Climate change
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Climate change
EP reassesses emissions market
21 December 20112PresseuropEl País -
Climate change
Europe must change its attitude
8 December 20113Trouw Amsterdam -
Climate change
Europe set for ‘triple somersault’ at Durban
28 November 20111PresseuropIl Sole-24 Ore -
Climate change
Poland cold to more CO2 reductions
5 July 20112PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Climate change
A WTO to take over from Kyoto
16 June 2011PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
30 May 20111PresseuropThe Guardian
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Climate
Europe's coasts are threatened
6 April 2011PresseuropEl Mundo -
Climate change
Global warming could bankrupt Med
1 February 2011PresseuropPúblico -
Climate Change
We need eco-democracies
13 December 20104Der Freitag Berlin -
Germany
Darth Merkel, Eco-Jedi?
3 December 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
29 November 2010Il Foglio Milan
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Firefighting
Europe works together as fires blaze
11 August 2010PresseuropThe New York Times -
Climate
Global warning
23 July 20101PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Renewable energies
Is the EU’s global warming policy all wrong?
19 July 20101The Daily Telegraph London -
Climate change
Europe takes on its rising waters
27 April 20101Público Madrid -
Climate science
An insurance policy against global warming
19 March 2010PresseuropThe Economist -
1 March 2010PresseuropLibération
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Czech Republic
Eco-racketeering, a business with a future
25 January 20102Lidové noviny Prague -
22 December 20092El País Madrid
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17 December 20093The Guardian London
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14 December 20091Die Zeit Hamburg
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10 December 2009El Mundo Madrid
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8 December 2009PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES
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COP15
Much CO2 about nothing?
7 December 2009Presseurop -
Climate Change
Carbon storage emerges from underground
7 December 20091Trouw Amsterdam -
Editorial
Europe’s example
4 December 2009Presseurop -
3 December 2009The Independent London
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United Kingdom
Dinosaurs come out against Green Cameron
2 December 2009PresseuropThe Independent -
25 November 20091La Tribune Paris
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Family Planning
Developing world blamed for global warming
19 November 2009PresseuropLe Monde -
13 November 2009PresseuropDe Volkskrant
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Copenhagen Conference
Climate summit not much COP
6 November 2009PresseuropThe Independent -
Climate Change
Eastern Europe refuses to foot the bill
30 October 20091PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
22 October 2009PresseuropDe Morgen
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Copenhagen summit
Brussels and Brasilia tudo bem
7 October 2009PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
7 October 2009PresseuropLa Croix
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German elections
Free-market liberals take European helm
29 September 2009PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
German elections
The big sleep
25 September 2009Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Global crisis
The soul of man under capitalism
24 September 2009The Guardian London -
Ecology
German judges spurn coal
18 September 2009PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
17 September 2009PresseuropLa Vanguardia
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Automotive Industry
Might electric cars just fizzle out?
17 September 200910Handelsblatt Düsseldorf -
European Commission
The wrong man at the right time
17 September 2009The Independent London -
Language
Mind your Doublespeak
15 September 20091The Independent London -
Air travel
Freedom without frills
28 August 20091Cafebabel.com Paris -
Renewable energy
Will Africa's rivers and sun power Europe?
25 August 2009The Independent London -
United Kingdom
Village buys into green revolution
18 August 20091La Vanguardia Barcelona -
Climate change
Water not on the table at Copenhagen
30 July 2009PresseuropLibération -
Climate change
Obstacles to a no CO2 EU
27 July 2009PresseuropLe Soir -
EU presidency
Sweden's PM goes cool on climate change
30 June 20091Fokus Stockholm
As the Durban climate conference draws to a close, the European Union can not continue to address the issue of climate change with a condescending attitude towards emerging countries. Needing these same countries to help it emerge from the financial crisis, the EU risks having the terms of any future agreement being dictated to it. 
The major climate conferences aren’t just about CO2 emissions. They’re also about whether there are democratic ways to ward off an ecological catastrophe. Der Freitag champions environmental democracy over environmental autocracy. 
The crisis has put a dent in carbon emissions – and in the foundations of Europe’s planned green economy. By calling subsidies for inefficient technologies into question, that blow might yet be a boon for the renewable energy sector. 
The EU's 20/20/20 policy, which aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, will cost billions but be of very little benefit in the fight against climate change, argues Bjørn Lomborg. 
Even if it can’t stop the seas from rising over the course of this century, the EU is trying to stave off the disastrous consequences. Two ambitious projects have just been kicked off to save Europe’s most vulnerable coastlines. 
The arrest of an environmental activist who demanded money to withdraw his opposition to real estate projects has lifted the veil on a new type of blackmail, which writer Ivan Brezina maintains pales in comparison with the stock and trade of major public figures in the environmental movement. 
The main obstacle to a climate deal at the Copenhagen Conference was state sovereignty. The solution, argues political scientist José Ignacio Torreblanca, lies in exporting the EU’s know-how and institutional approach. 
The likely failure of the Copenhagen climate summit to achieve progress on climate change is due to an inability to imagine a humanity that can no longer live without restraint. An impassioned plea by British environmentalist author George Monbiot. 
They come to Denmark disguised as pirates to frighten the guardians of the fossil-fuel energy system, or to stage mock trials of CO2–spouting polluters: tens of thousands of climate activists have descended on Copenhagen. But behind their seemingly united front, the big climate organisations are at loggerheads, reports Die Zeit, over whether to join or disrupt the talks. 
Changing our energy system is the key to curbing CO2 emissions and global warming. In the run-up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference (COP15), the European Union has announced plans to generate 20% of its energy using renewable sources. 
The Copenhagen summit, which is opening with great ambitions, might well come up with no deal at all – or worse: a short-lived deal that never gets ratified or implemented. Climate sceptics, for their part, challenge the very premise of the conference. Here’s today’s press in review on the COP15. 
Numerous companies and organizations, including Shell, have proposed capturing CO2 for storage underground; and scientists who were sceptical about the technique are now rallying to the cause. However, in view of the economic interests at stake, it is hard to tell the independent experts from the lobbyists. 
Either a drastic cut in emissions, or a planet we won’t even recognise. As the Copenhagen summit on climate change opens, Johann Hari, ranging from the Maldives to the Artic and Darfur, argues that this is the stark choice the world faces. 
If few question the veracity of global warming, it is because of the IPCC. Over the last 20 years, the International Panel on Climate Change has changed public opinion. La Tribune reports on the network that is once again under attack. 
The big issues have been given a wide berth in the campaign for Germany’s general elections on 27 September. It’s a shame the big parties are so afraid of unsettling the electorate, bemoans the novelist Elke Schmitter. After all, politics is also about trying to change the world we live in. 
On the day the G20 summit opens in Pittsburgh, author Jeremy Seabrook in the Guardian argues that in order to solve global problems such as climate change and the economic crisis, we need to escape our market-driven definition as greedy individuals. 
Frankfurt is holding its 63rd International Motor Show from 17 to 27 September. This year’s high mass for fast cars gives top billing to clean machines. But, warns the German daily Handelsblatt, this sudden craze may well prove a flash in the pan. 
Without inspiring much enthusiasm, José Manuel Barroso has been re-elected president of the European Commission. Adrian Hamilton in the Independent argues that a less bureaucratic chief executive would have been more appropriate at a time when Europe urgently needs the unity adn drive to tackle the recession, climate change and energy security.
In most languages, expressions like "Climate change", "Fair trade" and "Infant mortality", among others, have become part of everyday vocabulary. Writing in the Independent, Johann Hari argues that they hide a political agenda that shapes the way we view the world. It’s time to expunge them. 
Budget travel is a reality for modern Europeans, a part of everyday life. Accounting for its environmental impact may affect the as yet fragile common European identity it lends to flying citizens. 
Two massive power-generating schemes have been launched in recent weeks. One offers to create the world's largest solar farm, the other to create the biggest hydroelectric dam on the planet. While situated in Africa, they both aim to export electricity to Europe. The Independent weighs up the pros and cons of two ambitious projects, which, according to many critics, smacks of a colonial style power grab. 
The small village with the small carbon footprint, Totnes is the new-age chic community at the epicentre of the increasing number of pioneering transition towns whose aim is to attain self-sufficiency. They are so committed that they have even introduced a new green town pound to encourage people to buy locally whilst they think globally. 
Stockholm aimed to lead the way in making post-Kyoto a priority during its presidency at the head of the Union. But the economic crisis has put paid to such ambitious plans and expectations have been considerebly lowered, writes Anita Kratz.