Europe
Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth Zone offshore wind project is facing hurdles due to escalating costs. The country’s new coalition government will have to make some tough choices in order to safeguard the project going forward.
Indoor air pollution from gas stoves was measured to be worse than levels detected outdoors in a dense urban area of London, according to a new study.
An unpublished EC document explores direct public support for LNG projects overseas. But critics warn that doubling down on costly LNG imports might be a drag on the European economy and increase security vulnerabilities.
Italian companies have signed a number of agreements for energy — including hydrogen — projects with Saudi Arabia, which are worth US$10 billion.
The supercomputer is the first to be deployed in Europe and is ranked fifth in a list of the world’s top 500 supercomputers.
Europe’s ambitions for a continent-wide hydrogen network are “impractical and unrealistic,” according to a new report. The danger is that hydrogen provides cover for the expansion of the gas system.
The Nord Stream explosion resulted in the largest release of methane in history. And yet it was still a small fraction of the total methane released by the global oil and gas industry.
Pipeline shipments of Russian gas through Ukraine permanently stopped on January 1st, marking a pivotal moment for international energy relations.
The EU Commission intends to consolidate ESG reporting rules into one single ‘omnibus’ regulation from early next year.
Trump’s re-election could mean more U.S. LNG exports being sent to Europe, even though EU gas demand is already in decline.
The climate crisis is worsening and yet fossil fuel subsidies remain at an all-time high, according to a report released during COP29.
Air pollution causes 7–8 million premature deaths annually, largely from chronic diseases, the WHO says in a COP29 special report.
A landmark court ruling earlier this year found that European governments must act on climate. A new lawsuit targets a lack of limits on gas imports.
The news this week that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will not be present at COP29 in Baku is an unsettling development just days before the talks open.
For more than 50 years, the health and safety hazards of a petrochemicals complex in northern Spain have been worrying locals. Despite that, and the unease of such communities globally, UN talks this week failed to clinch a plastics treaty.
A landmark EU deal this week to impose methane emissions limits on oil and gas imports into Europe should spur global action at COP28.