Far from its native Champagne, prestigious French wine house Taittinger on Thursday inaugurated its new vineyard in south-east England, where climate change is making it increasingly easy to grow grapes.
Last year was the hottest on record, and scientists worry this year will be worse. Thunderstorms in Europe destroyed 9.1 billion euros in assets, while the U.S. also experienced twenty-eight separate weather and climate disasters throughout 2023 costing at least one billion dollars a piece. Again, the most ever. It’s not hard to see a trend.
The Danube peaked at a 10-year high in a heavily fortified Budapest on Saturday (21 September) with the water reaching the steps of parliament, after deadly Storm Boris lashed Europe.
Euractiv takes creative licence to imagine what a farewell speech by incoming Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera could look like.
On a visit to Greenland, the European Commissioner for International Partnerships is seeking to secure the European Union's interests in this Arctic territory rich in raw materials crucial for the ecological transition.
The new British government and the new Commission will have to sit down at the negotiating table for the revision of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), scheduled for 2026. An overview of the energy issues at stake between London and Brussels.
The world is emerging from its warmest northern hemisphere summer since records began, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said on Friday (6 September), as global warming continues to intensify.
The new European Commission must set a bold EU emissions reduction target for 2040 to ensure climate neutrality by 2050, a 90% reduction target is essential to keep the EU on track for a fossil-free future, write researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).
From Slovenia, at the end of her political tour of the Balkans, Ursula von der Leyen reiterated on Monday 2 September Europe's commitment to responding to and mitigating the effects of climate change.
The EU’s highest Court is faced with a legal case that could potentially reshape climate action in the EU by 2030, writes Romain Didi and Gerry Liston.
Brussels will see less climate policymaking post Green Deal, but activists are drawing upon new legislation and case law to keeping pushing for greater ambition, in Europe’s fight against climate change.
A plethora of NGOs and NGO coalitions have announced they will each sue the European Commission over its environmental policies, alleging that the Commission lacks scientific evidence to support its decisions.
NGOs are bringing the Commission in front of the European Court of Justice on two separate accounts. The cases are part of a sweeping trend that sees activists bringing governments to court over the respect of environmental pledges.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday (27 August) ocean temperatures are rising in the Pacific Islands at three times the rate worldwide, and its population was "uniquely exposed" to the impact of rising sea levels.
Greece's worst wildfire of the year eased on the outskirts of the capital Athens on Tuesday (13 August) thanks to weaker winds, pausing progress of a destructive blaze that killed one person and torched cars, buildings, fields and forests.
Residents fled their homes on Sunday (11 August) as a fast-moving wildfire outside Athens fuelled by hot, windy weather burned trees, houses and cars and sent smoke clouds over the Greek capital.
Last month was the second hottest July for the planet on record, breaking a 13-month period when each month was warmest, which had been in part fuelled by the warming El Nino weather pattern, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday.
A large fire broke out in Rome on Wednesday (31 July) on a hill near the Italian capital's court of justice and a public TV broadcasting centre, forcing the evacuation of several buildings and offices, firefighters said.
The European energy commissioner and the US energy secretary used a meeting of Central and Eastern European energy ministers in Bucharest this week to keep EU-US clean tech competition on a friendly footing.
Activists are asking Europe's top rights court to fault Russia for creating a "climate catastrophe", saying Moscow's war on Ukraine is contributing to a spike in its greenhouse gas emissions.
Sunday 21 July was the hottest day ever recorded, according to preliminary data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, which has tracked such global weather patterns since 1940.
The British government on Tuesday (23 July) faces an unprecedented legal challenge for allegedly failing to protect people, property and infrastructure from the likely effects of climate change.
The European Union and Serbia were set to sign a deal Friday (19 July) over the supply of battery materials during a "critical raw materials summit", just days after Belgrade allowed work to resume at a disputed lithium mining project.
Economic and financial consultancy Oxera has published a report explaining that more investment and policy on decarbonisation would boost economic growth across the European Union.
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