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EU executive to probe German cash scheme for phased-out coal plants

The European Union’s executive arm suspects that planned German state payouts to two companies whose coal plants were to be shuttered early may breach...

EU to purchase more 300m doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, research claims it might be effective against new strains

The European Commission has renewed a contract with pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech to purchase an additional 300 million doses of their vaccine against...

EU bans plastic waste exports to poor countries

The EU will ban the export of plastic waste from the bloc to poor countries effective from January 1, 2021, it said on Tuesday,...

EU submits new climate target to United Nations

The German Council Presidency, together with the European Commission, submitted the increased national climate target of the EU and its member states to the...

EU agrees 2030 emissions-cutting goal of 55%

EU leaders have agreed to cut carbon emissions by at least 55 per cent by the end of the decade, compared to 1990 levels...

Youth climate activists want EU leaders to withdraw Common Agricultural Policy

One hundred youth climate activists have written a letter to EU leaders demanding that they withdraw the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) voted on by the...

ICEED powers 12 North East hospitals with solar

The International Centre for Energy, Environment and Development (ICEED), an energy and environment solution organisation, while implementing the EU’s funded “Support for Response, Recovery...

EU leaders meet for summit dominated by Brexit, climate targets

EU leaders will descend on Brussels for a two-day summit starting on Thursday, October 15, 2020 to discuss the status of fraught post-Brexit negotiations...

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COP29: A Finance COP where numbers did not add up

The landing of a fragile deal After two weeks of deliberations, and an extra day, COP29 finally reached a deal...
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Hydrogen: TotalEnergies accelerates decarbonisation of La Mède platform

In line with its 2030 ambition to decarbonise the hydrogen used in its European refineries, TotalEnergies has joined forces...

Decisive fifth session of negotiations on global plastic pollution treaty opens in Busan

The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the...

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