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Leaders from Europe’s electric vehicle sector have urged the European Commission to hold firm on its 2035 zero-emission target for new cars, warning that any softening of the rules would…
Across the European Union, what until recently seemed unthinkable is increasingly visible: family farms forced to shut down, rising levels of insolvency, mounting desperation among agricultural communities. The rural idyll…
The European Parliament has voted to postpone the application of the EU’s anti-deforestation rules by a further year, giving companies more time to comply and prompting criticism from environmental groups.…
The European Parliament’s delegation to COP30 has issued a sobering assessment of this year’s global climate summit in Belém, declaring that progress made “remains far too insufficient to meet the…
As diplomats shuffled through the humid corridors of COP30 in Belém on Friday, a grim sense of déjà vu settled over a summit that had promised much and delivered almost…
The European Parliament has adopted a negotiating position that would significantly reduce corporate sustainability reporting and due-diligence obligations, backing the Commission’s “Omnibus I” simplification package and related measures. The vote,…
The European Union’s environment ministers have approved a 2040 greenhouse gas target after late-night talks in Brussels, agreeing a framework that sets a 90% cut from 1990 levels but allows…
European Union carbon prices rose back above €80 per tonne on Monday, buoyed by improved sentiment in energy-intensive industries after Berlin outlined new support to cut power costs and accelerate…
The European Commission has awarded €2.9 billion in grants to 61 projects under the EU’s Innovation Fund, backing the deployment of net-zero and low-carbon technologies across multiple industrial sectors. The…
Carlos Mazón has resigned as president of Spain’s Valencian Community, bowing to sustained pressure over the regional government’s response to the October 2024 floods that killed 229 people in the…
The European Union is weighing a “brake clause” that could weaken its proposed 2040 climate target if Europe’s forests and other land-based carbon sinks fail to absorb as much CO₂…