Leaders of G7 countries have gathered in the Bavarian Alps to discuss a series of issues – including an agreement on rising global temperatures ahead of...
The Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has said that he expects to come to an agreement with the country’s creditors within a week. Yanis Varoufakis has...
The German government has allocated $1 billion (£590m) – the largest donation so far – to the UN’s Green Climate Fund (GCF), which aims to help...
Eurosceptic parties Ukip and the National Front have triumphed in the UK and France respectively, leading their European election polls with over a quarter of the...
The two biggest political parties in Germany have struck a deal to form a coalition, two months after chancellor Angela Merkel won the general election. Merkel’s...
Authorities in Russia are to bring more charges against many of the Greenpeace activists currently being detained in the country. The 28 protesters and two journalists...
Russian authorities have dropped charges of piracy against 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists, and have accused them of hooliganism instead, according to officials. The ‘Arctic...
Eleven Nobel peace prize winners have written to Russian president Vladimir Putin, asking him to drop charges against the 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists currently...
Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has scooped 41.5% of the votes in the German general election, and will now look to form a majority government...
The goal of Germany’s Energiewende, or energy transformation, is for Europe’s most advanced industrial economy to be powered almost exclusively by renewables within four decades. Although often...
The EU competition commission is reviewing the law on clean energy in Germany, over claims it contrasts with European competition legislation, according to Der Spiegel magazine....
Greenpeace activists have broken into a nuclear power plant in south-east France and demanded its closure. The Tricastin site, which is owned and run by French company...
Leaders from eight of the most powerful nations in the world have begun two days of talks in Northern Ireland, where they will discuss such things...
The survival of the eurozone continues to dominate the headlines with the bailout of Spain’s banks, and Italy and Cyprus looking to be the next countries...
Two decades have passed since the pioneering Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Today marks the dawning of the United Nations’ game-changing conference for...