The US president says Europe’s energy bill to Russia exceeds its spending on Ukraine. Euroverify investigates. #EuroVerify

The European Commission aims to accelerate demand for electric vehicles (EVs) in corporate fleets with an emphasis on ending tax breaks for petrol or diesel-powered company cars, according to a draft paper to be published on Wednesday.

The CREA said that despite sanctions imposed on Russian energy to curb its military machine, EU imports of fossil fuels from the country are largely unchanged with a six percent year-on-year drop in value but only a 1 percent year-on-year drop in volumes.

The European Union spent $23 billion on Russian oil and gas last year while only offering Ukraine $19.6 billion in military aid to fend off Russia's invasion.

The EU paid 21.9 billion euros ($22.9 billion) for Russian fossil fuel imports in the third year of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, just a 1% year-on-year drop in volumes, according to a new report by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) published on Feb.

Plans due to be published by the European Commission on Wednesday could shave 45 billion euros ($47.3 billion) off the EU's fossil fuel import bill this year, according to the EU executive's analysis.

Crea's Vaibhav Raghunandan said purchasing Russian fossil fuels is "akin to sending financial aid to the Kremlin and enabling its invasion".

The European Commission published its most coherent and comprehensive clean energy wish list ever- the Clean Industrial Deal (CID). It’s aggressive but, at the same time, lacks the alarmist rhetoric that the United

Europe's coal-age, industrial dinosaurs are getting fitted-out for the future. Take the Czech Republic, for example: The Prague government has promised to phase-out coal-fired power generation by the year 2033.

COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago defended climate multilateralism and called for cooperation in his first address at the UN

Drawing from an InfluenceMap database that tracks corporate engagement on climate policies, researchers found that fossil fuel companies and their trade associations have used similar lobbying tactics across countries,

The EU executive will announce its auto industry ... eliminating distorting subsidies for fossil fuelled vehicles is instrumental," it says. The draft paper states that the Commission will propose ...