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Environmental policies
Liberia and Panama Support Global Shipping Emissions Tax, Covering 66% of Fleet
Liberia and Panama back the global shipping emissions tax, representing 66% of the global fleet. Learn how this tax could reduce CO2 emissions and fund green innovations.
Editorial Team•9 January 2025
Environmental policies
Russian Gas Transit via Ukraine Ends:…
The EU is prepared for the end of Russian gas transit through…
Editorial Team•3 January 2025
Environmental policies
USB-C Charging: The Universal Standard Takes…
The EU mandates USB-C charging ports for all electronic devices, reducing e-waste…
Editorial Team•1 January 2025
Policy and Affairs
Italy and 7 other EU countries against the ban on diesel and…
EU countries opposed to the farewell to endothermic cars in 12 years, despite the agreement already…
17 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
The protest of Dutch farmers descends from the tractor and enters in…
BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB), the Farmer-Citizen Movement that acts as a megaphone to the demands of farms and…
16 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
At Cop28 in Dubai, the EU will fight for the phase out…
More ambition than the COP27, when Brussels only asked for the phase down (reduction). Included among…
15 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
Energy Performance of Buildings, the Directive today to the vote of the…
Another decisive step for the revision of the Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings comes…
14 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
New Energy Efficiency Directive, there is the EU agreement
The negotiators of the Parliament and the EU Council have reached an agreement on the new…
13 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
From NASA, a new way to calculate national greenhouse gas emissions
Instead of starting from emissive sources, the US agency has developed a pilot project that can…
11 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
Joint gas purchases, interest for over 17billion m3 from 22 EU countries
Since the second meeting of the Steering Committee of the EU Energy Platform, European Commission Vice-President…
10 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
EU sets target for Cop28 in Dubai: fossil phase-out in global agreement
In 2022 coal, gas and oil generated 36.8 Gt CO2 equivalent. So far the farewell to…
8 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
PM2.5 pollution is everywhere: only 0.001% of the world’s population breathes clean…
Only 0.18% of the Earth’s surface has annual fine dust thresholds below WHO limits. For daily…
7 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
105 countries support Vanuatu on the responsibility of states for the climate…
Born from an idea of the students of environmental law of Vanuatu, the request for an…
4 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
Coal power plants in China, boom again in 2022
There are 106 new GWs authorised last year. The highest figure since 2015. And plants under…
3 March 2023
Policy and Affairs
Berlin wants endothermic electric fuels and hydrogen cars even after 2035
Last October, the EU approved the historic stop to diesel and petrol cars from 2035, flying…
1 March 2023
Environmental policies
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