Simon Pickstone

The European Parliament’s mainstream political groups have backed an 85% cut in the EU’s domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, thwarting efforts by the far right to split the EPP by holding secret votes on amendments that would have watered down the target.

The European Commission has proposed overhauling the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) to replace the law’s widely misused definitions of green investments with three new categories of varying ambition.

Director-general Bernard Magenhann speaks about how the EU’s in-house research service is adapting to the competitiveness agenda, and what the future holds for evidence-led policymaking.

The EU is set to adopt a target to cut domestic greenhouse gas emissions by at least 85% by 2040, with a further 5% to be ‘offset’ through international carbon credits, following a trilogue deal between the bloc’s co-legislators last night.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the European Commission did not give due regard to scientific advice when re-approving cypermethrin, in a major win for environmental campaigners.

Compromise amendments hammered out by the European Parliament’s mainstream groups call for the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to provide more scientific support to lawmakers and to join a taskforce investigating chemicals’ impact on human health.

Tweaks to the EU’s main chemicals law will take place through secondary legislation, with a wholesale revision off the table for now, environment commissioner Jessika Roswall has confirmed.

A wholesale revision of the EU’s main chemicals law is off the table for now, according to EU environment commissioner Jessika Roswall, with commentators stating this may give the UK government time to “catch up”.

Leather and retreaded tyres will be removed from the scope of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), but the primary legal text will remain unchanged, the European Commission has confirmed.

Draft standards for corporate sustainability reporting that would significantly cut the amount of information companies will have to provide have been put out for consultation.