EU members agree to cut emissions by 90% by 2040 from 1990 levelsThe European Union has set a new climate goal. Emissions will be cut by 90 percent by 2040. This target is from 1990 levels. Foreign carbon...
10 Dec, 2025, 06.27 AM IST
How India-EU FTA could be a catalyst for green transition, amid trade chaosThe newly endorsed EU–India Strategic Agenda has elevated the partnership between the world’s largest democracy and Europe’s economic power...
21 Nov, 2025, 10.51 PM IST
Steelmakers' emission targets under reviewA compliance mechanism of the scheme was also approved with greenhouse gases emission intensity (GEI) targets obligated across 253 aluminiu...
19 Nov, 2025, 11.33 PM IST
EU agrees weakened climate target in final-hour deal as COP30 summit loomsEuropean Union climate ministers have agreed on a 2040 emissions reduction target. The goal is to cut emissions by 90 percent from 1990 lev...
05 Nov, 2025, 02.51 PM IST
Greet Europe with Car'bon' Jour: Turning CBAM from trade barrier to green opportunity for IndiaThe European Union's carbon tax on imports poses challenges for India's trade. India and EU are negotiating a free trade agreement. The car...
11 Jul, 2025, 11.02 PM IST
'India is EU's key ally on climate amid geopolitical turbulence'The European Union views India as a crucial ally amid current geopolitical challenges, emphasizing collaboration on renewables, batteries, ...
03 Mar, 2025, 12.15 AM IST
Carbon tax proposed by EU unilateral, arbitrary to hurt India's export: FM SitharamanFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman criticizes the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), calling it unilateral and arbitrary. CBA...
09 Oct, 2024, 07.08 PM IST
EU carbon tax to hurt global trade, not to stop carbon leakage, says think tankThe think tank in its report claimed that the real reasons the EU introduced CBAM are to protect uncompetitive local industries from cheape...
10 Dec, 2023, 10.59 AM IST
Europe’s war on carbon goes global as border tax comes into playThe mechanism has already faced pushback from the EU’s major trading partners including Russia and China, who argue that it undermines the ...
02 Oct, 2023, 11.05 AM IST
Stay on your toes for carbon footprintsPricing carbon is an effective and equitable option. India will have to do this through an administered carbon price or tax, and a market-d...
25 Sep, 2023, 11.31 PM IST
European Commission urges G20 countries to set ambitious climate targets for 2030European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen emphasized the need to address climate change urgently, noting that G20 nations are resp...
09 Sep, 2023, 04.16 PM IST
View: The new carbon tax that's less likely to cut emission & more likely to cause trade warThe Unctad report also warns the EU about the trade consequences of CBAM: if the EU implements CBAM with a price of $44 per ton of embedded...
26 Jul, 2021, 12.55 PM IST
European Union, greenhouse gas, WTO, carbon border adjustment mechanism, bam-bamCBAM is what will kindle most debate. Imports, initially in the cement, aluminium, iron and steel, fertiliser and electricity sectors, will...
18 Jul, 2021, 11.40 PM IST
Will not hesitate to take measures to protect competitiveness of industries: EUEU leaders are set to discuss the European Green Deal, a plan that will commit member states to reduce their net greenhouse gas emissions t...
11 Dec, 2019, 01.58 PM IST
China, EU & US to use 28% of global carbon space by 2030Amid these concerns, climate change adaptation needs to be central to any global climate deal likely to be signed in Paris later this week,...
07 Dec, 2015, 10.40 PM IST
EU's carbon tax will make it hard for global aviation and trade to recoverIndia's decision to fight the European Union's impending carbon aviation tax highlights the politics of linkage between climate change and ...
12 Jul, 2012, 04.55 AM IST
- US breaks ranks, moots global carbon tax system
In what could make the trade battle over EU’s carbon tax on aviation more complicated for India, the US has suggested that countries adopt ...
10 Jul, 2012, 12.45 AM IST