Divisions over climate change threaten to derail next week’s set piece EU-US summit.
The meeting, which will be hosted by George Bush and attended by Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was seen as an opportunity for Europe and the US to align their positions on climate change before a G8 meeting in June.

The European Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has signed an agreement with five southern European countries to build a pipeline which will transport oil directly from the Black Sea to central European markets.
The Pan-European Oil Pipeline is aimed at linking the Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania to the oil hub of Trieste, Italy. The […]

Most critics of emission trading schemes argue that they do not solve the problem. Pollution permits allow people to do just that, pollute. Well figures from the EU show what a sham Europe’s emission trading scheme (ETS) is.
New figures show that the ETS scheme failed to deliver the promised curbs in pollution and that the […]

Plans to be agreed today at the EU to open up transatlantic aviation and generate an extra 26 million air passengers over five years will undermine Europe’s push to combat climate change, campaigners have warned.
The “open skies” agreement is being hailed as a revolution by officials who say it will deliver more competition and lower […]

Europe’s leaders meet in Brussels today to sign a binding agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020, a figure that would rise to 30 per cent if the US follows suit.
They are being urged on by Al Gore, the former American vice-president said on a visit to Brussels that the […]