Emissions

Five years ago this week, in the teeth of the Brexit wars, an outgoing Tory prime minister was looking for a legacy. Theresa May settled on net zero —and now it’s on Labour to keep that target alive.

The EU looks to set rules that cover short-haul flights but for now exempt long-haul — angering discount airlines that largely fly the former.

The surcharge goes into effect for tickets booked from June 26 and departing from European countries.

The country wants to cut 70 percent of its total emissions by 2030.

The bloc is keen to expand its microchips production, but the sector risks becoming a major polluter.

After Greens suffered bruising losses in the European Parliament election, some say tired and divided climate activists have lost their way.

Politicians shut down the Stormont Assembly for two years. Among the casualties: Northern Ireland’s hopes of greening its economy.

Femke Wiersma married the dairy farmer she met on the TV reality show before going into politics.

The National Rally’s success in the European election cost farmer unions’ centrist allies their seats in the European Parliament.

Both chambers accused the ECHR of “judicial activism.”

EPP’s Weber vows to push to scrap combustion engine ban in talks in coming days.

Whether voters realize it or not, the EU’s goal to end global warming contributions by 2050 is on the ballot.

Less than a month out from the U.K. election, the SNP is taking a new approach to an industry that affects hundreds of thousands of Scottish jobs.

In his first and only offline campaign event, Dutch radical right politician Geert Wilders vows to change the EU from within.

With the EU expected to swing right in this week’s election, nature-protection laws are drying up.

Has the European Commission president given up on her green agenda going into a possible second term — or is she just biding her time?

Germany’s Free Democrats say their backing for the next EU top executive hinges on weakening EU climate laws — a clear shot at Ursula von der Leyen.

Scientists dispute government’s claim that 2030 goal will be met. 

Voters will be thinking about domestic issues – and not Ursula von der Leyen – when they go to the polls.

Peter Liese, the EPP’s top green policy MEP, told POLITICO he was “not enthusiastic” about Spanish socialist Teresa Ribera’s campaign to run the EU’s Green Deal.

The next parliament is likely to push back harder against the green farming agenda and faces a challenge to reform the Common Agricultural Policy.