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The global aviation industry is responsible for just under 3% of global carbon emissions and is projected to emit more as travel demand rises in emerging economies.

How to accelerate the decarbonization of aviation

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 26, 2023

The aviation industry presents one of the most formidable decarbonization challenges

In short, the war in Ukraine hasn’t given the EU reason enough to think defense. Nor has it done much to enhance EU foreign policy.

Ukraine has not transformed EU Foreign Policy

By: EBR | Friday, July 21, 2023

As the EU institutions wind down for summer vacation, the war in Ukraine continues

The unease then came with Ankara having upped the stakes by demanding that the EU revive Turkey’s stalled EU membership bid as a precondition.

Could Turkey’s EU bid come back from the dead?

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s sudden U-turn on unblocking Sweden’s bid for NATO membership earlier this week came as a pleasant surprise to many

Western countries say Russia is trying to use its leverage over the grain deal to weaken financial sanctions, which do not apply to Russia’s agricultural exports.

Russia halts grain deal in what UN calls blow to world’s needy

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Russia halted participation in the year-old UN-brokered deal that lets Ukraine export grain through the Black Sea, causing concern in poorer countries that price rises will put food out of reach

An additional irritant ahead of the joint summit was back and forth around the attendance of Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy, who initially received an invitation from Spain – but was dropped after pushback from Latin American leaders.

Latin American countries push back on Ukraine, EU agenda ahead of joint summit

By: EBR | Monday, July 17, 2023

Latin American countries threw cold water on the EU’s efforts to rally the continent’s support for Ukraine and called for colonial reparations in a counter-proposal of an upcoming EU summit draft declaration

The United Nations is also working with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to create a platform to help process transactions for Russian exports of grain and fertilizer to Africa, the top UN trade official told Reuters last month.

UN asks Putin to extend Black Sea grain deal in return for SWIFT access

By: EBR | Monday, July 17, 2023

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he extend a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of grain from Ukraine

But defence forces are not bound by international climate agreements to report or cut their carbon emissions, and the data that is published by some militaries is unreliable or incomplete at best, scientists and academics say.

World’s war on greenhouse gas emissions has a military blind spot

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 11, 2023

When it comes to taking stock of global emissions, there’s an elephant in the room: the world’s armed forces

Trump has not only utterly corrupted the soul of this nation. He represents and epitomizes the moral, epistemic and spiritual decay of the United States. He is the single most naked symptom of our ruination as a country that values truth, justice, the rule of law and the light of reason.

The U.S. Faces Its Greatest Peril Since the Civil War

By: EBR | Thursday, July 6, 2023

Republicans who claim to put country before party must rise up along with their Democratic colleagues to save the United States from Donald Trump

Nations are under pressure to agree ambitious emission reduction targets and consider a tax on pollution by the sector at a key meeting of the International Maritime Organization. Currently shipping belches out roughly the same level of greenhouse gases as aviation.

Polluting shipping to face climate reckoning at IMO talks

By: EBR | Monday, July 3, 2023

The hefty carbon footprint of global shipping networks that crisscross our oceans and keep the world’s economy afloat will come under scrutiny this week

One year into Russia’s war against Ukraine, China announced a 12-point proposal to end the fighting, saying it is trying to mediate the war. Its pro-Russian support, nevertheless, contained a provision that is highly relevant to Russia’s invasion and crimes of aggression against Ukraine.

End of the Ukraine War?

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 27, 2023

When Yevgeny Prigozhin blamed the Russian Defense Ministry, saying it had duped Vladimir Putin into last year’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he burst the bubble of Putin’s imperial design on Ukraine

Sino-US ties have deteriorated across the board in recent years, raising concern the two might one day clash militarily over the self-governed island of Taiwan, which China claims as its own.

Blinken to wrap up talks in China, may meet Xi before leaving

By: EBR | Monday, June 19, 2023

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi at the start of the second and final day of a rare visit to Beijing

Once entered into force, the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will give Kenya tariff-free access to the EU, its biggest market where it sends roughly one-fifth of all its exports.

EU, Kenya to announce trade deal

By: EBR | Monday, June 19, 2023

The European Union and Kenya are set to announce a trade deal EU officials said, in a coup for Brussels as it seeks deeper economic ties with Africa

“Climate change is not a North versus South issue,” UN Climate chief Simon Stiell said at the closing plenary on Thursday

CO2 cuts v. cash: Climate talks stymied by stand-off

By: EBR | Friday, June 16, 2023

Pressure to speed cuts in carbon pollution took a back seat at UN climate talks

Apart from its time-saving benefits, the Middle Corridor could also boost trade among transit countries, strengthen regional integration and promote economic diversification.

From pathway to highway in Eurasia

By: EBR | Thursday, June 15, 2023

2,500 kilometres is the average distance that can be saved by using the Middle Corridor to transport goods from China to Europe and vice versa

If the fighting goes on even another year, the West may find itself losing – with dramatic repercussions for the United States’ leadership role in the world.

War In Ukraine: Putin Can’t Win — But the US Can Lose

By: EBR | Thursday, June 15, 2023

Russia’s latest atrocity – the destruction of the Kakhovka dam – demonstrates that the war in Ukraine needs to end quickly

Wu will attend a security conference in Prague on June 14, and is due to speak immediately after Czech President Petr Pavel opens the event.

Taiwan foreign minister to make Europe trip next week

By: EBR | Friday, June 9, 2023

Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu will make a previously unannounced visit to Europe next week, four sources briefed on the matter said, and is expected to appear with the Czech president at one event

The changes are complex and long overdue. They are about how Germany, shaken by Russia’s attack on Ukraine tore up the post–1945—indeed, the post–1990 order—has been forced to revise its foreign policy and its approach to Russia. The infatuation with Moscow is over.

Russia’s War Upends German Foreign Policy

By: EBR | Thursday, June 1, 2023

World War II and its aftermath shaped Berlin’s approach toward NATO, the EU, and Moscow. Russia’s war on Ukraine ends that era.

It is clear that China’s persistent interference with Taiwan’s WHA participation runs counter to the WHO’s global mandate of Health for All and causes a breach in the global public health network.

Again, China keeps Taiwan out of the WHA

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, May 31, 2023

In spite of increasing support from the international community China blocked again Taiwan’s participation as an observer at the World Health Assembly

It is also about the lives of the 8.2 million refugees—a fifth of Ukraine’s population—who have found safety in other European countries. And don’t forget the 5.9 million internally displaced people.

Ukrainians wait for their return home

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Over several days of non-stop meetings in Europe, the Middle East, and at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s messaging was clear

The Washington Consensus was a negative sum game. Unbeknownst to even its creators (or at least most of them), and unbeknownst to its future adherents, it had one single outcome – the creation of a Chinese superpower.

A New “Washington Consensus”: A Holy Grail?

By: EBR | Thursday, May 18, 2023

There is a renewed debate over the relevance of the “Washington Consensus“

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EU Actually

A UK-US deal sounds good but what does it mean

By: N. Peter Kramer

After Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to the White House in February, the UK delegation referred to what was being negotiated as an "economic deal"