In Brussels, this week has been a moment of calm before the serious work begins. Next week is set to see the publication of concrete plans for a just transition mechanism, while MEPs will turn their attention to the dark arts of comitology

As Brussels winds up for the year, journalists have launched plans to run the world's longest press conference in 2020 to draw attention to the climate crisis. But can it really help shift the minds of Europe's own climate laggards?

In an important week for climate policy, livestock producers took to Brussels to protest being ‘demonised’ in the emissions debate

The high-level segment of COP 25 got under way earlier this week “with urgent reminders that the international community is running out of time to tackle the climate crisis”, according to the UNFCC’s communiqué, but this sentiment appears hardly to have ruffled the business-as-usual atmosphere