Jutta Paulus from the Green Party has criticised the Green Deal to rnd.de. However, as the subject of the Green Deal is so extensive and involves so many laws, it is worth taking a closer look. Why are we looking at the Green Deal in more detail? The European Green Deal is an EU package…
Headlines like “Apple surpasses 60% reduction in global emissions, moves closer to 2030 climate goal” sound impressive, and they are meant to. But it’s important to look beyond the headlines, because many readers never get past them. Big environmental numbers can easily give a misleading impression of how much progress a company has truly made.…
Apple marked Earth Day with a major emissions cut claim: On April 16, 2025, Apple Inc., the American multinational technology company, announced that it has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent since 2015 in celebration of Earth Day. This milestone is part of the company’s broader initiative to fully decarbonize its manufacturing and…
We decided to analyse the German and Polish media to find out what the countries think about the temporarily reintroduced border controls at the German border with Poland. Border controls were introduced on 16 October 2023 and have since been extended until mid-June 2024. We analyzed various articles. In the German media, we used well-known…
After spending weeks researching the Neptun Deep gas project, we kept returning to the same question: Why is Romania investing billions in fossil fuels when it could lead in clean energy instead? At first glance, Neptun Deep looks like progress: a huge offshore project, promising jobs, growth, and “energy independence.” But when you look closer,…
In June 2024, during public communications about the Neptun Deep offshore gas project, Christina Verchere, CEO of OMV Petrom, stated that “the Neptun Deep project does not induce a significant impact on environmental and socio-economic factors” and “is a strategic project for Romania and the EU, it will contribute to the country’s energy independence and…
On March 25th of 2025, Patrice Onwuka wrote an article for the Independent Women’s Forum entitled “To close the pay gap, make different choices.” In this article, she claims: “There is no gender pay gap. This is a simple truth hidden from generations of women because it contradicts the Left’s narrative about victimhood in the…
The gender wage gap remains one of the most persistent indicators of inequality in the global labor market. According to a report by OECD, “Gender gaps in paid and unpaid work persist”, women are less likely than men to be employed, to work part-time, to put in fewer hours at paid jobs, and to put…
During a public hearing at the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Tax Matters (FISC) on 6 February 2025, Dutch Commissioner for Climate Action Wopke Hoekstra claimed that only 20% of companies are responsible for around 97% of the emissions. His claim turns out to be mostly false. Public hearing at the Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)…
An American’s comparative analysis on Germany and the United States’ climate policies to see the different ways we are coming together to reach climate neutrality and curb climate change. As an American studying abroad in Germany, there are many similarities and differences I have seen in the cultural day-to-day life. One thing that is vastly…