Europe

EU

Italy and France Call for Changes to Europe’s Carbon Border Levy 0325.rtf

10 EU Nations Say It’s Time to Sanction Russian Natural Gas, LNG 0125.rtf

EU Agrees on Carbon Tariff Rules to Tackle Climate Change 1224.rtf

“EU Should Ban Space Mirrors and Other Solar Geoengineering” 1224.rtf - The ban is a terrible idea, which condemns civilization to world temperature by 2100 of 3-4°C or more (above 18880 levels) by 2100 and much higher after 2100, if greenhouse gas removal does not scale up to much more than current greenhouse gas emissions.

Europe Central Bank President Flags Risks for EU Plan to Tax CO2 beyond EU 0924.rtf

Europe Election’s Green Wipeout Means Fights Ahead to Keep Climate Goals 0624.rtf

The Race to Map the World’s Forests and Protect $110 Billion of Trade 0624.rtf - EU's requirements for food import supply chains to be climate friendly (esp. no deforestation) has big impacts around th world. They are too costly for many samll farmers to meet. They also push up EU food import prices.

European Court Rules Switzerland Climate Inaction Violated Human Rights 0424.rtf

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Climate Migration Concerns Surpass Fears of Russian Aggression in Europe 0224.rtf

EU Risks Escalating Spat with Farmers, Business Over 90% Cuts by 2040 - 0224.rtf

EU Set to Support Ambitious Target of 90% Emissions Cut by 2040 - 0124.rtf

EU Plans Big Scale Up of Carbon Removals to Reach Climate Neutrality 0124.rtf

7 European Countries Pledge CO2-Free Power Systems by 2035 - 1223.rtf

EU Calls for ‘Tangible Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels as Soon as Possible’ 1123.rtf

Europe’s War on Carbon Goes Global as Border Tax Comes Into Play 1023.rtf

New E.U. Law Requires 70% of Aviation Fuel to Be Sustainable by 2050 - 0923.rtf

EU Looks into Blocking Out the Sun, as Climate Efforts Falter 0623.rtf

European Law Might Get Companies around the World to Cut Climate Pollution 0523.rtf - border adjustment, for industrial goods subject to little or no carbon price at home.

EU Approves 2035 Ban on Sales of Gasoline-Powered Cars 0323.rtf

EU’s Green Plan Will Force Oil Majors to Store CO2 Underground 0323.rtf

EU Lawmakers Back Deal to Ban New Combustion-Engine Cars by 2035 - 0223.rtf

Europe’s Plan to Become the 1st Climate-Neutral Continent 0123.rtf

EU Gets Landmark Deal to Strengthen and Expand Carbon Market 1222.rtf

World’s 1st Carbon Border Tax Lands in Europe 1222.rtf

EU Passes Law to Make Electric Car Batteries Cleaner 1222.rtf

EU’S New Climate Change Plan Will Cause Biodiversity Loss, Deforestation 1222.rtf

Time to Stop Counting Forest Biomass as ‘Renewable Energy’ 1122.rtf

E.U. Plans for Only Electric New Vehicles by 2035 Are ‘without Precedent’ 1022.rtf

EU Targets ‘Zero Pollution’ by 2050 to Curb Premature Deaths 1022.rtf

EU Set to Pave Way for €565 Billion Overhaul of Electricity Grid 0922.rtf

European Union Signals a Move Away from Wood Energy 0922.rtf

Europe Plans 20 Floating Gas Terminals by Year-End, Raising Climate Fears 0822.rtf

Europe Calls Gas and Nuclear Energy ‘Green’ 0722.rtf

Putin’s War Threatens Europe’s Ambitious Climate Goals 0722.rtf

EU Lawmakers Support Banning Gasoline Car Sales by 2035 - 0622.rtf

EU Targets Man-Made Greenhouse Gases in Climate Neutrality Push 0422.rtf

E.U. to Unveil Strategy to Break Free from Russian Gas 0222.rtf

Europe Unveils Gas Market Proposals Key to Low-Carbon Future 1221.rtf

Europe’s CO2 Price Has Almost Tripled in 2021 - 1221.rtf - 1221 - €80 / ton

The E.U. Is Getting Serious about Climate. Can the U.S. Follow Suit? 0721.rtf - E.U. plans to raise the price to at least $71 per ton of CO2.

EU Deal Forces Investors to Shift Gears on Climate Threat 0721.rtf

EU Unveils Ambitious Climate Package, as It Cools on Fossil Fuels 0721.rtf

EU Reaches Major Climate Deal Ahead of Biden Climate Summit 0421.rtf

US Wants the EU to Delay Imposing Trade Penalties on Carbon-Intensive Imports, but Is Considering Imposing Its Own 0321.rtf

EU Hopes for a Climate Partnership with China 0221.rtf

EU Leaders Agree to Reduce Emissions, after All-Night Talks 1220.rtf

EU Drafts Deal to Upgrade 2030 Climate Change Target Next Month 1120.rtf

EU Plans to Increase Offshore Wind Farm Capacity by 250% - 1120.rtf

EU Eyes Tax as Tool in Climate Change Fight 1120.rtf

EU Says Fossil Fuel Subsidies Undermine Its Climate Ambitions 1020.rtf

Does the EU’s Methane Strategy Go Far Enough? 1020.rtf

Europe Poised to Ramp Up Emission Cuts with Ambitious Target 0820.rtf

Greener Farms and Healthier Food Key to EU’s Climate Plan 0520.rtf

Oil Slump Spurs Talk of Ending EU Subsidies for Polluting Fuels 0420.rtf

EU Draft Climate Law Sparks Political Battles 0320.rtf - Net-zero by 2050. Arguments over details

EU’s $1 Trillion Plan to Make Whole Continent Carbon Neutral 0120.rtf

Europe Threatens U.S. with Carbon Tariffs to Combat Climate Change 1219.rtf

EU Unveils 'Green Deal' Plan to Get Europe Carbon Neutral by 2050 - 1219.rtf

EU Declares a Climate Emergency 1119.rtf

East European States Block Bid for EU 2050 Decarbonization Target 0619.rtf

Europe’s Triumphant Greens Demand More Radical Climate Action 0519.rtf

'Green Wave' in EU Vote amid Climate Crisis 0519.rtf

EU Being Sued to Stop Burning Trees for Energy; It’s Not Carbon Neutral 0319.rtf

EU Forges Deal on Coal Phase-out, with Special Polish Clause 1218.rtf

EU Agrees on Deal to Cut CO2 Emissions from Cars 1218.rtf

Court Tells EU Commission It Can’t Let Cars Spew More Greenhouse Gases 1218.rtf

European Parliament Wants 40% CO2 Emissions Cut for New Cars by 2030 - 1018.rtf

Europe Mulls Stripping Carbon from the Skies 0818.rtf

EU Raises Renewable Energy Targets to 32% by 2030 - 0618.rtf

EU Targets 30% Cut in Truck CO2 Emissions by 2030 - 0518.rtf

Climate-Linked Spending Set to Rise to 1:4 of EU Budget 0418.rtf

EU Sees Higher Climate Target Possible, as Cost of Renewables Falls 0318.rtf

EU Lawmakers Reach Deal on Climate Targets for 2030 - 1217.rtf

EU Announces €9 Billion in Funding for Climate Action 1217.rtf

EU Strikes Deal on Carbon Market Reform for 2020-2030 - 1117.rtf

Europe Calls for Cutting Car Emissions by 1:3. Not Enough, Critics Say. 1117.rtf

EU Ministers Agree on National Climate Goals, Ahead of U.N. Talks 1017.rtf

EU Plans Carbon Credits, Not Quotas, for Electric Vehicles 1017.rtf

European Countries Spend Billions a Year on Fossil Fuel Subsidies 0917.rtf

Feeling That Trump Will ‘Say Anything,’ Europe Is Less Restrained, Too 0717.rtf

NATO Countries Worry Trump Will Undo Climate Progress, Drafts Show 0517.rtf

EU Energy Companies Pledge No New Coal Plants after 2020 - 0417.rtf

Reform of EU Carbon Trading Scheme Agreed 0217.rtf

EU’s Renewable Energy Policy Is Making Global Warming Worse 0217.rtf

How EU Can Limit Coal’s Life for the Cost of a Pint of Beer 0217.rtf

MEPs Approve Overhaul of EU Carbon Emissions Trading Scheme 0217.rtf

EU Energy Use to Fall 30%, under New Efficiency Plans for 2030 - 1116.rtf

EU Requires Pension Funds to Assess Climate Change Risks 1116.rtf

Plans for an Electric Car Charging Point in Every New Home in Europe 1016.rtf

European Parliament Members Back CH4, NH3 Limits 1015.rtf

EU Climate Chief Hails Global Progress on Emissions 1015.rtf

EU Politicians Back 2019 Carbon Market Reform Start 0715.rtf

How Europe’s Climate Policies Have Led to More Trees Being Cut Down in the US 0615.rtf

EU Diplomats Approve Proposal to Start CO2 Market Reform in 2019 - 0515.rtf

EU Carbon Permit Prices Rise, as Nations Agree to Seek 2021 Start to Fix 0315.rtf

Europe Submits UN Climate Pledge, Urges US, China to Follow 0315.rtf

European Carbon Market Reform Set for 2019 - 0215.rtf

EU Policy Mash Roils Markets Before Paris Climate Deal 0215.rtf

EU Policy-Makers Seek to Make Electric Transport a 'Priority' 0215.rtf

EU Politicians Seek to Revive Sluggish Carbon Market 0115.rtf

EU Greenhouse Gas Deal Falls Short of Expectations 1014.rtf

EU Leaders Agree on CO2 Emissions Cut 1014.rtf

Europe Emission Targets ‘Will Fail to Protect Climate' 1014.rtf

EU Carbon Price Rallies on Permit Supply Cutback 0913.rtf

EU Move to Fix Carbon Market Praised 0713.rtf

EU Committee Backs Ban on Potent Coolant GHGs 0613.rtf

EU Targets CO2 in Farms and Forests 0312.rtf

EU Import Carbon Tax Comes and Goes 1007.rtf

Failure to Reform Europe’s Carbon Market to Echo Round the World 0413.rtf

Europe's Carbon Market Limps On 0213.rtf

EU to Make Renewables Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels 0610.rtf

UK: England

UK Is the Only Big Economy Aiming for Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C Goal 0225.rtf

Can the Labour Party Bring Back Britain’s Green Groove? 0724.rtf

UK’s Election Is a Rare Win against Anti-Climate Campaigns 0724.rtf - Labour will push forawrd strongly with decarbonization goals that the Tories put on the back burner or reversed.

UK Set for Massive Rollout of EV Chargers, in Net-Zero Push 0323.rtf

Londoners Urged Not to Travel, as Heat Wave Engulfs Europe 0722.rtf

U.K. Bets Big on Nuclear, Wind in Energy Security Strategy 0422.rtf

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U.K. Targets 10-Fold Increase in Electric Vehicle Charge Points 0322.rtf

CoP26 Deal Sounds Death Knell for Coal Power – British PM 1121.rtf

UK’s Prince Charles Warns World Leaders at G20 Summit about Climate Change 1021.rtf

London Brings Forward Plan to Electrify City’s Bus Fleet 0921.rtf

UK’s Target to End to Coal Power Is Now 2024, a Year Sooner 0621.rtf

UK to Cut CO2 Emissions 78% by 2035, from 1990 Levels 0421.rtf

U.K. to Halt Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Projects Abroad 1220.rtf

Boris Johnson Lays Out U.K. Plan for a ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ 1120.rtf

Boris Johnson Poised to Stop UK Funding Overseas Fossil Fuel Projects 0820.rtf

U.K. Announces ‘Jet Zero’ Plan to Drive Down Aviation Emissions 0620.rtf

Is Scotland Leading the Way on Climate Change? 0220.rtf

UK Petrol and Diesel Car Sales Ban Brought Forward to 2035 - 0220.rtf

Labour Party Pledges to Ban Sale of Non-Electric Cars by 2030 -1019.rtf

Scotland Enacts ‘Toughest Climate Change Laws in the World' 0919.rtf

UK’s Goal of Net-Zero Carbon by 2050 Becomes Law 0619.rtf

Theresa May Will Commit to Ending UK’s GHG Emissions by 2050, No Caveats 0619.rtf

UK Parliament Declares ‘Climate Emergency' 0519.rtf

UK’s Fracking Plan ‘Will Release Same CO2 as 300 Million New Cars’ 0319.rtf

Scotland Draft Climate Change Bill Targets 90% by 2050 Emission Reduction 0518.rtf

Environmental Activists Are Suing Governments over Climate Change and Winning 0218.rtf

Ocean Pollution - Prince Charles Warns We Are 'Testing the World to Destruction', but We Must Act Now 1017.rtf

Scotland Sets 2032 Ban on New Diesel and Petrol Cars, Funds Carbon Capture 0917.rtf

Britain Bans Gasoline and Diesel Cars, Starting in 2040 - 0717.rtf

The Harder the Brexit, the Worse the Climate Impact, Study Warns 0717.rtf

Prince Charles Joins Clean Soil Project to Combat Climate Change 1016.rtf

UK Votes to Leave EU, Fears Grow for Climate Ambition 0616.rtf

Scotland Exceeds Emission Cut Targets – 6 Years Early 0616.rtf

British Court Rejects Donald Trump’s Attempt to Block Wind Farm 1215.rtf

Most of Britain's Major Cities Pledge to Run on Green Energy by 2050 - 1115.rtf

Britain’s Prince Charles Links Syria War to Climate Change 1115.rtf

UK Is Harking Back to the Energy System of the Last Century 1115.rtf

UK's Coal Plants 'to Be Phased Out within 10 Years' 1115.rtf

U.K. Said to Consider Closing All Coal-Fired Plants by 2023 - 1015.rtf

Party Leaders in Scotland Make Climate Change Pledge, CO2 Down 42% by 2020 - 0815.rtf

Slashing Household Solar Subsides Will Kill Off UK Industry 0815.rtf

Rudd's ‘Green Light' as Climate Secretary 0515.rtf

Tory Victory a Huge Blow to UK Green Energy Industry, Campaigners Warn 0515.rtf

London Mayor Told to Divest £4.8 Billion Pension Fund from Fossil Fuels 0315.rtf

3 UK Party Leaders Sign Joint Climate Pledge 0215.rtf

Britain Joins US in Ending Coal Power Support Overseas 1113.rtf

British Mandate 80% Cuts by 2050 1108.rtf

Mankind Must Go Green or Die, Prince Charles 1112.rtf

Prince Charles Warns - Act Before It's Too Late 0612.rtf

Panel Clears Jones in Climategate 0310.rtf

Brit PM Warns of Climate Catastrophe 1009.rtf

Germany

Germany to Walk Back Charging Goal as More People Plug EVs in at Home 0623.rtf

Germany Sets the New Standard for Cheap, National Mass Transit 0423.rtf

Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle 0423.rtf

Germany Extends Lifetime of Remaining Nuclear Plants 1022.rtf

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Greta Thunberg - Germany Making ‘Mistake' by Ditching Nuclear Power for Coal 1022.rtf

How Germany Is Scrambling to Save Energy 0822.rtf

Germany Gets Solar Boost amid Energy Crisis 0822.rtf

Why Germany Is Offering a Summer of Cheap Trains 0522.rtf - Cut use of Russian oil and gas.

Germany Presents New Ukraine-Accelerated Renewables Plan 0422.rtf

Germany Brings Forward Goal of 100% Renewable Power to 2035 - 0222.rtf

Germany Responds to Russia, by Halting Nord Stream 2 Pipeline 0222.rtf

Germany Approves Billions for Climate, Modernization Fund 1221.rtf

Germany’s New Coalition Promises Climate Revolution & CO2 Floor Price 1121.rtf - Iceland’s Cabinet Raises Climate Goal as Glaciers Melt 1121

Germany’s New Government to Channel $67 Billion to Climate Fund 1121.rtf

German Climate Goals Need ‘Massive’ Cut in Industry CO2 by 2030 - 0521.rtf

‘Historic’ German Ruling Says Climate Goals Not Tough Enough 0421.rtf

Germany Seeks to Curb Global Emissions of N2O, a Climate Super-Pollutant 1220.rtf

Electric Car Subsidies Make Renaults Free in Germany 0720.rtf

Germany Just Unveiled the World’s Greenest Stimulus Plan 0620.rtf

Merkel Cabinet Seals Plan to Widen CO2 Price to Heating, Roads 0520.rtf

Germany Passes Climate-Protection Law to Ensure 2030 Goals 1119.rtf

Germany’s Merkel Wants 1 Million Electric Car Charge Points by 2030 - 1119.rtf

Germany Unveils Plan for Climate-Friendly Aviation 0819.rtf

Germany to Miss 2020 Climate Target, Government Concedes in Official Report 0618.rtf

Germany Set to Miss 2020 Climate Target 0118.rtf

German Greens Reveal Coal Phase-out Red Line for Joining Government 1117.rtf

New Climate Leader Germany Outlines Path to Carbon-Neutral Economy by 2050 - 1116.rtf

Germany Takes Steps to Roll Back Renewable Energy Revolution 1016.rtf

Germany Wants to Ban Fossil-Fuel-Powered Cars 1016.rtf

Germany to Exit Coal Power ‘Well before 2050' - 0516.rtf

Green Village to Be Bulldozed to Mine Lignite, as Germany Goes Non-Nuclear 0914.rtf

Germany's Planned CO2 Cuts to Dampen EU Demand for Certificates 1214.rtf

German Voters Follow Merkel Down Bumpy Path to Clean Energy 0913.rtf

Merkel’s Green Shift Backfires as German Pollution Jumps 0713.rtf

France

Paris Proves Cities Can Clear the Air by Kicking Cars to the Curb 0425.rtf

France Bans Short-Haul Flights, as It Looks to Cut Transport Emissions 0523.rtf

France Bans Short-Haul Domestic Flights, in Favor of Train Travel 0222.rtf

France Mandates Solar Panels on Most Parking Lots; Great Marriage with EVs 1122.rtf

France to Invest in Small Nuclear Reactors and Green Energy Projects 1021.rtf

France Passes Climate Law, but Critics Say It Falls Short 0721.rtf - A few of the measures: domestic flights for journeys that can be made by train in less than 2.5 hours are banned, unless they connect to an international flight. Subsidies for drivers who trade in a polluting car for a cleaner one have been extended to electric bicycle purchases.

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French MPs Approve Bill Enshrining Climate Change Protection in Constitution 0321.rtf

Court Faults France Over ‘Ecological Damage’ From Its Emissions Levels 0221.rtf

‘Green Tsunami’ Washes Over France’s City Halls 0720.rtf

France to Commit €700 Million to International Solar Alliance 0318.rtf

France Is Officially Shutting All Coal-Fired Power Plants in 3 Years 0118.rtf

France Sets Out 10-Point Plan to Double Wind Power Capacity by 2023 - 0118.rtf

France Passes Law to Ban All Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 1217.rtf

Paris Plans to Banish All but Electric Cars by 2030 - 1017.rtf

Paris Experiments with Car-Free Day across the City 1017.rtf

France to Ban Sales of Petrol and Diesel Cars by 2040 - 0717.rtf

France Vows to Go beyond Paris Climate Commitments 0617.rtf