabilities or health problems. And this is how the situation changed, not by the voting in parliament, And of course, people who are in favour of law and justice say that this was their secret plan to organise this this way. But I do not believe. In my opinion, it was rather by accident. They never wanted. And now their former prime minister Morawiecki said that he is against this sentence of the court, of constitutional court. That they should defend this. Yes. But they said that they are against because they are afraid of public opinion, people who like abortion, they want centrist voters and so on. So they do not defend, they controlled every media in Poland and they didn't defend this issue. Another example, their prime minister supported long-term EU LGBT strategy. Being prime minister voted in favour. Another example, their minister who was responsible for European funds sent a secret letter to local governments that if they want European funds they should cancel Anti-LGBT and pro-family statements. Many local councils made some statements that they are against LGBT propaganda in schools and they support normal family policy. It was then criticized by, of course, progressive media and some LGBT organizations, but there was nothing against citizens' rights. It was nothing against civil liberties or something. It was a declaration that we don't want propaganda in schools or something like that. And we know that they made this letter to local governments. We know that only from LGBT organizations because they published this, being proud that the so-called right-wing government is pushing the pressure with the EU to local governments to be not too much conservative. Yes, so it shows how they work and they say one thing and they do the opposite and it was always like that. We know we know these people for four decades So we are not surprised about normal polish voter don't know all of these facts because you need, hundreds of hours to follow every information and analyse everything to to gather these details and to understand what's going on and if you follow only mainstream media, even mainstream Catholic media in Poland. In progressive mainstream media, you had an attack on law and justice, that these are nationalists, they are xenophobic, they are anti-European, they want to go back to the Middle Ages or something like that. So people said, okay, these are good people, yes, they are very conservative. And if you listen to some right-wing media or Catholic media, They are true conservatives. They fight very hard, tough fights in the EU and so on. And you had nowhere to have the truth about how they rule, how they govern the country. Everybody analyzed only what they said. And their speeches were quite good. I can agree. For example, two days ago, I listened to the speech of their leader and to their convention about EU policy and I could take this and it could be my speech, yes, but it has nothing to do with their government, what they did in Brussels. This is the problem and I think it's a problem in many countries. It's a problem also in Hungary. Orban is also very pragmatic, yes, he's not a nationalist. And there's a problem in Italy with the Meloni government. It's not an independent agenda of independence. And in many other countries. So this is how it works. And this is why we believe that Polish politics deserve a truly right-wing party with truly conservative and truly pro-national and sovereign agenda and people who are against political correctness. This is what gathers us in Confederation. We are against political correctness. We don't want to be influenced in any way by anybody from mainstream. And we are proud that we are anti-mainstream. Of course, I had many debates in mainstream media, so I always go when they ask me and I always discuss. And I believe that my views are not radical or far-right or anything like that. But I don't want to give up my principles and my beliefs. I don't want, I would rather, I would like to be rather outside politics, like being 12 years outside the parliament, than joining this, let's say, fake right political parties and saying good speeches and voting bad things. I don't want that. Well, Krzysztof, thank you for giving us such an overview of Polish politics. And I wish that we had politicians like yourself in the UK with conviction, with beliefs that actually stood on a biblical principle on a lot of these issues. And I just the final thought is as deputy speaker, I mean, that is a that is a prestigious, important position. You must be Donald Tusk's kind of worst nightmare, that you stand for everything he is against. I'm sure it was difficult to actually get in that position, was it? I'm sure there was opposition. I know we only have a few minutes, but I'm just curious to know the opposition from people like Tusk to actually having you, a nationalist, a Christian, in that position. It's a little bit different, in my opinion. To understand the situation, you should know that the main line of political difference, is in Poland between Civic Platform and Donald Tusk as a leader, and Law and Justice and Jarosław Kaczyński as a leader. It's not, on some level of course it's a, let's say, ideological and political different, but they have many things in common. This is our, let's say, talking point, yes, that they are not so different on the level of agenda of political program. When you analyze their EU policy, they could exchange their ministers, and in fact, they're exchanged in these two political parties many members of cabinets. In fact, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki before was an advisor to Donald Tusk. And there are many examples, I will not go into the detail because it's not so important. It is important to understand that it's a, let's say, ambition conflict between Kaczynski and Tusk. It's obvious that they hate each other. It started in 80s in the opposition movement. They have very bad opinion about each other, very bad. This is a true conflict, a true personal conflict. Both of them try to be pragmatic and in fact they are very pragmatic, very. But not on this one issue, not all about them themselves. This is their weak point that they become very emotional. So going back to the situation in the chamber and me as a deputy speaker Donald Tusk and don't care he don't care he hate yaroslav kaczynski and me I'm the guy from the different generation, in my opinion he do not believe in anything he is a pragmatic politician after so many years in politics. He was a liberal, he was a classic liberal in 80s, maybe early 90s. So on the level of defending economic freedom, I think he understands everything what we say. And he's a former classic liberal. Maybe he started on the same positions as Viktor Orban, but during years in politics, he lost belief probably in any principle. And now probably the only thing that he believes is pragmatism and power. Being in power and being pragmatic. This is how I understand him. So, in my opinion, he used left-wing politicians as tools. He gave them the platform, as you say in English, he gave them the platform, he gave them the space, even in government, he gave them a very important part of administration because he doesn't care. Not because he supports these ideas, he doesn't care. In my opinion, he personally believes that these are stupid people with stupid program but he didn't care. So he also didn't care about my views, in my opinion. Of course, some of his members in his political party care a lot and hate very conservative people. This is, let's say, a pro-abortion lobby in his party, very strong now, because his party started as centre-right party. It is interesting that Civic Platform, the party of Donald Tusk, started in 2001, all these three parties that I talked about, so League of Polish Families, Law and Justice and Civic Platform, all these political parties started in 2001 and entered the parliament. League of Polish Families after seven years was kicked out from parliament by voters unfortunately, but Law and Justice and Civic Platform stayed there and both Law and Justice Party and Civic Platform started as centre-right political parties very similar to each other, so similar that some politicians in 2001 didn't know which one to join so it was like a lottery or you had colleagues here so you go there you have colleagues here you go there it was a time of big changes in Polish politics so a civic platform the party of Donald Tusk started as a platform with principles of defending western civilization defending Christian values defending economic freedom defending some some conservative values maybe not everything but some and being pro-EU this was the starting point and after 20 years, they are centre-left political parties with very big pro-abortion, progressive lobby inside, former post-communist politicians, former leftist politicians inside, Green Party inside, because they built a civic coalition, they extended civic platform into civic coalition. And in this coalition, you have people who split it from the post-communist left, you have Green Party, you have some citizens' movement, and It's a central left spectrum. And Donald Tusk is a leader for everybody because now he tried to be pragmatic, not to be too close to any special views, yes? So for me it's completely not a problem. It's a problem with some MPs who are trying to be a little bit offensive or sometimes aggressive but I have my attitude which is always being very calm and polite to everybody no matter what are his views. I try to be polite and with respect to everybody this is I believe that how we should act in democratic politics and in Parliament and it works, because in fact even left-wing MPs or pro-abortion MPs have a good opinion about me as a deputy speaker, because I do not interrupt their speeches, I'm not nasty, counting their time. They could cooperate on this normal level with me, in my opinion, much better than, for example, with deputy speakers from law and justice, they were horrible, they were nasty, they were aggressive. They used their seat to, not to push their agenda, but to push their emotions against other people. So they were, there were attempts to push me from the seat, to kick me from the seat, the left put this request, but nobody voted in favor of this request, because nobody believed that it's a good decision to take this position from me and give it to anybody else. I think it's a result of maybe 20 years of my work in public debate and people know who I am, people know that I have my views, but people even who do not believe in my views, they respect that I didn't change them for many years, that I, in fact, in my opinion, many people from centre-left also respect me, that I didn't join law and justice. Because they have very bad opinion about law and justice, also about how they ruled when you analyse what they did with public money. Yes, this is another story, what they did with public money, how they used this for themselves. Their interests. Not very many bad stories. And we were not involved in all of that. So in my opinion, I have, I am lucky because I have a big respect. Of course, not everybody like me and especially not everybody like my views. But I have no reasons, I have no reason to say that I'm in a bad situation. Well, Krzysztof, I do appreciate your time. I'm so thankful to have you on. I know you've got great demands on your time being in that high profile position and being a high profile figure in the country. So thank you so much for giving us your time to explain to our UK and US audience a little bit about Polish politics. So thank you. Thank you very much for this invitation and this conversation and to finish this conversation with some good accent I would like to invite everybody who are true conservative people to come to Poland to meet us. We are very open to extend our international contacts. What I would like to say is that on the level of personal contacts. If some of you have some contacts with people from law and justice, it's not bad for us. As a normal people, we talk with each other normally in Parliament and outside Parliament. So we are critical to their leadership and to their prime minister, but taking normal MPs, we talk like normal people. And it is possible to have contacts with law and justice, for example, in European Parliament and with us in Poland or when we enter the European Parliament. So I would like to encourage everybody from truly right-wing movement to build contacts with Polish people, with Polish conservative organisations, political parties, editorial houses, NGOs, social movements. We have a big social movement, very many organizations and many good people. And please, come to Poland, have this contact, maybe also some people from the States. I believe that we should support each other. I always put some time and my energy to build this contact, so maybe some of my colleagues from abroad will watch this interview. I hope so. And me personally and our colleagues from Confederation, we are always very open to support every good people with good ideas to defend the principles that we believe, also conservative, traditional, Christian, Pro-freedom, pro-independence, and other good principles. So, this is my word and I believe that despite all these bad tendencies that we see in Western world, in Europe, we should have hope and we should defend good principles and good values, because this is our duty and this is how I believe, this is what we should do. So I have very big respect for every people who work in politics and on social level in countries that are less conservative than Poland, because I know how it feels when your country is going in the wrong direction. I talked with people from different countries and I know how it feels and I have big respect if you do a good job and give hope to your people, to your nations. Exactly. Well, thank you, Krzysztof, for your time. Greatly appreciate it. And I'm sure we will speak soon. Thank you very much.

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In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on January 31, 2024,  Patrick talks with independent French researcher and journalist Freddie Ponton, about the French farmers protest and siege on Paris and “Rungis”the world second largest wholesale food market where he breaks down the cause and effects of the penalising the EU's environmental roadmap including the bureaucratic burden associated with the European Green Deal and the EU Farm to Fork Strategy. Freddie turns his attention to ⁠Algeria's call for a meeting at the UN Security Council looking for ways to enforce the recent ICJ court ruling and provisional measures granted to South Africa in its case against Israel for genocide against the Palestinians. Freddie finishes his talk by analysing a recent WSJ article and its authors in which Israel makes allegation against UNRWA staff in Gaza and their possible involvement in the Oct 7 attack which led to the defunding of the UN agency. All this and more. More from Freddie: X/Twitter  TUNE-IN LIVE to TNT RADIO for the Patrick Henningsen Show every MON-FRI at 11AM-1PM (NEW YORK) | 4PM-6PM (LONDON) | 2AM-4AM (BRISBANE): https://tntradio.live

The European Green Deal is a package of policy initiatives introduced by the European Commission (EC) in December 2019 with objectives to achieve “no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, economic growth decoupled from resource use, and no person and no place left behind.” Many companies are already focused on one aspect of the Green Deal — the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). But the CSRD is far from the only EU regulation needing immediate attention. This audio companion details several other pressing and broadly applicable EU regulations that would also be newly applicable — or possibly already applicable — for both EU and non-EU companies. In this episode, podcast host Heather Horn brings you an audio version of our publication covering the EU regulations beyond CSRD. In this podcast, we cover: 1:00 - Overview of the EU regulatory landscape 7:01 – EU Taxonomy30:54 – Sustainable finance disclosure regulation38:17 – Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism44:06 – Foreign Subsidies Regulation49:13 – Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive54:16 – Final thoughts Looking for more information on the CSRD and other EU reporting requirements? Check out our publications  European Union regulations beyond CSRD, Worldwide impact of CSRD - are you ready?, and  Take the next step - decide how to report under CSRD  for further details. Additionally, follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app for future episodes in this CSRD spotlight miniseries, and subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get all of our thought leadership. Heather Horn is PwC's National Office thought leader, responsible for developing our communications strategy and conveying firm positions on accounting and financial reporting matters. She is the engaging host of PwC's accounting and reporting weekly podcast and quarterly webcast series. With over 30 years of experience, Heather's accounting and auditing expertise includes financial instruments and rate-regulated accounting. Transcripts available upon request for individuals who may need a disability-related accommodation. Please send requests to us_podcast@pwc.com.

The European Union (EU) has ushered in a new era of sustainability reporting, as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is now effective. With impacts to both EU and non-EU headquartered companies, now is the time to understand the reporting requirements of this sweeping new regulation. This week we zoom out to review the broader landscape of EU regulations. Introduced as a result of the European Green Deal strategic policy initiative, these regulations will have impacts on topics from carbon pricing, to foreign subsidy disclosures, to corporate governance, and more. In this episode, Heather Horn is joined by PwC Netherlands partners Niels Muller and Linda Thonen to review these regulations, and how they will impact entities that are in scope. In this episode, you'll hear:4:05 - Background on the European Green Deal6:42 - The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and its impact to carbon pricing on EU imports16:25 - The Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) and its interaction with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)23:29 - How corporate strategy and investment decisions are changing due to green regulations 34:53 - Legal risk management, and the role of directors and those charged with governance 41:15 - How CSRD scoping and reporting decisions impact compliance with other regulations45:15 - The proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and its far-reaching requirements47:16 - What companies can do today to prepare for upcoming regulationsLooking for more information on these EU regulations and their reporting requirements? Check out our publication European Union regulations beyond CSRD for further details. Additionally, follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app for future episodes in this CSRD spotlight series, and subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get all of our thought leadership.Niels Muller is a PwC partner based in the Netherlands specializing in energy transitions and sustainable energy. In this role he advises institutional investors, financial institutions, and utility companies as well as governments and non-governmental organizations on sustainability and tax projects.Linda Thonen is a PwC legal services partner based in the Netherlands specializing in corporate and sustainability matters. With over 15 years as a legal practitioner, Linda's experience has centered around corporate law, corporate governance, with a focus on M&A and cross-border transactions. Heather Horn is PwC's National Office thought leader, responsible for developing our communications strategy and conveying firm positions on accounting and financial reporting matters. She is the engaging host of PwC's accounting and reporting weekly podcast and quarterly webcast series. With over 30 years of experience, Heather's accounting and auditing expertise includes financial instruments and rate-regulated accounting.Transcripts available upon request for individuals who may need a disability-related accommodation. Please send requests to us_podcast@pwc.com.

Europe has long been at the forefront of global efforts to transition towards cleaner and more sustainable energy sources. Ambitious plans such as the European Green Deal and the Fit for 55 reinforce the region's commitment to reducing hashtag#carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030 (from 1990 levels) and achieving hashtag#netzero emissions by 2050. However, the energy transition faces new challenges, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the lingering effects of the pandemic, supply chain disruptions, and economic turmoil, all of which have posed threats to energy security and affordability in EU countries. McKinsey & Company released a report on how Europe could overcome these challenges and achieve an orderly clean energy transition. -https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/sustainability/our-insights/five-key-action-areas-to-put-europes-energy-transition-on-a-more-orderly-path Authors of the report Tommaso Cavina and Andre Ancleto will join #CambridgeJudge Professor David Reiner to discuss how the European Union can achieve a more orderly energy transition, balancing rapid decarbonization with energy security and economic growth. McKinsey report https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/sustainability/our-insights/five-key-action-areas-to-put-europes-energy-transition-on-a-more-orderly-path

With the European Green Deal striving to make Europe sustainable and carbon-neutral by 2050, environmental assessments of cosmetic products have become indispensable. In this podcast, our Intertek Assuris experts detail the measures taken to evaluate and ensure environmental safety of cosmetic products, and the importance of expert guidance during this process.  Speakers:Marion Cheron, Ecotoxicologist, Intertek AssurisAnne-Sophie, Product Safety Manager – MaterialsFollow us on- Intertek's Assurance In Action || Twitter || LinkedIn.

On 13 September 2023, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, delivered this year's State of the Union address before the European Parliament. This is the last address of her current mandate. In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro hosts André Sapir, Simone Tagliapietra and Jeromin Zettelmeyer to evaluate von der Leyen's address regarding the European Green Deal, industrial policy, economic security, Ukraine and more.

Although Europe has been the global leader when it comes to greening its economy, recent challenges may be a cause for concern.----- Transcript -----Rob Pulleyn: Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Rob Pulleyn, Morgan Stanley's Head of Utilities of Clean Energy Research in Europe. Jens Eisenschmidt: And I'm Jens Eisenschmidt, Morgan Stanley's Chief Europe Economist. Rob Pulleyn: On this special episode of this podcast, we'll be discussing the future of Europe's energy transition, including whether its clean energy goals are realistic and the implications for investors and Europe's broader economy. It's the 30th of August, 10 a.m. in London. Rob Pulleyn: Europe has long been a global leader when it comes to greening its economy. Strong societal and political support has bolstered the region's transition to clean sources of energy, with a European Green Deal and climate target plan aiming to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and achieve net zero by 2050. While substantial progress has been made over the previous decades, the region is now facing several challenges. Jens, can you give us the backdrop to Europe's energy transition and some of what's changed recently? Jens Eisenschmidt: Yes Rob, I mean, you have explained it already. There are big change targets, climate change related targets to the energy transition that Europe has subscribed to. These targets were in place already before the 24th of February in 22, when we saw the Russian invasion in Ukraine that changed the European energy set up profoundly. Now, why is this important? It's important because these targets were done in sort of a plan that relied on a certain energy source that is no longer existing. So let me give you an example. Let's take Germany, which was anyway already quite progressed in its journey onto increasing the share of renewables in electricity production. If you take Germany, they have been turning their back on nuclear power generation, which is another source of emission free power generation, and have embraced as a flex load provider, so as a provider of electricity when renewables are unavailable to natural gas. Now this natural gas supply from Russia is no longer available, as we all know, and of course, that implies that the Germans and other member states of the European Union as well have to change the plan by which they transit to a carbon free economy. And, you know, this is very complicated because it's not only switching one energy source for the other or exchanging one for the other. You also have to look about the infrastructure, you have to see what is essentially giving your energy mix the stability, as I said before, when we don't have sun shining and wind blowing, you need to have a source that's about the question about storage technologies, that's not entirely independent of the energy sources that you have available. And so the last year provided a profound challenge to the way Europe had planned its energy transition, so they have to replan it, and the complexity of that is huge. Essentially, it's something you want to ideally plan at the European level in order to harness all the comparative advantages all the countries have, given example, you have a lot of sun hours in Spain, less so in Germany, so ideally you want to put solar for Europe somewhere south and not so much somewhere north. But that of course means something for the grid, you have to deploy around it. So all that complexity is huge, all the coordination needs are huge and so this is the new situation we are in. Rob Pulleyn: Yeah, that new situation clearly puts increased pressure on Europe, if electricity prices remain elevated, Europe's large industrial base and you mentioned Germany would continue to shoulder this burden. You know margins, pricing, competitiveness would all suffer and the region's place in the global value chain might be at risk. Now, renewables are increasingly cost competitive, but even when the solar power is still very intermittent and that requires either a stable baseload or at least flexible generation. And as you mentioned, this previously was facilitated partly by Russian gas. Now, with all that in mind Jens, how much investment is needed to fund the transition and is there economic risk associated with this? Jens Eisenschmidt: So the numbers are huge. We have said that number could be around $5 trillion, other sources estimate this to be slightly higher, but more or less the ballpark is the same. We also know that already $1.4 trillion is earmarked from public funds, so EU budget, meaning that $3.6 are left for the private sector to deploy or for member states to come up from national budgets. So the figure itself boiling down to somewhere between $5 to $600 billion a year until at least 2030 and maybe beyond, these figures are not in itself the problem. The problem is how do you, according to which plan, do you deploy this and what is the sort of economic backdrop in which this investment happens? So ideally, from an economist perspective, this is a productivity increasing undertaking, and if it's done in that way, it won't be necessarily inflationary, it would be mildly growth enhancing. But of course there is a risk that all that investment in particularly being driven by the public sector, crowds out other productive investment. And in that case, it would be less productivity enhancing and more inflationary, which we think is the more realistic case here for Europe. We don't think that this is the end of the world in terms of inflation, but we do estimate a sizable impact of around 20 basis points per year that inflation could turn out to be higher. That all being said, if electricity prices can be reliably and durably lowered, that would have the potential to generate more innovation. Rob, you have your finger on the pulse of new technology, what do you see emerging that may advance the progress of Europe's transition? Rob Pulleyn: Yeah, thanks Jens. So historically, we've been positively surprised by the pace of levelized cost of energy coming down, particularly in renewables. And we've also been positively surprised by technological developments elsewhere. As we think about the key challenge of this new wind and solar capacity ambitions, the key is intermittency, and therefore industrial scale batteries are going to be key, fuel cells should also be, green gas, which is also needed for industrial abatement, could also be part of that solution. I also think we need to talk about behind the meter, which is really rooftop solar, whether it's solar panels but more crucially one of the parts of the value chain is the inverters. More efficient inverters are one of the most key components for reducing the cost of solar. As we think about electrification of the home in terms of heat pumps, you know, there's another technology which will develop and also passenger vehicles moving to electric, this behind the meter rooftop solar generation will be important combined with batteries and as I said, the inverters are a key part of that. Also will be software, how to manage all of this demand side response, I think is something you're going to hear much more from many of the retail companies we cover and innovating in the space. Now, as we think about the sequence and the steps of decarbonization here, step one, decarbonize the existing power system, step two electrify as much as possible, step three move to green gasses. We will eventually reach an area whereby we cannot decarbonize any further, and that's where carbon capture and storage comes in, for which we're already seeing significant improvement. So, there's many technologies which I think will play a significant role in this. And I suspect despite the current pressures we're seeing at the moment, we will continue to see significant positive surprises over the coming decade and thereafter, notwithstanding that the cost of capital is, of course, higher than it was over the last decade. Jens Eisenschmidt: So which sectors are likely to benefit the near-term and in the longer term? Rob Pulleyn: So the obvious answer, and somewhat self-serving, is utilities. To that number you mentioned earlier of $5 billion spent, we also think that the utilities could probably contribute around a European utility in Europe around $1.5 to $2 trillion of this. That still leaves a sizable gap versus what you were talking and perhaps there is upside risk to these investment spends. But within utilities, the obvious route is renewables. Having a tough time, I would say in 2023, trapped within higher costs and capital costs, but also, you know, policy impasse. But if we separate the wood for the trees under the vast majority of scenarios out to 2030 and 2050, the increase in green electricity is going to be substantial and utilities are the natural developers of those assets as they migrate away from coal and some degree gas, into clean energy. But it's not the only area. There's also networks. We need to invest in distribution and transmission, in electricity to actually accommodate these renewables and connect the new areas of upstream electricity generation to the areas of demand, which is primarily the cities and industry. Speaking about industry, there's also a need for green gas, and I actually think other sectors are going to contribute here, most notably oil and gas, which has the technical expertise and of course the industrial plant for industrial gasses. As we look into the supply chains, another area that's been in focus this year, both the OEMs in terms of turbines and solar manufacturers, the cabling, the software, the heat pumps, I think there are many aspects within equity stories which are ancillary to utilities but could create different risk rewards and different opportunities to what you may find in my sector. I think we can both agree that while significant progress has been made, Europe still has a long way to go for the next step of this journey. Jens Eisenschmidt: I fully agree. I would say that not all hope is lost that current targets will be met, but there are headwinds that cannot be denied. Rob Pulleyn: Jens, thank you very much for taking the time to talk today. Jens Eisenschmidt: Thanks, Rob. It was great to speak with you. Rob Pulleyn: And thank you all for listening. Subscribe to Thoughts on the Market, on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen, and please leave us a review. We'd love to hear from you.

Judith Fiedler is a regulatory expert in the skincare industry, currently working as the head of the product development team at La Prairie in Switzerland. With a focus on formulation, packaging, regulatory registration, and safety, Judith brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the conversation about sustainability in the cosmetics industry. **Summary:** In this episode of Packaging Unboxed, host Matos interviews Judith Fielder, a regulatory expert in the skincare industry. They discuss the challenges and opportunities of sustainable packaging in cosmetics, including the need for reduced packaging, recyclability, and the use of alternative materials. They also explore the role of luxury codes in packaging and the importance of educating consumers about sustainable choices. Judith shares insights into the changing regulatory landscape and the impact of extended producer responsibility (EPR) on the cosmetics industry. Overall, the conversation highlights the need for brands to adapt and innovate in order to meet sustainability goals and consumer expectations. **Key Takeaways:** 1. Sustainable packaging in cosmetics involves reducing packaging, reusing materials, using recyclable packaging, and establishing a recovery circle. 2. Luxury codes in packaging, such as adding weight for a perceived value, need to be reevaluated to align with sustainability goals. 3. Consumers are not necessarily willing to pay more for sustainable packaging in cosmetics, but brands can differentiate themselves by investing in innovative and eco-friendly packaging solutions. 4. The European Green Deal aims for climate neutrality by 2050, and brands need to take action now to meet sustainability targets. 5. The recycling rate for cosmetic packaging is currently low, but brands are exploring alternatives and working towards higher rates. 6. Consumer education is crucial in promoting sustainable packaging practices, including proper recycling and separation of materials in the bathroom. 7. The regulatory landscape for packaging varies across countries, making it challenging for global brands to navigate. Working with advisory services and staying informed is essential. Connect with Evelio Mattos on LinkedIn here. Connect with Judith Fiedler on LinkedIn here. Learn more about La Prairie here. Learn how factory-direct sustainable retail packaging can benefit your brand with IDP Direct.com Start managing your packaging specifications and get ahead of EPR regulations worldwide with Specright.com Create custom packaging dielines, 3D renders, and presentation ready models on Pacdora.com Get your videos turned into clips with Clipsninja.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/packagingunboxd/message

------------------------------- 強化英語課程資訊 ------------------------------- 「社會人核心英語」有聲書課程連結：https://15minsengcafe.pse.is/554esm ------------------------------- 15Mins.Today 相關連結 ------------------------------- 歡迎針對這一集留言你的想法： 留言連結 官方網站：www.15mins.today 加入Clubhouse直播室：https://15minsengcafe.pse.is/46hm8k 訂閱YouTube頻道：https://15minsengcafe.pse.is/3rhuuy 主題投稿/意見回覆 : ask15mins@gmail.com 商業合作/贊助來信：15minstoday@gmail.com ------------------------------- 以下有參考文字稿～ 各播放器有不同字數限制，完整文稿可到官網搜尋 ------------------------------- 每日英語跟讀 Ep.K621: Reducing Carbon Emissions: EU Targets and Policies The European Union has set ambitious targets to combat climate change as part of the European Green Deal. The recently adopted European Climate Law commits the EU to reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, a significant increase from the current 40% reduction target. Additionally, the Climate Law legally binds the EU to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. To realize these objectives, the EU has introduced the Fit for 55 in 2030 package, comprising a series of interconnected revised and new laws related to climate and energy. 歐洲聯盟為應對氣候變化設定了雄心勃勃的目標，作為歐洲綠色協議的一部分。最近通過的歐洲氣候法案承諾歐盟到2030年至少減少55%的淨溫室氣體排放，相較目前的40%減排目標有顯著增加。此外，氣候法案使歐盟在2050年實現氣候中和成為法律約束。為了實現這些目標，歐盟推出了Fit for 55 in 2030計劃，其中包括一系列相互關聯的修訂法律和與氣候和能源相關的新法律。 To tackle carbon emissions from the industry, the EU has implemented the Emissions Trading System (ETS), the world's leading carbon market. Under this system, companies must obtain permits for each tonne of CO2 they emit and acquire these permits through auctions. The ETS covers about 40% of total EU greenhouse gas emissions, including around 10,000 power stations and manufacturing plants within the EU. To align with the emission reduction targets of the European Green Deal, the ETS underwent a significant update in April 2023, with emissions cuts set at 62% by 2030, based on 2005 levels. 為應對工業產生的碳排放，歐盟實施了排放交易系統（ETS），這是世界領先的碳市場。根據這一系統，公司必須為每噸二氧化碳排放獲得許可證，並通過拍賣獲取這些許可證。ETS覆蓋了約40%的歐盟溫室氣體排放，包括約10,000個位於歐盟境內的發電站和製造廠。為了與歐洲綠色協議的減排目標相符，ETS在2023年4月經歷了重大更新，將2030年的排放目標設定為2005年總排放量的38%。 Efforts to reduce emissions in the transportation sector have become a major focus for the EU. Civil aviation contributes to 13.4% of total CO2 emissions from EU transport, prompting the implementation of a revised Emissions Trading System for aviation, covering all flights departing from the European Economic Area. The EU aims to phase out free allocations for aviation by 2026 and promote the use of sustainable aviation fuels. For maritime transport, the ETS will also be extended, targeting a 2% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from ships by 2025 and an 80% reduction by 2050, applying to ships over a gross tonnage of 5,000. 減少運輸領域的排放已成為歐盟的主要焦點。民航業佔歐盟運輸總量13.4%的CO2排放，促使對民航業進行修訂版本排放交易系統的實施，該系統涵蓋所有從歐洲經濟區出發的航班。歐盟計劃在2026年之前逐步取消對民航業的免費配額，並推廣使用永續的航空燃料。對於海運，ETS也將得到擴展，目標是到2025年將超過5,000噸總噸位的船舶的溫室氣體排放減少2%，並在2050年將其減少80%。 The energy sector plays a significant role in EU greenhouse gas emissions, with fuel combustion accounting for over three-quarters of the total. To address this, the EU aims to decrease energy consumption and increase the use of cleaner energy sources, reducing dependence on non-EU imports. One approach involves curbing energy consumption, with targets set for a reduction of at least 40% in final energy consumption and 42.5% in primary energy consumption by 2030. Additionally, the EU aims to boost the share of renewable energy in its final energy consumption to 42.5% by 2030, with individual countries targeting 45%. 能源領域在歐盟的溫室氣體排放中發揮著重要作用，燃料燃燒占總量的四分之三以上。為應對這一情況，歐盟目標降低能源消耗，並增加乾淨能源的使用，減少對非歐盟進口的依賴。其中一種方法是限制能源消耗，到2030年設定最終能源消耗至少減少40%和初級能源消耗至少減少42.5%的目標。此外，歐盟目標增加其最終能源消耗中可再生能源的佔比，到2030年達到42.5%，而各個國家的目標則為45%。 The EU's commitment to reducing carbon emissions is at the forefront of its climate change efforts. With the adoption of the European Climate Law and the Fit for 55 in 2030 package, the EU aims to lead the way in mitigating climate change and achieving climate neutrality by 2050. Through measures like the Emissions Trading System and promoting sustainable fuels, the EU is addressing emissions from various sectors, including industry, transport, and the energy sector. By harnessing the power of forests and regulating other greenhouse gases, the EU strives to combat climate change on a global scale, contributing to the fulfillment of the Paris Agreement. 歐盟對減少碳排放的承諾是其對氣候變化努力的首要工作。隨著《歐洲氣候法》和Fit for 55 in 2030計劃的通過，歐盟目標要先減緩氣候變化，並在2050年實現氣候中和。通過排放交易系統和推廣永續燃料等措施，歐盟正在處理來自工業、運輸和能源等各個領域的排放。通過善用森林的力量和監管其他溫室氣體，歐盟努力在全球範圍內應對氣候變化，並為履行《巴黎協定》做出貢獻。 Reference article: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20180305STO99003/reducing-carbon-emissions-eu-targets-and-policies

    Andrea Costa  is a qualified chartered engineer and building energy rating (BER) assessor in Italy and a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) affiliated to the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE).    He is expert in building simulation with experience on an array of building energy simulation software and ISO 50001 certification tools. Andrea is originally a graduate from the Politecnico di Milano where he obtained a BSc(Eng) in Building Engineering in 2005.    In 2007 he was also awarded a summa cum laude Masters of Science degree in Building Engineering. During the master degree programme, he was awarded an Erasmus Scholarship and studied at University College Cork in the academic year 2005/2006.    He pursued and was awarded a PhD in Civil Engineering from the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) with a PhD topic of providing support to the energy manager in improving the building operation strategy with considerations on building energy use and occupant comfort throughout the building lifecycle.    After his PhD, Andrea was awarded an industrially supported Postdoctoral Fellow co-funded by IRCSET (Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology) as part of the Enterprise Ireland Partnership Scheme and D'Appolonia Spa in Italy.    Andrea brings with him a balance of field and research experience including FP7 projects for energy efficiency with targeted focus for office buildings, airports, sport facilities, and schools.   Show Highlights Play sustainability Legos to inspire your direction. Aims and innovative solutions and technologies to speed up change to the construction industry and the real estate industry. Research funded projects to support green building consulting and projects. R2M focus and industry impact    Making buildings more digitally sustainable and eco digital. Understanding new European directive for building energy efficiency Educating stakeholders to manage their own assets.  A framework for digital initial log books directly working with requirements and guidelines for green building. Unique approach to digitizing and keeping digital data available for buildings during daylight time. Providing internal occupants with the digital solutions that maintain better conditions. Understanding the difference between the European Green Deal and EU taxonomy mandates and priorities.  The secret to growing a sizable business for budding entrepreneurs.   Transform buildings into digital assets.  “Find the right balance or the mood of the dial. When you are very excited, it's easy. Longer when you are very frustrated, it's easier to reduce. The challenge is when you're frustrated, you should try to keep pushing a bit more than when you would like to stop. And when you are super excited, you should try not to overwork too much because otherwise another dry spell of being not so excited will come. It's a hard balance to keep.” -Andrea Costa     Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES   GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!   If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on .  We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the !   Copyright © 2023 GBES

Welcome to the daily304 – your window into Wonderful, Almost Heaven, West Virginia.   Today is Monday, July 24  Filmmaker Tijah Bumgarner shares her passion for telling WV's stories…Export businesses, learn how you can adapt to the changes coming with the European Green Deal…and the WV SBDC opens a new office in Huntington…on today's daily304. #1 – From SHINE ON, WV –  Filmmaker Tijah Bumgarner has always been drawn to telling Appalachian stories in her documentary and narrative projects. She returned to West Virginia to continue making her films while teaching the next generation of West Virginia filmmakers at Marshall University, changing the game for indie film in Huntington. Watch the interview on YouTube and subscribe to the Shine On, WV channel for more features on West Virginia artists. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhGO2wANVmw #2 – From WV ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT –  The European Union has been working on a new economic policy called the European Green Deal that will make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. This means that the EU wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by the mid-century. But what does that mean for businesses here in West Virginia? Businesses need to be aware of the changes and make sure they are prepared to comply with new regulations if they hope to be well-positioned to succeed in the European market.  We believe knowledge is key to being a successful exporter and that having an export plan reduces the likelihood of you making hasty or reactionary decisions. So, prepare for new regulations in Europe now by documenting your product's components and researching their origins.  You should also start conversations with your engineers and company leadership to find ways to improve product sustainability and recyclability, reduce your manufacturing carbon footprint and mitigate associated costs.  Read more: https://westvirginia.gov/european-green-deal-challenge-and-opportunity-for-wv-exporters/   #3 – From WV SBDC –  The West Virginia Small Business Development Center, a division of the West Virginia Department of Economic Development, opened a new office in the River Tower in downtown Huntington. The downtown location will help entrepreneurs and business owners in the community by offering practical information to help grow local business, primarily covering Cabell, Mason Lincoln, and Wayne counties. "The Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce is excited to have the West Virginia Small Business Development Center as our new neighbor. The Chamber and SBDC have shared missions of cultivating a thriving business community that drives economic growth and innovation so I think it is a natural fit,” said Tricia Ball, President & CEO of the Huntington Chamber. “It is my hope that being located in the same building will allow us to more closely partner on providing aspiring entrepreneurs and small businesses with the technical assistance, resources, and connections they need to succeed.” Read more: https://wvsbdc.com/wv-sbdcs-huntington-center-relocates/   Find these stories and more at wv.gov/daily304. The daily304 curated news and information is brought to you by the West Virginia Department of Commerce: Sharing the wealth, beauty and opportunity in West Virginia with the world. Follow the daily304 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @daily304. Or find us online at wv.gov and just click the daily304 logo.  That's all for now. Take care. Be safe. Get outside and enjoy all the opportunity West Virginia has to offer.

It's easy to feel doomed when it comes to climate change. In her latest book, the Italian political scientist Nathalie Tocci makes the case for cautious optimism about Europe's climate and energy policies. We chat to her this week about the opportunities and challenges of the European Green Deal, as well as how to interpret the death last week of Silvio Berlusconi. We're also talking about a push to ban unpaid internships across the EU, and whether or not we should be blaming Beyoncé for stubbornly high inflation in Sweden. FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT HERE: https://europeanspodcast.com/episodes/beyonc-inflation-and-the-case-for-climate-optimism Nathalie is the director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome. You can follow her on Twitter here and find more information about her latest book, 'A Green and Global Europe', here. We are over the moon that the animated version of our episode 'Mohamed', made with our friends at Are We Europe, has won a CIVIS prize! You can watch the beautiful animation here on YouTube. This week's Isolation Inspiration: ⁠roasted fennel⁠ and 'The Council of Egypt' by Leonardo Sciascia.  Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few bucks a month at ⁠patreon.com/europeanspodcast⁠ (many currencies are available). You can also help new listeners find the show by ⁠leaving us a review⁠ or giving us five stars on Spotify.  00:22 Amsterdam heat and breakfast tears03:44 Good Week: Interns10:49 Bad Week: Beyoncé21:31 Interview: Nathalie Tocci on the case for climate optimism in Europe36:32 Isolation Inspiration: Roasted fennel and The Council of Egypt40:02 Happy Ending: (Everyone's) Free-To-Wear Sunscreen Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina Twitter | Instagram | hello@europeanspodcast.com

The European Commission has adopted a set of proposals, known as the European Green Deal, including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which marks a new era of sustainability reporting in the EU. Under the CSRD, companies will soon have to report on a wide range of environmental, social and governance matters in compliance with European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).This week, the European Commission released revised ESRS for public feedback. For this episode, Heather Horn was joined by Andreas Ohl, a PwC National Office Partner and Global sustainability topic team leader and Emily Kirsch, a PwC National Office Director who is following sustainability-related projects from accounting standard setters in the EU, to share their insights. Feedback is due July 7th, 2023.In this episode, you'll hear:1:48 - An overview of the revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards7:52 - The biggest takeaways - including the changes in the proposed standards from earlier drafts12:40 - Considerations of phase-in requirements to help companies apply the standards18:45 - Considerations of interoperability with other sustainability reporting standards, including those from the ISSB, SEC, and GRI23:15 - Recommendations for companies seeking to provide input on the draft standards during the 4-week public comment period26:03 - Expectations for timing of implementation of the finalized standards28:44 - Final advice for companies preparing for implementation of the new standardsFor more information on the revised draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards, read our In brief. Additionally, a replay of the European Commission's presentation on the revised draft ESRS can be found on European Financial Reporting Advisory Group's (EFRAG) website. Lastly, to hear more on the status of the "big three" sustainability proposals (and earn CPE credit), listen to PwC's Q2 2023 Quarterly accounting webcast.Andreas Ohl is a partner in PwC's National Office focused on thought leadership, standard setting, and mergers and acquisitions under US GAAP and IFRS. In addition to his US responsibilities, he leads the sustainability topic team for the PwC global network. Andreas is chairman of the Business Valuation Standards Board at the International Valuation Standards Council, is a member of the working group that authored the AICPA's in-process R&D guide, and has served as a member of the FASB's Valuation Resource Group.Emily Kirsch is a director in PwC's National Office focused on sustainability reporting thought leadership and standard setting in the EU. She has more than 12 years of experience advising both public and private companies in navigating complex accounting and financial reporting topics during periods of change in an organization. Transcripts available upon request for individuals who may need a disability-related accommodation. Please send requests to us_podcast@pwc.com.

If you've listened to the podcast at all over the past few years, you'll know that the search for routes to total systemic change has always been the driver of what we're doing and why we're doing it. Even so, it's not often I talk to someone who is singlemindedly exploring the routes to that systemic change and who has the tools to help everyone explore the potential for what might come next. And so this week, I am immensely happy to have had the chance to talk to Cat Tully, a remarkable woman who spends her life helping people to bridge the space between where we are and where we need to get to, in ways that drag as little of the past with us as possible, while opening the widest gates we can to the systems, structures and practices that stand the best chance of a generative future. Cat leads the School of International Futures (SOIF), a not-for-profit international collective of practitioners based in the UK that use futures thinking to inspire change at the local, national and global levels. SOIF has worked with organisations like the UN, Omidyar, NATO, the Royal Society and national governments across the planet - all with the explicit intention of making the world fairer for current and future generations.  SOIF also supports a growing network of Next Generation Foresight Practitioners - young people under the age of 35, who can advocate for and engage with change in their communities and the wider world. There is so much that the SOIF is doing - so many people it's bringing together - we could have spent our time together talking about specific instances, and Cat does use specific examples of projects she's involved in to highlight specific areas, but in general, we wanted to explore the ideas, the systems, the ways we might think differently so that you can pick them up and run with them. Because one thing is becoming increasingly clear as our future unfolds - which is that none of us knows what it is, and it's going to take all of us, using the best tools we have, to make it clear. Cat is bringing us those tools, honed and ready for use. SOIF Projects: If you are interested in learning strategic foresight to shape the future of your community or your organisation, SOIF offers an annual in-person Summer Retreat in Strategic Foresight, happening from 24 to 28 July 2023 in the UK and virtual courses throughout the year. The next virtual courses in 2023 are starting in May and September. Futures toolkit for leaders: SOIF and California 100 published "Beyond Strategic Planning: Foresight Toolkit for Decision Makers"—a primer for leaders looking for straightforward, pragmatic ways to apply foresight to their work. The National Strategy for the Next Generation programme engaged 16-30-year-olds, Next Generation Champions, to imagine futures of the UK's international development role in 2045. SOIF developed the Framework for Assessing Intergenerational Fairness with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The tool has been used by All Parliamentary Party Groups for Future Generations (APPG) in their initiative Futures Check, and we have developed a policy brief on Building a Coalition for Intergenerational Fairness in the European Green Deal. Next Generation Foresight Practitioners, an initiative by SOIF, is the largest global network of next-generation future-alert changemakers democratising the futures and foresight field. With 100 fellows and 500 members of a global network, the initiative supports young change agents that use foresight to shape better futures for their community and the world, e.g. NGFP members in Africa imagining Digital Futures of the continent, seeding collaboration with an Impact fund and creating opportunities for members to be visible,  BBC Futures article, Youth Climate and Energy Futures Lab at COP26 and contributing to United Nations General Assembly on the SDG Moment Closing Panel. Other links3 Horizons model https://www.boardofinnovation.com/blog/what-is-the-3-horizons-model-how-can-you-use-it/Beth Barany https://bethbarany.com/

This week, I spoke with Dr. Alexander Dunlap about a range of topics, such as Degrowth, green anarchism, the violence of extractivism, questions of the conception of renewable energy and resistance to ecocide. We covered a lot in this discussion and he's written a lot on a range of related topics. Check out his ResearchGate where many pdfs are available or searching his name on AnarchistLibrary.Net. If there's something at ResearchGate that isn't available for download, you can email Alexander and request access. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) – pending Zine (Imposed PDF) – pending Our past interviews on resisting infrastructure projects can be found by checking out posts tagged "Environment" or "Earth and Animal Liberation" Other accounts for Dr. Dunlap: https://www.sum.uio.no/english/people/aca/xander/index.html http://v-u.academia.edu/AlexanderDunlap Suggested links: “The Coconut Revolution” documentary Environmental Justice Atlas Mining Watch (London) Exalt initiative Books Dunlap A and Brock A. (2022) Enforcing Ecocide: Power, Police and Planetary Militarization, Cham: Palgrave Dunlap A and Jakobsen J. (2019) The Violent Technologies of Extraction: Political Ecology, Critical Agrarian Studies and the Capitalist Worldeater. Dunlap, A. (2019) Renewing Destruction: Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance in a Latin American Context. Articles  Dunlap A and Riquito M. (2023). Social warfare for lithium extraction? Open-pit lithium mining, counterinsurgency tactics and enforcing green extractivism in northern Portugal. Energy Research & Social Science 95(1): 1-21. Dunlap A. (2023) The Green Economy as Counterinsurgency, or the Ontological Foundations for Permanent Ecological Catastrophe. Environmental Policy and Science: 39-50. Kallianos Y, Dunlap A and Dalakoglou D. 2022. Introducing Infrastructural Harm: Rethinking moral entanglements, spatio-temporal modalities, and resistance(s). Globalizations: 1-20. Dunlap A and Laratte L. (2022) European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green' energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization. Political Geography 97: 1-17. Dunlap A and Marin D. (2022) Comparing coal and ‘transition materials'? Overlooking complexity, flattening reality and ignoring capitalism. Energy research & social science 89: 1-9. Dunlap A and Correa-Arce M. (2022) ‘Murderous Energy' in Oaxaca, Mexico: Wind Factories, Territorial Struggle and Social Warfare. Journal of Peasant Studies 49(2): 455-480. Next Week... Next week, we hope to bring you a conversation with Michael Laufer of the anarchist biohacking crew, the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective talking about do it yourself medical infrastructures. . ... . .. Featured Tracks: Fucked Up State by Icons of Filth Sekasortoa by Kaaos Marionett I Kedjor by Moderat Likvidation

An Irish teacher has been jailed for refusing to call a boy a girl, Queen Elizabeth II has died, and jail time is being threatened in Europe for turning the heat up too high this winter. … and more on today’s CrossPolitic Daily News Brief. My name is Toby Sumpter and today is Friday, September 9, 2022. https://nypost.com/2022/09/06/teacher-enoch-burke-jailed-over-trans-pronouns-flap/ A teacher in Ireland has been suspended from work and then jailed for contempt of court after he refused to use the correct pronouns to address a transgender student. Enoch Burke was arrested on Monday for violating a court order barring him from teaching at Wilson’s Hospital School in Westmeath, or even being present there, the news site RTE.ie reported. Judge Michael Quinn found Burke guilty of violating an order made by the High Court last week and sent him to Mountjoy Prison, where he will remain until either he purges his contempt or the court gives further orders. The teacher remained defiant in the face of jail time, telling the judge that “it is insanity” that he would be led out of the courtroom and taken to prison for refusing to give up his Christian beliefs. “I love my school, with its motto Res Non Verba, ‘Actions not words,’ but I am here today because I said I would not call a boy a girl,” Burke told the court. The scandal surrounding Burke began unfolding after the educator, who teaches history, politics and German at the school in Multyfarnham, County Westmeath, refused to address a transitioning student as “they” instead of “he.” Burke’s stance prompted school officials to place him on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of a disciplinary process. But the teacher refused to stay away from campus, despite an injunction that was issued barring him from going to the school, or attempting to teach. On Friday, the judge issued an order to arrest Burke after he was found sitting in an empty classroom at the school. Burke was taken into custody at the school on Monday and taken directly to court, where he told the judge he could not comply with the injunction because it would violate his conscience. “I am a teacher and I don’t want to go to prison,” Burke told the court. “I want to be in my classroom today, that’s where I was this morning when I was arrested.” He added: “Transgenderism is against my Christian belief. It is contrary to the scriptures, contrary to the ethos of the Church of Ireland and of my school.” FLF Conference Plug Do you like Jesus & beer? Then you and your family need to come to the Fight Laugh Feast Conference in Knoxville Tennessee, on October 6-8. The topic of this conference is Lies, Propaganda, storytelling, and the serrated edge. Satan is the father of lies, and the mother of those lies is a government that has rejected God. Christians haven’t been reading their Bibles, so we as a society are more susceptible than ever to satan and his lies. So join us, October 6-8, as we fight, laugh, and feast, with beer & psalms, our amazing lineup of speakers, including Pastor Doug Wilson, George Gilder, and Pastor Toby Sumpter, and more… AND, stuff for the kids too, like jumpy castles, and accidental infant baptisms! Sign up to attend with you and yours, or become a vendor at fightlaughfeast.com. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61585886 Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. She died peacefully on Thursday afternoon at her Scottish estate, where she had spent much of the summer. The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change. Her son King Charles III said the death of his beloved mother was a "moment of great sadness" for him and his family and that her loss would be "deeply felt" around the world. He said: "We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished sovereign and a much-loved mother. "I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world." During the coming period of mourning, he said he and his family would be "comforted and sustained by our knowledge of the respect and deep affection in which the Queen was so widely held". The King and his wife, Camilla, now Queen Consort, will return to London on Friday, Buckingham Palace said. Senior royals had gathered at Balmoral after the Queen's doctors became concerned about her health earlier in the day. All the Queen's children travelled to Balmoral, near Aberdeen, after doctors placed the Queen under medical supervision. Her grandson and now heir to the throne, Prince William, and his brother, Prince Harry, also gathered there. Prime Minister Liz Truss, who was appointed by the Queen on Tuesday, said the monarch was the rock on which modern Britain was built, who had "provided us with the stability and strength that we needed". Speaking about the new King, she said: "We offer him our loyalty and devotion, just as his mother devoted so much, to so many, for so long. "And with the passing of the second Elizabethan age, we usher in a new era in the magnificent history of our great country, exactly as Her Majesty would have wished, by saying the words 'God save the King'." https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1567928907411910656?s=20&t=jRqdyIeyvfjUj4nDBZFGsg Meanwhile, earlier this morning Uju Anya, Critical Race Theorist at Carnegie Mellon University tweeted: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidl empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.” Twitter did delete the Tweet as violating its rules, but i a follow up tweet she wrote: “If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star.” Another tweet insists that Queen Elizabeth was not a remnant of colonial times but an active participant in colonialism, “she actively tried to stop independence movements & she tried to keep newly independent colonies form leaving the commonwealth. The evil she did was enough” and a video is linked to an elderly Kenyan woman who says she was tortured with axes during Kenya’s struggle for independence from British colonial rule. The woman in the video demands that Elizabeth pay her back for what was done to to her. Uju Anya writes so-called “anti-racist” curriculum for public schools as well as Diversity Equity and Inclusion training materials. I’m sure it’s doing a lot of good. Not really. The simple point I want to make here is that this is a great example of how CRT is not helping anyone at all. Let’s grant the possibility that the history is being presented accurately here. I suspect that there might be more to it than is being presented, but let’s just grant it for the sake of the argument. You cannot build families, cultures, or nations on this kind of exacting demand for justice. You cannot get it. It’s not possible. And it’s not possible for two reasons at least: first, you can’t quantify the damage and harm and hurt. Can you put that woman’s tears in a bottle and measure them out? When would it be enough? It would never be enough. And second, what standard would you use to measure anyway? By what standard? If you appeal to Darwin, you just threw away your standard. If you appeal to Marx, then you are only appealing to a momentary revolution and you’re condemned to eternal feuding, since once the oppressed class gets put in charge they will no doubt oppress the previously ruling class, and we will just play see-saw with revenge. The only way out of this is the blood of Jesus. The only way out of this tailspin of feuding bitterness and rage and spite and hate is through forgiveness in the blood of Christ. This is true for England, America, and Kenya, and all the nations of the earth. There will be blood. The only question is whose blood and will it be efficacious blood. The blood of Jesus is efficacious. It actually takes away sin and guilt. It actually allows you to lay down your arms, lay down your vengeance, and forgive. May Uju Anja, the people of Kenya, and all people find peace in the Cross of Christ. As the Queen herself once said, “History teaches us we… need saving from ourselves, from our recklessness or our greed. God sent into the world… neither a philosopher or a general… but a Saviour with the power to forgive.” Classical Conversations Classical Conversations supports homeschooling parents by cultivating the love of learning through a Christian worldview in fellowship with other families. They provide a classical Christ-centered curriculum, local like-minded communities across the United States and in several countries, and they train parents who are striving to be great classical educators in the home. For more information and to get connected, please visit their website at ClassicalConversations.com. Again that’s ClassicalConversations.com. https://www.dailywire.com/news/switzerland-may-jail-people-who-turn-heat-above-66-degrees-this-winter/ Citizens of Switzerland who dare to turn their thermostats above a balmy 19 degrees Celsius — 66 degrees Fahrenheit — over the winter may instead find themselves shivering in a prison cell. The cost of natural gas in Europe has increased more than tenfoldamid the fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while Russia severed natural gas shipments through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline last week. According to a report from Swiss news outlet Blick, the nation’s Federal Law on National Economic Supply permits authorities to fine and imprison residents who consume too much gas if energy rationing becomes necessary. Those who fail to comply with the temperature mandates could receive sanctions between 30 and 3,000 Swiss francs, the equivalent of $31 and $3,090, Federal Department of Finance spokesman Markus Spörndli told the outlet. Those found intentionally violating the statute would receive up to three years in prison, and those found with negligent violations could be forced to pay 180 days’ worth of fines. Beyond the temperature controls, residents will be unable to heat swimming pools, saunas, radiant heaters, or warm air tents, while hot water will not be allowed to reach temperatures above 60 degrees Celsius, or 140 degrees Fahrenheit. The member states of the Swiss Confederacy have until September 22 to voice concerns over the law. In the United States, a heatwave that has threatened power supplies in California led utility company Xcel Energy to lock the thermostats of 22,000 people in Colorado at 78 degrees Fahrenheit in the interest of protecting grid capacity. The residents had previously opted into an incentive program that let the firm “ease the strain on the electrical grid” during the “hottest summer days.” The European Union has adopted the official policy of becoming “a climate-neutral society” by 2050 in accordance with the European Green Deal and the Paris Agreement. Citing the failure of hydropower facilities amid drought conditions, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen likewise proposed a “mandatory target” for reducing usage in the European Union, of which Switzerland is not a member. “If you look at the costs of electricity, there are peak demands. And this is what is expensive, because, in these peak demands, the expensive gas comes into the market,” she commented on Wednesday. “So what we have to do is to flatten the curve and avoid the peak demands. We will propose a mandatory target for reducing electricity use at peak hours.” Flatten the curve. Where have we heard that language before? Christ Church Events Coordinator Looking to move to Moscow? Christ Church is hiring a full-time events coordinator to plan and manage all events for our various ministries. 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