‘Mind the gap’ – why the complaints about the EU’s climate plan?
By Isla Binnie The European Union’s huge policy package to make good on a pledge to reduce net greenhouse emissions by 55 per cent from...
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Floods lay bare Europe’s ‘gigantic task’ in averting future climate damage
By Kate Abnett and James Mackenzie The catastrophic floods that swept northwest Europe last week were a stark warning that stronger dams, dykes and drainage...
Path to recovery ‘aligned with sustainable development goals’
Cyprus’ path to recovery “must and will” be aligned to sustainable development goals` Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides has said. Speaking at the virtual UN High-Level...
EU launches big climate plan for “our children and grandchildren”
European Union policymakers on Wednesday unveiled their most ambitious plan yet to tackle climate change, aiming to turn green goals into concrete action this decade and set...
A game-changer? G7 climate pledge could shift Asia’s coal policy
By Beh Lih Yi and Michael Taylor The G7 wealthy nations failed to go far enough at their weekend summit to halt the use of...
Cyprus climate change conference planned for October
The Cyprus Institute (CyI) will hold its second International Conference on Climate Change in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East on October 13 and 14 just...
Decarbonisation of the maritime industry
By Alexandros Charalambides Over the past five years, there has been significant growth in entrepreneurship activities in Cyprus with networking events, entrepreneurship competitions, startup accelerators...
Big oil may get more climate lawsuits after Shell ruling -lawyers, activists
By Shadia Nasralla and Tom Hals A Dutch court’s decision to force Royal Dutch Shell to make deeper, faster cuts to its climate warming emissions on the...
EU leaders tussle over emissions target in climate change talks
By Kate Abnett and Sabine Siebold A meeting of European Union leaders on Tuesday could end without a declaration on how to meet the bloc’s...
How green are our political parties?
In the lead up to the parliamentary elections on May 30, the Cyprus Mail’s weekly environment section has asked the main political parties for their...
G7 should invest $10 trillion to stoke climate-friendly recovery
By Guy Faulconbridge G7 countries should invest $10 trillion to stoke an investment-driven recovery that puts Covid-19 vaccines in arms and triggers a sweeping...
The beekeepers who believe in full transparency
Top quality honey is not easy to produce, especially in the face of local pesticide and antibiotic use and climate change By Annette Chrysostomou Projects...
Cyprus’ energy transition slow and erratic
Cyprus has come in 51st out of 115 countries on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Energy Transition Index (ETI) 2021, showing slow and erratic movement...
From coal and steel to carbon-free and digital: the EU reaches turning point
By Jan Strupczewski Years from now, 2021 may be seen as the moment the European Union took a leap forward from its post-World War Two...
Climate leaders’ summit: the last-chance saloon
You can tuck your head between your knees and kiss your target of ‘not-more-than-1.5-degrees-Celsius-warming’ goodbye. Trump is out and Biden is in, and you will...
More than words needed to turn climate round
Despite increasing momentum the danger is that aspirations could end up being more dramatic than real outcomes By Dr Charles Ellinas As a show of...
China expected to favour green tech over coal in new five-year plan
By Laurie Goering China, which long targeted rapid industrial growth despite its environmental consequences, now aims to become the global leader in “low-carbon tech for...
Declare states of ‘climate emergency,’ UN chief tells world leaders
World leaders should declare states of “climate emergency” in their countries to spur action to avoid catastrophic global warming, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said...
Climate change adds to plight of endangered sea turtles in Cyprus
Hatched baby sea turtles on the island of Cyprus struggling to crawl to the sea now face the added threat of climate change as they dig their...
Nicosia initiative plants 4,652 trees in six months
By Niki Charalambous Nearly 5,000 trees have been planted in Nicosia in the last six months after a citizen’s group launched a project to combat...