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EU asked to study Tobin tax to raise climate funds

MEPs have called on the European Commission to assess how a tax on international financial transactions could raise funds to tackle climate change in developing countries. If a global tax cannot be agreed, the EU should consider adopting its own tax, they said.

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ENDS Europe's Sonja van Renssen asks the EEA’s Jacqueline McGlade how she expects the agency’s new biodiversity tools to help shape EU policy