Can plastic credits fill the hole left by stalled global treaty talks?

Analysis: Is Brussels tearing up EU nature rules through the back door?

What we learned from the European Grids Package

What is at stake with a rollback of the EU’s 2035 combustion engine ban?

Scrapping SCIP: Reducing administrative burden or deregulation by stealth?

‘Major step forward’: The rejected climate case that could still have a significant impact

How capitals that have yet to transpose EU green finance rules are responding to moves in Brussels to gut them

Briefing

Environmental omnibus: What are set to be the most contested elements of the package?

Nine environmental legal cases to track in 2026

EU policy watch: Key green files to follow in 2026

Policy brief: How omnibus I is redrawing sustainability reporting for companies

What the EU’s revised waste rules mean for textiles

Policy brief: What is the EU PFAS restriction proposal and what happens next?

What stakeholders think about plans to certify carbon removal methods

Legislative overview: What is coming up in the remainder of 2025

Policy brief: Unpacking the proposed EU ban on lead ammunition

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Environmental ‘omnibus’:
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SPECIAL REPORT: Who’s ready for the Nature Restoration Law?

With the first key deadlines under the flagship Nature Restoration Law fast approaching the task of implementation begins. But which member states are best prepared for the new law’s requirements?

Preparedness index: The member states most ready for the Nature Restoration Law – and those least prepared

A new leaf: The nature plans that member states must now make – and the challenges that lie ahead

Policy brief: What is the Nature Restoration Law and how does it work?

Nature Restoration Law pioneers: 9 trailblazing approaches to tackling the issues the nature law seeks to address

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Interviews

‘Quick and often dirty’: German environment agency chief on the EU’s omnibuses

Interview: Bio-industry lobby chief on seizing ‘unique’ opportunity for growth

Joint Research Centre head on responding to the EU’s new green priorities

EV lobby chief on moving past internal combustion engines

How the EU’s Ocean Act can boost marine life and livelihoods

What’s next after the collapse of the Forest Monitoring Law?

‘We found it basically everywhere’: PAN Europe head on the emergence of TFA

How the EU can boost extended producer responsibility

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‘Global precedent’: Court orders Dutch government to set binding climate policies

PFAS pollution could cost Europe €1.7 trillion by 2050, Commission study says

EU trade partners warn against plans to label lithium salts as toxic

MEPs question environmental impact of chemicals omnibus

Commission pushes member states to swiftly exit Energy Charter Treaty

Pesticide deregulation drive may breach primary EU law, green groups warn

Multiple pesticide residues found on vast majority of European apples, study says

MEPs clash over proposed flexibilities for the 2035 combustion engine ban

Várhelyi backs delay to EU wastewater rules to allow for ‘proper reflection’

Industry pushes for broader ‘end of waste’ criteria for recycled plastic

Podcast

Ep 9: Polemical chemicals: Why plans to revise REACH have sparked a row

Ep 8: Environment commissioner Jessika Roswall on Europe’s green agenda

Ep 7: BirdLife’s Ariel Brunner on what EU deregulation means for nature

Ep 6: 99 problems (and sewage treatment is one)

Ep 5: Commission’s auto-emission decision plus pesticide PFAS-trophe

Ep 4: So fresh, so clean? Unpacking the EU’s plans for green industry and finance

Ep 3: Commission’s field day and talking trash

Ep 2: Takin’ care of business and EU’s forest monitoring strife

Ep 1: The EU’s omnifuss and mid-LIFE crisis

Monitor

In charts: Europe’s record-breaking year of renewable energy

In charts: Europe’s record-breaking wildfire season

MAPPED: The EU’s 15 cleanest regions, according to the European Commission

The countries with the largest forest areas in the EU – and those where forests are expanding most rapidly

The EU sites where PFOS ‘forever chemical’ concentrations exceed regulatory limits

MAPPED: How poor air quality in Europe is shortening lives – and reducing crop yields

MAPPED: The EU regions leading the way in rail electrification

The European nations which lost the most land to fires in 2023 - and those that lost the least

Lightweight plastic carrier bags: The member states whose residents use the most – and those that use the least

Respiratory disease deaths: The EU nations where air pollution and climate change are costing the most lives

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Why Swiss farmers are taking action against their government – and what it means for climate litigation

As the agricultural sector – one of the biggest contributors to climate change – begins to see the sharp end of its effects, a group of Swiss farmers has taken their government to court for failing to act sufficiently. John Buttanshaw and Harrie Narain, from law firm Travers Smith, discuss the case and whether it will hail a new age of climate litigation

Case studies

How Portugal tackled its plastic bag habit

How researchers are creating alternatives to coatings made from harmful ‘forever chemicals’

How new software is helping to reduce the impact of fish farms

How a broken German river ecosystem was restored

Using plastic waste to tackle ‘forever chemicals’ pollution

How Spain and Portugal are ramping up the fight against wildlife crime

How Portuguese wolves are being brought back from the brink

How a joint Spanish-Swedish project is cleaning up PFAS in groundwater

Why Spain’s coffee-loving cows produce more milk and less methane

Why ground squirrels are making a comeback in Eastern Europe

How an EU-funded project helped communities to secure the future of brown bears

Legal comment

Legal comment: The path forward for restoring Belgium’s water bodies

Legal comment: Why the EU must close the ‘regulatory gaps’ in its carbon border tax

Habitats Regulations: How the Commission convinced the ECJ that Germany was guilty of habitual failures

Legal comment: New EU anti-greenwashing law will not create more red tape

Legal comment: Why the ECJ halted operations at one of Europe’s largest steel plants

Legal comment: How far will EU enforcement go on nitrates pollution and is reform likely?

Legal comment: Why the European Court upheld one complaint against Bulgaria but dismissed three others

Legal Comment: Is the Swiss women's court victory the next step in European climate litigation?

Legal comment: The INEOS ruling and the influence of public authorities on policy change

Legal comment: What a Romanian coal plant case tells us about ‘effective’ penalties in EU environmental law

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Environmental ‘omnibus’: The implications of the EU’s great green simplification drive

The ENDS Europe Member StateMonitor

Policy Development Tracker

Monitor every EU green policy from inception to completion

Environmental ‘omnibus’:
The implications of the
EU’s great green
simplification drive

The ENDS Europe
Member State
Monitor

Monitor every EU green policy
from inception to completion