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Despite high visibility advertising campaigns and support from certain political spheres, the numbers on the ground show that the nuclear industry is in the midst of a slow but inexorable decline. Even the most favourable projections predict that...

The EU Civil Society Contact Group (CSCG) brings together eight large NGO sectors - culture, environment, education, development, human rights, public health, social and women. The members of these sectoral platforms are European NGO networks.

Nine page briefing

The study finds that electric vehicles can in principle substantially contribute to decarbonising road passenger transport. However, increasing the number of electric vehicles without a change in current legislation could result in: an increase...

Contrary to the trends in most other sectors, greenhouse gas emissions of the transport sector are still increasing, and are predicted to grow further in the coming years, at current policies. As there is no simple solution to the challenge of...

EU letter to the UN climate secretariat on EU emissions reduction pledges for 2020 under the Copenhagen accord.

This document is Greenpeace's interim assessment of the Copenhagen Accord, the outcome of the UN Copenhagan climate conference which took place over two weeks in December 2009. The conference gathered together world leaders who failed to produce...