UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
European Union member states reached a provisional agreement that carbon market reforms should begin on Jan. 1, 2019, at closed-door talks on Wednesday, paving the way for a further round of negotiations next month, diplomats said. Member states have been arguing for weeks over when a reform referred to as …
This index report ranks countries based on their economic output per unit of energy consumed. Commissioned by Philips, the energy productivity index was authored by The Lisbon Council, Ecofys and Quintel Intelligence. Next to ranking the current performance of countries, the report also presents scenarios for the European Union and …
The shipping sector will, for the first time, have to monitor its carbon emissions under a law agreed by the European Union on Wednesday, intended as a step towards tackling a growing source of pollutants linked to climate change. International shipping accounts for around 3% of the world’s emissions of …
Britain is third highest contributor to air pollution that costs Europe up to £149bn a year, says EU agency report Britain has 10 of Europe’s top 50 “super-polluting” power stations and factories, helping to cost it more in health and environmental impacts than any other countries, except for Germany and …
European Union governments are expected to approve a law on Friday to halve the number of plastic grocery bags used across the bloc after a process that has led to an early clash between the new EU executive and member states. The European Commission, which proposes legislation, questioned the outcome …
Poland will veto the European Union executive's proposal for tougher targets on reducing greenhouse gas emissions at a summit this month unless the proposals are changed, Polish Deputy Prime Minister Janusz Piechocinski said on Thursday. Poland relies on burning coal for most of its electricity generation and has opposed increasing …
The UK has been hailed for showing leadership to broker a new target to cut carbon emissions, despite ongoing objections from Poland to a deal later this month. Any suite of 2030 climate targets agreed now could be taken to a UN conference in Lima this December, allowing a push …
The Australian Capital Territory of Canberra has been ranked the best place in the world to live, in a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Canberra led the regional ranking while Australia topped the overall country rankings, followed by Norway. The OECD ranked 362 regions of …
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Polish officials are searching for a miner who has been missing underground following a methane explosion. The accident occurred 660 meters (1,265 feet) below the surface Monday evening at the Myslowice-Wesola mine near the southern Polish city of Katowice. The broadcaster TVN24 is reporting that of 37 …
We analysed data from nationally-representative household surveys originally conducted in 2011–2012 in Finland, Poland and Spain. These surveys provided information on 10 800 adults, for whom experienced well-being was measured using the Day Reconstruction Method and evaluative well-being was measured with the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale. Health status was assessed …
Global emissions of greenhouse gases jumped 2.3 percent in 2013 to record levels, scientists reported Sunday, in the latest indication that the world remains far off track in its efforts to control global warming. The emissions growth last year was a bit slower than the average growth rate of 2.5 …
U.K. lawmaker Ian Swales has already watched one steel plant close in his district, and he never wants to see it again. It felt like a funeral, he said, when plunging demand led the Redcar blast furnace in northern England to shut its doors in 2010. The memory has Swales …
Big emitting industries and poorer eastern member states in the European Union could get tens of billions of euros in additional funds next decade to help them meet the bloc’s 2030 energy and climate goals, a draft EU document showed. According to undated draft conclusions leaked from the European Council …
New coal power stations designed to burn Europe’s massive deposits of lignite pose a serious threat to the continent’s decarbonisation efforts, according to figures released on Wednesday. Analysts from Greenpeace’s Energydesk compiled data from the German government that shows burning Europe’s reserves of lignite would wipe out the EU’s entire …
Europe’s energy dilemma -- burning the dirtiest coal while meeting pollution targets -- is crystallizing in opposition to a plan that would uproot 700-year-old villages and dig two pits the size of Manhattan. PGE SA and Vattenfall AB, the Warsaw- and Stockholm-based utilities, want to tap Europe’s richest lignite deposit, …
Poland is seeing less exploratory drilling for shale gas than expected, environment minister Maciej Grabowski told Reuters, dealing a setback to the country's efforts to find a cheap alternative to the natural gas it imports from Russia. Grabowski said he expected just over 80 exploratory wells would be drilled this …
The European commission has begun legal proceedings against Poland for amending its national laws to allow shale drills at depths of up to 5,000 metres without first having assessed the potential environmental impacts, EurActiv has learned. In June, Brussels sent Poland formal notice that it was opening a case against …
The UK and Germany lead a list of the EU’s most polluting coal-fired power stations compiled by environmental campaigners, who say coal emissions are undermining efforts to combat climate change. Both countries have nine of the so-called “dirty 30” and the campaigners say coal burning is increasing due to the …
Renewable energy is a priority for the government, according to deputy Economy Minister Jerzy Witold Pietrewicz who was commenting on the first reading of a renewable energy bill in the Sejm (lower house) on Tuesday. Pietrewicz stressed that alternative energy sources were a necessity for Poland's energy security and pointed …
Coal power plants across the EU are undermining climate change efforts, according to a far-reaching energy report released today (22 July). The 'Europe's Dirty 30' report, compiled by the Climate Action Network (CAN), exposes the top 30 most polluting power plants in the EU, ranked according to their total CO2 …
