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Greenpeace reaction to EU environment Council

23 November 2009

European environment ministers met today in Brussels to put the final touches to the EU position going into the Copenhagen climate summit in December. Greenpeace welcomes the statement by the EU Presidency noting that the “EU is moving closer to 30% emission reductions.” However, Greenpeace urges the EU to lead by example and to align its emission reduction target with climate science as soon as possible.

Merkel and Sarkozy throw down climate gauntlet to Obama

19 November 2009

Greenpeace welcomed this evening’s statements by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen on the Copenhagen climate negotiations. Speaking ahead of a EU summit in Brussels, President Sarkozy urged world leaders to deliver “binding rules” and “binding commitments” in Copenhagen in December. Greenpeace fully supports the call to avoid “negative compromises” in Copenhagen.

Greenpeace activists have today deployed two banners on the statue of Columbus in Barcelona. They are identifying the U.S. as guilty of attempts to derail the climate meeting in the city. The banners read "Save the climate" and "Climate Chaos, who is to blame?". Enlarge Image

Christopher Columbus points the finger at US for blocking climate deal

06 November 2009

As the last day of climate talks before the Copenhagen summit drew to a close, Greenpeace attached a banner reading “Climate chaos: who is to blame?” to Barcelona’s iconic statue of Christopher Columbus, which stands at the bottom of the famous “Ramblas” street and points to America.

Greenpeace statement on Merkel speech in US congress and EU-US summit

03 November 2009

In an address to a joint session of the United States (US) congress today that preceded an EU-US summit in Washington, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on the US to tear down the walls of the 21st century, to commit to the goal of staying below a two degrees Celsius global temperature increase and to make binding commitments in the Copenhagen climate negotiations. The US is currently falling behind the rest of the world in the fight against climate change by refusing to make concrete commitments to cut carbon emissions ahead of the global climate conference taking place in Copenhagen in December.

On Wednesday 28 October, Greenpeace activists stopped operations for one of the biggest gantries at a transit point where coal is re-loaded from Russian trains onto Polish trains. Russian coal is burnt in Polish power stations causing CO2 pollution. Greenpeace activists called on Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and other European leaders to show climate solidarity at the EU summit in Brussels and to commit EU climate funding for developing countries. Enlarge Image

EU leaders back global climate funding for developing countries but fail to put their money where their mouth is

30 October 2009

At the EU summit today, European leaders backed funding for climate action in developing countries in preparation of global climate talks in Copenhagen in December. But while Europe has put its weight behind global public funding for the developing world of up to €50 billion per year by 2020, it lacked the nerve to commit to the EU’s share of the funding.

Barroso backtracks on vans legislation

28 October 2009

After months of delay, the European Commission today presented a bitterly disappointing proposal to reduce CO2 emissions from light commercial vehicles. Greenpeace accused the Commission of blatantly ignoring its own decarbonisation strategy.

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