In brief | 23 August '24

Fortune: Greenpeace files supreme court case accusing Finland of climate inaction

A group of environmental and rights organisations said Thursday (22 August) that they were suing the Finnish government for violating the country’s climate legislation by not taking adequate action to hit climate targets.

Bloomberg: BMW passes Tesla and tops Europe's EV sales rankings for the first time

BMW pulled ahead of Tesla and led Europe’s electric-vehicle market for the first time last month, extending the German carmaker’s strong run of growth as other manufacturers struggle.

Euractiv: Berlin to bail out shipyard key to offshore wind ambitions

Talks to award credit lines and buy shares amounting to 2.8 billion euros of ailing ship maker Meyer, who also produces key offshore equipment, had progressed far, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on a visit to the firm on Thursday (22 August).

Euractiv: EU Commission ready to send more resources to fight Madeira fires

The European Commission is ready to mobilise additional resources to help fight the fires on the island of Madeira, despite the difficult conditions.

Clean Air Task Force: Carbon dioxide without borders: Connecting the UK and EU can create a more resilient and lower-cost CO2 storage network

As Europe steps up efforts to deploy carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to meet its climate targets, there is increasing consensus that captured CO2 will need to travel freely around the region.

PIK: Groundbreaking evaluation of climate policy measures over two decades

This unprecedented study provides a detailed impact analysis of the wide range of climate policy measures implemented over the last two decades. The findings reveal a sobering reality: many policy measures have failed to achieve the necessary scale of emission reductions.