Ecology and Sustainable Development
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Climate Change: Carbon storage emerges from underground
7 December 2009201 Trouw Amsterdam -
COP15: Brussels cheerleads to the summit
4 December 2009La Stampa Turin -
COP15: Copenhagen or the hypercane
3 December 200933 The Independent London -
COP 15: Obama's whistle-stop visit criticized
26 November 2009PresseuropJyllands-Posten -
COP15: Towards another wasted summit
16 November 2009PresseuropBerlingske Tidende -
CO2: EU slips through Kyoto loopholes
13 November 2009PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
CO2 Emissions: Find your local polluter
11 November 2009PresseuropPúblico -
Copenhagen Conference: Climate summit not much COP
6 November 2009PresseuropThe Independent -
Climate Change: Eastern Europe refuses to foot the bill
30 October 20091PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Consumer trends: Animal welfare also good for your health
27 October 2009PresseuropTrouw -
Biodiversity: Copenhagen treaty may endanger rainforests
26 October 2009PresseuropThe Independent -
Biodiversity: Copenhagen treaty may endanger rainforests
26 October 2009PresseuropThe Independent -
COP 15: EU underestimates climate change
22 October 2009PresseuropDe Morgen -
Energy: The power plant in your basement
13 October 2009511 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Cinema: Green is the new box-office black
7 October 2009PresseuropLa Croix -
COP15: US-EU fall out over CO2 targets
17 September 2009PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Organic Food: Healthy, ethical, and good for your emissions
14 September 200917 Trouw Amsterdam -
GLOBAL WARMING: The 100 billion euro plan
9 September 2009La Stampa Turin -
Environnement: Cold shoulder for A/C energy campaigners
21 August 2009PresseuropTrouw -
United Kingdom: Village buys into green revolution
18 August 20091261 La Vanguardia Barcelona -
Climate change: Water not on the table at Copenhagen
30 July 2009PresseuropLibération -
Czech Republic: Ecology – sure, but to a point
21 July 2009Presseurop -
Pollution: North Sea sickness
9 July 200923 De Standaard Brussels -
Turkey: Ilisu project damned
8 July 2009PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Netherlands: The possibility of a gas-free island
7 July 20092 Trouw Amsterdam -
Energy: Flemish government turns to green power
6 July 2009PresseuropDe Standaard -
Pollution: Carbon tax has stood the test in Sweden
6 July 200957 Le Monde Paris -
Urban planning: Vauban, the revolution will not be motorised
30 June 2009158 The Independent London -
Czech Republic: Moravia floods
26 June 2009PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Environment: Fumbling the soil question
25 June 200918 The Guardian London -
Baltic sea: Bottom-feeder fish make comeback
19 June 2009PresseuropLe Monde -
Aeronautics: A lean, clean, Green flying machine
18 June 2009PresseuropTrouw -
Kyoto: Europe reduces CO2 emissions
1 June 2009PresseuropEl País -
Biodiversity: European nature needs nurture
12 May 2009177 Le Monde Paris
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. 
Even before the curtain rises on the Copenhagen Climate Conference on 7 December, the world is already warring over emissions targets. And Brussels is brandishing some fateful figures in its bid to lead the global crusade against greenhouse gases. 
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. 
Intelligent machines, electric cars, biogas power in the basement: millions of mini-power plants, instead of centralised energy sources, are to lead Germany through the energy revolution. Spiegel-Online heralds the new super-industries and shows that the balance of power between consumers and utilities is shifting. 
Sweden will be the first European country to impose new ecological standards on organic produce. Beginning in 2012, only foods whose production – and transportation – are fully sustainable and organic from the soil to the shelf will be certified. 
With three months left to run before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15), Europe aims to lead the way in the battle against global warming. In a document to be presented to the European Council on 10 September, the European Commission has provided details of the measures it intends to propose. 
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. 
Plastic, chemicals and toxic bombs: the waters off the Belgian shore are increasingly polluted. Scientists fear for the survival of marine flora and fauna. 
On Ameland, off the coast of the Netherlands, a number of the islanders are using an innovative mix of hydrogen and natural gas in their homes. The goal is to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions, an initiative that is part of a wider programme to make the community self-sufficient in energy and water by 2020. 
Sweden, which has just taken over the EU presidency for a six-month stint, is trying to convince its European partners to follow its example and impose a carbon tax. Adopted in 1991, it has proved efficient on a national level, reports Olivier Truc for Le Monde. 
In a suburb of Freiburg, south-west Germany, a former army camp has been turned into an ecologist’s paradise. No cars, sustainable homes, with a socially homogenous profile. But is it an ideal society? Tony Paterson at the Independent is not quite sure. 
EU laws protects our water and air, but as the Union’s environment ministers gather in Luxembourg June 25, no such legislation exists for that other element none of us can live without – the soil. 
The success of E.U. plans to arrest biodiversity erosion by 2010 looks compromised, according to the European Commission. - previous
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