Clean cooking stoves for Africa: The IEA’s pitch to EU for COP28 on 13/10/23
Fatih Birol, the chief of the International Energy Agency (IEA), is urging the European Union to back a clean cooking initiative for Africa at the upcoming COP28 climate summit in Dubai, telling Euractiv in an exclusive interview that this is “the number one issue” for the continent. Conservatives and liberals combine to water down vehicle pollution standards on 12/10/23
The European Parliament’s environment committee voted Thursday (12 October) to water down proposed pollution standards for vehicles, as conservative and liberal lawmakers joined forces to block green and socialist ambitions. Definition of ‘high-quality’ recycling takes centre stage in EU packaging law on 12/10/23
The European Union wants to reduce waste by encouraging recycling and reuse in its new packaging law, but the pressure is on to get the right definition and criteria for what constitutes "high-quality" recycling. ‘Dear Ursula’: EU Commission chief invited to visit Nordic forests ahead of election year on 12/10/23
In a show of diplomatic strength, the prime ministers of Sweden and Finland have invited EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to visit their country's forests and refrain from overburdening the sector ahead of an election year. NATO to respond if Baltic Sea pipeline damage deliberate on 12/10/23
NATO will discuss damage to a gas pipeline and data cable running between member states Finland and Estonia, and will mount a "determined" response if a deliberate attack is proven, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday (11 October). EU should fund Romania’s Neptun Deep gas project, says Hungarian President on 12/10/23
The EU should provide financial support to Romania's Neptun Deep gas drilling project in the Black Sea, Hungarian President Katalin Novak said during a visit to Budapest of Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Wednesday. European Parliament wants fair, flexible approach to efficient buildings law on 12/10/23
Building renovations, like those encouraged under the draft Energy Performance of Buildings directive, are key to improving people's well-being and reducing emissions, but they must be flexible and rolled out with social safeguards, writes Ciarán Cuffe. PPWR food & beverage packaging bans: are they sustainable? A critical review on the most controversial measures. [Promoted content] on 11/10/23
We fully agree that packagings are widespread, that it would be appropriate to minimise their usage where not necessary and their dispersion into the environment should be avoided. EU’s butchered buildings directive is the price of democracy on 11/10/23
As legislators prepare to compromise and water down the EU’s green buildings law, campaigners are once again in for some disappointment, writes Nikolaus J. Kurmayer. Ireland lays out plans for €100-billion sovereign wealth fund on 11/10/23
Ireland laid out plans in Tuesday's (10 October) budget to turn some of the healthiest public finances in Europe into a €100-billion sovereign wealth fund, while also announcing a raft of measures to ease current cost of living stresses.
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