Alongside climate change and biodiversity loss, the pollution crisis is the third major global environmental crisis. However, it is often overlooked, although there is no other area where there are so great direct health effects. One in eight deaths in the EU is caused by pollution. Air pollution alone is now responsible for more than […]
Clean batteries: Looking for your concrete suggestions
Dear friends, dear interested, Whether it’s the transition to e-mobility or the electrification of our heating systems: Batteries are a key technology in the fight against climate change. If we want to move away from dirty combustion engines and oil and gas heating, we need much more storage capacity. The global battery production will therefore […]
Breakthrough for more transparency in the European agencies
Dear friends, dear interested, This means a breakthrough for more transparency: In response to my question, Fausto Parente, Executive Director of the European Insurance Supervisory Authority EIOPA, committed yesterday that his authority will make its central decision-making processes more transparent in the future. In particular, it will start disclosing how the representatives of the individual […]
Sustainable Finance: Von der Leyen and Timmermans must save the credibility of the Green Deal
This week, the EU Commission is finalising the first delegated act to shape the rules for Sustainable Finance. These “taxonomy rules” will determine which financial products and investments can be labelled as green and sustainable and which cannot. Recently, plans by the Commission to significantly soften the original science-based proposals under pressure from member states […]
Global minimum tax: Scholz and Le Maire should support a tax rate of 21 percent
Today, the G20 finance ministers are discussing a global minimum tax on corporate profits. On Monday, US Treasury Secretary Yellen had proposed a tax rate of 21 percent. Olaf Scholz left it open in his reaction yesterday whether he supports a tax rate at this level. Sven Giegold, financial and economic policy spokesperson of the […]