All articles by Dave Keating

Germany’s COP28 message is undermined by its domestic climate action crisis

On Saturday 2 December, on the third day of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told…
Should Europe mine more to secure its clean energy future?

The European Commission launched its Critical Raw Materials Act last month, aiming to secure Europe’s supply of the resources essential…
Can the G7’s “climate club” fill in the gaps to deliver on Paris?

When it comes to climate, the G7 leaders had big talk but little action at their summit in Germany at…
Opinion: EU Parliament’s CBAM spat could delay a carbon border tax by years

It was a raucous day in Strasbourg, France, on 8 June when three EU climate proposals – establishing an EU…
EU’s carbon border tax moving (too?) fast

If you can’t beat them, join them. That seems to be the attitude of some of the EU’s trade partners…

Europe’s response to Ukraine crisis: More gas, but from elsewhere

EU prime ministers last night adopted the harshest sanctions regime ever enacted in EU history, freezing Russia out of the…
Opinion: COP27 concludes with loss and damage fund but no increased mitigation ambition

Delegates at the COP27 UN climate talks in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, clinched a hard-fought agreement to create a loss…
COP27: Cities are essential in the climate fight, says former Lord Mayor of Dublin

https://youtu.be/EGLXplYiE_8 Energy Monitor senior writer Dave Keating in conversation with Dublin City Council member Alison Gilliland, representing the European Committee…
As Ukraine war rumbles on, EU looks to turn energy promises into actions

In the week after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it seemed like every department in the European Commission pivoted to working…
Brussels pleads with countries to stay in the Energy Charter Treaty

These days, it is hard to find anyone arguing with a straight face that the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) has…