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I was ten years old, it was the election year and I was learning how to rollerblade.  Things, in my opinion, were going pretty well. Little did I know how the events that would happen early on the 11th of September, 2001 would change my life, and my generation, forever. […]

While it has Europe’s most powerful Green party and a leading renewables sector, Germany’s opportunistic politics and poor public communication campaigns are undermining environmental initiatives, including the much-touted E10 biofuel. Germany might have the biggest share of Europe’s jobs in renewable energies but is it also leading in “green” politics? […]

If governments don’t succeed, should civil society take action and propose its own solutions? This year’s Salzburg Trilogue was an attempt to do exactly that

In Central and Eastern Europe’s relatively new democracies, environmental consciousness and its political manifestations are generally weaker than in Western Europe. More than twenty years have now passed since the democratic turn in Hungary, but the revolution in the ‘hearts and minds’ – at least as far as questions of […]

Many assume that democracies are better than non-democracies for environmentally sustainable development, but Peter Burnell says it’s time to question that assumption