A €68.5 million fine imposed on Poland for continuing operations in an open pit lignite mine while it was ordered to stop will not be retroactively cancelled, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

The European Commission president has hinted at political plans to swiftly implement the trade deal with the South American ...

German Environment Agency president Dirk Messner talks to ENDS Europe about the need for a more thoughtful approach to streamline EU green rules, amid a perennial succession of urgent European ...

Soy beans now meet the EU’s criteria to be excluded from its renewable energy targets after a surge in their production in high-carbon areas such as forests, peatland and wetlands, the European ...

The Bulgarian government has been ordered to pay €1.5 million and a daily fine of €9,000 for not transposing revised EU renewable energy rules despite a series of legal warnings.

More than a dozen environment and climate-related bills – including three intended to transpose the requirements of flagship ...

In what has been hailed as a “milestone moment”, wind and solar produced more electricity in the EU than fossil fuels for the first time last year, a new report from Ember says.

MEPs have endorsed a request to seek an EU court opinion on the recently signed trade deal with the Mercosur bloc ahead of ...

The EU’s environment chief has indicated that the European Commission may not follow through on plans to swiftly revise REACH ...

Heads of the European Parliament’s political groups will have to decide whether to give the industry committee a say in drawing up negotiating positions on a number of big green proposals, ENDS Europe ...

A global treaty establishing a framework to protect biodiversity in international waters, which entered into international law this weekend, has been hailed as “a beacon of hope for the ocean and ...

Helena Viñes Fiestas will serve a second term as chair of the EU’s independent sustainable finance advisers, while WWF will rejoin the group after pulling out in 2022 citing concerns about political ...