Sonja van Renssen (38)

| It's never been about banning oil sands or killing off the fledgling biodiesel market, but about correctly calculating the carbon footprint...

| For the first time ever decarbonisation is an explicit goal of the next EU budget. And it shows: the European Commission wants to devote ful...

| The EU hailed the outcome of the climate conference last weekend in Durban, where world governments agreed to create a new global climate tr...

| In February European political leaders called for an energy revolution. Next week on 13 December the European Commission will release its lo...

| Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is facing strong headwinds in Europe. EU member states have so far failed to translate an EU CCS law into n...

| The European Commission will launch a proposal next week intended to stimulate the construction of major new electricity, oil, gas and CCS i...

| An inexorable decline in the demand for oil in combination with ever more stringent regulatory burdens will lead to the closure of roughly h...

| For the first time, Brussels is taking concrete steps to wrest control of external energy policy from the EU member states. To begin with, t...

| The European Commission’s first-ever Energy Efficiency Directive, which was unveiled last month, has the traces of fierce disagreements and...

| These days no energy project can succeed without public backing. This holds true not only for nuclear, coal-fired and other power stations,...