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Europe is spending millions to trap carbon. Where will it go?
Tomaž Vuk has the carbon. Now he just needs somewhere to send it. Since 2020, Vuk, who sits on the b...
8 months ago
EU heavyweights urge ‘ambitious’ 2040 climate targets — breaking silence
Several of Europe's most powerful countries implored Brussels to set "an ambitious climate target fo...
8 months ago
Ursula’s empty green Davos promise
Almost a year ago to the day, Ursula von der Leyen traveled to the snowy environs of Davos to make a...
8 months ago
Switzerland’s climate failures breached human rights, top court rules
Switzerland violated its citizens' human rights by failing to protect them from climate change's catastrophic effects, Europe’s top human rights court said Tuesday in a ruling expected to reverberate across future lawsuits.The judgment — dubbed KlimaSenio...
6 months ago
Climate protection is now a human right — and lawsuits will follow
Governments be warned: You must protect your citizens from climate change — it’s their human right.The prescient message was laced throughout a dense ruling Tuesday from Europe’s top human rights court. The court’s conclusion? Humans have a right to safet...
6 months ago
World Bank’s climate plan: Pricier red meat and dairy, cheaper chicken and veggies
Cows and milk are out, chicken and broccoli are in — if the World Bank has its way, that is.In a new paper, the international financial lender suggests repurposing the billions rich countries spend to boost CO2-rich products like red meat and dairy for mo...
5 months ago
Climate entrepreneurs are coming for Europe’s money
BRUSSELS — Stefan Borgas already runs a multibillion-dollar Austrian company that supplies iron and steel factories. But that’s not exactly why he was in Brussels. Borgas was in the capital of the European Union seeking millions for a pet project that doe...
4 months ago
Heatwave blanketing Olympics ‘impossible’ without climate change
The blistering temperatures engulfing athletes and fans at the Paris Olympics in recent days are connected to a month-long heat bender that would have been “virtually impossible” without man-made climate change, leading climate scientists have concluded. ...
2 months ago
Saudi oil giant spends well over a billion on ‘sportswashing,’ new report says
Saudi Arabia is spending more than a billion dollars to sponsor global sporting events as it looks to burnish its reputation and assert itself as a global superpower, according to a new report out Wednesday.The report by think tank New Weather Institute r...
4 weeks ago
Pro-Ukraine pledges proving too contentious for EU-Gulf summit, leak shows
The EU is struggling to get Gulf countries on board with a series of pro-Ukraine commitments ahead of a leaders’ summit on Wednesday in Brussels, according to a draft statement seen by POLITICO. The EU-Gulf summit, the first of its kind, is meant as a sho...
1 day ago