The EU regards curbing energy use as essential to meeting goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions but the funding to support businesses to do so has not been effective
BRUSSELS More than 2 billion euros of European Union funding to help businesses save energy contributed little to climate change targets and in some cases…
BRUSSELS: More than 2 billion euros of European Union funding to help businesses save energy contributed little to climate change targets and in some cases funded investments that would have happened anyway, according to an auditor report released on Monday. The EU regards curbing energy use as essential to meeting goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and record high gas and
Ahead of EU environment ministers' meeting, environmental groups sent a joint letter urging ministers to "uphold the 'polluter-pays' principle, as enshrined in EU law when reforming the Emissions Trading System."
Today (14 December), the European Court of Auditors (ECA) will publish a special report on the EU’s support for tourism. The EU has a complementary role in tourism policy, supporting and co-ordinating the actions taken by the member states. There was no dedicated EU budget for tourism in the 2014-2020 period. The European Commission defined […]