Editorial

EU Member States and the European Parliament recently agreed on the Regulation on deforestation-free products, which aims to promote the consumption of forest-friendly products and reduce the EU’s impact on global deforestation and forest degradation.

The drought in Northern Europe last summer was a climate wake-up for many of us living in the region. It is one thing to grasp the basic science ...

Over the last thirty years, fuel and emission standards for land-based transport have been dramatically strengthened over most of the world. But international shipping ...

“Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.” This is the main message of the IPCC report released on 8 October. They also conclude “that we ...

Most governments and civil society are aware that the national and international reduction commitments for greenhouse gases ...

Between 1990 and 2015 the share of diesel car registrations in the EU increased dramatically, from 15 to more than 50 per cent

The globally averaged concentration of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere reached the symbolic milestone of 400 parts per million for the first time in 2015 and surged again to new records in 2016.

“it is not acceptable for the shipping industry to keep on transferring the cost of its pollution to society at large”