EU Mounts Major Retreat From ESG Agenda Amid Fierce Backlash February 25, 2025 By John Ainger and Frances Schwartzkopff The European Union is about to walk back significant chunks of planned ESG regulations, amid a barrage of complaints that...
EU Plans to Walk Back Key Planks of Toughest ESG Legislation February 24, 2025 By Frances Schwartzkopff and John Ainger The European Commission is proposing a significant watering down of what was arguably its most consequential piece of ESG regulation....
EU Weighs Easing Corporate Liability Under Toughest ESG Law February 12, 2025 By John Ainger The European Union is reviewing the extent to which companies can be held liable for environmental and human rights breaches...
UN Climate Chief Warns of Looming ‘Trainwreck’ as 1.5C Warming Limit in Doubt October 28, 2024 By John Ainger The world is on course to miss a target for cutting emissions this decade by an overwhelming amount, new UN...
Europe Is Being Scorched and Flooded by Growing Climate Extremes April 22, 2024 By John Ainger The European Union endured its joint-hottest year on record in 2023, according to new scientific analysis, pointing to a more...
Europe Faces 3C of Global Warming. Here’s How It Plans to Cope. March 8, 2024 By John Ainger Europe will be 3C hotter even if the world succeeds in limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, bringing...
EU Lawmakers ‘Outraged’ After States Block Landmark ESG Law February 29, 2024 By John Ainger and Frances Schwartzkopff A European Union law designed to clean up corporate supply chains has been derailed by the bloc’s biggest member states,...
Europe’s Toughest ESG Rule Hits Wall of German Objections February 2, 2024 By John Ainger and Frances Schwartzkopff The European Union’s most stringent ESG rule to date may be scuppered due to eleventh-hour German opposition to the plan....
EU Spat Over Nuclear Energy Escalates as Key Vote Is Delayed May 18, 2023 By John Ainger and Ewa Krukowska A key element of the European Union’s Green Deal package has been delayed after France, the bloc’s biggest supporter of...
North Sea Nations to Develop Critical Infrastructure Security Pact April 26, 2023 By John Ainger and Michael Nienaber Security advisers from the North Sea nations agreed to work out a pact to jointly protect critical sub-sea gas pipelines...