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Activists to protest nuclear fairy tales at Brussels summit
More than 600 organisations worldwide sign new anti-nuclear declaration for “Safe, affordable and climate-friendly energy for all”.
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EU woefully unprepared for extreme weather
The European Environment Agency today published its first-ever European Climate Risk Assessment, containing stark warnings about catastrophic and urgent dangers from a warming planet. The European Commission
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Letter: EU cannot ignore nature-based water resilience
European Commission must urgently put nature-based EU water resilience initiative back on the agenda, says broad coalition of 28organisations in an open letter.
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Activists confront politicians and lobbyists responsible for farmers’ hardships
Big food companies make monster profits at the expense of most farmers, consumers and nature
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Regulate fossil fuel lobbyists like tobacco, experts tell EU Parliament
Brussels – Oil, gas and coal lobbyists should be kept at arm's length from policy making, just like tobacco lobbyists, the European Parliament heard today in
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More misery for farmers as EU Parliament endorses draft law to deregulate GMOs
Brussels - The European Parliament (EP) has endorsed a controversial European Commission plan that exempts many new genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from current safety rules, ignoring critical science, and farmer and consumer rights.
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EU climate target missing end to fossil fuels
European Commission scraps plans to cut farming emissions and stop subsidising fossil fuels
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EU Parliament holding hearing on tobacco-style controls on fossil fuel lobbyists
European Parliament, Brussels – room ASP1G3 – 14 February, 14:30-16:00
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MEP backing for GMO deregulation threatens rights of farmers
The European Commission proposal on new GMOs, and amendments supported today by the European Parliament’s environment committee, risk violating the rights of farmers and consumers, according to new legal analysis by Greenpeace.
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EU climate science advisors call for end to fossil fuels
Brussels – The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change made a series of recommendations for changes to EU policy needed to cut carbon emissions and avoid catastrophic climate breakdown.
