The European Commission is targeting 90% renewable electricity by 2040 in the EU and sees energy storage as one of several key areas of investment to get there, according to a leaked draft. The European Commission has targeted a 90% share of EU electricity... 

The European Union and Norway agreed on Thursday to cooperate to bring more gas from western Europe’s biggest producer to the EU’s 27 countries, nearly half of which are now grappling with cuts to Russian gas supplies. Nearly half of these... 

Fossil fuels have surpassed renewables to become the European Union’s largest source of power generation as use of natural gas reached its highest point in a decade, the bloc’s statistics office said on Thursday. While Eurostat says renewables... 

Carbon emissions in the European Union increased by 8.4% last year compared to the previous year. Excluding the aviation sector, the European Union’s (EU) carbon emissions increased by 8.4 percent in 2021. In 2021, the total carbon emission was... 

Cop26 may involve dozens of world leaders, cost billions of pounds, generate reams of technical jargon and be billed as the last chance to prevent calamitous global heating, but at its simplest the climate conference in Glasgow is a debate about dialling... 

The global race to net-zero emissions has begun. But the world has much further to run. The European Union, Japan, the UK and many other major world economies have set ambitious goals to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. China, the world’s... 

Poland, isn’t ready to resume talks with the European Union about the mid-century climate neutrality deadline during the bloc’s summit in June, according to a senior government official. The country endorsed the carbon neutrality goal at the bloc’s... 

The U.K. should eliminate almost all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by rapidly adopting policies that will change everything from the way people heat their homes to what they eat, an independent committee that advises the British government on climate... 

Eleven Member States already achieved their 2020 targets in 2017, the share of energy from renewable sources in gross final consumption of energy, in the European Union (EU), reached 17.5%, up from 17.0% in 2016 and more than double the share in 2004... 

The European Union today unveiled a strategy to get its contribution to global climate change down to zero in just 30 years. The EU would be the first major economy to reach such a milestone.However, the proposal faces several hurdles as it makes its... 

Since 2000, the world has doubled its coal-fired power capacity to 2,000 gigawatts (GW) after explosive growth in China and India. Another 200GW is being built and 450GW is planned. More recently, 200GW has closed due to a wave of retirements across the... 

EU countries signed an agreement to reduce carbon emissions of trucks and buses by 2030 by 30 percent compared to 2019. Austria, the EU presidency president, announced that EU ministers’ environmental ministers agreed to reduce the carbon emissions...