NACW25: California’s low-carbon policymakers keep their heads down
There is a time and place for protests and pickets, but the California regulator is currently keeping its head down and getting on with the job, said one of its officers at a conference on Wednesday.
Read MoreKey EU lawmaker pushes back on ETS2 postponement
A leading centre-right MEP has expressed doubts about postponing the new Emissions Trading System for heating and road transport fuels (ETS2), in a pushback against growing calls for delaying the new scheme to prevent a consumer backlash.
Read MoreGermany anchors net zero by 2045 goal in constitution
The German Bundestag voted through a historic finance package on Tuesday that introduced a reference to the country’s net zero by 2045 goal into its constitution.
Read MoreEurope starting to see structural decline in transport emissions -NGO
Thanks to electric cars driven by EU CO2 standards, European transport emissions have dipped, said campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) in a report on Tuesday. Increased air travel risks undoing the savings however, it added.
Read MoreGermany on track for 2030 climate target, not for long-term goals
Total greenhouse gas emissions in Germany dropped again in 2024, putting the country roughly on track for 2030, but continued high transport and heating emissions are putting the country’s 2045 climate neutrality target in jeopardy, the German Environment Agency (UBA) reported on Friday.
Read MoreGerman Greens secure €100 bln for climate in landmark deal
Germany will earmark €100 billion of a new €500 bln infrastructure fund for climate action, in exchange for support from the Greens to push the fund and a historic reform of the country’s debt brake through the Bundestag.
Read MoreGerman government negotiations start, as Greens force climate up the agenda
Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU and centre-left SPD are set to kick off negotiations for a new coalition government, as they look to the Greens to get a historic debt brake reform for defence and €500 billion infrastructure fund approved by the outgoing Bundestag.
Read MoreCOP30 will be “the most molecular COP ever”
Efforts are underway to set a sustainable fuels target at the next UN climate summit, COP30, in Brazil this November, a conference in Brussels has heard.
Read MoreUPDATE – More pragmatic, market-led approach to climate action seen after Germany’s Merz, conservatives win election
A more pragmatic, market-led approach to climate action is expected in Germany – and the EU – after Friedrich Merz and the centre-right CDU/CSU won the federal election on Sunday.
Read MoreBRIEFING: Belgium’s new climate and energy plans show push for nuclear
The new Belgian government intends to repeal a nuclear phaseout initiated over 20 years ago and build new reactors instead, with plans to also promote heat pumps and solar PV, while slowing the transition to electric vehicles in company car fleets.
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