Inside the floating 80s relic that wants to be Britainโ€™s energy future

POLITICO spent the afternoon on a soon-to-be-abandoned North Sea gas plant that’s hoping to ditch fossil fuels with government help.

EU greenhouse gas emissions down 8 percent in 2023

Accelerating rollout of renewable energy sources drives stunning drop.

Waste scandal haunts Cyprusโ€™ EU pick as he heads to Brussels

A decade-old environmental dispute in Limassol, Cyprus, is raising questions over Costas Kadis’ run for EU commissioner.

Von der Leyen threads the climate needle to keep her job

It was a love fest today. The green fights begin tomorrow

โ€œGood IED !โ€ – The CJEU Grand Chamber โ€œIlvaโ€ judgment : a Kirchberg view of conciliating environmental law and human rights

 

 

Jacques Bellezit, University of Strasbourg
(France)

 

Photo credit: mafe de baggis, via Wikimedia Commons

 

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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.

EU Court ruling casts shadows on Europeโ€™s largest steelmaking plant

The EU Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that operations at Italyโ€™s Ilva plant in Taranto โ€“ Europeโ€™s largest steelmaking complex โ€“ must be suspended if they continue to โ€œpresents serious and significant dangers to the environment and human healthโ€, as t…

EUโ€™s power sector emissions plummet as renewables surge

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

EU to adopt new livestock farming emissions rules after Parliament backs compromise

The European Parliament rubber-stamped a revised version of the EUโ€™s rules on emissions generated by industrial installations, which will extend to more pig and poultry farms, despite efforts from right-wing lawmakers to topple the law during a final v…

Leading EPP lawmaker to challenge new EU livestock emissions rules in final vote

Centre-right MEPs could obstruct the extension of new EU rules on industrial emissions to more pig and poultry farms during a final vote at the European Parliament next Tuesday (12 March).

Romania bets on long shot โ€˜baby nukesโ€™ as coal cliff edge looms

Romania is leading EU efforts on small-scale reactors that could make the bloc a clean tech leader. But so far, they remain unproven.

Could Norway become a graveyard for CO2 emissions?

Pumping industrial emissions into the depths of the Earth’s crust โ€“ย is it a silver bullet to pump the breaks on climate change? Norway says yes, as it prepares to launch the worldโ€™s first cross-border carbon storage facility. But will it cut global em…

โ€˜Ciaoโ€™ cows: Cattle excluded from EUโ€™s industrial emissions cut plan

Cattle farms have been excluded from new rules to cut harmful industrial emissions in a deal by the European Parliament and the EU Council that waters down the Commissionโ€™s environmental ambitions.

Press release – Pollution: deal with Council to reduce industrial emissions

The new rules will reduce air, water and soil pollution, and steer large agro-industrial installations in the green transition.Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Source : ยฉ European Union, 2023 – EP

Mounting discontent augurs badly for EU Green Deal

Recent climate regulations are triggering an unintended backlash that risks undermining Europe’s very own climate agenda from within.

Will the EU achieve its green farming ambitions before the 2024 elections?

With the European elections around the corner, it is crunch time for determining the legacy of the Green Deal for agriculture and food policy, as lawmakers scramble to rescue the climate-protecting credentials of this legislative mandate.