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Report: Farming for Failure
New calculations based on UN FAO data and other peer-reviewed research finds that greenhouse gas emissions from animal farming in the EU account for 17% of the EU’s total emissions, the equivalent of 704 million tonnes of CO2, more than all cars and vans put together. The analysis also shows the scale of possible emissions…
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EU Commission’s 2030 climate plan trying to negotiate with nature, Greenpeace
A European Commission analysis to back up its climate plans for 2030 has revealed an attempt to fudge its target to cut EU-wide emissions by at least 55%, said Greenpeace, warning that the target also falls far short of what science requires to avoid the worst effects of climate breakdown.
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Politics trumps science as von der Leyen fiddles EU climate goal, Greenpeace
Brussels – Ursula von der Leyen has backed a revised EU climate goal at her first ‘state of the union’ speech as president of the European Commission, where she outlined the bloc’s priorities for the next year. But the new Commission target to cut emissions by 55% by 2030 falls far short of the cuts…
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Gene edited crop can’t stand the light of day
by Franziska Achterberg, Greenpeace EU food policy director
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New roadmap to decarbonise European transport by 2040
Brussels – New research, published by Climact and New Climate Institute and commissioned by Greenpeace Belgium, offers a roadmap for decision-makers to decarbonise the European transport sector by 2040, powering…
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New roadmap to decarbonise European transport by 2040
As part of the European Green Deal, the European Commission promised to adopt a strategy for smart and sustainable mobility that “will address the challenge of climate neutrality and tackle…
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Activists hack EU Commission HQ with giant image of Amazon fires
Brussels – Five activists scaling the 14-storey facade of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels hung a 30-metre banner mimicking a hole burned through the building, revealing the Amazon in flames, with the message: “Amazon fires – Europe guilty”.
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MEPs back tougher EU 2030 climate target
Brussels, 10 September 2020 – Members of the European Parliament’s environment committee have voted to speed up EU emission cuts by the end of the decade to help avert catastrophic climate breakdown.
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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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First open source detection test for a gene-edited GM crop
Brussels - Greenpeace, together with other non-governmental organisations, non-GMO food associations and a food retailer, announced that the first-ever public detection method for a gene-edited crop has been successfully developed and published. [1] The new research refutes claims by the biotech industry and some regulators that new genetically modified (GM) crops engineered with gene editing…
