Business 

Energy taxation – too complex to do good?

Designing common fiscal reforms for business to become greener could prove impossible.

Spain facing court over Endesa case

European Commission threatening to take Madrid to the European Court of Justice.

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Climate change 

Developing smarter ways to combat climate change

Smart technology uses lots of energy – but it can be deployed to save it, too.

Do manufacturers lack drive for greener cars?

A UK expert on greener vehicles has no sympathy for foot-dragging carmakers.

Climate change 

Greece secures dubious climate-change first

Greece faces EU sanctions after it becomes the first country to be suspended from the UN's carbon-trading scheme.

How to create a future for biofuels

Liquid biofuels – ethanol and ‘biodiesel' – have captured the worldwide and European fascination as renewable energy for the transport sector, but the tide seems to be turning now that people are realising the inherent challenges of leaping into a liquid biofuels policy in the absence of adequate consideration of the down-stream results.

The formula for independence

The first head of the EU chemicals agency is under pressure to prove his independence.

Transport 

US, EU begin fresh ‘open skies' talks

Second phase of liberalisation talks focuses on mergers and aligning rules governing the US and EU aviation markets.

Commission calls a halt to noisy tyres

Tyre firms say targets are 'technically unfeasible"; proposal will also cover braking systems.

Satellites of (institutional) change

Galileo's new-found status as an EU-funded project has brought changes to the institutional structures charged with its oversight.