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5 reasons why burning trees for energy is bad for climate, people and nature
Have you heard about the latest fake climate solutions that our policy makers are pushing? Burning wood as ‘renewable energy’ is being sold to us as a sustainable practice. In…
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EU renewables rules destroying Estonia’s forests
EU rules and national subsidy schemes that encourage the use of wood pellets to meet renewable energy targets are driving the destruction and degradation of forests
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Wood Pellet Damage: renewable subsidies wrecking forests
New research shows how burning wood as “renewable bioenergy” is not as sustainable as the EU’s climate and energy policies assert it to be.
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Does the new EU farm policy measure up?
The new EU farm policy is strikingly similar to the previous one which failed to deliver environmental improvements.
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Fake green deal reached on EU farm plan
Brussels – The promised green reform of the EU’s common agricultural policy has amounted to nothing but greenwashing, and is a disaster for the climate, nature and small farms, said…
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Invisible methane leakages all over Europe fuelling the climate crisis
Alarming new images of significant and unaddressed methane leaks taken in seven European countries reveal industry negligence, regulatory ignorance, and a hidden climate disaster, writes Silvia Pastorelli.
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Forest-wrecking industries try to sabotage new EU forest law
Brussels – Companies profiting from the sale of products linked to forest destruction, and their lobby groups, are trying to undermine a draft EU law to limit the impact of…
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Sabotage: how companies lobby against EU protection for the world’s forests
The European Union is a major consumer and financier of products from global forest and ecosystem destruction.
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Legal analysis finds ECB and Bundesbank cannot dodge climate action
A new legal analysis commissioned by Greenpeace Germany reveals that Europe's central banks are obliged to take climate action and include climate criteria in monetary policy. The study, issued ahead of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) governing council's unofficial weekend retreat on climate change, finds that climate protection is not optional for the European System…
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Legal opinion: Legal options for implementing climate criteria in the monetary policy of the European Central Bank
In the context of the ongoing European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) strategy review, the demand for a new, Paris-compliant or climate-resilient monetary policy has led to controversial debates in professional circles. Economists and representatives of national central banks, in particular the Bundesbank, expressed serious concerns as to whether the consideration of climate protection criteria was covered…