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The EU is lagging behind on sustainable development progress, with lots of ambitious policies in the books but far fewer real-world impacts, according to a new report by a UN-affiliated body. 

In 2015, UN countries signed a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to equip countries with a guiding framework to boost prosperity while still protecting humans and the environment.

But a report published today from the UN-affiliated body Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) warns that the EU is missing SDG milestones and is making slower progress in recent years.

It was not meant to be this way.

The EU initially seized on the SGDs, citing them frequently in legal texts and using them for impact assessments. Even researchers seeking EU funding needed to show how their work will serve SDG aims.

The EU Green Deal represented a peak in SDG-based policymaking – at least in theory. The package of laws was designed to deliver economic growth, environmental protection, and social fairness all at the same time.

But in practice, experts say that Europe’s SDG progress has been “a mixed bag.”

While the EU has delivered strong progress on the ‘decent work’ SDG target, it has “much less so on climate action and building partnerships to deliver the goals globally,” according to Taube Van Melkebeke, head of policy at the Green European Foundation.

Several experts contacted by Euractiv pointed the finger squarely at weak implementation, particularly as political winds have shifted away from environmental and social priorities.

“More effort should be done towards ‘walking the talk’,” said Sam Williams at the think tank EPICO. This must include “ensuring implementation at the level of member states.”

He also points at potential tensions between different SDG goals.

While the EU is “relatively” a champion for adhering to SDG targets, according to Williams, it is important that “the focus on economic growth does not undermine, but reinforces, climate, environmental, and social priorities.”

The weak implementation is not entirely the EU’s fault.

“War and geopolitical tensions among major powers impact livelihoods everywhere and represent a major setback for sustainable development in Europe and globally,” said Guillaume Lafortune, the SDNS vice-president of SDSN.

But there is still “potential to fully achieve sustainable development.”

SDSN’s report calls on the EU institutions “to issue a joint political statement this year reaffirming the EU’s commitment to achieving the SDGs.”

Lafortune remains a fan of the Green Deal, too, saying that it “is under attack internally and also domestically.” He urged Europe to “stay very strong on this,” as “the Green Deal is the right vision for Europe.”

 

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The three firms announced in separate statements on Tuesday the completion of the transaction.

The transaction involves the acquisition by MGen and TNGP, through Chromite Gas (CGHI), of a 67 percent equity interest in South Premiere Power (SPPC), Excellent Energy Resources (EERI), and Ilijan Primeline Industrial Estate (IPIEC).

Furthermore, CGHI and SMGP will jointly acquire 100 percent of Linseed Field (LFC), which operates the LNG terminal in Batangas City.

As a result of these acquisitions, MGen and TNGP, through their 60-40 stakes in CGHI, respectively, own 67 percent of SPPC, EERI, and IPIEC, while SMGP retains a 33 percent stake in these entities and gains a corresponding interest in Linseed Field, the companies said.

The three companies did not provide further information,

Earlier this year, they announced the deal saying it is worth about $3.3 billion.

MGen and AP will jointly invest in two of SMGP’s gas-fired power plants—the 1,278 MW Ilijan power plant and a new 1,320 MW combined cycle power facility which is expected to start operations by the end of 2024, they said.

The Philippines competition watchdog recently approved this LNG-to-power transaction worth about $3.3 billion.

The operator of the LNG terminal Linseed Field is a unit of Singapore’s LNG firm AG&P.

The three power companies said the terminal will be used to receive, store, and process LNG fuel for the two power plants, thus fully integrating the local energy sector into the global natural gas supply chain.

AG&P’s unit AG&P LNG, which is now majority-owned byUS investment and asset management firm Nebula Energy, is the operator of the first LNG import and regasification terminal in the Philippines, called the Philippines LNG (PHLNG) import terminal located in Batangas Bay.

In April 2023, AG&P kicked off commissioning activities at the LNG import terminal following the arrival of the 137,500-cbm FSU Ish at the terminal’s jetty in Batangas Bay.

AG&P previously said that San Miguel uses regasified LNG from this plant to power its Ilijan gas-fired power plant, one of the largest in the country, to serve Luzon, the most populous region in the Philippines.

This new collaboration “will substantially augment the country’s power supply with over 2,500 MW of generation capacity once fully operational, backed by advanced LNG storage and regasification capabilities,” the three power firms previously said.

The Philippines has several LNG import facilities on the table as the Malampaya gas field becomes less reliable in producing and providing sufficient fuel supply for the country’s existing gas-fired power plants.

Besides AG&P’s terminal, First Gen also launched its Batangas FSRU-based facility last year.

Aboitiz Power confirmed in a separate statement recently that the main players in the country’s gas-to-power industry are exploring interconnecting their pipeline infrastructure to share LNG imports.

According to the statement, the three power firms may join forces with First Gen to share LNG imports.

 

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The US FERC approved Venture Global Plaquemines LNG’s request from January 22 to commission and introduce hazardous fluids to liquefaction block 7, it said in a filing dated January 28.

Earlier this month, the regulator approved the commissioning of the liquefaction train system blocks 7 and 8 with nitrogen gas.

FERC granted the commissioning of the liquefaction train system block 1 in August 2024 and approved the commissioning of five additional blocks after that, previous fillings showed.

Venture Global took a final investment decision on the first phase of the Plaquemines project with a capacity of 13.3 mtpa and the related pipeline in May 2022. It also secured $13.2 billion in project financing.

In March 2023, the company sanctioned the second phase of the Plaquemines LNG export plant in Louisiana and also secured $7.8 billion in project financing.

The full project, including the second stage, will have a capacity of 20 mtpa coming from 36 modular units, configured in 18 blocks.

Each train has a capacity of 0.626 mtpa.

Venture Global said in its recent IPO statement it is targeting a COD (commercial operations date) for the Plaquemines project in the third quarter of 2026 for Phase 1 and the second quarter of 2027 for Phase 2.

Last month, Venture Global LNG received approval from FERC to export the first commissioning cargo from its Plaquemines LNG plant.

The approval came just a week after Venture Global started producing LNG at the company’s second facility.

With this, Plaquemines LNG became the eighth US LNG export facility.

In the meantime, the company has already delivered three Plaquemines LNG commissioning cargoes to Germany.

The 2021-built 174,000-cbm, Isabella, was on Wednesday located at the 170,000-cbm FSRU Hoegh Esperanza, which serves DET’s first Wilhelmshaven LNG terminal, its AIS data provided by VesselsValue shows.

This LNG carrier left the Plaquemines LNG facility some two weeks ago.

Earlier this month, this FSRU welcomed the first commissioning LNG cargo from Venture Global’s Plaquemines plant onboard Venture Global’s 174,000-cbm newbuild carrier, Venture Bayou.

Germany’s EnBW bought this LNG cargo from Venture Global.

Venture Global said this shipment marked over 60 LNG cargoes sent from the company into Germany since 2022.

The second commissioning LNG cargo from the Plaquemines plant was recently delivered onboard Venture Global’s 174,000-cbm newbuild carrier, Venture Gator, to Brunsbüttel, the home of the 170,000-cbm FSRU Hoegh Gannet.

 

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