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Germany’s Scholz to officially inaugurate ‘climate club’ at COP28 on 01/12/23 Chancellor Scholz's long-held plans to establish a "climate club" of ambitious countries will finally see the light at the COP28 summit in Dubai, with 33 members initially expected to join, including all G7 countries, Chile and Mozambique.
Romania aims to recycle 7 billion PETs per year on 01/12/23 Romania’s guarantee return system for plastic, glass and metal packaging went live on Thursday, with an ambitious target to recycle around 7 billion pieces of reusable PET plastic each year to massively increase the country’s current separate collection rate of about 12-13%.
Trade must be taken more seriously as an environmental issue on 01/12/23 Countries’ carbon footprints are determined by what they buy and sell from each other, not just by their own production. So trade policy should play a role in countries’ efforts to decarbonise – alignment of the two is long overdue, write Laurence Tubiana and Richard Baron.
‘Ciao’ cows: Cattle excluded from EU’s industrial emissions cut plan on 30/11/23 Cattle farms have been excluded from new rules to cut harmful industrial emissions in a deal by the European Parliament and the EU Council that waters down the Commission’s environmental ambitions.
Two MEPs, two outsiders join race for Greens’ EU election lead candidates on 30/11/23 Green chief and MEP Terry Reintke (Germany), GroenLinks MEP Bas Eickhout (Netherlands), former Latvian presidential candidate Elīna Pinto, and the spokesperson for the Young European Greens, Benedetta Scuderi (Italy), are running to be one of the two European Greens' lead candidates in the EU elections.
German climate policy insufficient, court rules on 30/11/23 The German government must present emergency programmes to improve its climate policy in the transport and buildings sector, a Berlin court ruled on Thursday (30 November), after the country repeatedly failed to meet emission reduction targets.
Conserving EU nature: Mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss on 30/11/23 Europe and the world face many technical and societal challenges when it comes to climate change and conservation efforts. While there has been a recent push to increase awareness of these issues, these efforts often fall short of their goals...
How to get renewables right on 30/11/23 Urging for “immediate action” to hit the EU’s newly-adopted target of at least 42.5% renewable energy by 2030, European Commission Vice President for the Green Deal Maroš Šefčovič presented a “European Wind Power Action Plan” as one path to get there.
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