Rhein on Energy and Climate

Archives for Barack Obama

USA proposes strict emission standards for new power plants

September 23, 2013

The USA is getting serious with tackling climate change. Just in time for the next International Climate Conference in November in Warsaw, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed strict emission standards for new power. To meet these standards, power plants will have to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by about 40% to roughly 500g… » read more

Posted by Eberhard Rhein

Barack Obama, C02 Emission, Carbon Capture & Storage, Climate & Environment, Climate Negotiations, Energy, English, EU climate targets, Global Europe, Sustainable Dev.

A new paradigm for international population policy

November 24, 2008

The arrival of President OBAMA on the global political scene will lead to a thorough re-assessment and redirection of US foreign policy. One area where this redirection is overdue is international population policy. For the Bush Administration global population growth was not an issue. The White House ignored it. Never mind the increase of world… » read more

Posted by Eberhard Rhein

AIDS, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Paradigm, population, UNFPA, US

Rhein on Energy and Climate

Thoughts on energy and climate, the Mediterranean and whatever comes to mind.

Eberhard Rhein has devoted most of his life to European and global issues. During the 1980s and  1990s,  he served successively as chef de cabinet to the Commission VP in charge of external relations and director responsible for the Mediterrranean and Arab world.

For the past 10 years he has focused more on global environmental issues.

He also gives a course on economic  policy at the "Mediterranean Academy for Diplomatic Studies" in Malta. He is the author of many articles on EU, Mediterranean and international subjects


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