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Fossil fuel extraction compatible with climate action: COP29 host

Fossil fuel extraction compatible with climate action: COP29 host

The Azerbaijani presidency made that claim while presenting a flurry of initiatives for the Baku summit.

July 20, 2024 6:26 am CET
To do: 6 thorny issues lurking in MEPs’ inboxes
Germany’s transport minister faces pay-to-play allegations
This burger could kill the EU

This burger could kill the EU

July 17, 2024 6:00 am CET
The future of packaging in Europe
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July 9, 2024 5:00 am CET
Starmer’s ‘quiet’ climate radicalism sets up battle with Farage
Europe’s new greenwashing rules risk totally confusing people
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Right-wing MEPs loathe the Green Deal — but have no plan of attack

The surging faction has yet to offer a concrete strategy. It’s not even clear everyone can put up with each other.

July 3, 2024 5:22 pm CET

Nearly every EU country blows major climate plan deadline

The ongoing delays are imperiling the bloc’s 2030 climate goals — and, by extension, its 2050 net neutrality ambition.

July 1, 2024 8:34 pm CET

Labour energy chief Ed Miliband faces local solar backlash

Labour’s energy secretary has big goals for ramping up U.K. solar power. But first he has to deal with protests in his own backyard.

July 1, 2024 2:57 pm CET

The sleepy corner of England battling China

In an unlikely U.K. political battleground, politicians all want a piece of the lithium boom.

June 30, 2024 10:00 am CET

EU Green Deal author gets job for gas network

Diederik Samsom, a former top aide to Frans Timmermans, will join Gasunie supervisory board next month.

June 27, 2024 10:37 am CET

Italy’s Meloni denounces ‘ideological madness’ of EU ban on gas and diesel cars

It’s part of a growing resistance to the 2035 measure.

June 26, 2024 11:49 am CET

Nobody even noticed the Tories’ biggest legacy

Five years ago this week, in the teeth of the Brexit wars, an outgoing Tory prime minister was looking for a legacy. Theresa May settled on net zero —and now it’s on Labour to keep that target alive.

June 25, 2024 8:00 pm CET

Discount and legacy airlines go to war over emissions

The EU looks to set rules that cover short-haul flights but for now exempt long-haul — angering discount airlines that largely fly the former.

June 25, 2024 5:15 pm CET

Lufthansa to charge up to €72 per ticket to cover climate costs

The surcharge goes into effect for tickets booked from June 26 and departing from European countries.

June 25, 2024 3:22 pm CET

Denmark sets first carbon tax on agriculture

The country wants to cut 70 percent of its total emissions by 2030.

June 25, 2024 10:58 am CET

EU chips plan to send emissions soaring, report finds

The bloc is keen to expand its microchips production, but the sector risks becoming a major polluter.

June 19, 2024 6:00 am CET

Whatever happened to the climate kids? 

After Greens suffered bruising losses in the European Parliament election, some say tired and divided climate activists have lost their way.

June 18, 2024 6:00 am CET
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How Brexit’s fallout doomed climate action in Northern Ireland

Politicians shut down the Stormont Assembly for two years. Among the casualties: Northern Ireland’s hopes of greening its economy.

June 16, 2024 6:00 pm CET

‘Farmer Wants a Wife’ contestant to become Dutch agriculture minister

Femke Wiersma married the dairy farmer she met on the TV reality show before going into politics.

June 13, 2024 4:45 pm CET

France’s farmers helped the far right win. Now they’re regretting it.

The National Rally’s success in the European election cost farmer unions’ centrist allies their seats in the European Parliament.

June 12, 2024 7:40 pm CET

Swiss parliament spurns European climate ruling

Both chambers accused the ECHR of “judicial activism.”

June 12, 2024 4:27 pm CET

Former Poland PM: Europe’s impossible trinity

EU decision-makers want to secure all their objectives, everywhere, and do it all at once. However, their plans don’t reflect real-world realities.

June 10, 2024 9:00 am CET

A triumphant right’s first post-election target: Overturning Green Deal car ban

EPP’s Weber vows to push to scrap combustion engine ban in talks in coming days.

June 10, 2024 3:07 am CET

Chinese exports threaten Europe even more than the US

Biden is right to heed working class voters in Pennsylvania. The Continent, which has even more to lose from a second China shock, better start listening to its workers too.

June 7, 2024 4:01 am CET

Europe votes on climate neutrality’s fate

Whether voters realize it or not, the EU’s goal to end global warming contributions by 2050 is on the ballot.

June 6, 2024 6:00 am CET

SNP embraces oil and gas to fend off Labour in Scotland

Less than a month out from the U.K. election, the SNP is taking a new approach to an industry that affects hundreds of thousands of Scottish jobs.

June 5, 2024 8:00 pm CET

Surrounded by colonial history, Wilders campaigns against migration before EU vote

In his first and only offline campaign event, Dutch radical right politician Geert Wilders vows to change the EU from within.

June 5, 2024 6:46 pm CET
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Over-reliance on gas delays G7 transition to net-zero power

G7 countries have only 10 years left to act on their commitment to reach net-zero emissions power systems.

June 5, 2024 5:00 am CET

Industry now trumps nature in Europe

With the EU expected to swing right in this week’s election, nature-protection laws are drying up.

June 4, 2024 6:00 am CET
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