Making the Green New Deal Happen Blog Series 2021 – Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium

Making the Green New Deal Happen Blog Series, July 2022:...

28 July 2022

As I write this blog, news about a severe drought in the Po Valley is on the front pages of European newspapers. The water shortage is forcing authorities to introduce water rationing for citizens in 125 municipalities and halting...

Making the Green New Deal Happen Blog Series, May 2022...

Thinking & Analysis

1 June 2022

The publication of 6th IPCC assessment report (AR6) on climate change in April was inevitably overshadowed by the brutal war in Ukraine. The new report focused on how to mitigate climate change. It was the third part of the IPCC’s...

Making the Green New Deal Happen Blog Series, March 2022:...

Thinking & Analysis

23 March 2022

Let’s start at the end: According to Hans-Otto Pörtner, one of the Working Group Chairs for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, cited in the latest IPCC report, “the scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to...

Making the Green New Deal Happen Blog Series, November 2021:...

Thinking & Analysis

29 November 2021

Decarbonising the heating in people’s homes is one of the trickiest areas of the climate transition. The European Commission’s Renovation Wave strategy highlighted the range of actions needed. Here Professor Martin Freer, Director...

Reflections from the Green New Deal Blog Series Editors

Thinking & Analysis

30 July 2021

In February, TIPC launched a new blog series entitled Making the Green Deal Happen. We opened the blog in a mood of optimism. Six months on, how are things going? By the end of May, all 27 Member states had...

Making the Green New Deal Happen Blog Series, June 2021:...

Thinking & Analysis

29 June 2021

Henrik Larsen discusses the climate shortcomings of the industrial food system, and how the EU’s Farm to Fork strategy’s potential ‘fit and conform’ approach to food systems and incumbent actors may not sufficiently...

Making the Green New Deal Happen Blog Series, June 2021:...

Thinking & Analysis

28 June 2021

Thomas Pellerin-Carlin from the Jacques Delors Energy Centre explains the vital role of regulation to accelerate clean energy innovation. As the European Commission promises a massive regulatory overhaul on July 14th, it should use this opportunity to create a...

Making the Green New Deal Happen Blog Series, May 2021:...

Thinking & Analysis

27 May 2021

Beth Morley from CENEX illustrates the grass-roots approaches needed in European cities to achieve the shift in mobility culture to meet Europe’s Green Deal targets. America is coming for Norway’s green credentials – at least according to Will...

The Missing Digital Dimension in Green New Deals

Thinking & Analysis

29 April 2021

Professor Mulgan identifies a troubling neglect by green deal politics of the potential of digital innovation to transform the data and learning that it needs to think and act globally and locally. We need to fill this gap as a...