Environment commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius tells ENDS about his efforts to keep the European Green Deal on track as the EU grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.
Crunch talks on the EU’s 2030 greenhouse gas emissions cuts are approaching – and the horse-trading is going to be “hellishly complicated”, according to one seasoned observer of Polish politics. Robert Hodgson gets the details.
A year has passed since the new European Commission team under president Ursula von der Leyen got to work. Amid a period of unprecedented disruption, the EU executive has battled to keep its environmental agenda on track. ENDS takes a look at where things stand.
The UK government has won plaudits in Brussels after announcing plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 68% from 1990 levels within the next decade.
Green campaigners have warned that Czechia would be in breach of the Paris Agreement if it adopts the recommendations of its coal commission, which called on Friday for the fossil fuel to be phased out by 2038.
Campaigners have called on the European Commission to improve draft EU criteria, particularly regarding the decision to class bioenergy and hydropower as sustainable investments.
The European Commission will refer Bulgaria to the European Court of Justice for failing to comply with a 2017 ruling that found it had breached its obligations under the EU’s Ambient Air Quality Directive.
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In Brussels this week: the EU stands accused of hastening the demise of an endangered whale, the battle over ‘clean hydrogen’ rages on, and Hungary makes western Europe a climate action offer it can only refuse.
The EU will need a lot more windmills and solar farms as it ramps up its renewable power production – and that means more metals, says Guy Thiran, director general of trade association Eurometaux.
What does a sunken Ice Age island have to do with the EU’s renewable energy targets? And has the European Commission finally managed to put an end to its beef with member states over the CAP? Robert Hodgson investigates.
The EU’s first climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard talks to ENDS about her return to the Brussels bubble, why COP15 was not the failure many think it was and why the EU should hurry up and agree on a 55% emissions cut.
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With MEPs and agriculture ministers coming under fire from green campaigners over their positions on a reformed Common Agriculture Policy. Here’s what is at stake for the environment.
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