The EU Commission has approved German aid to support the fisheries sector amounting to €20 million. The funds are intended to protect against the effects of the UK’s exit from the EU.The aim is to compensate fishing businesses for income losses related to Brexit-related cuts in fishing quotas, the Commission said Monday. Owners of fishing […]
53.8 gigatons of carbon equivalent were emitted worldwide last year – a record figure. The post-Covid pandemic economic recovery saw global greenhouse gas emissions rise again in 2022, according to a report from the EU Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), based on data from the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR). After falling 3.7 […]
The negotiating position of the EU countries for the UN climate conference in Dubai at the end of the year (COP28) elicits disappointed reactions on the one hand. One reason is the still not fully closed gap for CO2 capture technologies (CCS) on the way to a net zero economy. On the other hand, many […]
With a course correction on an essential detail, the EU is heading into the COP28 negotiations in Dubai, starting at the end of November. The Europeans are pushing for the expansion of renewables, energy efficiency, and rapid decarbonization of the economy. They do not wish to generally use the controversial CCS technology in the energy […]
The EU enters the COP28 negotiations in Dubai in late November with a change of course on a key detail: The Europeans are pushing for the expansion of renewables, energy efficiency and rapid decarbonization of the economy. To achieve this, they refuse to use the controversial CCS technology in the energy sector in general – […]
Today’s Environment Council will be crucial on the road to the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai at the end of the year (COP28). Firstly, the member states want to define their negotiating mandate for the COP. It is, so to speak, the guideline with which the EU negotiators will meet the representatives of other […]
Saudi Arabia plans to introduce a greenhouse gas credit system in early 2024. It will enable companies to offset their emissions by purchasing credits from projects that reduce emissions or remove them from the atmosphere.The Greenhouse Gas Crediting and Offsetting Mechanism (GCOM) was launched during the current United Nations MENA Climate Week in Riyadh. It […]
This coming Monday, the member states of the European Union plan to agree on their negotiating mandate for the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai at the end of November (COP28) at the meeting of EU environment ministers. A draft of the EU position – dated September 29 – shows that using carbon capture and […]
At their meeting in Luxembourg next week, the EU energy ministers wanted to untie the knot in the reform of the electricity market. At issue is whether France should be allowed to give its industry a competitive advantage by subsidizing nuclear power plants. The joint cabinet meeting of the Paris and Berlin governments over the […]
Next Monday, at a meeting of EU environment ministers, European Union member states will seek to agree on their negotiating mandate for the UN climate conference in Dubai at the end of November (COP28). A draft of the EU position – dated September 29 – shows that the use of carbon removal (CCS) to achieve […]