free trade agreement – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Tue, 16 Mar 2021 14:40:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 The world’s biggest trade bloc is born – what does it mean for the energy transition? https://energytransition.org/2021/03/the-worlds-biggest-trade-bloc-is-born-what-does-it-mean-for-the-energy-transition/ https://energytransition.org/2021/03/the-worlds-biggest-trade-bloc-is-born-what-does-it-mean-for-the-energy-transition/#respond Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:00:52 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=24017 The year 2020 brought us a devastating pandemic and an economic slowdown but also some decisive moments for the global energy transition. Last year ushered in a wave of groundbreaking pledges on carbon and climate neutrality. Meanwhile, clean energy investments have proven resilient to the global economic downturn, further shrinking prices for renewable power generation equipment and the ongoing...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/03/the-worlds-biggest-trade-bloc-is-born-what-does-it-mean-for-the-energy-transition/feed/ 0 How the EU-Mercosur trade deal is worsening the international climate crisis https://energytransition.org/2019/07/climate-crisis-turns-into-climate-disaster-the-dirty-free-trade-agreement-between-eu-and-mercosur/ https://energytransition.org/2019/07/climate-crisis-turns-into-climate-disaster-the-dirty-free-trade-agreement-between-eu-and-mercosur/#respond Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:00:42 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=20325 After twenty years of negotiations, the European Union is in the process of advancing one of the world’s largest free trade agreements with four states of Mercosur. The planned agreement suggests a political path that veers towards a worsening of the international climate crisis. Kathrin Meyer discusses the questionable contents of the political act, which will solidify inequality amongst the...

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