Markets & Corporate

The EU is vastly outspending other global powers in its plans for a ‘green recovery’ from the coronavirus crisis, with a new report finding around 20% of the money pledged so far by the bloc will go towards climate and environmental protection

The blueprint for Portugal’s post-Covid economic recovery plan “recognises the need for deep decarbonisation and to tackle issues like the monoculture of tourism but its rationale remains stuck in the economics of the last century”, the environmental NGO Zero said last week

A levy on plastic waste designed to encourage recycling could have the opposite effect, a Brussels-based trade association representing processing firms has warned

Low-carbon benchmarks that help investors identify assets aligned with the aims of the European Green Deal should exclude the fossil fuels sector, according to new rules published by the European Commission on Friday

Around 20% of Brazil’s soy exports and 17% of its beef exports to the EU could be ‘contaminated’ by illegal deforestation, according to a study that calls for Europe to use its trade might to help roll back the ‘tragic dismantling of Brazil’s environmental protection’