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Romania’s top polluter seeks €1.3 billion EU bailout for more coal & gas
The Romanian government’s proposal for CE Oltenia’s restructuring is a test of the European Commission’s commitment to align state aid with the European Green Deal. Approving CE Oltenia’s current restructuring plan would lock Romania into fossil fuels for decades and hinder a meaningful just transition plan for the communities in Gorj County.
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EU governments overlook root causes of pandemic and climate crisis
Plans discussed at an EU summit in Brussels to tackle the pandemic will again ignore the role of climate change and habitat destruction in the emergence and spread of viral infections like Covid-19. Similarly, measures to respond to the climate crisis will duck the question of the inadequacy of the EU’s target according to science,…
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NGOs demand shift from air and road travel to rail
Delivering on the European Year of Rail 2021. Letter from 36 environmental groups to EU transport ministers.
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EU taxonomy: Commission backs ‘green’ investments for burning trees
The European Commission has greenwashed green investment rules published today under the EU’s so-called EU taxonomy, said Greenpeace.
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EU agrees hollow climate law
Under pressure to take part in a climate summit hosted by US president Joe Biden on Thursday with a wrapped up climate law, the EU has agreed an emissions reduction target for 2030 that falls well short of what science requires to stop catastrophic climate breakdown.
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Nuclear industry ties call EU research body’s impartiality into question
In March 2020, the Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG) established by the European Commission recommended excluding nuclear power from the green taxonomy, a European classification of low-carbon and…
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European Year of Rail: five steps to put trains back on track
Environmental groups called for urgent and concrete action to trigger a rail renaissance and accelerate a shift from air and road travel to trains, as the European Union prepares to launch the European Year of Rail on Monday.
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Letter: triggering a rail renaissance for Europe
Open letter by Greenpeace, 2CELSIUS, Back on Track, the European Network to Promote Cross Border Night Trains, Germanwatch, eco union, Instytut Spraw Obywatelskich, Natuur & Milieu, and Réseau Action Climat.
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Putting Europe back on track
Underinvestment in Europe’s existing railway infrastructure is already one of the greatest constraints for the rail sector. Misdirecting Covid recovery funding could make this problem insurmountable. Governments and public authorities must prioritise investment in the railways, boost international cooperation and ensure everyone has access. The European Year of Rail must be a turning point and…
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EU must not label gas as green
Along with 225 scientists, finance experts and NGOs, we wrote to the European Commission to criticise their draft rulebook for sustainable finance, which suggests that fossil gas does no harm to the environment