Climate Commissioner-designate Wopke Hoekstra has thrown his weight behind the proposed Nature Restoration Law. In his answers to a list of questions from MEPs ahead of his hearing today, Monday, (6:30 pm in the Environment Committee), he wrote the proposals on the Restoration Law as well as the circular economy “support our climate goals.” They […]
The test phase of the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) started on October 1. The German Electrical and Digital Manufacturers’ Association (ZVEI) criticizes that important details of the implementation have still not been clarified. “As right as the objective is, this instrument will pose some challenges for many companies and tie up a lot […]
According to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, only 23 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are currently subject to a CO2 price, which would bring in $95 billion in revenue, she said last week at the UN climate summit in New York – and added to the sum with a thought experiment: imagine […]
The environmental spokesman for the Social Democrats in the EU Parliament, Tiemo Wölken, is demanding an explanation from climate commissioner-designate Wopke Hoekstra about his professional past at the Shell oil company. “He spent three years at a company that is only gradually half-heartedly grasping how important climate action actually is.”So far, the Dutch have not […]
According to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, only 23 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are currently subject to a CO2 price, which would bring in $95 billion in revenue, she said last week at the UN climate summit in New York – and added to the sum with a thought experiment: imagine […]
27 dead in 24 hours – and a quick ceasefire. That was the situation one day after Azerbaijani army soldiers entered Nagorno-Karabakh. Whether the guns really fell silent overnight, as agreed by both sides, is unclear at the moment.The government in Baku has offered the ethnic Armenian fighters, who are being persecuted as separatists, free […]
Members of the EU Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) on Tuesday looked into possible conflicts of interest for climate commissioner-designate Wopke Hoekstra. MEPs decided in camera that there were no conflicts of interest for him to carry out his role as chief negotiator for international climate policy . They thus cleared the way for Hoekstra’s […]
The EU Parliament’s Transport Committee (TRAN) voted on Tuesday on its opinion on CO2 fleet limits for heavy-duty vehicles. MEPs voted to allow manufacturers to count the use of fuels deemed CO2-neutral under the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) as emission savings for their truck fleets. In addition to synthetic e-fuels, this would also include biofuels […]
In an interview with Table.Media, German Minister for the Environment Steffi Lemke (Greens) called for better EU funding for the environmental services provided by peatlands and forests. Such permanent funding would have to be taken into account by the EU agricultural funding of the CAP. So far, she said, payments are made per hectare, without […]
The hearings of Maroš Šefčovič and Wopke Hoekstra in the EU Parliament’s Environment Committee have been scheduled: Both will take place during the first plenary week in October. Climate Commissioner-designate Hoekstra is scheduled to be questioned on Monday evening, Oct. 2. Šefčovič is already vice president for inter-institutional relations, but is also expected to take […]