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Danes went to the polls on Tuesday (1 November) with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen hoping for a vote of confidence in her handling of the pandemic and for her leadership to overcome soaring inflation and geopolitical insecurity.

The United States and the United Arab Emirates (UEA) signed on Tuesday a partnership expected to attract $100 billion in investment in clean energy projects worldwide, the White House said today.

The victory on Sunday (31 October) of Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva in Brazil’s presidential election has raised environmentalists’ hopes that the Amazon rainforest will be protected from ranchers, illegal loggers and gold miners.

The premier highlighted that in the background of this unfolding global scenario, the salience of the China-Pakistan strategic partnership has increased manifold.

The German government is looking to table a sweeping climate emergency programme to address the country’s shortcomings ahead of COP27 in Egypt, internal documents seen by EURACTIV show.

Plans to build a new atomic plant near the decommissioned nuclear power station Barsebäck are taking shape in Scania, southern Sweden – a site just over 20 km across the Øresund from Copenhagen.

Scientists around the world are making the effort to answer the biggest challenges faced by humankind in the 21st century – and Slovak science is a part of it.

Many cities in the world face increasing threats due to climate change, including heavy rainfalls and extreme heat.

The European Union signed an agreement with Egypt on Sunday (30 October) for the first phase of a €80 million border management programme, a statement from the EU delegation in Cairo said, at a time when Egyptian migration to Europe has been rising.