Emissions

Creative Europe funding represents a lifeline for many artists and creatives, but it comes with strings attached such as greening requirements.

Over the past decades, adaptation has gone from a stigmatised concept to a central pillar of debates on fighting global warming. This journey shines a light on the broader political and socioeconomic challenges that often paralyse climate action, and reveals the need for stronger and more effective global discussion forums.

The host of COP29 is accused of trying to use the event to greenwash its image as a despotic petrostate.

The selection of Baku as host casts doubts on the effectiveness of the world’s biggest climate summit.

Climate finance is on the rise, but it is still nowhere near the scale needed to cover climate impacts and fund the global green transition.

François Gemenne says the EU must look at the bigger picture.

Armed conflicts and military activities can be highly destructive for the environment.

With a 2.8 per cent share of the global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel, aviation must not escape climate action.

Longstanding problems with EU climate policy have been overcome and real money is on the table for the transition. The question is will it be enough.

Unless pursued with extreme care, natural climate solutions risk becoming just another offsetting tool – alibis for inaction and delay.