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Climate and energy

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Climate and energy Events

Workshop ‘The reform of the European electricity market’

Public event in which decision makers-makers on energy policy, experts and the business sector offer their views on the electricity market reform.

12 Feb 2024 //
3 mins Reading time
Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Events

Elcano Policy Paper “Spain in the World in 2024: perspectives and challenges”

The Elcano Royal Institute analyzes the prospects for the international panorama and the short-term challenges for Spain's external action.

08 Jan 2024 //
1 min Reading time
Climate and energy Events

Elcano at COP28

The challenges surrounding the energy transition go beyond borders, and those of industrial decarbonisation are no exception.

04 Dec 2023 //
5 mins Reading time
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Climate and energy Policy Papers

Just Transition: Strengthening cooperation between the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)

This document analyses the state of just transition initiatives in the EU and LAC and presents policy recommendations to strengthen collaboration between the two regions.

By Lara Lázaro Touza, Isabel Lara Miranda
30 Nov 2023 //
5 mins Reading time
CECME event
Climate and energy Events

Annual Event of the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council (CECME)“Energy and climate futures: Green industrial policies in a fragmented world”

The imperative to reduce industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has placed industrial policy at the forefront of the political agenda.

30 Oct 2023 //
4 mins Reading time
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Climate and energy Analyses

EU hydrogen diplomacy 2.0: aligning climate ambition and energy security

The EU aims to be the global reference in terms of regulation, technology developer and importer of hydrogen.

By Ignacio Urbasos Arbeloa
17 Oct 2023 //
5 mins Reading time
Energy transition. Wind turbines and solar panels during daytime. Solar photovoltaic and onshore wind are the cheapest forms of power generation
Technology and economics Analyses

The economic case for the energy transition

This analysis argue that the energy transition makes economic sense, regardless of one’s views around climate change.

By José Abad, Manuel Losa
05 Oct 2023 //
6 mins Reading time
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Climate and energy Policy Papers

The European Green Deal as a driver of EU-Latin American cooperation

It analyses the key features of the European Green Deal, its impacts and future to enhance EU-LAC cooperation in the net zero transition.

By Alina Averchenkova, Lara Lázaro Touza, Gonzalo Escribano, Caroline Prolo, Luis E. Gonzáles-Carrasco, Sandra Guzmán Luna
07 Aug 2023 //
6 mins Reading time
Spain’s presidency of the Council of the EU. Flags of the European Union and Spain
International Security Analyses

Ten principles for Spain’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2023

Spain should approach the EU Council presidency as a country project and use it to improve its influence and image.

By Real Instituto Elcano
24 Jul 2023 //
32 mins Reading time
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Climate and energy Policy Papers

Revamping the Euro-Mediterranean Energy and Climate Space

This paper proposes 3 drivers for the renewal of the Euro-Mediterranean energy script: diversification, decarbonisation and climate action.

By Gonzalo Escribano, Lara Lázaro Touza, Ignacio Urbasos Arbeloa
13 Jul 2023 //
7 mins Reading time
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Climate and energy Experts Comments

Spain prays for rain on the plain

An enduring drought caused by record-high temperatures and a lack of rain has brought water rationing in Spain. 

By William Chislett
23 May 2023 //
7 mins Reading time
Transatlantic trends. President Joe Biden hosts a virtual meeting with labour and business leaders to discuss the benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on 4 August 2022, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House
Climate and energy Analyses

The geopolitics of economic and climate security: transatlantic trends

The Biden Administration’s new foreign economic policy strategy has implications for the transatlantic relationship.

By Emily Benson
22 May 2023 //
14 mins Reading time

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