Heute stimmt das Europäische Parlament über den Net-Zero Industry Act ab. Was Europas erste wirkliche Reaktion auf den amerikanischen Inflation Reduction Act hätte sein sollen, endete in einer Enttäuschung.
Bas Eickhout, Michael Bloss und Sara Matthieu sind Green/EFA Mitglieder des Europäischen Parlaments aus den Niederlanden, Deutschland und Belgien.
Ursprünglich dazu gedacht, die Produktion sauberer Technologien anzukurbeln, haben die Gesetzgeber in Parlament und Rat daraus praktisch einen Papiertiger gemacht, der die tatsächlichen Herausforderungen der Industrie nicht berücksichtigt.
Da konservative Kräfte darauf
A Harvard physicist ruffled feathers in the scientific community this year when he claimed to find the first ever objects from outside our solar system on Earth.
Professor Avi Loeb said that small, round ‘spherules’ recovered from the Pacific Ocean were from an ‘interstellar’ meteor.
The expert even analysed the spherules, alleging that their composition of elements had ‘never been seen before’, and that they could be remnants of an alien spacecraft.
However, the claim was met by criticism from
In his first interview since stepping down as the European Union’s chief competition economist, Pierre Régibeau told Belgian newspaper L’Echo that fear of European deindustrialization was unjustified.
If European heavy industry disappears, “so be it, because it has to. What’s the point of producing basic steel here if we can buy it three times cheaper in Indonesia?” Régibeau said, answering a question about the major concerns of steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal.
However, European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas isn’t buying it.
With its so-called Bidenomics, the US is leading the way in linking subsidies to social conditionalities, an approach that the EU has both criticised due to its impacts on competition and been reluctant to integrate into its industrial policy.
The US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), an attempt to further green the transition through subsidies for domestic energy projects, includes some social conditionalities – workers’ protections, or social or economic rights – necessary for companies to receive funding.
For instance, businesses
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The Washington Roundtable: This week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy moved a step closer to calling for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Biden, on the ground that Biden has used the “weaponization of government to benefit his family.” For years, Hunter Biden’s dealings with Ukrainian and Chinese companies have been the focus of Republicans’
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The mishap around the European Sovereignty Fund has exposed the fault lines in the EU’s approach to industrial policy. How to fill the gap – and compete on par with the US and China – will be a central theme for
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As the Arctic’s icebound ground warms, it may unleash toxic substances across the region.
By the end of the century, the thaw threatens to destabilize facilities at more than 2,000 industrial sites, such as mines and pipelines, and further compromise more than 5,000 already contaminated areas, researchers report March 28 in Nature Communications.
Those numbers come from the first comprehensive study to pinpoint where Arctic permafrost thaw could release industrial pollutants. But there are probably even more contaminated areas
Jim Cramer von CNBC sagte am Freitag den Anlegern, sie sollten sich von Aktien des Nasdaq Composite fernhalten und stattdessen auf Namen setzen, die im Dow Jones Industrial Average gelistet sind.
„Auch wenn Tech stark ins neue Jahr gestartet ist und es heute wahnsinnig gut war, sagen die Charts, wie sie von Larry Williams interpretiert werden, dass man ein bisschen vorsichtig mit den Showpferden an der Nasdaq sein und auf die Arbeitspferde in wetten muss der Dow”, sagte er.
Die
