Global Temperature Set to Surpass 1.5C Threshold in Hottest Year on Record December 9, 2024 By Olivia Rudgard This year is “effectively certain” to be the warmest on record with temperatures climbing above a closely watched threshold for...
EU Seeks to Streamline ESG Regulations Amid Growing Backlash November 26, 2024 By Frances Schwartzkopff The next European Commission will urgently seek to streamline the bloc’s many environmental, social and governance rules, as it responds...
Summer 2024 Was World’s Hottest on Record: EU Climate Change Monitor September 9, 2024 By Kate Abnett The world is emerging from its warmest northern hemisphere summer since records began, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service...
Norway Seeks to End Climate Injunction Against 3 Oilfields September 4, 2024 By Nerijus Adomaitis Norway’s government will ask an appeals court on Wednesday to lift injunctions against developing three oil and gas fields, part...
Update: EU Faces 2 Lawsuits Over Emissions Rules, ‘Green’ Label for Planes August 27, 2024 By Kate Abnett and Simon Jessop Environmental campaigners have taken the European Commission to court, seeking to force Brussels to upgrade its emissions rules for 2030...
EU Regulators Call for Changes to Landmark ESG Rulebook June 19, 2024 By Frances Schwartzkopff Europe’s ESG rulebook, which is seen as the benchmark for setting sustainability-disclosure requirements worldwide, keeps getting pushback from the regulators...
Rightward Shift After Election Could Limit Future EU Climate Policies June 11, 2024 By Kate Abnett A more rightward-leaning European Parliament will make it harder to pass ambitious EU climate policies, but the majority of Europe’s...
EU Countries Approve Law to Slash Trucks’ CO2 Emissions May 14, 2024 By Kate Abnett European Union countries gave their final approval on Monday to a law to cut carbon dioxide emissions from trucks, which...
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...
Climate Verdict for Swiss Women a Warning for European States, Oil Industry April 12, 2024 By Gloria Dickie, Kate Abnett and Alison Withers Governments and companies that are lax on climate action should be worried since this week’s European human rights court ruling...