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How Europe’s transport system can tackle the energy and climate crises
This coming winter, Europe will face a major test, juggling an imminent threat of financial hardship and poverty for many households, due to skyrocketing energy prices, and the need to…
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EU parliament votes to take forest destruction off supermarket shelves
The European Parliament has voted in favour of a strong new EU anti-deforestation law, which would for the first time ban products linked to the destruction of forests and human rights violations.
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EU energy crisis plans: too little, too late
EU governments finally seem set to act on high energy prices. Any measures they decide must protect the most vulnerable while slashing energy waste and shifting away from fossil fuels.
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“Winter plan” fails to meet fair energy reduction needs and neglects climate targets
The European Commission’s “winter preparedness” proposal published today fails to deliver a fair energy demand reduction strategy, taking into account people’s long-term clean energy needs, says Greenpeace.
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Forests protected, but other nature must wait
The European Parliament’s environment committee has greatly improved the proposed protection for forests in the draft EU law on deforestation-free products, but has left other threatened ecosystems like…
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Tracing forest destruction and human rights abuse
On 17 November 2021, the European Commissionpublished a draft law to address the EU’s contributionto global deforestation and forest degradation. In recentdecades, forests have been cleared and degraded at anaccelerating…
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Taxonomy: Greenpeace announces legal challenge as MEPs fail to block gas and nuclear
Brussels – Greenpeace has announced it will take legal action against the European Commission over the inclusion of fossil gas and nuclear energy in the EU’s list of sustainable investments,…
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Taxonomy: Ukrainian energy minister contradicts President Zelensky, Ukrainian MPs
Strasbourg – Today the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy sent a letter to Members of the European Parliament supporting the inclusion of fossil gas and nuclear energy in the EU’s list…
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2035 ban on oil-burning cars too late for 1.5°C climate target
Brussels, 29 June 2022 – EU governments patched up a deal to end the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines, but the 2035 deadline is too late to…
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Environment ministers take a chainsaw to EU forest law
European environment ministers have severely weakened the upcoming EU law to protect the world’s forests from European consumption, according to Greenpeace. The ministers’ proposed changes to the draft law that…
