Sustainability

Using international carbon credits in place of domestic action undermines climate efforts, scientific advisory board says.

Wopke Hoekstra successfully pushed the incoming coalition to back foreign carbon credits, helping shift the EU-level 2040 talks. 

Germany, France and Poland are in favor.

Jana Nagyová, of Patriots for Europe, says she did “absolutely nothing improper.”

Brussels announces strategy to invest in upgrading infrastructure for military use. 

The EU wants to compete with the U.S. and China on artificial intelligence. But critics say policymakers haven’t planned for the sector’s extreme water demand.

Nitrate pollution is destroying Europe’s aquatic ecosystems. Three decades after the EU started regulating it, there has been almost no improvement.

In an interview with POLITICO, EU climate chief Teresa Ribera warns against watering down the goal too much.

As climate change brings heatwaves, droughts and sudden bursts of torrential rain, much of Europe’s leaky water infrastructure is dangerously underprepared for the coming storm.

Brussels says it wants to save Europe’s waters. Here’s what it’s up against.

Warsaw wants to use around €6 billion in EU money to build shelters and roads for tanks.

Farmers are taking to the streets to support a proposal to slash some agricultural red tape.

Consequences continue to be meted out over the massive corporate wrongdoing.

The EU is increasingly bending its own rules, giving Germany space to negotiate despite fears that Berlin is disadvantaging others.

Insect producers say EU rules are choking their industry and driving it into financial ruin — with the environment paying the price.

The demand goes one step beyond a push to include regulated carbon offsets, further complicating the EU’s attempt to set a 2040 goal.

French president sides with far-right camp in call to scrap EU due diligence law.

Benjamin Haddad says the EU has a window to act right now.

The scandal involved use of filtration techniques on products sold as mineral water.

The EU executive is creating a new category of “small mid-cap” companies as it continues a deregulation push.

It comes as the European Union decided to delay new trade legislation to curb forest destruction worldwide.

We’ve been here before. Will a Commission plan to tear down internal trade barriers work this time?

Wild pollinators face an array of hazards, a new report says.

Handling fee would tackle packages pushed towards Europe by U.S. tariffs.