Instead of driving a bold green industrial policy, the EU is surrendering to the polluting industries demanding deregulation and delay. Watering down the 2040 climate target and dismantling…

Europa moet beleidsmatig koers houden, de energietransitie versnellen en de beschikbare middelen opschalen. Een rondje touwtrekken over de nationale verdeelsleutel of het uithollen van cruciale beleid...

16 July 2025 — Today, the European Commission presented its proposal for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), laying out a draft of the spending priorities for the EU’s 2028–2034 budget cyc...

Brussels, 10 June 2025. As the Commission moves forward with a deregulation drive in favour of corporate interests, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe today co-organised a high-level event — “Rules…

Greg Van Elsen is senior industrial policy co-ordinator at Climate Action Network Europe The European Commission promised an answer to geoeconomic competition; the reality risks being deregulation tha...

Brussels, 3 June 2025 — One hundred days after the launch of the Clean Industrial Deal (CID), implementation of the EU’s flagship initiative to decarbonise industry still falls short of its promised…

The European Commission is once again delaying its proposal for the European Climate Law amendment to set a 2040 climate target. Behind the missed deadlines lies a more concerning trend, warn Climate…

The European Commission wants to keep a 90 percent emissions-cutting target but to change how countries calculate their progress.

Environmental NGOs — understaffed, underpaid and undervalued — are the only actors fighting back to accelerate the green transition. A bonfire of their budgets, led by the same politicians that parrot...

Labelling justifies a preference for strong-arm tactics over co-operation

Just because it has ‘industry’ in its name doesn’t mean the new EU policy agenda should be dictated by industry executives.

As announced by President von der Leyen on 7 February, the European Commission will set up a Strategic Dialogue on Steel aimed at charting a decisive course for the future of the European steel indust

Brussels, 26 February 2025 — Today, the European Commission unveiled its flagship policy package, including the Clean Industrial Deal, the Action Plan for Affordable Energy and the first part of the O...

Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise

Written by Yelter Bollen, Policy expert Climate & Financing at Bond Beter Leefmilieu and Greg Van Elsen, Policy Lead on Clean Industrial Deal at CAN Europe The European Commission’s Competitiveness Co...

While Donald Trump’s second administration turns its back on climate action, Europeans can gain a competitive advantage through funding and developing low-carbon technologies. This requires targeted i...

CAN Europe regrets that the Commission takes a dangerous misstep by framing regulation as the primary obstacle to competitiveness. It is not the rules that protect people, climate and the environment ...

In today’s episode of The Jolt, Kira looks at a leaked draft of the European Union’s Competitiveness Compass and why it matters, plus United States President Donald Trump is already having an impact o...

This story is the tenth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Equinor has retracted a claim that it stores about a million tonnes of ca...

New legislation raises questions about whether Maga, or Wall Street, will steer the ship in the incoming administration

Unusual price relationship could make it harder to refill EU storage as Russian supplies dwindle

Steelmaker blames lack of progress from EU policymakers to support transition to lower-carbon alternatives