Announcement on the decision by the Greek Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) to permanently retire four lignite units, Kardia I-II and Amyntaio I-II, with a total gross nominal capacity of 1200 MW, representing 27% of Greece’s total lignite capacity.
05/04/2021
The Green Tank submits to the public debate its comments on Greece’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
23/03/2021
The Green Tank co-signed a letter of 70 civil society organizations to the Deputy Minister of Finance, Theodoros Skylakakis, outlining their priorities for a green and just recovery and seeking more public involvement in developing policies
19/03/2021
The European NGOs call on the Commission to strongly reaffirm the principles on which the TJTPs should be developed.
18/03/2021
The Green Tank in cooperation with the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Greece records 6 different opinions around the deployment of renewables, aiming to approach in a wholistic way this critical issue of the development of renewables in Greece and the related challenges.
03/03/2021
A petition signed by thousands of people and a final to the Prime Minister from 29 environmental organizations for the withdrawal of article 219 of the bill by the Ministry of Development and Investments.
02/03/2021
There is growing pressure on the article 219 of the bill of the Ministry of Development and Investment. A most important development is the announcement by the Nature 2000 Committee, the central scientific advisory body on biodiversity conservation in Greece, calling on the withdrawal of the article, that was issued yesterday. The announcement came after an urgent appeal by 23 NGOs, including the Green Tank, that was handed to the new Deputy Minister of Environment and Energy, who addressed a greeting to
24/02/2021
A letter to Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Czech government ministers was co-signed by Green Tank along with 16 other environmental organizations and think tanks participating in the Europe Beyond Coal campaign, calling for a coal phase out before the decade expires.
11/02/2021
An extended presentation of the provisions of the EU climate law, the developments so far and the opinions of all interested parties are presented in the Policy Brief presented by The Green Tank.
23/12/2020
The main characteristics, the comparative advantages and disadvantages of the main electricity storage technologies, as well as the opportunities for their financing through the new EU budget are presented in the new technology review by The Green Tank.