Tag: Geopolitics
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Remembering climate change adaptation
‘When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends’. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is all too familiar with this feeling Laozi describes in his Taoist studies. Over the past month, everyone has been shocked by Working Group 1’s Assessment Report. The cataclysm is not only real; it’s within reach. Business…
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Europe’s plan for carbon border adjustment
One-third of European greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are embedded in the import of goods and services. While the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) sets a price and limit on carbon emissions for domestic firms, no such measure exists for products made abroad. Without better accountability of imported emissions, there will be no real industrial decarbonisation.…
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Green and values-based Connectivity between Europe and Asia
Connectivity is one of the focal points of the new EU Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. The term is also central to the Connecting Europe and Asia Strategy and the EU-Japan Partnership on Sustainable Connectivity, while talks have begun with India on a connectivity-focused partnership. When calling for the establishment of a Global Connectivity…
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Safeguarding critical infrastructure – a condition of Europe’s strategic autonomy in space
Europe is a major actor in outer space, possessing 12% of the satellite fleet. As the largest Earth observation service worldwide delivering high-level data information, Copernicus contributes to the emergence of a digital and green Europe: monitoring of climate systems, marine and terrestrial analysis for conservation and precision farming, security of trade routes. In an…
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Neighbourhood instability – a call for majority voting in EU foreign policy
Ever since her nomination, Ursula von der Leyen has highlighted strategic autonomy and enhanced leadership as her top foreign policy aspirations. On a stage where power politics are undermining multilateralism and the rule of law, High Representative Josep Borrell suggests that the EU can only achieve this by learning the ‘language of power’. Two crises…
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Covid-19 as the stimulus for geopolitical divergence
The virus will in more general terms uncover the socio-political deficiencies of our worn-out world order, as it creates leadership opportunity for some and exacerbates the governance challenges of others. […]
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Lake Chad – less water, more insecurity
Lake Chad’s progressive dessication fragilises the primary water supply of 40 million people.
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