international analysis and commentary

Biden’s energy transition challenge

In living memory, never in any campaign for the presidential elections in the United States have energy policies played such an important role as in the one that has just ended. Evidently, the factual and objective question of climate…

The auto industry in a changing economy

A few days after Mary Barra had been appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors, she said that she expected to see more change in the auto industry in the next five years than in the last fifty. That was in 2014.…

Germany’s ambitious green goals

According to the European Statistical Office in Luxembourg, Germany is, by far, the largest carbon emitter in the EU, with a share of almost 21% of the total emissions in the EU-28. On a global scale, Germany is among the top ten emitters,…