COP28: entering the home straight
COP28 has entered the home straight. The summit must conclude by the end of Tuesday, December 12. And it is getting down to the key issues.
As one COP28 delegate put ...
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COP28 Climate Summit: Achievements to date
‘It is clear that we must act urgently, decisively and collectively’
The annual UN global climate summit COP28 is taking place in Dubai this year. It started on November 30 and ...
COP28: Day 7 was all about cities and transport
The seventh day of the UN climate summit COP28 in Dubai was devoted to urbanisation, the built environment and transport, including sustainable mobility and shipping. But with the summit past ...
COP28: Day 6 was devoted to energy transition
The attention on Day 6 of the UN COP28 climate summit in Dubai was Energy. It was the day when the key question about the future of fossil fuels came to ...
COP28: Climate finance took a packed centre stage on Day 5
The spotlight was on climate finance on Day 5 of the UN COP28 climate summit in Dubai. And money talked. It was the first time the finance sector attended a COP ...
COP28: health and reflection on Day 4
Sunday was devoted to health at the UN COP28 climate summit in Dubai. But it was also a day of reflection on what has been achieved so far and where ...
COP28 in full swing on Day 3
It was UAE’s national day on Saturday and it received its rewards. It was a day that moved the COP28 dial with major pledges and announcements.
The COP28 Presidency ...
A lot of ‘hot air’ on second day of COP28
December 1 was the first full day at COP28 and it was mostly devoted to rhetoric-heavy speeches from world leaders, except of course Joe Biden and Xi Jinping who decided not ...
COP28, the biggest show on earth, has started
COP28 is finally upon us. The biggest show on earth started on Thursday, November 30, in Dubai, attended by 165 heads of state and more than 97,000 delegates from over 200 countries.
For the ...
Impact of Israel-Hamas war on East Med gas
The Israel-Hamas war is a crisis but, in terms of energy, what happens is dependent on the extent and duration of the fighting. The concern is that the main combatants ...
Green energy transition outlook on the road to COP28
By Charles Ellinas
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in September a review of the energy transition progress on meeting the Paris Agreement goals, referred to as ...
Could Cyprus’ gas really be a catalyst for peace?
Rejecting Turkey’s energy proposals is not enough. Cyprus should also be ready with counter-proposals that could contribute to reviving and speeding-up the Cyprus talks
By Dr Charles Ellinas and ...
Crunch time for Aphrodite amid Mid East crisis
The future of Cyprus’ gas beset by war, COP28 and tough negotiations with Chevron
In our region the Israel-Hamas war overshadows most other issues. Right now, it is characterised by ...
Energy security in the East Med
In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine global energy geopolitics and trade flows have undergone massive realignments. With the Western embargo on Russian oil and gas, Europe has ...
Oil, diesel, petrol prices – it will get worse
As demand grows around the world, two top producers have cut output
Oil, diesel and petrol prices have only one way to go over the next few months: up. Brent ...
We must upgrade our electricity grid
This has now become a top priority for Europe, but for Cyprus too. Kadri Simson, the European energy commissioner, raised the stakes early September in an op-ed in the FT. ...
Aphrodite ‘where art thou’? Chevron likely to stick to its proposal
Chevron is probably prepared to negotiate around its proposed FDP, but it will probably be on the details rather than the substance
It finally happened. Cyprus rejected Chevron’s updated ...
Cyprus plan to reduce emissions unclear
Τhe EuroAsia Interconnector and Cyprus’ 2030 Energy Plan
Cyprus issued its draft updated National Energy and Climate Plan, 2021-2030, (NECP) for public consultation on July 21 and to the European Commission (EC) ...
Aphrodite getting closer
Even though the final results of the successful appraisal drilling of the Aphrodite gasfield earlier this year have not yet been formally announced, development of Aphrodite appears to be getting ...
Our new-found interest in energy…again
The best chance since 2013 that Aphrodite may actually resurface – maybe
One of our big problems is that governments often talk about developing our gasfields as if they are in full ...
Cyprus falling down the freedom and prosperity ladder
By Charles Ellinas
To many, it may not sound surprising, but it is a sad reflection of the last ten years. Cyprus continues its freefall global rankings, in a number ...
Cyprus energy: No public consultation, no windfall profit tax
We should have submitted our publicly consulted energy and climate plan to the EU by now. There’s no sign of that
In a comparatively little-reported speech on June 27, at ...
Cyprus tumbles down in global sustainability rankings
By Charles Ellinas
The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) has just published the 2023 edition of its annual ‘Sustainable Development Report’, and it does not make good reading for Cyprus. ...
An energy odyssey
One cannot fault the energy minister for lack of ideas, other than his fixation on natural gas. He made that his priority immediately on taking over the ministry, as the ...