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Taxonomy greenwashing: activists cover Macron portraits in oil ahead of speech to MEPs
Activists at the European Parliament plunged official portraits of Emmanuel Macron in fake crude oil to denounce the French president’s “climate sabotage.”
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How to make Europe’s cities more liveable for people – not cars
To achieve deep and permanent cuts in air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, cars must become the exception in cities, not the rule. Bold political action will be needed at…
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50 NGOs call on EU Commission to stop funding meat and dairy ads
Fifty NGOs wrote to the European Commission to take into account the adverse effects of the current levels ofmeat and dairy production and consumption on the climate, biodiversity, and public…
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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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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…
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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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The EU Renewable Energy Directive recast
The European Union’s (EU) Renewable Energy Directive has had a devastating effect on forests, but is now being amended aspart of the European Green Deal. This is a major opportunity…
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EU governments overlook root causes of pandemic and climate crisis
Plans discussed at an EU summit in Brussels to tackle the pandemic will again ignore the role of climate change and habitat destruction in the emergence and spread of viral infections like Covid-19. Similarly, measures to respond to the climate crisis will duck the question of the inadequacy of the EU’s target according to science,…
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Enjoy! It’s feeding the climate crisis
The EU bankrolls ads for meat and dairy, even as science unequivocally recommends a significant reduction in meat and dairy consumption and a shift to eating more fruit and vegetables.
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Joint NGO briefing on EU forest & ecosystem law
The European Commission has committed to publish in June 2021 its long-awaited legislative proposal to minimise the risk of deforestation and forest degradation associated with products placed on the European
