What Boris Johnson can teach the EU about restoring nature

The European Commission hopes capitalism can help solve the biodiversity crisis. Britain might have the answer.

Italyโ€™s largest lobby group to push for EU policy U-turn on CO2 emission trading system

Experts warn that recent and hefty investments risk becoming almost worthless because stringent ETS rules will swallow all the profits.

Former Poland PM: โ€˜Weโ€™re living under the illusion of environmentalismโ€™

We arenโ€™t reducing global emissions, just depriving ourselves of jobs, profits, raw material sovereignty and, therefore, security.

โ€˜Reward those who serve our planetโ€™: Von der Leyen floats โ€˜nature creditsโ€™

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen today (13 September) called for a new financial tool to reward nature protection, which takes inspiration from the EU’s carbon trading scheme.

The flip side of debt: The EUโ€™s urgent need for new resources

Agreeing on one-off common debt issuance was hardly a Hamiltonian moment โ€” but substantially increasing the blocโ€™s own resources may just bring us closer to one.

German industry expects marginal benefits from new government growth package

German industry umbrella association BDI expects only โ€œmarginalโ€ growth effects from a package adopted by the German government on Wednesday (17 July), which includes tax for foreign workers, bureaucracy reduction, and initiatives at EU level.

Industry cannot rely on negative emissions for 2039 climate target, experts say

Industry should not rely on negative emissions to compensate for the ending of new EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) allowances from 2039, experts have told Euractiv.

Lufthansa to charge up to โ‚ฌ72 per ticket to cover climate costs

The surcharge goes into effect for tickets booked from June 26 and departing from European countries.

Carbon pricing: Economists question lump-sum payouts to households

While many economists have long advocated introducing a ‘climate dividend’ to avoid social tensions caused by carbon pricing, a group around Nobel-prize winner Joseph Stiglitz questioned this approach in a paper released on Monday (17 June) in Nature C…

EU Green Deal? No, thanks: Germanyโ€™s liberals want a weaker โ€˜Yellow Dealโ€™

Germany’s Free Democrats say their backing for the next EU top executive hinges on weakening EU climate laws โ€”ย a clear shot at Ursula von der Leyen.

Revealed โ€” the next Brexit headache on the Irish border

The U.K. and EU are planning separate systems to tax carbon-heavy imports, prompting familiar fears about the impact in Northern Ireland.

EUโ€™s power sector emissions plummet as renewables surge

Brussels called the 15.5 percent reduction in 2023 a “record.”

EU lawmakers signal support for upcoming โ€˜Industry Decarbonisation Dealโ€™

Key EU lawmakers have asked the European Commission to present a package to boost the climate-friendly transformation of Europeโ€™s industrial sector while expressing concerns about social stability once climate measures start to bite.

European Commission lets low-carbon cements down with proposed ETS benchmark reforms [Promoted content]

The EUโ€™s Emission Trading System (ETS) is a cornerstone of EU climate policy, working to cut greenhouse gas emissions by making the biggest polluters pay. While the recent revision of the ETS directive tries to make the tool more effective, progress ri…

โ‚ฌ800 million to jolt the market: Europeโ€™s hydrogen boosters activate

The EU’s Hydrogen Bank has begun operations and is offering โ‚ฌ800 million to hydrogen producers to kickstart demand for the fuel crucial to industrial decarbonisation. By 2030, Europe wants to produce 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen annual…

Decarbonizing heavy-duty canโ€™t be only based on an early-stage technology

Growing evidence about potential raw materials shortages, insufficient EU battery production capacity, increased BEV repair costs, and large infrastructure and grid needs reinforce calls to vote for a technology-inclusive approach.

Europe takes climate fight global as carbon border tax goes live

The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism enters a trial phase on Sunday.

Europeโ€™s Green Industrial Policy: โ€˜Superiorโ€™ through carbon prices?

Welcome to EURACTIVโ€™s weekly Economy Brief. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. Economists see the European approach to building climate-friendly industries as “superior” to the US subsidy spree. But politicians have other priorities …

Europeโ€™s green deal will need broad support to succeed

EU has embarked on no less than an industrial revolution. A revolution that โ€” unlike those of the past โ€” is set against a tight deadline.

Putting money behind the EUโ€™s Industrial Policy

As it becomes increasingly clear that the EU’s industrial policy lacks public money to back it up, the European Parliament has set its sights on revenues from the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for the development and deployment of green technologies.