Climate change
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European Parliament: A free market for CO2
17 April 201358815 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Shale Gas: Brussels douses hopes of a “revolution”
28 March 201346110PresseuropHet Financieele Dagblad -
Climate change: Tough climate for carbon trading
20 February 2013741 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Greenland: The wealth that lies beneath
6 February 20132994 De Standaard Brussels -
Environment: Statistical fog in battle against CO2
20 April 20121334 The Guardian London -
Environment: Why Poland says no to EU’s climate policy
12 March 20129519 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Climate: Snowed in
7 February 201247 -
Climate change: Europe must change its attitude
8 December 20111233 Trouw 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 -
CO2: Bleak prospects for climate, warns IEA
30 May 2011161PresseuropThe Guardian -
Climate: Europe's coasts are threatened
6 April 201117PresseuropEl Mundo -
Climate change: Global warming could bankrupt Med
1 February 201126PresseuropPúblico -
Climate Change: We need eco-democracies
13 December 20103464 Der Freitag Berlin -
Germany: Darth Merkel, Eco-Jedi?
3 December 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
COP16: The end of easy green money
29 November 201060 Il Foglio Milan -
Firefighting: Europe works together as fires blaze
11 August 201015PresseuropThe New York Times -
Climate: Global warning
23 July 20101PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Renewable energies: Is the EU’s global warming policy all wrong?
19 July 2010341 The Daily Telegraph London -
Climate change: Europe takes on its rising waters
27 April 2010161 Público Madrid -
Climate science: An insurance policy against global warming
19 March 2010PresseuropThe Economist -
France: Fatal storm on Atlantic coast
1 March 2010PresseuropLibération -
Europhrenia: Is this the end of the IPCC?
2 February 2010PresseuropBlog -
Czech Republic: Eco-racketeering, a business with a future
25 January 2010952 Lidové noviny Prague -
COP15: Save the planet - get rid of the state
22 December 2009122 El País Madrid -
COP15: Homo Economicus goes to the wall
17 December 2009703 The Guardian London -
COP15: Rebels divided about the cause
14 December 20091 Die Zeit Hamburg -
COP15: Fossil fuels, for the dinosaurs
10 December 200927 El Mundo Madrid -
COP15: Is Moscow behind Climategate?
8 December 2009PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
COP15: Much CO2 about nothing?
7 December 2009Presseurop -
Climate Change: Carbon storage emerges from underground
7 December 2009201 Trouw Amsterdam -
Editorial: Europe’s example
4 December 2009Presseurop -
COP15: Copenhagen or the hypercane
3 December 200933 The Independent London -
United Kingdom: Dinosaurs come out against Green Cameron
2 December 2009PresseuropThe Independent -
COP 15: The battle over climate change
25 November 20091 La Tribune Paris -
Family Planning : Developing world blamed for global warming
19 November 2009PresseuropLe Monde -
CO2: EU slips through Kyoto loopholes
13 November 2009PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Copenhagen Conference: Climate summit not much COP
6 November 2009PresseuropThe Independent -
Climate Change: Eastern Europe refuses to foot the bill
30 October 20091PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
COP 15: EU underestimates climate change
22 October 2009PresseuropDe Morgen -
Copenhagen summit: Brussels and Brasilia tudo bem
7 October 2009PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Cinema: Green is the new box-office black
7 October 2009PresseuropLa Croix -
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 200936 The Guardian London -
Ecology: German judges spurn coal
18 September 2009PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Automotive Industry: Might electric cars just fizzle out?
17 September 20091110 Handelsblatt Düsseldorf -
COP15: US-EU fall out over CO2 targets
17 September 2009PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
European Commission: The wrong man at the right time
17 September 2009The Independent London -
Language: Mind your Doublespeak
15 September 2009541 The Independent London
In voting on April 16 against a delay in auctioning new CO2 emission quotas, the European Parliament has blunted the main weapon in the fight against global warming and scaled back Europe’s global ambitions a little more. 
To cope with the decline in the price of CO2 emission permits, the European Parliament wants to take 900 million tonnes off the European market. But that won’t be enough to halt the trend. The economic crisis is just too deep. 
For a long time, prawns were all that Greenland was famous for. However, the melting ice caps mean that natural resources are there for the taking. This development is both a curse and a blessing and one that puts the Danes in a difficult situation. 
The EU’s plan to reduce CO2 emissions is lauded for being the most ambitious scheme of its kind. But unclear criteria and wayward accounting put into doubt the success of steps taken so far. 
Warsaw has slapped its veto on the EU climate policy aiming to curb carbon emissions. We shouldn’t be that surprised, because it’s a policy veiled in a fog of ambiguity, writes Gazeta Wyborcza. 
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. - 1 of 2
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