Political economist working on industrial policy @CANEurope - Climate Action Network Europe //board member @FairFinvzw//columnist @sampol_magazine
Joined October 2011
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Greg Van Elsen retweeted
🌍 The EU's #2040Target risks becoming a patchwork of loopholes: backloading, carbon offsets, inflated removals & sectoral swaps.
📉 These aren't tweaks, they are dangerous shortcuts that undermine trust, ambition & global leadership.
Read more: euobserver.com/green-economy…
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
Niemand durft dat nog vragen, hoeveel subsidies ondernemers die fulmineren tegen subsidies en bureaucratie ontvangen. Mij niet gelaten, maar het is het een of het ander.
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Een rant tegen subsidies, maar intussen 80 MiO eur staatssubsidies voor één van zn bedrijven hier. En ook nog 50 mio via VS Chips Act. xfab.com/automotive/news-det…
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
📢 Ahead of the #CleanIndustrialDeal unveiling, CAN Europe urges industrial policies that drive the transition - not a blank check for polluters.
Strong social & environmental conditions, ambitious climate & energy targets, and less fossil fuels reliance must be at the core. 🌍
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
We want a deal that ensures European industries lead in the transition to a sustainable economic model—one that generates social benefits within planetary boundaries.
Here is our position paper on #CleanIndustrialDeal ⬇️
caneurope.org/can-europe-pos…
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
⚠️Is regulation really stifling Europe’s economy, or just an easy scapegoat?
The @EU_Commission 's Competitiveness Compass promises to cut 25% of today’s regulatory burden claiming it holds back EU’s economy.
Read more🔗caneurope.org/regulitis-real…
@BollenYelter @gregvanelsen
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
🚨#CompetitivenessCompass is out🚨
There is a big misstep from the Commission.
It is not the rules protecting people, climate & environment holding companies back but the lack of investment & high energy prices driven by the EU’s fossil gas dependency⬇️
caneurope.org/competitivenes…
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
Government spending cuts under 🇦🇷 president Milei:
Investment in science and technology is collapsing (lowest levels since the restoration of democracy), sharp cuts also on infrastructure, youth/family, education, health and security - but large increases for State Intelligence.
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
Will @ArcelorMittal freeze green steel projects in Europe? 👉 carbon-pulse.com/346666/
⛔ It would be a disaster for the EU leadership on green industrial transformation.
✅ Only a decarbonised steel industry can be competitive, future-proof and socially just.
📰 Read our Transformation Recommendations for the Steel Industry: shorturl.at/3xCCT
@AnalogFryd #greensteel #steel
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
🚨New paper alarm🚨
With Trump back, European sovereignty discourse is back. But what does sovereignty actually mean? And how could it be strengthened for the members of the EU today (esp. given the challenges recently & clearly identified by @hanskundnani in @DissentMag)? 1/8
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
💡#Competitiveness is the buzzword of the day...
...But we need social & environmental conditions tied to the public support given to companies in the upcoming #CleanIndustrialDeal.
Read our Open Statement⬇️
caneurope.org/public-money-p…
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
We want #CleanIndustrialDeal that:
🇪🇺 Coordinates green industrial policy at EU level
🌱Builds on ambitious climate targets
⚡️ Reduces energy & resource demand
🪢 Has conditionalities for companies supported
❌Does not rollback envi & social legislation
caneurope.org/letter-to-the-…
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
📢Happening now📢
Energy debate “Shaping Europe’s Energy: A Compass for the Next Commission”
Together with policymakers and experts we discuss how the EU’s energy system needs to transition to ensure that Europe is climate neutral by 2040. The new @EU_Commission can make it happen!
#EnergyCompass
#PACscenario
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
AfD once more by far the strongest party among those who consider their economic situation as bad in Brandenburg vote.
Feels like Germany is running a nation-wide experiment to rigorously demonstrate that austerity really does fuel the extreme right.
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
🌳 NEW: Our latest policy brief aims to shed light on the main features of the #NatureRestorationLaw - but also highlights vital aspects of the law that were watered down due to compromises during the legislative process.
➡ Read here: caneurope.org/nature-restora… #RestoreNature
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
We've taken a first look at the mission letters of a number of Commissioners-designate in @vonderleyen's new @EU_Commission.
🧵Here comes a mega thread on what we...
🟢 Loved to see!
🟠 Think needs questioning at the hearings
🔴 Is a red line for @CANEurope
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
✅We welcome #Draghi’s idea to marry climate and industrial policies together...
... but so far it seems that only the industry players were invited to the ceremony ❌
Read our reaction to #DraghiReport ➡️
caneurope.org/draghis-report…
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
Brazil is ablaze.
Not a figure of speech.
All 27 states have recorded fires in the last 48 hours. The number of fire counts in the year to date is above 145,000.
That's a 105% increase over last year and the highest fire count since 2010. (1/2)
ALT Active wildfires in South America on September 2, 2024. Photo: Fire Information for Resource Management System.
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
How condescending and out-of-touch is France's new Prime Minister?
This condescending and out-of-touch 👇 Literally calling the people "the people from below" in his very first address as PM xitter.cf/Portes_Thomas/st…
Full translation: "In my long public life, I have learned that good ideas come from everywhere, often from the most modest, the simplest people when one takes the care to listen to them. I have many examples in mind of progress, small or large, that has been accomplished thanks to good ideas brought by people from below."
He's the very caricature of a politician who's so entrenched in his ivory tower and so mired in his class contempt that he believes tossing a few scraps of attention to the 'common folk' makes him a man of the people.
That's DEFINITELY not what the French voted for...
Greg Van Elsen retweeted
if you ask yourself, who's behind the idea of divorcing land from water so water can be market-priced and traded, yes, it's the usual suspects: private-equity owners of large farms.
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