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Top court gives French government nine months to act on climate change
France's highest administrative council on Thursday told the government to act now against climate change to ensure it meets comments on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, or else it could face potential fines.
read more... 02/07/2021
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Gas infrastructure across Europe leaking planet-warming methane
The potent greenhouse gas methane is spewing out of natural gas infrastructure across the European Union because of leaks and venting, video footage made available to Reuters shows.
read more... 25/06/2021
German energy agency urges negative emissions plan
Germany needs a strategy to rapidly upscale and deploy negative greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions technologies, the country's energy agency Dena said today.
read more... 17/06/2021
Negative emissions ‘needed for post-2050 targets’
Negative greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions technologies will be needed not just to reach carbon neutrality by or around 2050, but also for setting targets beyond 2050, a German think-tank says.
read more... 28/05/2021
Germany aims for net zero emissions by 2045, 5 years earlier
German officials proposed Wednesday that the country could bring forward the date for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to "net zero" to 2045, after Germany's top court ruled that existing plans place too much of the burden for curbing climate change on young people.
read more... 06/05/2021