European Union

European Union lawmakers voted on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, to include natural gas and nuclear in the bloc’s list of sustainable activities, backing a proposal from the EU’s executive arm that has been drawing fierce criticism from environment groups and now looks set to trigger legal challenges.

European Union countries reached a deal following hard−fought talks that dragged into early on Wednesday, June 29, 2022, to back stricter climate rules that would eliminate carbon emissions from new cars by 2035.

The European Union relies heavily on Russia to supply nickel and other metals for electric vehicle batteries and other renewable technologies. War-related price increases and shortages of these metals could hinder Europe’s drive to sharply cut emissions by 2030 and beyond.

Extended drought conditions in several Mediterranean countries, a heat wave last week that reached northern Germany and high fuel costs for aircraft needed to fight wildfires have heightened concerns across Europe this summer.

It’s not a summer heat wave that’s making European leaders and businesses sweat. It’s fear that Russia’s manipulation of natural gas supplies will lead to an economic and political crisis next winter. Or, in the worst case, even sooner.

The spotlight is on a provision that would force automakers to lower carbon-dioxide emissions by 100 per cent in 2035, a step that would amount to an EU prohibition that year on the sale of new cars powered by gasoline or diesel.

Europe’s frantic search for alternatives to Russian energy has dramatically increased the demand — and price — for Norway’s oil and gas.

The 2020 emissions data is finally out. Here's how Canada and many of its peers did on their Copenhagen Accord targets. (Spoiler alert: Europeans and Americans, yes. Canadians, not so much.)

The European Union’s executive arm moved on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, to jump−start plans for the 27−nation bloc to abandon Russian energy amid the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, proposing a nearly 300 billion−euro ($315 billion) package that includes more efficient use of fuels and faster rollout of renewable power.

Canada has not ruled out imposing sanctions on Vladimir Putin's alleged girlfriend, Alina Kabaeva, a former Olympic gymnast, says the foreign affairs minister.

In lush fields southwest of Paris, farmers are joining Europe’s fight to free itself from Russian gas.

Western governments prepared on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, to toughen sanctions against Russia and send more weapons to Ukraine, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pointedly accused the world of failing to end Moscow’s invasion of his country and what he said was a campaign of murders, rapes and wanton destruction by Russian forces.

New rules proposed by the EU's executive arm call for a mandatory minimum use of recycled fibers by 2030 and would ban the destruction of many unsold products

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Poland was launching the most radical plan among European nations to wean off Russian energy sources.

Canada is the only G7 nation still emitting far above 1990 levels — and we are still heading in the wrong direction, writes columnist Barry Saxifrage.