Articles by Paul Hockenos
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Climate Policymakers Can Learn from Germany
Paul Hockenos – Al Jazeera America,
24 Aug 2015
Germans have a decade’s worth of best practices on how to switch from fossil fuels and nuclear to renewables.
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Paul Hockenos – Al Jazeera America,
24 Nov 2014
Danish energy policies offer model even more admirable than Germany’s. A coal-free Denmark would be a beacon not just for the rest of Europe but also for a world gradually coming to grips with the reality of climate change.
→ read full articleThe Case for a Europe of Regions
Paul Hockenos – Al Jazeera America,
20 Oct 2014
The critical lessons that Europe’s political elite would do well to take away from Scotland and Catalonia should be the same as the ones that invigorated European integration from the beginning: more democracy, fewer borders. There’s a middle road between out-and-out separatism and rigid centralized states, even if finding it will be time-consuming and contentious.
→ read full articleGermany’s Energy Model Can Save the World
Paul Hockenos – Al Jazeera America,
6 Oct 2014
The US and China can switch to renewables now – and prosper from it. The shift to citizen-owned energy in Germany has dethroned the big utilities that for so long put the brakes on anything that looked like a threat to fossil fuels.
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