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Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
To reach the Paris Agreement objective of keeping the global temperature increase well below 2°C, the EU must consider every possible technology to decarbonise its energy production. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers our sun and we can recreate it on Earth. However, even if we overcome the considerable engineering challenges of designing a fusion power plant, there are hard constraints to upscaling fusion power.
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To reach the Paris Agreement objective of keeping the global temperature increase well below 2°C, the EU must consider every possible technology to decarbonise its energy production. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers our sun and we can recreate it on Earth. However, even if we overcome the considerable engineering challenges of designing a fusion power plant, there are hard constraints to upscaling fusion power.
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https://epthinktank.eu/2023/07/07/what-if-we-could-make-nuclear-fusion-work-science-and-technology-podcast/
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![What if we could make nuclear fusion work? [Science and Technology Podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JdcRX96xT2Y/mqdefault.jpg "What if we could make nuclear fusion work? [Science and Technology Podcast]
To reach the Paris Agreement objective of keeping the global temperature increase well below 2°C, the EU must consider every possible technology to decarbonise its energy production. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers our sun and we can recreate it on Earth. However, even if we overcome the considerable engineering challenges of designing a fusion power plant, there are hard constraints to upscaling fusion power.
See the paper behind this podcast:
https://epthinktank.eu/2023/07/07/what-if-we-could-make-nuclear-fusion-work-science-and-technology-podcast/
🎧 Listen to our podcasts reporting on the latest science and technology developments, looking into the impact they will have on our lives and capturing their policy implications:
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📈 Next Generation EU (NGEU) and its centre piece for investment, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), are the main EU funding instruments for green and digital measures. Against the backdrop of huge investment needs in these strategic policy areas, 2024 marks a crucial phase in NGEU implementation.
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Air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in the EU and causes significant damage to ecosystems. As part of the European Green Deals zero pollution ambition, on 26 October 2022 the Commission tabled a proposal for a revision of the Ambient Air Quality Directives. The proposed directive would set air quality standards for 2030 that are more closely aligned with the Word Health Organizations recommendations, as updated in 2021. It would also include a mechanism for the standards regular review based on the latest scientific information. To achieve them on time, the Member States would have to establish air quality plans ahead of 2030.
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