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Public charging won’t be a block on higher EU electric car...

Charging infrastructure will keep pace with the growth in the number of electric vehicles resulting from the EU tightening its clean car rules, new...
Interactive map Ukraine’s nuclear reactors @ Greenpeace

Interactive map and new risk analysis reveals severe hazards at Ukraine’s...

Amsterdam, Netherlands – The extent of the nuclear threat posed by Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine is unprecedented, new Greenpeace International mapping and...

EU Commission plays into hands of anti-nature lobbies, ignores citizens by...

Over the weekend, more than 13,000 EU citizens, 166 environmental NGOs - including CCB - and agroup of environmental ministers sent letters to the...

Food crisis due to Ukraine war calls for demand-side action: less...

The global food system is impacted by the war in Ukraine, adding to the direct humanitarian and security crisis caused by the Russian aggression....

NGOs send an open letter to German Minister Habeck: “We must...

For Germany’s new Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, woody biomass incentives were a “policy insanity” last August. Is it still the case?...
Fishing Boat Photo: Pixabay.com

EU Fisheries Ministers to Proudly Keep on Overfishing in 2022

European Fisheries Ministers, gathered in Brussels to set fishing limits for fish populations in EU seas for 2022, this morning decided to continue overfishing...
Gas flare on top of a flare stack at oil refinery / Photo: W.carter

New data exposes the potentially catastrophic threat from unchecked, invisible methane...

Incomplete data and lack of political priority makes methane an invisible catastrophe for the Earth’s climate. Methane is responsible for about 25 per cent of...
Aircraft on ground being fueled © Kristoferb

EU axes airlines’ fuel tax exemption in drive for greener fuels

The EU will end jet fuel’s tax exemption which has let flying go untaxed for decades, and instead will drive airlines to use cleaner,...
How clean is the air in my city? based on the levels of fine particulate matter measured in the air in cities in 2019 and 2020

New European city air quality viewer allows you to check long...

In the EEA’s new city air quality viewer, cities are ranked from the cleanest city to the most polluted, on the basis of average...
Badger

Government approves badger culling to 2026 and ignores public consultation

Today’s announcement follows a public consultation earlier this year. With the support of The Wildlife Trusts, over 39,000 people responded to the Government’s consultation...
IUCN World Conservation Congress

World’s leading environmental event opens in 100 days

Gland, Switzerland, 27 May 2021 (IUCN) – The next IUCN World Conservation Congress, the world’s largest environmental decision-making forum, is only 100 days away....

Plans for ‘green’ jet fuels threaten to repeat biofuels mistakes –...

Many European governments are getting serious about developing sustainable jet fuels to tackle the climate impact of flying. But a new report shows Spain,...

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