Oil Bosses Call Phasing Out Fossil Fuels a ‘Fantasy’ – but an International Agreement is Plausible
By Harro van Asselt, Professor of Climate Law and Policy, Lauri Peterson, Senior Researcher, and Panagiotis Fragkos, Researcher, Energy & Economy, National Technical University of Athens. First published in The Conversation on 9 April 2024. Amin Nasser, chief executive of the world’s largest oil company Saudi Aramco, recently called on nations to “abandon the fantasy” […]
Mitä yhdysvaltojen Inflation Reduction Act tarkoittaa energiasektorille?
By Sirja-Leena Penttinen, Senior Lecturer at UEF Law School and an Assistant Director and Adjunct Professor at the Tulane Center for Energy Law, New Orleans, US. Tässä kirjoituksessa tarkastellaan Yhdysvalloissa vastoittain hyväksyttyä niin kutsuttua inflaation vähentämispakettia ja erityisesti sen merkittävimpiä säännöksiä koskien puhtaan energian tuotantoa. Kirjoitus perustuu kirjoittajan pian ilmestyvään artikkeliin ’Clean Energy under the […]
US and EU must overcome protectionist tendencies to cooperate on battery supply chains
Sirja-Leena Penttinen and Emily Burlinghaus Sirja-Leena Penttinen is a Senior Lecturer at UEF Law School and an Assistant Director and Adjunct Professor at the Tulane Center for Energy Law, New Orleans, US. Emily Burlinghaus is a German Chancellor Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, where her research focuses on sustainable battery supply chains, […]
Impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on environment, climate change and green energy transition
By Kateryna Holzer, Senior Researcher and Ievgeniia Kopytsia, Postdoctoral Researcher The Russian invasion of Ukraine is an unjustified and unprovoked act of aggression against an independent and sovereign state, as well as a violation of existing norms of international law and principles of human coexistence (Resolution A/ES-11/L.1). The use of heavy artillery and ballistic missiles […]