A groundbreaking new law against the greenwashing of financial services is expected to be rubber-stamped by MEPs and governments in the new year after a breakthrough in negotiations this week.
European governments this morning overturned their earlier opposition to new rules for which financial investments can be labelled environmentally sustainable. France and the UK weighed in behind...
Today EU governments blocked the most progressive piece of financial legislation in the world: new rules for which financial investments can be labelled environmentally sustainable. Green...
EU negotiators working to agree a ‘green finance’ regulation today left with an unexpected early Christmas present: new rules for which financial investments can be labelled environmentally...
Efforts to water down proposed new rules on which financial investments can be labelled environmentally sustainable have been blocked by the European Parliament.
Taxonomy is the obscure name given to the list of economic activities that will be considered ‘green’ in the EU. The issue has been discussed in the rooms of policy wonks in Brussels but it will...
Concrete proposals to clean up transport, the biggest emitter in Europe, will be needed from Frans Timmermans if he is to live up to the positive rhetoric of today’s parliamentary hearing,...
Europe’s leading environmental NGOs have warned that the incoming European Commission president’s ‘one in, one out’ proposal for EU legislation will lead to a weakening of efforts to tackle...
EU countries propose two year delay for new rules and re-open door to nuclear.
European countries today proposed a two-year delay for the adoption of new rules that define unequivocally...
The unregulated advent of driverless cars could increase traffic in European cities by 50% to 150% by 2050, which would be like a rush hour that lasts all day, a...