Due to a focus on cutting CO2 emissions, debates on the Energy Efficiency Directive have derailed, writes Bertrand Cazes of Glass for Europe. What is needed now is a paradigm shift to ensure that the directive supports the achievement of Europe’s energy efficiency objective. More »

Meeting in Brussels on Friday (2 December), car manufacturers failed to agree a common position towards EU proposals that would cap automobile CO2 emissions at 95 grammes per kilometer (g/km) by 2020. More »

Coal plants in developing countries get billions of euros in climate finance for new projects that do little to reduce CO2 emissions, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) says in a new report. More »

Coal plants in developing countries get billions of euros in climate finance for new projects that do little to reduce CO2 emissions, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) says in a new report. More »

Global CO2 emissions increased by 45% between 1990 and 2010, reaching an all-time high of 33 billion tonnes, according to a new report by the EU's Joint Research Centre (JRC). More »

While Energy Secretary Chris Huhne is at the fore of efforts in the European Council to raise EU ambitions for reducing CO2 emissions, Conservative MEPs are refusing to back the Government’s position, and look set this week instead to demonstrate their real views about efforts to curb global warming. At issue is a vote due

The UK government accuses Poland of blocking a European Union effort to set a higher target for cuts in CO2 emissions.

A European Union proposal to raise the bloc's target for cutting CO2 emissions would have only a limited impact on global warming as any benefit would be easily offset by China's growing emissions, the International Energy Agency's chief economist has said.

The European Commission has revised the EU's greenhouse gas emissions cap under its emissions trading scheme for 2013 in order to accommodate new sectors such as aluminium and petrochemicals.

Quite a mesmerising lack of judgement today from the 10:10 Campaign, a fake environmental charity (paid for by you, natch) that is agitating for everyone to trim their CO2 emissions by 10%. The message in this video, helmed by the increasingly superfluous Richard Curtis, is commendably direct: we're all in it together, we all have to do our bit, etc etc etc. Either that or, you know, be executed. ...