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 industrial carbon emissions rose by up to 2.4 percent last year, analysts surveyed by Reuters estimated, below the market cap and keeping the 27-nation bloc on track to meet its 2020 climate target. The EU's emissions trading scheme (ETS) limits the emissions of over 12,000 installations, including power …
Nine people were killed when an avalanche hit the village of Restelica in southern Kosovo, officials said Sunday, adding to more than 500 killed in snow and bitter cold across Europe in the past two weeks. In Poland, the interior ministry said 20 people had died in the past 24 …
Residents of popular Baltic Sea resort Mielno, one of three sites shortlisted to host Poland's first nuclear plant early in the next decade, on Sunday voted overwhelmingly against the plan. Some 94 percent of the 2,389 people who took part in the referendum opposed, with only 5 percent supporting it, …
The United States remained the primary backer of biotech crop technology in 2011, but adoption spread internationally as the total global planted area of genetically modified seeds grew 8 percent from a year ago, according to a report issued Tuesday. Roughly 160 million hectares, or 395.2 million acres, were planted …
Coal-reliant Poland aims to increase support for biogas and solar generation through the end of the decade while cutting support for investment in wind and other renewable generation, a government official said on Tuesday. Deputy Economy Minister Mieczyslaw Kasprzak said a new draft bill calls for Poland to increase the …
A shift to renewable energy would ultimately cost around the same as business as usual and the EU needs to make progress on setting a 2030 target for greener fuel soon, the bloc's energy commissioner said. Guenther Oettinger was laying out the European Union's latest road map for mostly eliminating …
Air pollution caused more than 100 billion euros ($134.95 billion) in health and environmental damage, highlighting the need for more renewables sources of energy, a report published on Thursday by the European Environment Agency found. Europe's 10,000 largest factories and energy facilities resulted in 102-169 billion euros in health issues, …
The nuclear radiation detected in some parts of Europe that were earlier supposed to be coming from Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (Kanupp), might have emitted from Hungry, according to the information received by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority (HAEA). Well-placed sources told Business Recorder …
The European Union’s executive arm announced plans on Wednesday aimed at stopping its countries from striking bilateral deals that cede too much power to oil and gas exporters like Russia. Günther Oettinger, the European energy commissioner, says Europe needs to speak “with one voice” in energy matters. Europe needs to …
Russia has pumped the first gas into a new pipeline running under the Baltic Sea to Germany, which will tighten Moscow’s grip on the continent’s lucrative gas markets. The opening of the $10bn Nord Stream pipeline gives Russia its first direct export link to western markets, bypassing Ukraine and other …
Poland will exchange its surplus emission permits under the Kyoto Protocol (AAUs) to Japan for the Asian country's energy storage technologies, according to a preliminary agreement between the two, Poland's environment minister said on Monday. In the past Japan was the largest buyer of Poland's AAUs, but the trade formula …
The increasing importance of climate spending in European Union budget proposals could give the EU Commission more influence over talks for a deeper emissions cut target, which could help lift EU carbon permit prices, Barclays Capital analysts said in a research note on Monday. "If, when and how this will …
The Government has sought technical cooperation with the Government of Poland in the field of coal and lignite mining and also asked companies from the European country to invest in India. The Coal Minister, Mr Sriprakash Jaiswal, who met the Poland Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Waldemar Pawlak, yesterday, also discussed …
Poland reaffirmed its commitment to developing its shale gas reserves on Wednesday despite French plans to ban drilling, but officials and industry experts said tough regulatory and environmental challenges lie ahead. The U.S.-based Energy Information Administration (EIA) said last month Poland's technically recoverable reserves of shale gas are the biggest …
Poland's plans to give away tens of millions of carbon emissions permits to new power stations are drawing criticism from environmentalists, but the European Union's climate chief says she is not worried. The disagreement highlights Poland's problems in aligning its high-carbon economy with the EU's ambitions to cut carbon dioxide …
New Delhi: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) region registered its first ever recorded drop in permanent-type migration inflows in 2008, a trend that accelerated in 2009, the OECD
Paris: A volcano sneezes, and the whole world gets a major case of paralysis. As the Icelandic eruption closed airspace over Europe, German soldiers wounded in Afghanistan couldn
Trains, planes and cars halted by snow and ice. Gas and electricity supplies rationed. Sensitive crops ruined. Boats frozen into waterways. For weeks, images of the coldest weather for decades have filled the media across Europe, Asia and North America. But there is an alternative weather story. In much of …
