Renewed concern over direction of EU climate policy

Our climate goals remain the same, but we will be more flexible and pragmatic about how to achieve them. ...

Renewed concern over direction of EU climate policy

Despite the ever increasing body of scientific and real-life evidence for the accelerating pace of global temperature rise, climate campaigners fear the EU executive is looking at ways to introduce loopholes before proposing a target to reduce Europe’s carbon footprint.

2024 was the warmest year since the start of weather records in Europe. In view of the climate report of the Earth observation programme Copernicus, EU parliamentarians criticise the policy of the Brussels Commission. By Thomas Spickhofen

The major environmental organisations Greenpeace and WWF called for the EU to set an ambitious climate target in 2040, after the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) published a "alarming" report that reveals that 2024 was the warmest in Europe since there were records. "The EU must urgently update its climate targets to reflect scientific reality and put an end to new fossil fuel projects as a …