Green Deal

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - If making headlines and drawing flak is a measure of success at Davos, then Greta Thunberg probably came out on top of this year’s edition of the Alpine business-meets-politics gathering. The 17-year-old climate activist has a…

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - There are signs U.S. President Donald Trump is starting to engage more seriously on climate change and listening to the concerns of corporations, the European Commission’s vice-president and head of its ‘Green Deal’ said on Thursday. Frans Timmermans, who is driving the Commission’s work on a…

Getty The European Parliaments energy committee today declined to reject a proposed list of priority energy project eligible for funding from the European Investment Bank despite critics saying it violates an EIB pledge to phase out fossil fuel lending. Las…

Latest2/22/20, 3:05 PM CETPolitical factions in Germany’s Thuringia strike compromise dealThe former state premier will return to run a minority government until fresh elections next year.2/22/20, 2:30 AM CETHamburg vote offers boost for beleaguered SPDDespite national troubles, the center-left party is poised to hold on to power in German port…

As laudable as they are, the European Commission's proposals for addressing climate change rely overwhelmingly on forms of financing that violate EU rules. Because the Commission is barred from assuming debt, the European Investment Bank will do so on its beh…

Lambert here: This is an EU-focused, supranational “Green Deal,” and so not directly comparable to the Green New Deal. However, I think that the same issues of productivity occur on either side of the Atlantic. By Karl Aiginger, Director, Policy Crossover Ce…

dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Last year, when the European Investment Bank vowed to end its support for fossil fuels by 2022, environmentalists cheered the move. But a new list of projects eligible for funding, unveiled this week by the European Unio…

The new president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has announced a European Green Deal and the Commission has asserted Europes need to develop a new growth model to achieve climate neutrality. However, the Commissions limited view of producti…

BRUSSELS (AP) The European Union plans to dedicate a quarter of its budget to tackling climate change and to work to shift 1 trillion euros ($1.1 trillion) in investment toward making the EU's economy more environmentally friendly over the next 10 years. Aim…

Going green can be a costly business, as the EU's executive body will make clear on Tuesday when it launches a one-trillion-euro plan to finance its goal of making the bloc carbon neutral by 2050. That figure represents a 10-year investment to be sourced fro…