The EU states have paved the way for financial aid worth €1 billion for Egypt. On Friday in Luxembourg, the finance ministers authorized the EU Commission to raise the necessary funds on the capital markets or from financial institutions and to pass them on to Egypt as a loan. The money should support the economic […]
The organizers only have a sustainable strategy for avoiding or measuring around a third of the expected carbon emissions from the Olympic Games in Paris this summer, according to a study by the NGO Carbon Market Watch and Éclaircies. The Paris Organizing Committee is no longer making misleading climate neutrality claims, as was the case […]
A reindustrialized Europe could create 1.6 million jobs in net-zero industries by 2030 and a total of two million jobs by 2040, according to a study published today by the Brussels-based think tank Strategic Perspectives. The authors call on the EU member states to draw up a European industrial strategy in their roadmap for the […]
Large quantities of climate-warming refrigerant gases are being smuggled illegally into Europe from countries including China and Turkey. This is according to a report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The researchers assume that the amount of illegally imported hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) has not decreased since the last study in 2021 – despite international agreements […]
China’s role in climate diplomacy is of crucial importance to many Western countries in two respects. On the one hand, Beijing is one of the most important partners in the global energy transition and emissions reduction. On the other hand, China is neither participating significantly in international climate financing nor is it prepared to pay […]
According to the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), a new European “carbon central bank” should regulate the amount of CO2, carbon removal from the atmosphere and liability issues. Researchers at PIK are calling for this in a new study.Just as the European Union increases the cost of CO2 emissions through a carbon price, […]
The four largest European shipping companies Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM and Hapag-Lloyd pass on the carbon price to their customers to a greater extent than the shipping companies themselves have to pay for it. This is the result of an investigation by the Brussels-based environmental umbrella organization Transport and Environment (T&E).With the inclusion of the […]
When the environment ministers of the EU countries meet in Brussels today, they will discuss the Waste Shipment Regulation, the regulation of microplastics and the Commission’s proposal on the EU’s 2040 climate target. As is so often the case, however, what is not on the agenda is much more important: the Nature Restoration Law.After the […]
Sufficiency does not necessarily mean doing without something; it also means a more frugal use of resources and a fairer distribution. A discussion paper by the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) calls for a political and social debate on how civilization can become both more ecological and fairer. Alexandra Endres analyzes the SRU’s […]
A new analysis by the environmental organization Transport and Environment (T&E) states that if Europe wants to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, it needs to start taking the problem of transport emissions seriously. Since 1990, transport-related emissions in Europe have risen by more than a quarter and are expected to continue rising, while emissions […]