谁上来了？谁倒下了？欧洲中小企业在至关重要的“双转型”中进展如何？里斯本理事会研究中心深入研究了《2023年绿色数字和竞争力指数：21世纪中小企业议程》。该政策简报追踪了三大支柱中的九项指标，形成了对基层转型和跨境扩张的全面看法。该政策简报是在毕尔巴鄂中小企业大会上发布的，该大会由欧洲联盟理事会主席西班牙和欧盟委员会主办。
谁上来了？谁倒下了？欧洲中小企业在至关重要的“双转型”中进展如何？里斯本理事会研究中心深入研究了《2023年绿色数字和竞争力指数：21世纪中小企业议程》。该政策简报追踪了三大支柱中的九项指标，形成了对基层转型和跨境扩张的全面看法。该政策简报是在毕尔巴鄂中小企业大会上发布的，该大会由欧洲联盟理事会主席西班牙和欧盟委员会主办。
4月24日在比利时奥斯坦德举行的第二届北海峰会汇集了九个西北欧国家和欧盟委员会，他们心中有一个明确的目标：将北海打造成一个主要的绿色能源强国，促进欧洲的脱碳、能源安全和工业竞争力。
One aim of sustainable finance regulation is to push companies towards activities that will be compatible with the target to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This type of regulation – for example setting out classifications of what economic activities count as ‘green’ 1 As in the European Union taxonomy for sustainable activities; see https://finance.ec.europa.eu/sustainable-finance/tools-and-standards/eu-taxonomy-sustainable-activities_en. – seeks to encourage financing for activities and technologies that are clearly carbon neutral. But financial markets now increasingly focus on transition finance as a component of the broader sustainable finance asset class. Transition finance refers, for example, to financing for emission reductions and low-carbon technologies in industries such as cement or steel, where no purely green technologies are readily available. Transition financing is also needed for energy companies in the process of switching to renewables and phasing out their fossil-fuel assets.
The challenge now for policymakers and industry alike is to smoothly facilitate a transition toward structurally lower gas consumption.
The European Commission’s electricity market reform proposal, published 14 March, is a response to record-high electricity prices in 2022 and concerns over supply security. But it also brings forward a debate that was anyway looming: upgrading the design of Europe’s electricity market to encourage the investment needed to transition smoothly to a climate-neutral economy.
Here’s how researchers can help overcome the threats arising from market turmoil and geopolitical realignment after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
An EU gas price cap would be counterproductive, but the reasons why it is supported widely must be acknowledged and addressed.
