Svenja Schulze, 53, will be the third woman to hold the post. According to Olaf Scholz, she is the “right person” to head the Ministry of Cooperation and Development, a central ministry for anchoring Germany in the world.” The future Chancellor described his function as follows: “We must ensure that there are good prospects for […]

A ten-year-old goal of raising US $ 100 billion to help developing countries tackle climate change and adapt to its repercussions is unlikely to be reached for two years . That’s the conclusion of a new report by Canada’s Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and German Environment Secretary Jochen Flasbarth presented a week before the start […]

Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Andrej Vizjak attended the last meeting of the Environment Council held during the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU. The Slovenian Presidency presented a progress report on the negotiations on the proposal for a regulation on batteries and waste batteries, which is an integral part of the […]

What ecological navigation will be proposed to save the climate. We say to save the climate we must tax the rich. The climate wealth tax (ISF) is one of the ecological proposals put forward for the 2022 presidential election. This taxation of the rich, which would take carbon emissions into account, would serve to penalize […]

The government, through the Minister of Environment and Climate Action, João Pedro Soeiro de Matos Fernandes, has decided to increase the amount available under the Environmental fund to encourage the introduction of low-emission vehicles, especially two-wheelers, such as bicycles. By the publication on August 24, 2021, of Dispatch n ° 8363/2021, the Executive amended Dispatch […]

  With the publication of the Fit-for-55 package and the Carbon Cycles Communication, the European Union is taking head-on the biggest challenge of our times: setting Europe on track to mitigate climate change. In all recent EU policy tools, Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) is clearly identified as a key pathway to reduce CO2 emissions […]

Would you say that achieving the EU’s net-zero goals will be virtually impossible without CCUS? The EU’s net-zero goal for 2050 is based essentially on the elimination of almost all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and in particular on CO2 emissions. To begin with, we need zero-carbon energy supply, clean mobility, and near-zero carbon industrial production, […]

European chemical industry reduced carbon dioxide emissions since 1990 already more than 50%. Using the “best available technologies” further improvement will require significant technology change associated with significant capital expenditures or electrification or capacity reduction. Being aware on further development of the European legislation, in particularly package Fit for 55 related to EU decarbonisation inspiring […]

Prime Minister Janez Janša presented some achievements of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU in Brussels. He first of all thanked the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, for their extremely fruitful cooperation. He welcomed the cooperation between all European […]

The original full study[i] analyses the European Parliament’s (EP) carbon footprint in the context of the recent EP resolutions, in which it declared a climate emergency in Europe and requested the development of a strategy to become itself carbon-neutral by 2030. The analysis takes into account the various sources contributing to the EP’s greenhouse gas […]