The EU Commission plans to examine whether permanent carbon removals should be integrated into the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) by the middle of next year. This is according to a response from EU Climate Action Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra to Members of the European Parliament. The Commission is currently developing methods for certifying carbon emissions. […]
The oil and gas company Equinor has corrected a misleading statement about CO2 storage in its Sleipner carbon capture project. While the Norwegian company claimed to store around one million tons of CO2 annually, figures from the Norwegian Environment Agency show that it was only 106,000 tons in 2023. The false claim was uncovered by […]
A number of associations are calling for a postponement of the trading phase of the national CO2 price, which is scheduled before the transfer of German emissions trading to European emissions trading. To date, the German Fuel Emissions Trading Act (BEHG) has provided for a fixed price. However, a trading phase with a market-dependent price […]
The European Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA) Aviation Environment Report 2025 makes it clear that the European aviation industry continues to face considerable problems in terms of climate action despite some progress. According to the report, the number of flights could increase to 13.8 million per year by 2050. Although technological improvements and sustainable aviation fuels […]
The European Commission is considering so-called de minimis limits for the application of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). This is the result of a response from EU Climate Action Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra to the European Parliament. According to this, the Commission is examining possible problems with collecting the border levy for carbon-intensive imports during […]
The EU is unlikely to take a leading role in international efforts to improve climate action in the new year either. The unambitious Hungarian Council Presidency will be followed by the Polish Presidency. The national situation in Poland threatens to delay important milestones in European climate policy such as the EU’s 2040 climate target – […]
Poland’s second-largest electricity supplier Tauron Polska Energia wants to do without coal power by the end of the decade and become climate-neutral by 2040. This was reported by Bloomberg on Tuesday. The state-owned company plans to invest a total of €23 billion in grid infrastructure and renewable energies by 2035. In 2023, coal-fired power still […]
A 90 percent reduction in greenhouse gases compared to 1990, as proposed by the EU Commission as a climate target for 2040, is “difficult to accept” for Poland. Poland’s Climate and Environment Minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska made this clear before the start of the Environment Council in Brussels. “We have different starting points and historical circumstances, […]
The EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels today to discuss the situation in Syria following the fall of ruler Bashar al-Assad. One question will be how the EU can contribute to stabilizing the country. This will also involve facilitating the return of the many refugees from Syria living in Europe.According to the EU, it […]
Without more efficient use of industrial process heat, the European climate targets can hardly be achieved. This is because the main source of emissions in the industrial sector is the combustion of fossil fuels – primarily gas – to generate heat in production processes for food, paper, chemicals, steel and cement. According to a report […]