The EU Council has adopted a regulation to prevent the loss of plastic pellets into the environment, following a provisional agreement with the European Parliament.
As Southern Europe faces increasingly destructive wildfires, a new paper by WWF and BirdLife Europe calls on European governments to shift from reactive firefighting to a proactive and integrated approach to wildfire prevention.
In an effort to address climate-related financial risks, the European Central Bank (ECB) is introducing a climate factor in its collateral framework, starting in the second half of 2026.
The EU Commission has activated a customs surveillance system to monitor the import and export of metal waste and scrap into and out of the EU, covering ferrous waste and scrap (including steel), aluminium and copper.
The European Commission has put forward a proposal for a new long-term EU budget that reduces existing funding for climate and nature, leaving Europeans ill-equipped to deal with the ever-worsening climate and biodiversity crisis, amid yet another summer plagued by heatwaves, wildfires and floods.
Today’s European Parliament vote adopting an objection to the European Commission’s country benchmarking system under the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) represents an irresponsible move against one of the EU’s flagship environmental laws.
While Europe is groaning under a heatwave, the European Commission announced its long overdue and heavily trailed 2040 climate target of a -90% cut in greenhouse gas emissions.
