The European Parliament formally approved the European Union’s multi-billion euro fund on Tuesday (18 May) to support countries as they wind down fossil fuel industries as part of Europe’s push...
FORATOM on Just Transition Fund
FORATOM participated in the European Commission’s “fast-track interservice consultation on the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan including a Just Transition Mechanism and the Just Transition Fund”....
Brussels’ green cash credentials questioned
The European Commission got a rude awakening from its green dreams as critics assailed its financial plans to tackle climate change.
Nuclear ‘excluded’ from EU’s new Just Transition Fund
The EU’s regional policy Commissioner Elisa Ferreira revealed on Tuesday (14 January) details of the €100 billion Just Transition Mechanism, a key financial component of the European Green Deal that...
Europe’s nuclear energy solution
With the EU’s Green Deal now official policy, a fierce debate has raged over how the bloc will drastically reduce carbon emissions while also having to decide which long-term solution to adopt –...
Launching the Just Transition Mechanism – for a green transition based on solidarity and fairness
On 14th January 2020, the European Commission presented the European Green Deal’s Just Transition Mechanism and the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan.
Public consultation on the Just Transition Fund
On 15 January, the European Parliament (EP) adopted its position on the European Green Deal. MEPs welcomed the EGD and supported an ambitious sustainable investment plan to help close the investment...
Just Transition Mechanism must support all low-carbon options
FORATOM welcomes the EU’s goal of providing financial support to coal-dependent regions in order to assist them in their decarbonisation efforts.