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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...

Connie Hedegaard's risk in Durban was redemption for the EU after its embarrassing failure at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009. Connie Hedegaard, the European...

EU's environmental funding scheme to be changed. The EU's environmental funding scheme Life is to be split into two separate sub-programmes. 

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...

Agreement on an updated binding deal for climate change will be very tricky. The Kyoto protocol is showing its age – and has been for years. In 1990, the year used as the...

Within two decades, the North Pole will be free of ice. Largely unnoticed, a silent drama has been unfolding over the past weeks in the Arctic. The drama – more accurately,...

It is now clear that the Arctic is losing ice cover at an accelerating rate. Largely unnoticed, a silent drama has been unfolding over the past weeks in the Arctic. The...

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...

Mixed messages on energy from the Poles. It is no surprise that a politician knows how to adapt his or her message to different audiences. But, with its chameleon-like...

'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...

Arguments for a 30% target gain momentum, but calls for greater ambition are resisted by steel firms. MEPs will next week debate whether the European Union should set...

More so-called green-collar jobs have been created in recent years, but is a ‘green job' new and how green are these new jobs? No self-respecting political leader should...

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...

Commissioner vows to push for climate deal and praises ‘balanced' agreement at Cancún. Europe must keep up the pressure in 2011 for a strong global deal on climate...

The EU can do a great deal to build upon the modest success for climate diplomacy in Cancún. Cancún probably saved the system of international climate-change talks,...

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...

'Progress' from climate talks at Cancún, but EU sees challenges ahead. A deal to curb climate change reached at the Cancún summit today represents "real progress"...

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...

Andrés Jonathan Drew finds lessons from the EU's emissions trading scheme – and from Voltaire – for US legislators. Voltaire famously stated that “the best can...