“Scientific progress, not politics, should be the focus at COP28 climate conference” Climate conference season seems to come earlier every year. COP28, the latest instalment of the UN’s annual global
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Today, 6 October 2023, 50 years ago, the Yom Kippur War began between Israel and the Arab countries. It lasted only a few days, but it was used as a
“Give us back abundant and cheap energy” says Samuele Furfari, Professor of Geopolitics of Energy, Senior retired European Commission official, President of the European Society of Engineers and Industrialists Doctor of Applied Sciences, Polytechnic
After an emergency had been created to save the planet, the financial world no longer even embarks on the illusion of being its rescuer, but rather on a quagmire. The
A team of researchers from Northumbria University, UK, developed a way to harvest energy from movements we make every day, like turning and twisting, and convert it into electrical energy,
The Joint European Torus (JET) team located in Culham near Oxford has just taken a step forward in the scientific progress of nuclear fusion. Atomic fusion consists of releasing energy
On 4 December 2019, in her first Brussels press conference the newly appointed president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said she will lead a ‘geopolitical Commission’. One
A more globalised world has come with many benefits, including higher standards of living around the world, access to new markets, and lower-cost products. However, globalisation is also decreasing the
The European Commission presented its hydrogen strategy in July 2020. It is convinced that it will be possible to make ‘clean’ hydrogen a viable solution for a climate-neutral economy and
Despite COVID-19, many in Brussels – including a green recovery alliance in the EU Parliament and 13 EU Environment Ministers – are pressuring the European Commission (EC) to pursue the