Emissions up as car buyers switch from diesel to gasoline
The aftermath of the Dieselgate scandal is pushing drivers to switch from diesel to gasoline cars, undermining efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions from road transport. Average CO2 emissions from...
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Looking for a future in Germany’s dying coal industry
JÄNSCHWALDE, Germany — Robin Richter sees his future in coal. Germany has pledged to end coal-fired power by 2038, but that’s not stopping the 16-year-old from signing up to be a trainee at the...
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Climate icon Greta Thunberg finds that political change is ‘complicated’
STRASBOURG — Turns out that building a global climate change protest movement was the easy part. Now 16-year-old climate icon Greta Thunberg is getting an up-close look at why politicians are having...
View ArticleTrump invites Orbán to Washington
U.S. President Donald Trump will host Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for talks on May 13, Hungary’s foreign minister said Thursday. Péter Szijjártó told POLITICO that the meeting has been...
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Europe’s East-West divide is back, this time over climate policy
Climate policy is splitting the EU. Buffeted by climate protests and alarmed at increasingly grim climate science, many Western European countries want to dramatically ramp up their climate efforts by...
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Euroskeptic wave is unlikely to submerge EU climate policies
Euroskeptic parties — many of which harbor deep doubts about climate change — are expected to do very well in this week’s European election. POLITICO projections suggest Euroskeptic parties — a...
View ArticleEU horse-trading goes green
Aggressive policies on tackling climate change turned out to be a vote-winner in the European election — at least in the west of the Continent. Because of that, climate policy may play a big role in...
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The EU’s 7 post-election green priorities
The European election didn’t produce a decisive winner when it comes to political groupings — it’s a different story when it comes to climate policy issues. It’s pretty clear that issues that had once...
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EU takes aim at global airline emissions pact
This article is part of a special report called Aviation’s Climate Challenge. Could a global effort to rein in the airline industry’s greenhouse gas emissions undermine the EU’s fight against climate...
View ArticleGermany joins push for EU-wide 2050 net zero emissions goal
Germany will join a growing push for an EU-wide target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, increasing the odds that EU leaders could formally agree to the goal this week, according...
View ArticleEx-Romanian PM set to lead Liberals in European Parliament
Former Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Cioloș is on track to lead the new centrist-liberal group in the European Parliament after winning the endorsement of French President Emmanuel Macron’s...
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POLITICO Pro Morning Energy and Climate: Battle over climate neutrality —...
View in your browser or listen to audio By KALINA OROSCHAKOFF with Anca Gurzu, Paola Tamma, Saim Saeed and Eline Schaart. SNEAK PEEK — Senior Commission officials work to ensure climate neutrality...
View ArticleMomentum grows for EU effort to set 2050 climate neutrality goal
EU leaders are coming under growing pressure to support the bloc becoming climate neutral by 2050 at their summit in Brussels on Thursday. In an effort to reach a consensus and bring along skeptical...
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Fossil fuel fightback marks climate talks
Temperatures hit a record-breaking 45.9 degrees in France Friday during a week in which a group of countries fought hard to ensure that efforts to tackle climate change don’t undermine their...
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Ursula von der Leyen: Teen singing star
Ursula von der Leyen will have no shortage of opportunities to appear in front of the cameras if she’s confirmed as president of the European Commission — and if things aren’t going well, maybe she...
View ArticleCouncil President Donald Tusk backs Greens commissioner
European Council President Donald Tusk today told parliamentarians in Strasbourg that he’s backing efforts to appoint a candidate from the Greens group to the next European Commission. His comments are...
View ArticleOil tanker headed to Syria detained in Gibraltar
The Gibraltar government Thursday announced that it had detained a super tanker carrying crude oil to Syria, over concerns that the vessel was breaching EU sanctions. The government of the British...
View ArticleVon der Leyen uses climate in a bid to land Commission top job
Ursula von der Leyen is making ambitious climate promises in her push to become European Commission president, and in the process is shifting positions held by her conservative European People’s Party...
View ArticleFrench environment minister resigns after lobster scandal
Emmanuel Macron’s environment minister, François de Rugy, Tuesday announced his resignation after coming under fire over allegations that he spent taxpayers’ money on lavish dinners and home...
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Madam President-elect, you’ve got mail
It’s going to be a long, occasionally gray, at times not-so-hot, summer in Brussels for European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen. It may also get quite lonely: During parts of August...
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