EU Council meeting expected to see joint declaration by eastern agriculture and research ministers – a rare effort at coordinated east European lobbying over research in Brussels.

We can’t take on climate change without properly pricing coal, oil, and natural gas. But it’s a huge political challenge.

International Finance Corporation, a sister organization of the World Bank and member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector in developing countries. They leverage their products and services—as well as products and services of other institutions across the World Bank Group—to create markets that address the biggest development challenges of our time.

Air travel is booming, with the number of air passengers set to double over the next twenty years. Aviation demand is particularly evident in the Asia Pacific region, where growing economic wealth is opening new travel opportunities.

The European Union is relying heavily on burning forest biomass to meet its carbon emissions goals. And now it’s facing a legal challenge that’s sure to ignite debate on what it really means for an energy source to be renewable and carbon neutral.

There isn’t enough space on Earth to plant the amount of trees it would take to prevent the climate from warming by 15 degrees Celsius.

Humans emit roughly 30 to 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide, or the greenhouse gas known as CO2, into the atmosphere each year.

If we keep it up, Earth will continue to heat up and ultimately devastate our way of life.

Watch the video to learn what it would take to solve our emissions problem.

The Commission today announces an investment programme worth over €10 billion for low-carbon technologies in several sectors to boost their global competitiveness.

The brief, published by the European Commission’s Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy, synthesises and summarises the latest available data on bioenergy in the EU. It shows how bioenergy not only contributes to renewable energy but also to the EU’s energy security, as 96% of bioenergy feedstock is produced within the EU. Most of this comes from forestry.

In November 2016, the European Commission launched the Clean Energy package, including a recast of the Directive on the promotion of renewable energy sources (‘RES Directive’), with the objective of greatly increasing the share of RES in final energy consumption by 2030. The revised RES Directive aims to provide guiding principles on financial support schemes for RES, renewable energy self-consumption, energy communities and district heating. It seeks to enhance mechanisms for cross-border cooperation, simplify administrative processes, strengthen the sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions-savings criteria for biofuels, and mainstream the use of RES in the transport sector and in the heating and cooling sector. Trilogue negotiations started in February 2018 and resulted in a provisional agreement on 14 June 2018. The final text was formally adopted by Parliament (13 November 2018) and Council (4 December 2018), published in the Official Journal on 21 December 2018 and entered into force three days later. Fifth edition. The ‘EU Legislation in Progress’ briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure. Please note this document has been designed for online viewing.

iomass is organic material that comes from plants and animals. It is the basis of the bioeconomy, which “comprises those parts of the economy that use renewable biological resources from land and sea – such as crops, forests, fish, animals and micro-organisms – to produce food, materials and energy”*.