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The EU's Indirect and Defensive Approach to Climate Security - The EU and Climate Security: Toward Ecological Diplomacy - Carnegie Europe


Over the last decade, EU policy has employed both an
indirect, context-shaping approach to climate security, which focuses more on process than output, and a protective-autonomy approach, which focuses on multiple defensive approaches to safeguard the EU’s geopolitical interests.
In putting these approaches into practice, the EU has advanced a rich profusion of climate security initiatives; diplomats certainly do not need to be told that “climate policy is foreign policy,” as they have been working on this assumption for more than a decade. Moreover, the EU’s approach has positioned the bloc well to play a constructive role in climate geopolitics. However, the union’s overall approach to climate security has been relatively narrow. It has built select climate elements into its existing security strategies rather than rethinking what security itself entails in a world challenged by widespread ecological disruptions. ....

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Analysis-Climate could pay the price as Europe's nuclear plants age


Climate could pay the price as Europe s nuclear plants age
Reuters
21/12/2020
By Nina Chestney and Susanna Twidale
© Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann
FILE PHOTO: Night view shows Electricite de France nuclear power plant near Fessenheim
By Nina Chestney and Susanna Twidale
LONDON (Reuters) - Nuclear power capacity able to supply roughly 60 million homes is scheduled to close this decade as utilities struggle to replace northwest Europe s ageing reactors, raising the risk of higher carbon emissions as fossil fuels plug the gap.
Nuclear power provides around a quarter of the European Union s electricity generation, with 15 of the 27 nations hosting 107 reactors that provide total capacity of around 100 gigawatts (GW). ....

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