Greece pushes coal phaseout deadline to 2025 from 2028
Coal-fired thermal power plant Ptolemaida 5, the last of its kind in Greece, is set to be converted to gas in 2025, three years earlier than planned
EU’s CO2 certificates climb above EUR 48 per ton to all-time high
The cost of releasing greenhouse gases within the EU's Emissions Trading System is continuing to set records and nearing EUR 50 per CO2 equivalent
EU businesses to be required to use “common language” for green investments
The EU is introducing a taxonomy that companies and investors will be required to use when talking about investments in green projects.
Legal toolkit produced to help activists protect rivers from hydropower projects
Save the Blue Heart of Europe is promoting a legal toolkit to help activists and civil society organizations protect rivers from hydropower development.
Over 2,000 people roll up their sleeves in largest clean-up drive in Serbia
The Roll Up Your Sleeves campaign has gathered hundreds of children, in clean-up activities at 52 locations across Serbia.
Serbia starts drafting national energy and climate plan
The Ministry of Mining and Energy has launched a project called the Further Capacity Development for Energy Planning, which will include the drafting of a NECP.
EU ETS covered emissions record biggest drop in six years
Greenhouse gas emissions from operators covered by the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) fell by 13.3% in 2020 compared to 2019.
EU agrees on European Climate Law, makes 2050 net zero emissions target legally binding
Reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to the 1990 levels will be also legally binding target.