The Energy sector has been always a hot topic at the European level, even a cornerstone of the European Union since its foundation. Even more so, the ancestor of the EU is the European Community on Coal and Steel (ECSC) which was all about energy safety and war prevention. Also, one of the first treaties…
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Young European Greens demand stop to use of nuclear energy!
20 years after the catastrophic accident at Chernobyl, The Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) is concerned that nuclear energy is undergoing a revival in Europe. FYEG will campaign against nuclear energy as it is being used a scapegoat to avoid sustainable solutions to climate change. Ernest Urtasun, co-spokesperson of FYEG, says: “Chernobyl has clearly…
Egypt: Environmental Issues
Introduction Egypt is 97% desert and is therefore dependent on the Nile River for its existence. Only 5% of the land area in Egypt is actually occupied and less than 4% of the land is suitable for agriculture. Since such a small percentage of land is habitable, population densities in some areas along the Nile…
Switch to green
Two years ago, during one of those “let’s change the world” conversations in a pub we were wondering what we could do for the environment at our university. We knew about the university’s environment programme: full of ambitious but vague commitments. What to do? At the time, the government was thinking about building new nuclear…