Green Deal

The Green Deal promoted by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has the potential to strengthen European, as well as global, forests and make a significant contribution to the fight against climate change, writes Hannah Mowat. Hannah Mowat is Campaigns Coordinator at Fern, a forest NGO. The famous American essayist HL Mencken…

View photos(Bloomberg) -- In 2014, when the price of oil last crashed, the world’s governments had no agreement in place to fight climate change. The following year leaders signed the Paris accord.Green investments have soared since then. Some $1.2 trillion has been poured into renewable energy, and global electric vehicle sales reached…

Ursula von der Leyen may have hoped to be an architect during her first 100 days as Commission president. Circumstances however turned her into a firefighter dealing with too many fires at the same time.  In these crisis times, the chief of the EU executive needs to make her voice…

The European Green Deal risks deepening economic and social divisions between east and western EU countries, trade unions say, warning the 27-member bloc risks imploding before it reaches its 2050 climate neutrality goal. Trade unions have stepped up warnings that the Green Deal put forward by the European Commission in…

Thousands of people, including Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg, marched through downtown Brussels Friday for the youth-led European Climate Strike just a day after scientists released new data revealing that the past few months represented Europe's warmest winter ever recorded. As the home to multiple European Union institutions, Brussels is…

Teen activist Greta Thunberg reminded EU ministers on Thursday (5 March) about the rapidly declining amount of carbon dioxide that world nations are still allowed to emit before the rise in global temperatures risks hitting dangerous levels. Thunberg was invited to address the EU’s 27 environment ministers meeting in Brussels…

Member states struggle to contain coronavirus disease, in Brussels, Greta Thunberg lectures MEPs, and new migration crisis causes unease. This episode is sponsored by Lukoil, more about them later on. As half the world panics about the new coronavirus COVID19, the first case in the EU Brussels Bubble was confirmed…

Skip to comments. Bernie Sanders’s Green Deal Is Far More Radical Than Europe’s Townhall.com ^ | March 5, 2020 | Alfred Ortiz Posted on 03/05/2020 12:16:21 PM PST by Kaslin Editor's Note: This post was co-authored by Zilvenas Silenas. In December 2019, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the…

Kenzo Tribouillard | AFP | Getty ImagesA proposed climate law to enforce the European Union's commitment to be climate-neutral by the year 2050 has drawn criticism from environmental organizations and activists including Greta Thunberg.Plans for the European Climate Law, as it's known, were unveiled by the European Commission on Wednesday.In…

It makes no sense to wait "when the house is on fire", activist Greta Thunberg said as she criticised the European Climate Law proposals. Image credit: European Parliament / Flickr Governments, campaigners, renewable majors and other stakeholders key to the energy transition have urged the EU to ensure its new…