Which comes first—Big Toxics’ profits or health?
Stricter European Union regulation of toxic chemicals is being jeopardised by corporate lobbying.
Air quality critical for social justice and the environment
New European air laws can save lives and help the climate. A key vote takes place in the European Parliament today.
Feeling the heat: Europe’s firefighters need support
Firefighter numbers have been cut, when investment—especially in prevention—is key to stemming Europe’s wildfires.
Cutting methane emissions: greater ambition needed
A proposed EU regulation on methane emissions must be strengthened, not diluted, to address a planet on fire.
Europe must unite to stop deep-sea resource grab
The ban on deep-sea mining risks losing its traction—and Europe is divided on the issue.
Five years of ‘Fridays for Future’: what future now?
The movement is adapting its strategy to advocate for social climate policies.
Facing the social realities of the green transition
Europe faces many challenges on the road to climate neutrality. Broad civil-society involvement is crucial for getting there.
The answer to an anti-green backlash is to be redder
Labour must not follow the Tories downwards, Paul Mason writes, as they grasp at electoral straws.
Three choices for a more strategic Europe
The EU aims to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 55 per cent by 2030. It must make strategic choices to realise 90 per cent by 2040.
Nature Restoration Law: an opportunity crucial to seize
The EU Nature Restoration Law has been saved but with its ambition deeply eroded—negotiators must restore its aspirations.
We only have one planet left to save
The ecosystem is a global public good. Partisan European divisions on the nature-restoration law cannot be justified.
Why the Paris financing summit failed
The June summit promised to catalyse a revolution in climate finance but concluded without a single firm commitment.
Ukraine: renewable energy, war and reconstruction
Key to Europe’s future energy security is rebuilding Ukraine’s Infrastructure with renewable energy.
Europe’s green transition: securing the material base
To scale up, the EU needs clear pathways for clean-energy supply chains in mining and manufacturing.
The fertiliser conundrum
Making the global food system more sustainable and equitable is hugely complex and involves difficult trade-offs.
The dam has burst: making ecocide a crime
Russia’s war on Ukraine creates momentum for a breakthrough in adopting ecocide as an international crime.
The circular economy: a geometry lesson
Equating circularity with narrowing and slowing lets virtually all businesses join the bandwagon.
Central and eastern Europe: a renewable-energy win-win
CEE countries have large wind and solar potential. Greening power supplies would also reduce prices.
How green Europeans can cure Earth’s climate blues
The EU needs to redouble efforts to build coalitions and form alliances with key states—especially in the global south.
Decarbonising the built environment: circularity key
The World Circular Economy Forum meets today in Helsinki—construction is one of the biggest challenges.
Europe’s just transition—still out of reach
If it holds on to ‘green growth’ and tight fiscal constraints, the EU will be unable to negotiate a just transition.
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