European Union

'Serious prudential risk': How EU banks' climate risk provisions are threatening European financial stability

Investment

'Serious prudential risk': How EU banks' climate risk provisions are threatening European financial stability

European Central Bank has urged banks to step up their climate risk assessments, after major benchmarking exercise reveals sector is poorly prepared for escalating impacts

clock 24 November 2021 • 6 min read
Tax or trade: Is the EU's emissions trading scheme the best way to tackle CO2 from shipping?

Carbon Trading

Tax or trade: Is the EU's emissions trading scheme the best way to tackle CO2 from shipping?

Andrew Warren explores the EU Commission's ambition to include European shipping in its emissions trading scheme

clock 24 November 2021 • 6 min read

Editor's Blog

Fit for 55 (and you know it)

The EU's new 'Fit for 55' decarbonisation package is far from perfect, but it is still an historic step forward for global climate action

clock 15 July 2021 • 4 min read

Policy

'A once in a lifetime opportunity': Top businesses urge EU to turbocharge net zero strategy

Ahead of publication of imminent 'Fit for 55' legislative package, leading business groups call on Brussels to accelerate green recovery

clock 06 July 2021 • 4 min read

Management

Global Briefing: EU emissions fall but SUVs drive up transport CO2

Plus Biden's draft budget plans, France's plant-based diet plan, and all the rest of the top green business news from around the world this week

clock 04 June 2021 • 7 min read

Investment

'Crucial': EU unveils green finance rules as decision delayed on gas and nuclear

Leading finance and investment figures hail EU Commission's latest sustainable finance rules as crucial to net zero and fighting greenwashing

clock 22 April 2021 • 5 min read

Policy

EU approves 2030 climate goals, as US preps plan to halve emissions

EU reaches late night deal backing plan to cut emissions 55 per cent by 2030, as reports suggests President Biden will approve goal to halve US emissions by end of the decade

clock 21 April 2021 • 4 min read

Investment

EU risks 'overestimating' costs of meeting 2030 climate goals, businesses warn

European Commission's economic and energy modelling must be improved to avoid inflating costs, European Corporate Leaders Group warns

clock 31 March 2021 • 4 min read

Aviation

'Destination 2050': European aviation players aim to chart pathway to net zero emissions

Airlines, manufacturers, air traffic controllers, and airports claim that reducing net CO2 emissions to zero by 2050 from flights within and departing from the European Economic Area, Britain, and Switzerland is possible

clock 11 February 2021 • 4 min read

Policy

Wildlife Trusts consider legal challenge against Defra authorisation of neonicotinoids

The Wildlife Trusts are exploring whether a 2018 decision from the UK Expert Committee on Pesticides could enable a legal challenge

clock 27 January 2021 • 3 min read