This press release was updated on 19 December 2025 to include the link to the text of the provisional agreement on the amendment to the European climate law The Council presidency and the European ...

Right now, an estimated 130 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year. By 2040, that number will jump to 280 million metric tons—about a garbage ...

Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at ...

Global oil demand is projected to grow through at least 2040, driven by rising energy needs and ongoing challenges in scaling low-carbon technology and infrastructure, analysts at Goldman Sachs said ...

Lawmakers approved proposals to slightly weaken EU carbon emissions targets for 2040. Another vote on corporate supply chain standards was even more contentious as it ...

Today, the Council has reached an agreement on amending the European climate law (ECL), introducing a binding intermediate climate target for 2040 of a 90% reduction in net greenhouse gas (GHG) ...

BRUSSELS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - EU countries' climate ministers approved on Wednesday a 2040 climate change target to cut emissions by 90%, but with flexibilities to weaken this aim. In a public vote, ...

European Union member states clinched a preliminary deal to reduce emissions by 90% through 2040 compared with 1990 levels, a move that bolsters the bloc’s climate leadership credentials ahead of the ...

BRUSSELS, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The European Union is considering a brake clause to weaken its 2040 climate target in the future, if it becomes clear countries' forests are not absorbing enough CO2 ...

A computer simulation developed at MIT and commissioned by the Club of Rome in the early 1970s projected a possible collapse of civilization around 2040—if growth, resources and pollution trends ...

Germany sided with France to elevate discussions on the European Union’s 2040 climate goal to heads of government, delaying a vote on the proposal amid increasing concerns about its impact on ...

In the year 2040, Germany will celebrate 50 years of reunification, Bobby Bonilla will be off the Mets' books and Liberty and James Madison will play a football game. That's according to a Wednesday ...