On 22 June 2022, the European Commission published a legislative proposal for a nature restoration law. While this proposal contains many welcome measures, such as curbing the use of pesticides, it also puts forward very worrying proposals to put a price on nature, to base critical conservation on short-term cost-benefit analyses, and to set up …
UK biodiversity unit market: trading permits to destroy nature as a way to protect it?
UK's forthcoming biodiversity net gain requirement and its related proposal to create a market in biodiversity units raise serious concerns and questions. There is absolutely no need for such a market from a conservation perspective; on the contrary, past experience suggests that such a market will likely weaken conservation outcomes. Launching such a market would …
Preliminary considerations on the volatility of EU energy prices
We support the measures proposed by the European Commission aimed at reducing dependance from Russian oil and gas, curbing EU gas demand, stabilizing long term supply through joint gas purchases, and increasing gas storage capacity and batteries. We also support the introduction of clawback mechanisms aimed at capping excess profits. If such measures do not …
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