POLITICO discussed the emergence of attribution science and the human fingerprints on Helene and Milton with Gabriel Vecchi, a Princeton University professor of geosciences.
While some embrace technological innovations, others are forced to close as global heating causes lack of snowfallSitting at his window in Vรคsterรฅs, central Sweden, Thomas Ohlander is wondering when the winter season might start for his outdoor adventu…
After just a few months in office, the new British government is finding life tough.
Local people and businesses left โin lurchโ after council says it cannot afford to support or develop Alpe du Grand SerreA large French Alpine ski resort has announced it is to close, citing a lack of funds to become a year-round destination, as low- a…
Tests show adding just 10% of waste to a wood burner indoors can double its particle pollutionIt may be tempting to add cardboard, plastic, old clothing and other waste to your home fire to keep warm and save money. But a study has shown that burning w…
The potential reelection of the former Republican president is causing anxiety in the global climate community.
SNEAK PEEK โย Gastein day 1 kicks off with a plea to ramp up investment in health โ and ways to do it. โ Can tech help to close the gender health gap? Some think so, but only if its funded and reaches all in need. โ Is COP29 the breakthrough year for health and [โฆ]
Study shows extreme rainfall made twice as likely by planet-heating pollution as EU promises โฌ10bn in aidGlobal heating โdoubledโ chance of heavy rain in Europe in SeptemberJarmila ล iลกmovรก did not know what to expect when rain began to pound the small …
Researchers find climate crisis aggravated the four days of heavy rainfall and deadly floodsโWeโre getting rid of everythingโ: floods destroy homes and lives in Czech RepublicPlanet-heating pollution doubled the chance of the extreme levels of rain tha…
The country, which has more 300 days of sunshine a year, has embraced rooftop systems that harness the sunโs energyThe Thriamvos company truck pulls up at noon outside the four-storey building in the heart of Nicosia.Itโs the third rooftop installation…
Fossil-fuel companies are the new patrons of Big Sport, according to think tank New Weather Institute.
The incoming Commissioner for Energy must be tasked with delivering the clean heat transition: phasing out fossil fuels in heating and cooling is the gateway towards energy security, affordability, European industrial competitiveness, and essential cli…
Cities need EU help to decarbonise heating
Officials are investigating why part of a bridge in eastern Germany collapsed early Wednesday, disrupting a major traffic artery in Dresden and interrupting the city’s heating system.
German manufacturers are being strangled. The EU is feeling the pinch. Mario Draghi on Monday warned the EU may be staring at โslow agony.โ
Slovakia has failed to include charges for emissions from heating and road transport in its latest amendment to its Emissions Trading Act, despite an EU directive requiring member states to do so by 25 September, with Environment Minister Tomรกลก Taraba …
The beleaguered electricity system is braced for a catastrophic winter as a result of Russian attacks.
The country’s vast reserves helped the continent avoid a market crisis last winter.
Try not to wreck the economy.
Foreign Minister Szijjรกrtรณ sat down for three hours with the CEO of the Russian energy giant.
Lobbyists from Airlines for America argued against European Commission draft rules to report cocktail of pollutants, freedom of information requests showUS airlines lobbied against plans to monitor the damage wrought by planet-heating pollutants pumped…
Environmental groups that put Joe Bidenโs climate initiatives under a microscope arenโt giving the Democratic nomineeโs positions the same scrutiny.
The presidency isn’t a powerful office, but it’s a must-wing for all sides in deeply divided Poland.
Countries in south most at risk, with rise likely to outstrip fall in cold-related deaths if global heating hits 3C or 4CHeat deaths in Europe could triple by the end of the century, with the numbers rising disproportionately in southern European count…
A laboratory in Valencia is breeding and sterilising thousands of tiger mosquitoes to fight dengue fever and other diseases as global heating encourages invasive species to spread across Europe Continue reading…
Its protests โ such as blocking streets and airports โย have garnered a lot of attention.
Married couple from Bristol attract awe and abuse on X with photos that show โstaggeringโ changes in the AlpsA tourist has posted โstaggeringโ photos of himself and his wife at the same spot in the Swiss Alps almost exactly 15 years apart, in a pair of…
Sticky mucilage made of microalgae covers the surface and fishing is impossible as waters reach 30CAlmost every morning, Daniele Montini and his wife, Alfreda, take a stroll in the shallow waters of the Adriatic Sea. The ritual, followed by many reside…
The race to succeed Rishi Sunak as UK Conservative leader is heating up.
Heads up: There are just over 100 days to go until the election.
In Milwaukee, the battle for Donald Trump’s attention is heating up and Brits want in.
Slovakia falls behind in submitting its finalised national plan for emissions reduction by 2030, which now includes doubling the natural gas share in central heating systems and lacks a clear timetable for reducing fossil fuel use, raising concerns amo…
Report says member states poured $1.34tn into their militaries last year โ an increase of $126bn from 2022As leaders from member countries gather to mark the 75th anniversary of Nato in Washington DC, researchers are warning that their military budgets…
A trip north with the U.K.โs most powerful leader in a generation.
Diplomatic clash between Germany and Turkey is heating up.
Power-to-heat shows how renewable energy can also be used for heating. This technology may be one of the most preferred and useful options for decarbonising district heating systems in Poland.
Worldโs first emissions tax on agriculture will require farmers to pay for greenhouse gas pollution from livestockFarmers in Denmark will have to pay for planet-heating pollutants that their cattle expel as gas, after the government agreed to set the w…
Investigation finds funds touting ethical credentials include fast fashion labels and fossil fuel companiesFast fashion labels, fossil fuel companies and SUV-makers are present in EU-regulated โsustainableโ funds that tout their ethical credentials in …
Scientists warn of โscaryโ feedback loop in which fires create more heating, which causes more fires worldwideThe climate crisis is driving an exponential rise in the most extreme wildfires in key regions around the world, research has revealed.The wil…
Trumpโs fundraising while he was on trial in New York, punctuated in the final days when he was convicted, was enough to surpass the incumbent Democrat when it comes to campaign cash.
A draft statement seen by POLITICO reveals EU leaders will call for more air defense shipments as Russia ups its attacks on power stations.
Affordable housing is often associated with drab housing blocs and brutalist towers โ but it doesn’t have to be.
The burden of transition on economically insecure voters must be eased via a more ambitious fiscal approach by governmentsFollowing the European parliament elections of 2019, the newly elected president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,…
While all eyes are on France’s spot election, Germans too may soon face an early vote.
The deals were signed at this week’s Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin.
Reforms of the telecom sector are expected to be at the top of the policy agenda for the next EU mandate and a battle is already heating up over the need to deregulate it.
Has the European Commission president given up on her green agenda going into a possible second term โ or is she just biding her time?
A climate activist was arrested at the Musรฉe dโOrsay in Paris after sticking a blood-red poster over Monet’s painting of poppy fields. The woman then revealed a T-shirt saying ‘L’enfer’ (hell). The action by a member of Riposte Alimentaire (Food Respon…
Woman from Riposte Alimentaire arrested after sticking poster on impressionist painterโs CoquelicotsA climate activist has been arrested for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet painting at the Musรฉe dโOrsay in Paris to draw attention to global heat…
Though most legacy systems rely on fossil fuels to provide heat for homes and businesses, new systems are looking towards power-to-heat technology as a possible low-carbon alternative.
Earthquake this week finally jolts authorities into action after decades of runaway construction puts half a million people at risk.
Stresa, Italy, May 23, 2024 (AFP) – US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday urged G7 ministers meeting in Italy to work on “more ambitious options” to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.The ministers and central bankers from the Group of …
Winter downpours also made 20% wetter and will occur every three years without urgent carbon cuts, experts warnThe seemingly โnever-endingโ rain last autumn and winter in the UK and Ireland was made 10 times more likely and 20% wetter by human-caused g…
On Wednesday 16 May, 15 EU Member States published a joint working document calling on the Commission to prioritise the decarbonisation of heating and cooling in order to increase the EU’s energy independence and meet its climate targets.
Decarbonising the heating and cooling sector is central to achieving the energy transition. This is recognised in the European Green Deal and the โFit for 55โ package, as without increasing the share of renewables in this sector, our energy and climate…
The EUโs new carbon pricing scheme for road and heating fuels (ETS2) โ set to be introduced across the bloc in 2027 โ could lead to higher price hikes than initially thought, key lawmakers told Euractiv.
Italy on Saturday (27 April) summoned Russia’s ambassador after Moscow announced it was putting a subsidiary of Italian heating firm Ariston Thermo Group under the “temporary management” of state energy giant Gazprom.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy repeats pleas for more defensive missiles after fourth large-scale aerial assault on energy system in five weeks. What we know on day 795See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageRussian missiles have hammered power facilities in centr…
Illnesses such as dengue and malaria to reach unaffected parts of northern Europe, America, Asia and Australia, conference to hearMosquito-borne diseases are spreading across the globe, and particularly in Europe, due to climate breakdown, an expert ha…
Coordinated withdrawal agreed after several member states and UK have quit energy charter treatyEuropean lawmakers have voted to escape a treaty that lets investors sue governments in private courts for pursuing policies that stop the planet from heati…
The rollback came after capitals expressed “concerns” about the climate-friendly reforms, a document seen by POLITICO reveals.
The cost of environmental damage will be six times higher than the price of limiting global heating to 2C, study findsAverage incomes will fall by almost a fifth within the next 26 years as a result of the climate crisis, according to a new study that …
A debate on abandoning sector-specific climate targets is heating up in Germany after Transport Minister Volker Wissing from the liberal FDP party warned that he might have to impose car bans on weekends unless the countryโs climate law is reformed.
Company is fighting Dutch court ruling that says it must emit 45% less CO2 by 2030 than in 2019Shell has argued that it โlobbies for, not against, the energy transitionโ on the final day of its appeal against a landmark climate ruling.The fossil fuel c…
Monthly hot streak continues in March with scientists struggling to explain the scale of recent heating.
Monthly hot streak continues in March with scientists struggling to explain the scale of recent heating.
Commission also hit with official complaint by outraged MEP who was passed over for key job.
Countries now have abundant gas supplies but years of high costs led to a pervasive economic slowdownEurope is leaving behind the winter months with gas storage facilities brimming at all-time highs. This abundance of gas has allowed wholesale market p…
Increasing exports to the EU are a lifeline for Turkey, but analysts fear it could be the Kremlin cashing in.
The introduction of an EU-wide carbon price on heating and road fuels in 2027 should be reconsidered, Yasmin Fahimi, president of the German trade union confederation (DGB), said in Berlin on Saturday (23 March).
An increasing number of sailors are being abandoned by their vesselsโ owners, left stuck on board sometimes for months or even years.
UK, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Denmark have failed to align oil and gas policies with Paris pledges, say campaignersNone of the big oil and gas producers surrounding the North Sea plan to stop drilling soon enough to meet the 1.5C (2.7F) global h…
Rather than leading with data and promoting health, safety and economic โco-benefitsโ as bonus add-ons, climate advocates need to flip the script.
Chancellor Scholz said his government is working to clarify the incident โvery carefully, very intensively and very quickly.โ
Far-right radical seen as last chance to avoid EU pollution rules.
The government is on the hunt for โtrusted messengersโ to help promote the push to net zero.
Benefits would quickly follow reductions in air pollution from traffic and home heating, argues European Environment AgencyApproximately 238,000 air pollution deaths could be avoided each year if the EU27 countries actually met World Health Organizatio…
Euractiv got hold of the Belgian Presidency’s plan to unblock the EU Energy Taxation Directive, which is currently stuck because of the unanimity rule applying to tax matters. Wood for heating and charcoal will be exempted from the scope under the prop…
Romania is leading EU efforts on small-scale reactors that could make the bloc a clean tech leader. But so far, they remain unproven.
Countries’ insistence on more flexibility sparks row with Parliament.
Temperatures in Iceland are currently subzero.
UK opposition party’s pledge to spend ยฃ28 billion a year on a cleaner economy ditched after months of dithering.
Renewablesโ advocates call for the diversification of heating technologies.
Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho tells POLITICO that Britain wants to swerve ideas ‘public feel are not in their interests’ โ prompting a furious pushback from some in Europe.
Proposal is part of European Commissionโs aim to become worldโs first climate-neutral continentThe EU aims to slash its net greenhouse gas pollution by 90% by 2040 as part of its push to become the worldโs first climate-neutral continent, the European …
Just as Putin seeks to project an image of a mighty Russia before elections, some two dozen regions are experiencing heating outages.
Geothermal energy is heat generated in earth’s crust and is used mainly for electricity generation, district heating and industrial processes and could be Europe’s next big thing in renewable energy.
University of Sassari research suggests change in habits might expose animals to more predatorsGlobal heating is pushing mountain goats into a more nocturnal lifestyle that could expose them to more predators, scientists have found.A team of researcher…
Despite leading lavish lifestyles, some monarchs are influencing people to make greener choicesWhen Prince Frederik takes the throne on Sunday, the Danish crown will pass from his mother, Queen Margrethe II, a monarch who has cast doubt on the fact tha…
Labour leader Keir Starmer is among those shunning the 19th century Palace of Westminster amid falling masonry, leaky roofs and freezing temperatures.
Angry protests by farmers, hauliers and railway workers risk being exploited by populists such as Alternative fรผr DeutschlandThe symbolism that German farmers chose to express their discontent with the government in the first days of the new year was a…
Alok Sharma speaks out as MPs prepare to vote on controversial Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill for the first time Monday.
At least five people die in wave of Russian strikes on Kyiv and Kharkiv; Russia accidentally bombs its own citySee all our Russia-Ukraine coverageRussian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and the north-eastern city of Kharkiv killed at least five peopl…
In a exclusive interview, Father Christmas reveals who’ll be getting a present this festive season.
In France, they outsold fossil fuel boilers last year, with rapid progress in Poland, Germany, Italy and the Nordic countries. In the UK, muddled policy is blamed for a slow rate of installationThe humble heat pump has emerged as a powerful tool in Eur…
In part five of our series exploring myths surrounding EVs, we assess the greenwashing claimsAre EVs too costly to tempt drivers?Is it right to have range anxiety?Do EVs pose a greater fire risk?There is a spectre haunting electric cars: the question o…
First subsidy round for โgreen hydrogenโ production also falls well short of government’s target
Central banksโ efforts to tame inflation have made it harder for both wealthy and poor nations to shift away from fossil fuels.
Ukraine’s capital comes under cruise missile fire for first time in nearly three months, says military chief.
Steamy, spiritual and stress-busting, there are more than 3m saunas in Finland. Not only are they skin tingling, they help people explore what it is to be humanI should not be surprised if an older sauna-goer asks me to scrub their back, says Alexander…
