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 …
Austria and Poland face fines for failing to implement EU law on making buildings more energy-efficient, the EU executive said on Thursday. The European Commission is asking the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) in Luxembourg to apply a penalty of 96,720 euros ($131,900) against Poland and 39,593 …
UK energy secretary says Poland opposing new climate goals because of reliance on coal, reports RTCC Poland is “the real challenge” to a European agreement on carbon cutting targets for 2030, the UK energy secretary has warned. Brussels is aiming to agree a 2030 climate and energy package by October, …
The European Union’s attempt to cap greenhouse-gas emissions over the next 16 years is threatened again as rising pollution from the bloc’s biggest economies show even developed nations want to burn cheap coal. Germany, Europe’s largest economy, boosted consumption of the fuel by 13 percent in the past four years, …
European Union negotiations this week on planned energy and climate policies will focus on ways to share the burden of carbon reductions after 2020, according to an EU document prepared for the talks. In the series of bilateral discussions, the bloc’s senior officials and representatives of EU heads of state …
The revised international health regulations offer a framework that can be used by host countries to organise public health activities for mass gatherings. From June 8, to July 1, 2012, Poland and Ukraine jointly hosted the Union of European Football Associations European Football Championship Finals (Euro 2012). More than 8 …
European Union policy makers may reach a decision in the first half of next year on a proposal to introduce automatic supply controls in the world’s biggest emissions market, according to a senior EU official. EU governments and the European Parliament are unlikely to finish work on the reform proposed …
Europe-backed finance for carbon capture and storage may help seal a European Union climate-protection deal by October, according to Ed Davey, the U.K. energy and climate secretary of state. “There would have to be an EU-wide solution to supporting new CCS in Poland or anywhere else as part of a …
The European Union's greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 19.2% compared to 1990s levels, according to the European Environment Agency. EU emissions dropped 1.3% in 2012, reaching their lowest level ever recorded, according to data reported to the United Nations by the EEA. The bloc's greenhouse gas output decreased by …
The European Union can set its 2030 carbon goals as soon as October if the region’s governments agree to ease the cost for poorer countries to implement the policies, according to Poland’s climate negotiator. The 28-nation bloc needs a “coherent” environment strategy for the next decade while ensuring its industry …
According to official statistics from Eurobserv’ER, 23.4 percent of the electricity in the European Union came from renewable energy sources in 2012. The total output for 2012 has been estimated at 763.5 TW. This represents an important increase from 2011, when these energy sources brought "only" 20.4 percent of total …
The death toll from hurricane-force Storm Xaver sweeping across northern Europe rose to six on Friday when high winds hurled a tree limb against a car, killing three people, local emergency services said. Xaver blasted into northern Europe late Thursday after disrupting transport and power in northern Britain and flooding …
Poland's environment ministry will prepare a draft law to regulate the exploration and extraction of shale gas and send it to the government for approval before the end of the year, its new environment minister said. Maciej Grabowski added that speeding up the extraction of shale gas was one of …
After almost 30 hours of over time, the United Nations sponsored Warsaw climate change talks came to a close with a deal that failed to resolve key contentious issues but managed to keep every country at the table. The intense-and-sometimes acrimonious negotiations yielded modest agreement on an international mechanism to …
BEIJING: China, the world's largest carbon emitter, on Sunday said it was not satisfied with but still accepted the results of the climate talks in Poland with the participating nations reaching a compromise to pave the way to a new climate treaty in Paris in 2015. "There are many issues …
Negotiators agree to set up a watered-down mechanism for addressing Loss and Damage from climate change. Negotiators gathered at the Polish capital sealed the new climate change agreement avoiding a crash late in the evening on Saturday. But, this required the countries to also lock themselves to a compromised agreement …
Chevron, Exxon and BP among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age, figures show The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the …
Hours after major NGOs walked out of the UN Climate Change conference, India on Thursday said it fully shared the sentiments of the civil society and asked the developed nations to act in combating climate change. Associated Press “It is a matter of deep concern to my country that there …
WARSAW: In a surprising move, the Polish government on Wednesday sacked its environment minister Marcin Korolec, who heads the country's delegation at the climate talks here. Though Korolec will remain the country's representative at the talks, the move has put question marks over Poland's commitment to the negotiations -- specifically …
The U.N. climate chief urged a radical clean-up of the coal industry on Monday to help limit global warming, at an industry meeting in Warsaw condemned by environmentalists as a distraction from the nearby U.N. climate change conference. Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N.'s Climate Change Secretariat, told the coal …
WARSAW: World may be looking at India for its response to what had happened recently in Odisha and Uttarakhand due to natural disasters which were results of climatic extremes, but there was not a word on these two unfortunate incidents from Indian side, comprising official negotiators, here at the UN …
