The rally was calling for the European Union — headquartered in Brussels — to end subsidies for fossil fuels in order to achieve its ambitious goal of making the continent carbon neutral by 2050.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg was among scores detained on Saturday after staging a sit-in protest demanding an end to EU subsidies for fossil fuels.
The EU’s energy taxation rules favor oil and gas despite efforts to reach net zero, experts say.
Campaigners criticise decision to scrap tax introduced in 2018 amid rise of โflight shameโ movementCampaigners have accused the Swedish government of doing โeverything in its power to stop climate actionโ after it cut a tax on flying, despite admitting…
The protest called for Stockholm University to sever its ties with Israeli institutions.
Police on Wednesday arrested a group of pro-Palestinian students including the 21-year-old activist Greta Thunberg who had occupied a building at the University of Copenhagen to protest what they said was the university’s continued “cooperation with a…
The activist was part of a group occupying a University of Copenhagen building to call for an academic boycott of Israeli universities, Danish media reported.
Climate activist one of six detained by police after students block university building in Danish capitalIsrael and Hamas at war โ live updatesDanish police have arrested the environmental activist Greta Thunberg in Copenhagen at a protest against the …
โPolice have been called, violently entered the building with a ram wearing assault rifles,” said Swedish activist before being detained.
In addition to high costs, Boom Supersonic’s efforts to revive faster-than-sound passenger flights face climate and sustainability worries.
Five years ago this week, in the teeth of the Brexit wars, an outgoing Tory prime minister was looking for a legacy. Theresa May settled on net zero โand now itโs on Labour to keep that target alive.
Exit polls suggest support for Greens fell in Germany and France, leading to fears of weakening of climate ambitionsGreen parties appeared to have shed seats in the European elections, exit polls from several countries suggest, raising fears that the c…
Ahead of the 2019 European Parliament elections, Europe was rocked by massive climate marches. But as the 2024 elections approach, the streets remain silent.
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined thousands of pro-Palestinianย demonstratorsย inย Eurovisionย 2024ย host city Malmo on Thursday to protest Israel’s participation in the song contest ahead of this year’s second semi-final.
Bas Eickhout gets a lot of love in Maastricht.
Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the European court of human rights has ruled.In a landmark decision on one of three major climate cases, the first such ruling by an international court, the ECHR raised judicial pressu…
Police have detained Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and dozens of others during what they said was a banned protest in The Hague.
The activist was placed on a bus with fellow detainees and driven away from a protest at The Hague.
The activist was placed on a bus with fellow detainees and driven away from a protest at The Hague.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by Dutch police on Saturday after she and a group of marchers blocked a main road in The Hague to protest against fossil fuel subsidies.
Thunberg and other activists dragged away from doorway they were obstructing in climate protestSwedish police have forcibly removed Greta Thunberg and other climate activists after they blocked the entrance to the Swedish parliament for a second day.Tw…
Activist accuses Sweden of being โvery good at greenwashingโ as group sits outside buildingโs main entranceGreta Thunberg has accused Sweden of being โvery good at greenwashingโ as she staged a protest along with about 50 other activists outside her ho…
Verdi union in unusual alliance with Fridays For Future, founded by Greta Thunberg, based on common goalsPublic transport workers across Germany are joining forces with climate activists for a week of strike action culminating in a collective nationwid…
Russian strike kills three in Sumy village as petrol station attack sparks blaze in Kharkiv; western officials deride Tucker Carlson interview with Vladimir PutinSee all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageA Russian attack in the north-eastern Ukrainian reg…
Court rules not enough evidence provided to prove defendants failed to comply with section 14 order at anti-fossil fuel rallyGreta Thunberg and four others charged with public order offences over a protest in London have been cleared after a judge rule…
Greta Thunberg was arrested at a protest in October, with the judge ruling the law was unclear.
Farmers’ ire and a right-wing surge is testing the EUโs climate goals. And the Greens that backed them are teetering.
POLITICO looks back on the images that defined the year 2023.
Here’s one allocade nobody is lining up to recieve.
Sweden is also complicit in Israelโs ‘occupation and mass killing,’ climate activist says.
Young climate activists havenโt โbeen radicalisedโ โ solidarity with marginalised people has always been at the heart of our messageMore than 15,000 people, of whom at least 6,000 were children. Thatโs how many people Israel has reportedly killed in th…
UAE has caused controversy by nominating the head of its national oil company as the event’s president.
From Germany and Sweden to the UK earlier this month, Greta Thunberg has now been prosecuted in a hat-trick of countries in 2023. Her court cases are indicative of governments increasingly cracking down on the right to protest, Barney Cullum writes.
Biden and Xi will probably skip it, but the summit will have Lula, the pope and King Charles. And yeah, Rishi Sunak.
Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Amsterdam on Sunday (12 November) demanding immediate action against climate change, 10 days before the country holds a general election.
The stage invader says he “came here for a climate demonstration, not a political view”.
‘Whoever identifies with Greta in any way in the future, in my view, is a terror supporter,’ says Israeli army spokesperson.
The climate campaigner is accused of breaching the Public Order Act at a demonstration in London.
Police put climate activist into the back of a van.
The activists say a transition to green energy shouldnโt come at the expense of the rights of Indigenous people.
Luisa Neubauer, of Fridays for Future, cites language used by the chancellor amid protest crackdownSevere policing and โscaryโ political rhetoric is fuelling abuse against climate activists, Germanyโs best-known environmentalist has said.โItโs not a sh…
She said she will continue to protest even if “it leads to more sentences”.
Alternative for Germany has woven climate change policy alongside migration and Euroskepticism into its grand narrative of decay, elitism and rage.
Campaigners including Greta Thunberg had called for halt to Rosebank project involving Oslo-listed EquinorBritain has given the go-ahead to develop the UKโs biggest untapped oilfield off Shetland, sparking outrage from environmental campaigners.The UK …
Disobeying a police order can carry a maximum sentence of up to six months in prison in Sweden.
The climate activist refused to end the protest, hours after being convicted of a similar offence.
Watchdogs warn of rights violations as governments crack down on disruptive protests.
Hosting one of these 90-minute episodes has been compared to receiving a knighthood โ with guests ranging from Greta Thunberg to Sven-Gรถran ErikssonFrom tales of drinking a โvery tastyโ 100-year-old sherry with Putin to diplomatic shock over Finlandโs …
She had been due to attend an event at the annual festival on 13 August.
The climate activist says she cannot attend an event that is sponsored by a firm with links to fossil fuels.
The climate activist was removed from a protest shortly after being fined over a previous incident.
The climate activist blocked the road to an oil harbor.
The climate activist was on trial for disobeying a police order to leave the protest in Malmo last month.
A Swedish court on Monday fined climate activist Greta Thunberg for disobeying police during an environmental protest at an oil facility last month.
Activist had pleaded not guilty on grounds she acted out of necessity at demonstration that blocked oil trucks in MalmรถGreta Thunberg has been fined by a Swedish court after she was found guilty of disobeying a police order to leave a climate protest.T…
The climate activist admitted that she refused a police order but denied committing a crime.
Manfred Weberโs right-wing alliance still wants to block other climate and environmental laws.
MEPs back law to place recovery measures on 20% of EUโs land and sea by 2030 by dozen votesThe EU has narrowly passed a key law to protect nature โ a core pillar of the Commission president Ursula von der Leyenโs European Green Deal โ after months of f…
Climate campaigners and farmers protested in rival rallies outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday (11 July) as tensions reach boiling point ahead of a make-or-break vote on the EU’s contentious nature restoration law.
Supporters and opponents of the biodiversity bill made their final arguments ahead of Wednesday’s tight vote.
In Strasbourg, dueling protests face off regarding key pillar of EU’s flagship Green Deal.
Climate activist will appear in court in late July after disrupting traffic during a demonstration in MalmรถThe climate activist Greta Thunberg is due to appear in court in late July after being charged with refusing to obey police orders during an anti…
The climate activist blocked a port handling fossil fuels with a group of young activists in June.
