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Reducing greenhouse gases is even better for public health than a European Commission study suggests. The European Commission this week published a staff working paper that...

Commission report to support higher carbon emission reduction targets for 2020. A report to be issued by the European Commission in the coming weeks will bolster the case of...

Power plants burning harvested wood can pack a massive carbon footprint. If a tree falls in the forest, do carbon regulators hear it fall and adjust their accounts? The sad...

Economic and environmental recovery must go hand in hand – and we need to act now, writes a leading European businessman. Given the fragility of the economic recovery and...

To create green economies, businesses need real commitments from governments. Some political problems can be solved overnight; others take years to tackle. But, in the...

The head of the European Chemical Industry Council sets out the case for the EU to stick to its current emissions-reduction plan. Europe set itself the bold target of...

'Roadmap' says EU should cut greenhouse-gas emissions by up to 44% by 2030. The debate over Europe's climate-change targets re-ignited today when the European Commission...

There are plenty of advocates of a low-carbon future, but much less agreement over how to make it happen. The European political project was forged on the heroic, polluting...

The mobilisation of national-level low-carbon projects and policies is extraordinary. The last two years have been a rollercoaster ride in respect to securing a new global...

The world is today on the path to yesterday's worst-case scenario. We now need to prepare for vast changes. Far from being another unsuccessful meeting on climate change, as...

One industry shows how the climate-change split between the developed and developing can be bridged. The UN has already lowered expectations of climate change negotiations...

The US's failure to take action on climate change is another guarantee that emerging markets will be hard-wired to intensive use of coal – and that severer climate change...

The past 12 months have been the hottest since measurements began, in keeping with trends that have, for the past 35 years, shown global warming unfolding as predicted by...

Climate department is still full of holes. After the debacle of Copenhagen, international climate change talks have resumed in Bonn (31 May-11 June), but the ...

Too much focus has been put on carbon cuts for nearly two decades, almost to the exclusion of other elements. International climate-change negotiations are to be renewed...

EU risks losing economic and political standing and Europe could fall behind emerging countries. Europe has to increase its investment in green technologies over the next...

Four large states want slower pace of emissions reductions for vans. Environment ministers from some of the EU's largest member states today told the European Commission...

Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate action, set out a strategy to restore momentum to international talks on climate change today, even though she...

EU to stick to current strategy on climate change. The European Union is sticking closely to the climate strategy that was tested at last year's Copenhagen climate summit,...

The EU should face up to the realities of climate change now rather than later. Although international negotiations on tackling climate change crashed horribly in December's...