2024 lookahead: Climate target for 2040 will be EU Commission’s ‘legacy’, activists say on 03/01/24
The European Commission is expected to table its proposed climate target for 2040 on 6 February, in what many see as the current administration's legacy for the new team that will be appointed to lead the Brussels-based executive after the June EU elections. Europe-bound diesel, jet fuel cargoes divert from Red Sea on 30/12/23
At least four tankers transporting diesel and jet fuel from the Middle East and India to Europe are taking the longer route around Africa to avoid the Red Sea, ship tracking data show. Good news, and nuclear fight: 2023 in EU energy and environment on 29/12/23
As global warming continues to break new records, Euractiv readers were hungry for good news the energy and environment front. Here's our round-up of the most read stories of 2023. River Danube bursts its banks in Budapest, water highest since 2013 on 29/12/23
The River Danube burst its banks in Budapest on Thursday (28 December), with water levels at their highest in a decade as heavy rain and snow followed by mild weather triggered unusually early winter floods. Russia faces mighty obstacle in western LNG sanctions on 29/12/23
US sanctions pose a major obstacle to Russia's plans to increase exports of seaborne liquefied natural gas (LNG) to offset the decline in pipeline gas exports to Europe, analysts said, as expectations mount of delays to a flagship project. DSO Entity and the EU Year of Skills Factsheet [Promoted content] on 22/12/23
In 2023, DSO Entity conducted an online side-campaign to the European Commission’s Year of Skills, with the objective to inform on the needs of the energy sector related to the problem of upskilling and reskilling the workforce to help achieving... Expert on EU-Mercosur deal: Argentina needs green investments, not rules on 22/12/23
Marcela Cristini, senior economist at the Argentinian Foundation for Economic Investigations in Latin America (FIEL), argued that the new Argentinian government would favour the trade deal between the EU and Mercosur but that the EU’s ecological requirements went too far.... Deal on EU trash export ban hailed as end of ‘waste colonialism’ on 22/12/23
Environmental groups have applauded a landmark political agreement reached at EU level last month to ban the export of waste for disposal both inside and outside of Europe, saying it puts an end to “waste colonialism” from rich nations. Romanian government approves offshore wind law for Black Sea power plants on 22/12/23
On Thursday, the Romanian government approved a bill to make it easier to harness the Black Sea’s abundant offshore wind energy. EU Commission allocates €1.2 billion for transformation of coal regions in Bulgaria on 22/12/23
The European Commission allocated €1.2 billion on Thursday for the transformation of Stara Zagora, Kyustendil, and Pernik in Bulgaria under the Just Transition Fund.
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