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The UK’s “sense of urgency” on achieving net zero and supporting climate policies has taken a drastic tumble, according to a new survey. In 2019, the UK became the first major economy in the world to pass laws to end its contribution to global warming. The ambitious target legally binds the nation to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, compared with its previous target of at least an 80 per cent reduction from 1990 levels. Under Conservative Theresa May’s leadership, the net zero target aimed to bolster the number of ‘green collar jobs’ to two million…
Ambitious plans to transform the North Sea into the world’s “largest green energy reservoir” have sparked concern among security experts. Last month, almost a dozen European countries joined forces to get off the “fossil fuel rollercoaster”, committing to deliver 100GW of joint offshore wind projects across shared waters by 2050. This would generate enough electricity to power more than 140 million homes. Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK signed the Hamburg Declaration on 26 January, pledging €9.5 billion in the hopes of mobilising €1 trillion of capital in Europe, creating 90,000 jobs and…
By Toby Gregory Published on 13/02/2026 – 15:13 GMT+1•Updated 15:16 At the World Governments Summit, Ben Lamm, Founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, told Euronews that bringing back extinct species and protecting biodiversity are now key to tackling the world’s growing extinction crisis. Asked about the biggest development in this sector in recent years, Lamm highlighted recent progress in de-extinction and species preservation. “I think the most exciting thing in 2026 is bringing back extinct species and also protecting them through bio vaults, which we’re launching here at the World Governments Summit.” He said most people are not aware of how…
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said the firm was “ responsible for transporting over 80 percent of Russian oil exports, further hampering the Kremlin’s desperate scramble to find buyers for its sanctioned oil.” But a new filing by the U.K. government’s Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation, published Tuesday, lists the Druzhba pipeline among “exempt projects” under the Russia sanctions regime. In recent days, the pipeline has been at the heart of an intense row between Hungary and Brussels over support for Ukraine. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused Kyiv of deliberately stalling repairs to the Ukrainian section of the pipeline after it was damaged in what…
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI with AP Published on 13/02/2026 – 16:17 GMT+1 Thailand is using a birth control vaccine on elephants in the wild to try and curb a growing problem where human and animal populations encroach on each other. It’s an issue in areas where farms spread into forests, meaning elephants are squeezed out of their natural habitat. The initiative is part of efforts to address confrontations that can turn deadly. As farmers cut down forests to make more farmland, elephants are forced to venture out of their shrinking habitats in search of food. Last year, wild elephants killed 30 people and injured…
“Je pars du principe qu’il n’y a pas d’étiquette politique dans mon travail et si demain Bruno Retailleau fait le même format, j’y serai”, réagit l’influenceuse Farah RK auprès de POLITICO. Loin d’être convaincu, le Syndicat national des journalistes craint des dérives et la multiplication de ce genre de pratiques. “Ce qui est moins légitime, et plus inquiétant, c’est d’essayer de placer chaque journaliste dans un camp : celui des bons, ou celui des mauvais. Et de réserver certaines conférences de presse aux premiers”, écrit-il dans un communiqué. Il pointe aussi le manque de nuance de Jean-Luc Mélenchon dans les…
Armed with just a kayak and a self-built microplastic filter, Kristian Louis Jensen has spent the last decade paddling through the most “pristine places” on our planet. During his Master’s degree in environmental protection, the Inuit scientist developed ‘the Plastsaq’. This citizen-science tool allows kayakers and local communities to collect surface water samples containing debris from items such as abandoned bottles and packaging. “But that work led me to ask a deeper question about the invisible footprint of humanity,” he tells Euronews Green. It is this that inspired his most recent trip, over to a remote glacier in eastern Greenland.…
When Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin visited Trump last year, the U.S. leader complained of the difficulty of building anything at his Irish resort — a problem he mistakenly attributed to Brussels, not Dublin. Next month, Martin can expect warm words from Trump over the Irish ballroom go-ahead. A spokesperson for Martin welcomed the decision but stressed it was a matter for local Clare councilors, not the central government. The largest party on the Clare council, the center-ground Fianna Fáil, is led by Martin. The planning decision is conditional on Trump’s advisers producing a credible plan to safeguard a threatened species…
Scores of illegal luxury mansions have been built in a UNESCO-listed national park in Sierra Leone – and the government has done little or nothing about it, according to a new investigation. At least 50 of these houses have been built or are under construction on land that was rainforest as recently as 2019. This deforestation is “an environmental time bomb that has to be nipped in the bud”, the report warns. The mansions are in the Bio Barray neighbourhood, part of which has been built illegally in the mountainous Western Area Peninsula National Park, which Sierra Leone’s government has…
Auf den Tag genau vier Jahre nach Beginn der russischen Vollinvasion steht die Ukraine weiter im Abnutzungskrieg. Die Frontlinien haben sich kaum verschoben, der Winter war hart, die Bevölkerung erschöpft und ein klares Ende ist nicht in Sicht.Im Gespräch mit Alexander Rodnyansky, ehemaliger Wirtschaftsberater von Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj, geht es um die entscheidende Frage: Wer hat im langen Krieg mehr Spielraum – wirtschaftlich, militärisch, politisch? Rodnyansky analysiert die Grenzen der Sanktionspolitik, Russlands fiskalische Reserven, die Rolle von China und Indien – und warum wirtschaftlicher Druck allein Moskau kaum in die Knie zwingen dürfte. Zugleich blickt er auf die Ukraine selbst:…