Tag Archives: Climate change
Around Europe 340 – March 2012
Israel’s Supreme Court Adapts International Law in West Bank Quarrying ruling; A View of the EU Budget through Green-Tinted Spectacles; Continued Cognitive Dissonance in EU Energy Effort; Democracy under stress: The global crisis and beyond. Click here to download (PDF – 1.3 MB) Deutsche Ausgabe – März 2012 Israels Oberster … More…
Briefing paper: the green agenda in the EU budget
This briefing paper continues the work done by QCEA on the EU Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020. The Paper examines the latest proposals from the European Commission for the next EU budget and the potential effects of this on climate change, environmental and resource sustainability, biodiversity and other issues on the … More…
Around Europe 338 – December 2011 / January 2012
Fair Trials International Highlight the Shocking Truth of Pre-Trial Detention; Energy Savings Potential Continues to be Greatly Underutilised; Two Weeks’ Work Experience at QCEA
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Deutsche Ausgabe – Dezember 2011/Januar 2012
Fair Trials International beschreibt die schockierende Wahrheit über die Untersuchungshaft
Posted in Around Europe, Publications
Tagged Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), Carbon footprint, Climate change, Council of Europe (Strasbourg), Deutsche Ausgabe, Energy efficiency, Europe and Middle East Section (EMES), European arrest warrant, Fair Trials International, Fossil-fuels, Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), Greece, Human rights and Fundamental Freedoms, International Energy Agency (IEA), Junior Yearly Meeting (JYM), Peace and Service consultation, Poland, Pre-trial detention, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom (UK), Volunteer work experience
Briefing paper: poverty, inequality and climate change
This briefing paper was created to create a discussion on the need for policy coherence between climate change, energy, external action (including conflict prevention), trade, economic policy, and international development as these all relate directly to a sustainable future for those within Europe and those in other areas. The paper … More…
Around Europe 328 – December 2010 / January 2011
Gaza – the largest prison on earth?; Energy Efficiency: Time for the EU to put its money where its mouth is; An open letter to the European External Action Service
Deutsche Ausgabe – Dezember 2010 / Januar 2011
Ein offener Brief an den Europäischen Auswärtigen Dienst
Consultation response: roadmap for a low carbon economy by 2050
The challenge is well identified, and business as usual will not get us there. We must act now to ensure that existing energy and climate commitments are interpreted in the strongest way possible. If the European Union is not careful, a coordinated response to Europe’s energy revolution will be impossible, … More…
Around Europe 327 – November 2010
Europe’s Energy Revolution: Opportunities and Constraints; The EU and Israel/Palestine: Uncovering the realities; Still in Darkness – continuing challenges in the DRC
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Deutsche Ausgabe – November 2010
Die europäische Energierevolution: Chancen und Zwänge
Report: Military Responses to Energy Security Problems
EU Member States have taken part in military missions with energy security components for many years, though NATO, in support of US-led actions and independently. EU militaries contributed to US interventions Operation Earnest Will at the tail-end of the Iran-Iraq war and the 1991 and 2003 Gulf Wars. Britain, the … More…
Posted in Publications, Reports
Tagged Climate change, Common Defence and Security Policy, Energy security, Foreign relations, Member States of the European Union (MS), Middle East, North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), Operation Atalanta, Piracy, Sustainable energy security, The United Kingdom (UK)
Around Europe 326 – October 2010
Stronghold Europe: The European Security Research Programme; Introducing our new Programme Assistants; EU Budget 2014-2020; Sustainable Energy Security and the Quaker Role
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Deutsche Ausgabe – Oktober 2010
Festung Europa: das europäische Sicherheits-Forschungsprogramm
Report: EU Sustainable Consumption and Production Action Plan
Global challenges to sustainability – especially climate change and crises in energy, food and water supply – mean that European lifestyles must change. Governments have agreed to develop action plans for sustainable consumption and production (SCP) but their environmental, energy and food strategies are based mainly on finding new supplies … More…
