This week marks yet another busy week on the sustainability circuit here in Brussels. At Politico’s Sustainable Future Week, businesses and lawmakers exchange views and ideas for a sustainable future…
EU negotiators have finally clinched a political deal on new rules aimed at boosting nature restoration across the bloc, saving the legislation from a conservative-led campaign to kill it.
But if…
TOPPLED TREES: Madrid was just one of many cities hit by Storm Ciáran last week: Record-breaking winds toppled over 400 trees in the Spanish capital, one of which crushed a 23 year-old woman who died…
Nobody is more aware of society’s complicated relationship with plastic than our industry.
Europe’s plastics manufacturers share societal concerns about the plastics system’s contribution to climate…
Europe's conservatives are at it again.
After attempting to kill off a major pillar of the EU's Green Deal earlier this year, the center-right European People’s Party has come back to the…
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The European Union’s ambition to build a carbon-neutral economy by mid-century is a true beacon of hope in the global fight against climate change. Certainly, the mitigation of methane emissions is…
Negotiators struck a fragile agreement Saturday over the outlines of an international fund for climate-ravaged countries after hours of acrimonious haggling foreshadowed likely divisions at the…
King Charles III will attend the COP28 climate summit in Dubai next month, Buckingham Palace confirmed.
The king — a longstanding advocate of bolder action to combat climate change — will deliver…
The European Commission is asking energy-intensive industries if they’d like to continue benefiting from relaxed state aid rules in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war and the impact it could have on…
German MEP Terry Reintke is in the running to lead the Greens European election campaign, she announced Wednesday.
"I want a Europe that fights for climate justice. A Europe of fair wages and good…
France’s top administrative court Thursday annulled a government decision to ban a climate activist movement after it repeatedly clashed with the police during protests.
Although the climate group "…
Britain has signaled plans to water down its position on a core part of COP28 negotiations just weeks before the global climate talks begin.
Energy and Climate Minister Graham Stuart, who will head…
Denmark is preparing to make a significant pledge toward a new climate disaster fund, breaking ranks with other developed countries.
The Danish government became the first United Nations member to …
Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said the bloc will announce details at COP28.
The European Union will make a “substantial” financial pledge toward a new fund for climate damages, the bloc’s climate…
Cut an apple in half, and the white flesh reveals a cluster of black pips arranged in the shape of a star. It is a tiny constellation of seeds hidden in the fruit bowl. But it reveals an interlinked…
Government delegations will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, to hammer out details of what could be the first global treaty to tackle the plastic pollution crisis.
A key focus for the discussions on Monday…
A rancher in California is training a new generation to fight fires – and foster deeper connections to the land – with farm animals
Dust swirls around Brittany “Cole” Bush as she coaxes dozens of…
Some pictures show a whale lifeless on a beach. In others, the whale is on fire, jumping from the ocean, as wind turbines loom behind it. The pictures are shocking – intentionally so. Recently they’…
On Saibai Island in the Torres Strait, homes are already being inundated by king tides, the cemetery has been affected by erosion and sea walls have been built
“We cannot garden any more. They have…