Europe is at a disadvantage in attracting investments in green technology, with high risks and a lack of certainty deterring investors

Subsidies will not be enough to decarbononise industry. Instead the EU needs a scheme offering loan guarantees to de-risk and scale up green technologies

Recycling could help with one of Europe’s toughest strategic raw material challenges, but multiple issues must be solved if the ecosystem is to thrive

GMO regulations will no longer apply to some crop plants that are modified using precise gene editing techniques, a shift scientists have long been calling for

Protecting the oceans that cover 70% of the earth is not getting enough attention in climate change policy. Now, scientists are pushing for a dedicated international body to coordinate research and inform policymakers

EU blocks effort to remove perverse incentives that are both encouraging deforestation and increasing CO2 emissions

Without textiles, there is no fashion. But textile manufacturing is highly polluting and there is an urgent need to make it sustainable. The industry and EU policymakers must work together on harmonising different national rules to turn Europe’s catwalks green    

As Brussels starts making sense of the Commission’s proposal for creating a homegrown net zero market, industry points to lack of understanding of how innovation works

In response to the US Inflation Reduction Act, the Commission wants 40% of EU’s clean technologies to be manufactured in the bloc by end of the decade