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Out of Balance - industry links in the European Parliament AGRI committee

Publication | May 24, 2018 at 7:00

For 56 years, European farming has been guided by the European Union’s common agricultural policy (CAP) and the subsidies it distributes to European farmers. The CAP currently accounts for almost 40 percent of the EU’s total budget – €59 billion...

Greenpeace advisory on the EU timber regulation - Second reading vote in the EU...

Publication | April 30, 2010 at 0:00

Europe is the world’s largest market for timber products and the EU recognised in 2003 that it needed to take effective action against deforestation and illegal logging. Seven years later, a law to regulate the market and exclude illegal timber...

Cars and CO2 – a ‘loopholes lexicon’ - Background briefing

Publication | September 24, 2008 at 0:00

This Thursday, 25 September, the Parliament’s environment committee will cast its vote on the EU’s first ever legally binding CO2 emission standard for new cars. There is a substantial risk that, ceding to heavy industry pressure, the committee...

MEPs must exercise their democratic power and reject the EU’s ‘effort sharing’ law

Publication | December 16, 2008 at 0:00

Members of the European Parliament voting tomorrow (Wednesday 17 December) in Strasbourg to adopt the EU climate package should reject the current flawed compromise for the effort sharing law.

Briefing on new EU timber law ahead of debates in Council and European Parliament

Publication | January 19, 2009 at 15:06

Greenpeace considers that the EU -one of the world’s largest timber markets- has the duty to reduce and ultimately halt forest destruction, in order to defend biodiversity and reduce carbon emissions. Preserving forests also means protecting the...

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