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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
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The EU must not use forests to offset climate inaction
Forest restoration must not be used to offset climate inaction in the agriculture, energy, housing, industrial and transport sectors.
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European recovery plans must be green
We wrote to EU environment ministers urging them to ensure that the Recovery and Resilience Plans they are negotiating with the European Commission:
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The EU must not rely on certification schemes to protect nature
We wrote to European Commission Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans and European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius asking them to introduce a strong EU law to keep products linked to destruction of forests…
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EU fiscal framework must promote green jobs
The EU institutions have promised a green recovery from the COVID pandemic. However, this will never be achieved if the fiscal rules of the EU continue to impose austerity measures…
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Withdraw CAP proposal to save EU green deal, NGOs tell Commission president
Leading environmental NGOs have written to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to call on her to withdraw the Commission's proposal on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to safeguard the European green deal.
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Letter to MEPs on excluding fossil fuels from the Recovery and Resilience Facility
The Green 10 – the ten largest environmental networks in Europe – have called on the European Parliament to exclude fossil fuels from the EU recovery fund, the Recovery and…
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Letter to Werner Hoyer, president of the European Investment Bank, on the loan for the extension of the A49 motorway
Greenpeace sent a letter to the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) president asking to cancel the bank’s €264 million loan (signed in September) to fund the extension of the A49 motorway…
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Letter to Commissioner Kyriakides on open-source detection test for first commercialized gene-edited plant ready for integration in routine EU GMO controls
Greenpeace, on behalf of ARGE Gentechnik-frei (Austria), IFOAM Organics Europe and VLOG – Association Food without Genetic Engineering (Germany), wrote to the European Commission to inform about the successful development…
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Letter to Commissioners Sinkevičius and Kyriakides on gene drives
More than 80 organisations from all over Europe are calling on the European Commission to outlaw the release of so-called Gene Drive Organisms in the EU and internationally.