Brussels, Belgium — In a long-awaited proposal, presented today, for curbing global warming pollution from new cars, the European Commission has relegated climate change to the back seat and granted major concessions to the car industry, said...

Brussels, Belgium — The proposal on binding carbon dioxide emission limits for new cars, scheduled for next week, will be fundamentally flawed and doomed to fail unless the Commission takes immediate action to correct it, according to Greenpeace.(1)

Ljubljana, Slovenia — The international environmental campaign group Greenpeace and Umanotera, the Slovenian Foundation for Sustainable Development, today launched the joint project 'Slovenian EU presidency watch'. This project is to monitor and...

Brussels, Belgium — The European Parliament’s Energy Committee today recommended that the Commission set guidelines for mandatory national targets for the share of renewable energies in the heating and cooling sector, with the aim of at least...

Brussels, Belgium — Ahead of the European Commission’s own performance assessment, environmental groups today issued a critical verdict on the Commission’s record in protecting and improving Europe’s environment during the first half of its term...

Brussels, Belgium — Energy Ministers today failed to support a proposed binding target for renewable energy, leaving the decision to EU leaders at their summit in March. They also signalled a departure from the successful approach of specific...

Brussels, Belgium — Greenpeace has issued a plea to EU environment ministers – due to meet tomorrow to agree their support for greenhouse gas emission reductions in the EU – to seize the initiative on climate change and commit to a 30% reduction...

Brussels, Belgium — Renewable energy, combined with efficiencies from the ‘smart use’ of energy, can deliver half of the world’s energy needs by 2050, according to one of the most comprehensive plans for future sustainable energy provision,...

Brussels, Belgium — Europe’s governments are guilty of allowing their industries to produce as much carbon dioxide as they wish at no cost, environmental organisations accused today. As the European Commission releases the data on emissions of...