Sustainability

Tailoring what governments buy is ‘one of the most important ammunitions we have’ in fighting climate change and economic decline.

Paris doesn’t think the Clean Industrial Deal is ambitious enough.

Controversial move to make green investment standards voluntary sparked “huge fight” within the EU executive.

Estimates of Ukraine’s mineral wealth are based on outdated and incomplete assessments of difficult-to-access sites.

4 of 5 companies would be exempt from EU corporate sustainability reporting as part of Brussels’ anti-red tape drive.

The strategy is a response to mounting competition from China and the U.S. and argues Europe can win on green technology.

One German aluminum factory decided to go green and close its smelter. The EU faces a similar choice, with Europe’s future at stake.

The request follows claims the EU executive was paying nonprofits to lobby on its behalf.

The 2040 target “will be presented soon,” said European Commission spokesperson.

There are insuperable market, phytosanitary and political obstacles — and it could get worse.

Rich and poor countries are battling over who will fund nature conservation in the shadow of a radically anti-green U.S. administration.

Formal proposal to amend overarching climate law will accompany Clean Industrial Deal.

President Donald Trump has attacked nearly every aspect of the U.S. effort to confront rising temperatures.

Many businesses would be exempt from complying with sustainability reporting under the hotly anticipated omnibus proposal.

Farmers should not be “an adjustment tool for purchasing power … nor an adjustment tool for trade agreements,” French president says.

The push by the Trump administration creates a “big risk” for financial stability, Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau tells Alternatives Économiques magazine.

Proposal to scrap so-called “double materiality” rule led to a fight within the EU executive.

Mending ties with Trump means allowing US stakes in Ukraine’s mineral riches, officials say.

The bloc’s scientific advisory board on climate change wants the EU to scale up carbon removals.

One of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments is about to fall, replaced by a likely chancellor who says green policy went too far.

Divisions inside Europe’s centrist coalition risk derailing the Commission’s green simplification package.

The Court of Justice of the EU will now look at the case and rule in a few months.

Goals on boosting carbon sequestration, the circular economy, organic farming and reducing the EU’s consumption footprint are most at risk.

The new rules mean clothing companies and manufacturers will have to pay a fee to cover the costs of collection and treatment of textile waste.