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By Juan Manuel Santos, Svenja Schulze, Carole Dieschbourg, Teresa Ribera, Zac Goldsmithand Pascal Canfin BOGOTÁ — Biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people around the world are declining at an unprecedented rate. Species extinctions are accelerating, with grave implications for human health, food and water security, and poverty reduction.

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By Juan Manuel Santos, Svenja Schulze, Carole Dieschbourg, Teresa Ribera, Zac Goldsmithand Pascal Canfin BOGOTÁ — Biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people around the world are declining at an unprecedented rate. Species extinctions are accelerating, with grave implications for human health, food and water security, and poverty reduction.

A Trade in coal and steel powered the European Union’s formative years. Now the bloc wants to lead the world on climate responsibility, with a bumper package of proposals from expanding an emissions-trading system to banning fossil fuel cars to reach its 2050 target of carbon neutrality. But for all the aspirational visions, there are justified jitters that the European project’s original stakeholders as cited by Jean Monnet — the “miner in his pit, the steelworker in his steelwork...

EU rolls out ambitious plans to end carbon-emissions by 2050 PUBLISHED BY The European Union has come out with plans to make the region carbon- free with a set of regulations that will restrict fossil fuel usage and  imports of the same. The European Commission will unveil 13 policies under its “Fit for 55” package — that will ensure the EU meets its goal of reducing pollutants by 55 per cent in 2030 and net-zero by 2050, compared to 1990 levels. The plan is dubbed as “man on the moon...

Is Frans Timmermans brave or crazy? On Wednesday, the executive vice president of the European Commission will lay out the most ambitious raft of climate legislation ever launched, anywhere. But already hes anticipating problems. “We’ll get massive pushback,” he told CNN on Thursday. “Any fundamental transition will get us a lot of pushback.” The Fit for 55 program is a mega-package of a dozen regulatory instruments aimed at cutting EU greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030, a...

The EU plans to put the squeeze on countries to make buildings more energy efficient — and thats setting off fears of a clash between Brussels and national capitals and the possibility of a populist backlash. The European Commission wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030, and doing that means a radical rethink of how buildings are treated. About three-quarters of the EUs building stock is considered to be energy-inefficient, and buildings account for more than a ...

The EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism – or CBAM – entered with a bang last week when a draft of the EU’s upcoming new regulation was leaked to the press. The document raised as many questions as it answered, however.

EU lawmakers approved a report on the EU’s 2030 Biodiversity Strategy on Tuesday night (8 June), calling for legally binding measures to protect nature and biodiversity. A heated debate was sparked by amendments calling for forest protection to be weakened, which were eventually rejected. EURACTIV France reports. The MEPs, who voted 515 in favour and 90 against the report, repeated their call to ensure that at least 30% of the EU’s land and sea be protected by 2030, of which at least one-th...

Pascal Canfin is a Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Since 2019, Europe has made strong political commitments to fight global warming. We now have a common goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 and have agreed to increase the target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from 40% to at least 55% by 2030. However, setting targets is not enough. We need to design a credible pathway to reach them. This is exactly w...