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  • Can shale gas transform Europe's energy landscape?
    Policy brief by David Buchan, 10 July 2013
    Can shale gas transform Europe's energy landscape?
  • Commission should move to structural reform of the ETS
    Insight by Stephen Tindale, 09 May 2013
    Commission should move to structural reform of the ETS
  • How to expand renewable energy after 2020
    Policy brief by Stephen Tindale, 07 December 2012
    How to expand renewable energy after 2020
  • G8 and world politics
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 11 June 2007

    Angela Merkel can be content with the outcome of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm which she chaired with her by now characteristic mix of modesty, determination and pragmatism.
  • The world in 2020
    Insight by Mark Leonard, 23 January 2007

    By 2020, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the Chinese economy could overtake the US to become the largest in the world, at least when measured using purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates. India is expected to grow rapidly to become the third biggest economy.
  • Why the UK needs to back Commission energy plans
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 12 January 2007

    The reactions to the Commission’s energy package – widely leaked before its official publication date on January 10th – were predictable.
  • Time to get tough on carbon emissions
    Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 01 December 2006

    The single biggest challenge facing the world may be to decouple economic growth from growth in emissions of greenhouse gases.
  • Climate Change: Western business can help China and India
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 17 November 2006

    We Europeans are proud pioneers in combating climate change. But what we do at home is almost irrelevant unless we persuade and help China and India to limit emissions.
  • Towards an environmental union
    Bulletin article by David Miliband, 02 October 2006

    When I was involved in the creation of CER in 1994 I hoped it would become an important source of ideas and debate about the future of Europe.
  • EU 2010: A programme for reform
    Policy brief by Charles Grant, Hugo Brady, , Simon Tilford, 03 February 2006

    The European Union is suffering from a profound malaise. There have been difficult times in the past – such as the 'empty chair' left by General de Gaulle in the mid-1960s, the rows over the British budget contribution in the early 1980s, and the struggles to ratify the Maastricht treaty and preserve the Exchange Rate Mechanism in the early 1990s.
  • The EU must do more on climate change
    Bulletin article by Stephen Tindale, 01 February 2006

    The EU, like the rest of the world, faces no greater threat than climate change. There are two – equally bleak – scenarios for Europe if greenhouse gas emissions are not cut quickly and substantially.