From the IBO Climate menu to a front-loaded Spring Note
Indeed, the Climate and Energy Outlook (KEV) 2022, released on Nov. 1 of last year, showed that the existing government plans for CO2 reduction do not yet add up to the desired goal of 55% reduction compared to 1990. This KEV is published every year to give just that insight into the CO2 reduction range of the proposed [...]
The Publieke Zaken annual review 2022 - From crisis to crisis
This busy year, in which the number of challenges increased, Lower House Speaker Vera Bergkamp describes as "a year of great events. For example, Ukrainian President Zelensky addressed the Lower House. Never before had a foreign head of state addressed the Dutch parliament. In addition, parliamentary history was again made in October by the suspension of [...]
European Green Deal
The European Green Deal plan is gaining steam. Last week, the EU Renovation Wave and the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability were added to a growing list of strategies to flesh out the EU's goal of being the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Trilogue negotiations (negotiations between the European Commission, European Parliament [...]
Analysis programs European elections May 23
Climate and energy is an important issue for many Dutch parties in the upcoming European elections on May 23. Publieke Zaken identifies a number of similarities and differences in the election programs. CO2 reductionNearly all parties want to raise the European ambition for CO2 reduction. D66, PvdA, VVD, CU/SGP (who together have one list in Europe) and 50PLUS want to [...]
Commission satisfied with own progress Energy Union
On Tuesday, April 9, the European Commission presented its fourth report on the Energy Union. In glowing terms, the Commission states that this package of measures, with the "Clean energy for all Europeans" package (also known as the Winter Package) of late 2016 as the largest component, is a great success. By European standards, a negotiation period of [...]
Minister Wiebes: climate policy is a project of a generation
Shortly before the Christmas vacations, the draft Climate Accord was presented, and on Jan. 17, EEZ Minister Eric Wiebes attended Publieke Zaken 's New Year's Meeting to present his views on climate policy. The meeting was introduced by well-known energy commentator Remco de Boer, who aptly described Wiebes' use of euphemisms: 'For ten months, [...]
Summer lecture by prime minister Mark Rutte
After an urgent migration summit in Malta, a Dutch "no" to Trump and a meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May, our Prime Minister Mark Rutte visited Publieke Zaken on July 4. Here he answered the question burning on everyone's lips: how did that visit to the White House really go? According to Rutte [...]
The energy transition: trust in each other and in the future
"This is not a cabinet of standing still," was how Gert-Jan Segers opened his lecture to some ninety interested people in a full Publieke Zaken office on Wednesday, Jan. 31. In his speech, the Christian Union leader looked ahead to the Climate and Energy Agreement to be concluded this year. Segers expressed his admiration for Minister Wiebes. "He has been able to [...]
Interview with Rene Leegte at the NewsBV
Interview with Rene Leegte at the NewsBV following the first 100 days of Rutte III and the actions of Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate, Eric Wiebes, in response to the problems in Groningen. Listen to the excerpt below:
Turning the budget inside out - Report from the Oct. 3 budget workshop
On Tuesday afternoon, October 3, a group of energy experts will gather in the atmospheric garden house of the Haagsche Kluis for a workshop on the budget. Aukje de Vries, spokesperson for Finance for the VVD in the Lower House, takes the audience through the budget cycle. Budgeting, why do we do it? 'Politicians are just like people,' says De Vries [...].