The mighty aurochs have gone, as have the tarpan horses and the wild boars, but modern-day substitutes have been drafted in to recreate a large open “savannah” on heathland in Dorset.
Instead of…
Belgium’s Green Party, including Climate and Environment Minister Zakia Khattabi, criticised Prime Minister Alexander De Croo’s call for a regulatory break on EU climate that echoes French President…
The EU’s 27 countries have agreed a common position on the revamp of the bloc’s sustainable product rules, following strenuous negotiations about a sweeping ban on the destruction of unsold textiles…
Business associations have expressed concern over a proposed energy tax on fossil fuels in a letter to parliament claiming this could lead to a steep rise in costs due to a lack of alternative energy…
The EU must develop an industrial strategy tailored to address the challenges faced by energy-intensive industries, write Giovanni Sgaravatti, Simone Tagliapietra, and Georg Zachmann.
Giovanni…
German police have carried out raids in seven states in a probe into climate campaigners suspected of forming or backing a criminal group because of their controversial activities.
Among those…
While Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo is promoting the possibility of decoupling economic growth from CO2 emissions, he ignores other planetary boundaries which have already been exceeded,…
Climate protection and prosperity needn’t be mutually exclusive – as long as we remain open to using all technologies to secure the energy supply and decarbonise industry. Policymakers need to set…
Miners have continued to dig hundreds of tons a day from a controversial opencast coalmine in south Wales, months after its licence expired.
Despite its licence to operate having ended nine months…
French President Emmanuel Macron expressed interest in helping Mongolia in its de-carbonisation strategy at a press conference in Ulaanbaatar after attending the G7 summit in Japan, as France hopes…
The Group of Seven rich nations put support for gas investments back into their communiqué on Saturday (20 May), calling it a “temporary” step as they try to de-couple from Russian energy, in a move…
Global heating will drive billions of people out of the “climate niche” in which humanity has flourished for millennia, a study has estimated, exposing them to unprecedented temperatures and extreme…
As EU member states prepare to submit their revised National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) to the European Commission on 30 June, they must pay greater attention to energy efficiency, writes…
The UK government has defended the United Arab Emirates' appointment of oil executive Sultan al-Jaber as head of this year's UN COP28 climate summit.
It comes after more than 130 lawmakers from the…
The commonwealth of the Bahamas is an archipelago of more than 700 islands, of which 30 are inhabited, and more than 2,000 small islets or cays. The islands form part of the Lucayan Archipelago,…
Ancient books and manuscripts, some dating back to the 16th century, that have been affected by devastating floods in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna are being stored in freezers in an…
Climate litigation poses a financial risk to fossil fuel companies because it lowers the share price of big polluters, research has found.
A study to be published on Tuesday by LSE’s Grantham…
We all have moments in life when we know something big is happening, that we are stepping into a new and consequential experience, and our mind takes a mental Polaroid, an intensely clear snapshot of…
Extreme weather has caused trillions of dollars of economic damage in the last half century, but the human death toll has fallen dramatically.
The economic cost of floods, storms and wildfires has…
There's more than just cars and empty spaces in this car park. Huge arrays of angled solar panels sit atop jet black steel supports, soaking up the sun and shading the vehicles beneath.
Outside the…
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