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Western nations are continuing to pay Russia hundreds of millions of dollars every day for gas and oil imports, despite the tough sanctions imposed on the country's banking and aviation sectors following its invasion of Ukraine. With around 40% of Europe's oil and gas imported from Russia, governments are scrambling to find alternatives. European Union…

Berlin - Western nations are continuing to pay Russia hundreds of millions of dollars every day for gas and oil imports, despite the tough sanctions imp

European gas imports from Russia have increased since Ukraine invasion, as energy prices soar

Berlin - Western nations are continuing to pay Russia hundreds of millions of dollars every day for gas and oil imports, despite the tough sanctions imp

Could EU law cut national bans of ICE vehicles? Or, could the EU introduce binding legislation to cut fossil-fuel powered cars at once? National bans on sales of cars with internal combustion engines may not be implementable under European law and would instead have to be introduced at the European level. This is at least the view of a legal opinion commissioned by the Climate Neutrality Foundation in Germany. The national news show Tagesschau broke the story. Already prepared by ‘Stiftung ...

As a result, Europe’s largest economy would emit 1 billion tons of CO2 less, the report ‘ Climate neutral Germany 2045’ by Agora Energiewende, Agora Verkehrswende and the Climate Neutrality Foundation said (link to the report in German here). “Climate neutrality is a race against time. Ever more frequent extreme weather situations have evolved from a threatening forecast to a depressing reality,” said Climate Neutrality Foundation director Rainer Baake, a former state secretary in the...