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WATCH | Tackling climate change in 60 seconds or less

Welcome to the film festival where the only rules are "one mobile, one minute, one film".

4 December 2019

Spain

COP25 Day 3: Activists call for big polluters to pay more

A small group of demonstrators today displayed banners asking "big polluters" to pay society for the damage they are doing to the planet. The protest took place on Wednesday morning.

4 December 2019

World News

EU failing to meet climate change commitments, new report finds

"Many of the targets that we set for ourselves for 2020 will not be reached," said Hans Bruyninckx, the Executive Director of the European Environment Agency

4 December 2019

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Greta Thunberg heading to COP25 in Madrid after crossing Atlantic on catamaran

Thunberg missed last Friday's climate strike as heavy winds delayed her arrival in Lisbon but she is due to join thousands of activists marching in Madrid on Friday.

3 December 2019

Spain

COP25: Cities claim their role in fighting climate change

The role of cities, the health risks caused by climate change and the critics to Madrid's mayor from indigenous leaders were some of the hot topics on the second day of COP25.

3 December 2019

Portugal

Greta Thunberg arrives in Lisbon after Atlantic crossing

"People are underestimating the force of angry kids," Thunberg told a crowd of reporters and supporters. "They're angry and frustrated."

3 December 2019

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'Their future': Extinction Rebellion mothers demand action on climate

Demonstrators called for politicians to take action on climate change in order to preserve "basic human needs" for their children.

2 December 2019

Switzerland

Slide to compare: melting glaciers change the face of Switzerland

Before and after: see how Swiss glaciers have shrunk dramatically across 150 years

2 December 2019

Hungary

Hungarian rapper calls for climate action in his latest hit

The call to arms for the climate emergency has penetrated politics and is now heading into rap. Watch Hungary's influential artist Áron Molnár in his new video.

2 December 2019

Spain

COP25: UN Sec-Gen says planet is 'close to a point of no return'

The Climate Summit, which should lay the bases for a new phase of climate action, starts today in Madrid. #COP25 is the last UN climate meeting before 2020, when many nations must submit new action plans.

2 December 2019

World News

COP25: Are countries implementing their Paris agreement pledges?

Ahead of the COP25 climate conference in Madrid, Euronews looks at the national pledges of the Paris agreement signatories and tracks their progress.

2 December 2019

World News

COP25: A timeline of global climate change negotiations

Here's a history of major global events in climate change decisions, treaties and negotiations from 1951 to 2019.

2 December 2019

United Kingdom

No chill: PM Johnson replaced by melting ice at green election debate

Britain’s increasingly rancorous election campaign took a bizarre turn when Boris Johnson refused to join other leaders in a debate on climate change.

28 November 2019

World News

Euroviews. Targeting environmental activists with counterterrorism measures is an abuse of the law ǀ View

Protecting the endangered Asiatic cheetah. Tweeting a satirical poem. Attending a climate conference. Campaigning against a power plant. These actions hardly conjure images of suicide bombers or coup plotters. Yet, they have been labelled “eco-terrorism,” “extremism,” “threats to national security".

28 November 2019

World

MEPs back 'climate emergency' resolution to up Europe's game

It's official - it's a climate emergency. At least according to the EU.

28 November 2019

Europe News

The Brief: Europeans rate incoming Commission's priorities for VDL era

Euronews took to the streets of Brussels to ask people to rate the incoming Commission's priorities for the first one hundred days in office.

28 November 2019

Earth News

Cara Delevingne and Kate Moss in star-studded campaign to save ocean

In the Project Zero video, celebrities talk about the important role the ocean plays in fighting climate change.

27 November 2019

United Kingdom

Euroviews. The enduring power of the hunger strike ǀ View

In 2009, some friends came up with a campaigning idea so terrifying that we immediately put it on a shelf where it remained for a decade gathering dust. The idea was to use digital tools and social media to harness the power of the hunger strike on a massive scale.

26 November 2019

World

'Mobilisation on World War Two scale needed to achieve climate target'

A climate politics expert has told Euronews that mobilisation on the level of World War Two is required to fulfil the Paris Climate Agreement's minimum target.

26 November 2019

Europe News

The Brief: MEPs' choice: politicians rate incoming European Commission's priorities

In Strasbourg, MEPs voiced their opinions on what they believed to be the most important priority of the incoming Commission.

26 November 2019