“Never before has so much of an EU budget been allocated to combating climate change,” declared Svenja Schulze, Germany’s Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety on July 21st, after a five-day inter-governmental summit
As the economic shock of the pandemic has spread, policymakers around the world have found themselves trying to balance the short-term priority of rescuing their economies from pandemic-driven disaster with longer-term goals such as making