TAG: NGOs
Norway doubles down on deep-sea mining bet despite green fears
The Norwegian government wants to fire the starting gun on the exploitation of rare metals and miner...
8 months ago
UK strikes energy deal with firm linked to Putin’s gas exports
LONDON — U.K. hospitals, town halls and government departments will be heated via a massive energy deal with a subsidiary of a firm still importing Russian gas to Europe — just days after U.K. ministers boasted they were “driving Putin out of the market.”...
6 months ago
UK considers probe of Chinese EV subsidies
LONDON — Britain is considering whether to investigate Chinese state subsidies for electric vehicle (EV) makers, two people familiar with the nascent plans told POLITICO.A U.K. investigation would follow the launch of a similar probe by the EU last Octobe...
6 months ago
The EU’s controversial business supply chain oversight rules live on — at a cost
A landmark piece of Brussels’ ambition to put a greener and more human face on international business cleared a major hurdle on Friday — but not without taking major hits along the road. Overcoming weeks of pushback from national capitals, European Union...
6 months ago
Ukrainians are still waiting for Abramovich’s billions
LONDON — More than £2 billion was promised to Ukrainian war victims thanks to the forced sale of Chelsea Football Club.It was to be the largest nongovernmental aid package Europe had ever seen, but nearly two years on and not a penny from the record-break...
6 months ago
Fossil fuel giant Norway pitches itself as Europe’s ideal green partner
HANNOVER, Germany — In world politics, just as in life, some partners are more attractive than others. In its bid to diversify away from China in the race for green technologies and raw materials — all while guaranteeing a stable energy supply — the Europ...
5 months ago
Don’t bring a plastic bottle to the Olympics — unless you’re Coca-Cola
The French would call it deux poids, deux mesures — literally, “two weights, two scales” — or a double standard, for us anglophones. At the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, you won’t be able to bring in plastic bottles. But Coca-Cola, which has exclusi...
2 months ago
Von der Leyen threads the climate needle to keep her job
BRUSSELS — Ursula von der Leyen has just pulled off a delicate green balancing act. The German politician secured a second term as European Commission president on Thursday with a political program carefully designed to woo both conservatives and environm...
2 months ago
NGOs in a dogfight with airlines over ‘grotesque and stupid’ cheap flying schemes
BRUSSELS — Airlines are coming up with ever more inventive schemes to get bums into their seats — and that's a nightmare for campaigners keen to slash flights to combat climate change.The latest idea landed last Tuesday, when Hungarian low-cost airline Wi...
1 month ago
The plan to save European farming
BRUSSELS — Business as usual is no longer an option for European farmers and businesses if climate collapse and economic hardship are to be avoided.That’s the top line of a joint report presented to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on We...
1 month ago
Weber crows as von der Leyen walks back EU deforestation drive
The EU’s nature wars are back.On Wednesday, the European Commission delayed for a year the introduction of landmark rules banning agricultural products from logged forests. The president of the center-right European Peoples’ Party (EPP), Manfred Weber, im...
1 week ago
EU’s three biggest countries push for bank deregulation
The EU should slash planned rules for its banking sector to boost the bloc’s ability to compete internationally, France, Germany and Italy said. The heads of the treasuries of the three countries — the EU's biggest economies — made the request in a lette...
1 week ago
EU must confront Azerbaijan at COP29 over human rights crackdown, top NGOs demand
Western nations should use this year's COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan to pressure Baku over its "vicious crackdown" on journalists, opposition figures and activists, leading human rights organizations urged in a report published Tuesday.As global focus...
1 week ago
Revealed: How Liz Truss lobbied for UK role in project now linked to Mozambique massacre
LONDON — Liz Truss pushed through $1.15 billion in U.K. taxpayer support for a Mozambique gas project now embroiled in allegations of abduction, murder and rape.Truss’ moves to back the project as trade secretary in the spring of 2020 were opposed by then...
1 week ago