During yesterday’s European Council, EU leaders met to discuss the new energy shock hitting Europe, with some of them looking towards deregulation measures and major changes to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) as possible solutions.
The EU Parliament has given its final green light to measures to prevent and reduce waste from food and textiles across the EU, confirming 2030 targets on food waste and making producers cover costs of collecting, sorting and recycling waste textiles.
The European Union has announced a significant investment of EUR 116 million in 13 new projects aimed at restoring the health of the ocean and waters.
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.
