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EU countries sideline experts in dash to slash green rules

EU countries sideline experts in dash to slash green rules

Diplomats warn that leaving experts out of policy discussions on simplifying green regulations will do more harm than good.

June 11, 2025 6:00 am CET
Macron: Greenland is not up for grabs (nor is Antarctica)
EU science advisers slam Brussels’ weakened 2040 climate plans
EU roughly on track to hit 2030 emissions goal, Brussels says
The EU’s water crisis by the numbers
Wildfires push forest destruction to 20-year high just as EU delays anti-deforestation rules
Europe records warmest March ever, EU scientists say
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Can Keir Starmer bring down bills before bills bring him down?

Downing Street is worried about rising energy bills. Every option for bringing them under control could bring political pain.

March 31, 2025 9:00 pm CET

EU exploring weaker 2040 climate goal

The European Commission wants to keep a 90 percent emissions-cutting target but to change how countries calculate their progress.

March 31, 2025 4:38 am CET

Meet the Czech Millennial Who’s Building a Utopia in the California Hayfields

Armed with tech billions, Jan Sramek has dreams of creating a new, affordable, walkable city. If, that is, California lets him.

March 22, 2025 2:57 pm CET

Europe’s impossible choice: Which industries should survive the green transition?

One German aluminum factory decided to go green and close its smelter. The EU faces a similar choice, with Europe’s future at stake.

February 26, 2025 4:26 am CET

Europe’s divided Parliament could nuke von der Leyen’s plan to slash red tape

Divisions inside Europe’s centrist coalition risk derailing the Commission’s green simplification package.

February 20, 2025 5:45 pm CET

EU to force restaurants, fashion brands to slash their waste

The new rules mean clothing companies and manufacturers will have to pay a fee to cover the costs of collection and treatment of textile waste. 

February 19, 2025 4:02 pm CET

Billions in EU farm subsidies tied to greenwashing

EU countries are using green farm subsidies to reward status quo practices instead of driving real environmental action, NGOs say.

February 5, 2025 6:00 am CET

Von der Leyen builds bonfire of EU’s environmental red tape

Brussels hopes simplifying green compliance rules will boost Europe’s flagging economy. Green groups fear something more sinister.

January 29, 2025 4:30 am CET

Bloomberg offers climate cash to UN amid Trump cutbacks

The move by billionaire Mike Bloomberg comes in response to President Donald Trump’s move to pull funding for U.N. climate programs.

January 23, 2025 6:36 am CET

Here’s what’s new in the EU-Mercosur trade deal

POLITICO brings you the new elements of Europe’s trade deal with South America struck last week.

December 10, 2024 4:57 pm CET

Top advisers say EU should ban solar geoengineering … for now

The bloc’s scientific advisers say the EU should push for an international treaty regulating the controversial technologies.

December 9, 2024 2:01 pm CET

Let’s work with farmers, not against them, says new EU agri chief

Christophe Hansen says his new vision for agriculture and food will be “different” and exclude “eat it or die” targets.

December 3, 2024 6:00 am CET
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December 2, 2024 5:00 am CET

Climate conferences are dying. How to save the world now?

This year’s U.N. climate change summit wore its contradictions and failings on its sleeve, prompting existential anxiety.

November 25, 2024 4:00 am CET

Climate summit ends with a long-fought deal — and a lot of anger

Developing nations got a promise of at least $300 billion in climate finance from rich countries such as the U.S. and the EU’s members. They wanted far more.

November 24, 2024 6:33 am CET
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Unlocking the ‘hidden middle’: Transforming food systems for a sustainable future

Global action on meeting the Paris Agreement is currently falling short. Focusing on this often-neglected segment of food value chains could effect significant change

November 19, 2024 5:00 am CET

Trump taps oil executive Chris Wright as Energy secretary

The oil executive and GOP fundraiser disputes the need to fight against climate change.

November 17, 2024 9:49 am CET

EU going too fast on climate, Cyprus president says

“I do not consider it possible to achieve those goals within the timeframe we have set,” Nikos Christodoulides said, according to Ekathimerini.

November 16, 2024 5:13 pm CET

Trump’s power plays overshadow global climate summit

Donald Trump isn’t at COP29, but his rapid-fire personnel moves to dismantle Joe Biden’s climate legacy are being felt there.

November 14, 2024 4:04 am CET

US ‘likely’ to pledge new climate target, says White House

Donald Trump’s return raised doubts over whether the Biden administration would still produce the plan ahead of a February deadline.

November 13, 2024 1:26 pm CET

Starmer warns against climate ‘inaction’ as Trump looms over COP29

U.K. leader says “lesson from history” is that countries that seize on energy transitions reap the benefits.

November 12, 2024 1:41 pm CET

Want food security? Eat less meat, major report says.

Europe’s top farming university is calling for smaller livestock herds and a shift toward plant-based diets.

November 11, 2024 4:12 am CET

No leaders remain to check Trump’s climate wreckage

This will be nothing like 2016.

November 7, 2024 9:33 pm CET

Climate world absorbs a reality they’d hoped to avoid: Trump is back

Green stocks wobble as officials rush to respond and activists brace for the unknown. ‘It’s going to suck,’ one said.

November 6, 2024 4:59 pm CET
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