The European Green Party (EGP) is embarking on a challenging endeavor starting today in Lyon. At their party conference, they aim to finalize their program for the European elections on June 9. While it should be straightforward, as the party in Europe continues to stand for ambitious climate action policies and strict regulations for industries […]
One of the biggest successes at COP28 – the decision to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 – is being jeopardized by the slow expansion of power grids. Now, Francesco La Camera, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), warns in an interview with Table.Media: “Without addressing the urgent infrastructure needs, the world will […]
The Council of the European Union has approved two regulations on the phasing out of fluorinated gases (F-gases) and other ozone-depleting substances. The use of F-gases in appliances where they are not absolutely necessary, such as in refrigerators or air conditioning systems, is to be restricted in favor of less climate-damaging alternatives and in some […]
According to the European Commission, numerous EU states have not yet transposed several recently enacted laws into national legislation. Germany, too, apparently faces challenges in implementing four laws. This includes the reform of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). In total, 26 countries (all except Denmark) have not reported full implementation of the revision of […]
The efforts of the EU member states to achieve their ambitious climate targets have not yet been sufficient. This is not only revealed by the inadequate national energy and climate plans of the EU member states (NECP), which show gaping holes, particularly in measures against transport and building emissions, to achieve the 2030 targets. Now, […]
The efforts of the EU member states to achieve their ambitious climate targets have not yet been sufficient. This is not only revealed by the inadequate national energy and climate plans of the EU member states (NECP), which show gaping holes, particularly in measures against transport and building emissions, to achieve the 2030 targets. Now […]
At the beginning of February, the EU Commission presented its proposal for the EU’s 2040 climate target as well as a strategy for dealing with industrial emissions in order to close the legal loopholes for CCS. A draft of this industrial carbon management strategy, which is available to Table.Media, shows that the EU will have […]
On Tuesday, the EU Parliament adopted stricter regulations to reduce emissions of highly climate-impacting fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) by a large majority. The trilogue agreement reached in October provides for the complete phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) by 2050 and a gradual reduction via an EU consumption quota until then. Sectors in which a switch to […]
The environment and climate protection ministers of the EU member states have spoken out in favor of paying particular attention to social cohesion in the population when setting future climate targets. No one has called for less ambitious targets, emphasized Belgian Environment Minister Alain Maron. However, there was agreement that the transition would have to […]
To create the conditions for the ramp-up of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, the EU and member states should already be working towards the ramp-up of a pipeline and storage infrastructure so that an internal carbon market can be created. This is the result of a study by the think tank Centrum für Europäische […]