Jill Duggan’s road to becoming the Executive Director of Environmental Defense Fund Europe has been anything but linear. Academia, business, non-profit, government – you name it, she’s done it.

As we at Environmental Defense Fund Europe celebrate International Women's Day, we asked Jill to reflect on her own professional life. She shares four realizations that she hopes will help women move further, faster.

Shipping companies are crying foul over EU plans to regulate the sector’s emissions. But the industry’s claim that new rules would break international law has no legal basis, write Faïg Abbasov and Aoife O’Leary.

Our shipping expert Marie Hubatova takes part in Bunkerspot's 2020 annual reflection of shipping and shares her views and hopes for the coming year. 

Marie Cabbia Hubatova from Environmental Defense Fund

Europe marks her report card for IMO’s climate meetings

and argues there is still considerable room for improvement

An inquest into the cause of 9-year old Ella Roberta Adoo Kissi-Debrah’s death concluded today, with the ruling that dangerously high levels of air pollution in London made a “material contribution” and will be recorded as a medical cause of her death in 2013. 

The European Council took a crucial decision today to reduce the EU’s emissions at least 55% by 2030 relative to 1990 levels, the level necessary to put the EU on a path to climate neutrality by 2050. The decision came the day before the five year anniversary of the Paris climate agreement. 

Environmental Defense Fund Europe is delighted to welcome Andrea Monge, Chief Executive Officer of Rebold and Chief Operating Officer of ISP Holdings, and Ravi Gurumurthy, Chief Executive Officer of Nesta, as new board trustees.

Environmental Defense Fund Europe welcomes the United Kingdom’s announcement of its climate commitment under the Paris Agreement to reduce its emissions by at least 68% by 2030 relative to 1990 levels. 

The UK Government announced a target date of 2030 by which to phase out the sale of polluting fossil-fueled cars and vans, as part of a 10-point plan for a green recovery.