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Cities should invest more in expanding green spaces and nurturing natural systems - not just to keep residents healthy and tackle climate-change risks but to boost their economies

McKinsey argues that this costs will be covered by energy savings from the transition: the cost of getting to net zero is zero.

Après des mois d’hésitation, la Commission européenne a enfin présenté un projet de labellisation des investissements nécessaires à la transition écologique. L’exercice est périlleux, car il n’existe pas de consensus au sein des Etats membres de l’Union européenne sur les moyens de parvenir en 2050 à la neutralité carbone, l’objectif que se sont fixé les Vingt-Sept dans le cadre de l’accord de Paris sur le climat. Pour contourner l’obstacle, Bruxelles fait preuve de pragmatisme afin que chaque pays puisse tenir cet agenda en fonction de ses propres choix énergétiques.

The European Commission has offered EU member states a greater role in deciding which technologies can be considered a sustainable investment in Europe after narrowly escaping a humiliating defeat last year over draft labelling rules for gas under its green finance taxonomy.

Environmental campaigners are critical of whether this will be a “real commitment to green growth”.

On average, each year, nearly 2,600 associations are subsidized by the City of Paris, for nearly 4,500 projects. The grants Grants to associations make it possible to contribute financially to their activities of general interest and are never awarded spontaneously. The association is invited to make a request to the City of Paris for either …

The Energy Charter Treaty, which dates back to the 1990s, severely restricts Europe's ability to change regulations in the energy sector, with many EU member states facing court actions worth billions of euros, write a group of MEPs. If the treaty cannot be reformed, then it must be scrapped, they argue.

An EU taxonomy to define green investments is expected to enter into force in 2021, but some experts want it to be used immediately to inform stimulus packages aimed at dealing with the social and economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic

Projects of energy and transport infrastructure, district heating networks and energy efficiency measures will be prioritised

An association of ten major European environmental organisations today (14 May) launched an appeal to the European Union to come up with a green and fair reconstruction plan. Today, the EU Parliament will vote on its position on this issue. EURACTIV Germany reports.

Co-chair of all-party parliamentary group on cycling and walking sets out a manifesto for active travel

Experts advising on the European Union's sustainable finance taxonomy are concerned a draft plan to include gas and nuclear relies too heavily on promises to make those fuels green in future, rather than assessing their real impact today.

The European Commission said on Monday (10 January) it has delayed to later this month the deadline for experts to give feedback on divisive plans to allow some natural gas and nuclear energy projects to be labelled as sustainable investments.

The Commission drafted a plan late last year to add some gas and nuclear investments to the European Union’s “taxonomy,” its rule book to define which investments can be labelled as climate-friendly in the EU.

La Commission européenne a dévoilé, dans la nuit du vendredi 31 décembre au samedi 1er janvier, un projet de labellisation verte pour les centrales nucléaires et à gaz qui vise à faciliter le financement d’installations contribuant à lutter contre le changement climatique.

The European Union plans to label some gas power plants as sustainable investments, after an initial proposal to deny them a green label faced a backlash from a group of 10 EU member states.

What will the future of energy in Europe look like? Euronews finds out in this edition of Ocean. #Ocean

Les sociétés de gestion Axa IM, BNP Paribas AM, Sycomore AM et Mirova ont choisi Iceberg Data Lab et I Care & Consult pour mesurer les effets de leurs investissements sur la nature.

Many of the structural causes of greenhouse gas emissions have not been affected by the lockdown measures imposed to fight the coronavirus, write Bertrand Piccard, Claude Turmes, and several other authors who put forward 12 proposals for the post-crisis period.

With the European Commission planning to announce details of a building “renovation wave” in the autumn of 2020, Susanne Dyrboel, vice-chair in Renovate Europe explains what the EU executive should be considering to make its vision reality