Key EU Environment Ministers discussing the reform of the EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) have today confirmed their support for measures to push forward emission cuts in the...
Today the ECOFIN Council agreed on its position on the future of the European Fund for Strategic Investments, EFSI, also known as the Juncker Plan or the...
The German Presidency must use the G20 platform to mobilise international cooperation and action on climate change according to Climate Action Network. Decisive action on climate change...
The ‘Clean Energy for All Europeans’ package released by the European Commission today has inconsistencies with the Paris Agreement’s objective of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C, and...
Major civil society groups have demanded that governments reinforce the Paris Agreement with improved and immediate action to prevent average global warming from rising 1.5°C above pre industrial levels by...
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report 2016 released today is yet more proof that ambitious objectives of the Paris Agreement need stronger short term action already...
A new Directive to redesign the EU Emissions Trading Scheme for the following decade is being voted on today by the European Parliament’s Industry Committee (ITRE) However, according...
Climate finance was on the agenda as finance ministers met today in Luxembourg, one month ahead of the next international climate summit COP22 in Marrakech. Climate Action...
All of the coal power stations that are left in the UK are at the moment working above pollution limits set in EU law, which is...
There is a large discrepancy between what companies have to pay for carbon pollution under the EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) and how much it costs...
Compromise amendments concerning new legislation for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) were put forward today by members of the European Parliament’s industry committee (ITRE). The...
The Paris Agreement has come into force much earlier due to the EU’s decision to fast-track the ratification of the Paris Agreement although all the Members States...
There is a cross-part consensus from all major political parties regarding the changes for improving the ambition of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme post-2020. Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe...
The EU must ratify the Paris Agreement before the year is up and call for a change to its 2030 climate target in 2018, the European...
The leaders of the world’s largest economies came together for the summit in Hangzhou, China and climate change was at the top of the agenda. However...