The European Commission has published its long-awaited strategy to turn the EU into a global hydrogen powerhouse. ENDS takes you through what you need to know
The European Commission today unveiled its vision for reforming the EU’s energy sector, dubbed the energy system integration strategy. ENDS takes you through what you need to know.
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The European Commission’s attempts to protect pollinators have had little effect, while European pesticides legislation has been a major contributor to their decline, the EU’s auditors have concluded
Environmental lawyers have warned the European Commission’s failure to align proposed reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy with commitments in the European Green Deal could be illegal
Policymakers would be making a huge gamble if they assume unproven carbon capture and storage technology will enable ‘low carbon’ hydrogen production from natural gas, a senior research fellow at Chatham House said on Wednesday
The European Commission envisages meeting 14% of Europe’s energy needs by 2050 with hydrogen produced only from renewable power, but the hydrogen strategy unveiled on Wednesday raised questions about the role of natural gas in the transition phase
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As the European Commission prepares to deliver a new EU forest strategy early next year, William Moomaw, professor emeritus of international environmental policy at Tufts University, argues the EU should seize the opportunity to use much of its forested land to lock away carbon dioxide. But first, Europe should stop burning trees as a supposedly renewable energy source that, Moomaw argues in an interview with ENDS, is nothing of the kind
The European Green Deal is now well underway, with Ursula von der Leyen’s commission publishing to much fanfare an avalanche of green roadmaps and strategies. But behind the scenes, officials are still wrangling over proposals to restrict one of Europe's oldest pollutants
This week saw the debate intensify over what will fuel the EU’s planned hydrogen revolution – should the wonder fuel be produced from the sun and the wind, or also from natural gas?
Gaining the support of Europe's 16 million forest owners will be vital to achieving the EU biodiversity strategy's objectives, says Fanny-Pomme Langue, secretary-general of the Confederation of European Forest Owners
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Important deadlines relating to chemicals labelling, restriction of hazardous substances and chemicals, plant protection products and rail freight are coming up in January and February
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A key promise made by incoming European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, a carbon border tax would protect EU industries producing goods in a less carbon intensive way than their international competitors. ENDS takes a look at what the proposal might mean in practice
