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EU must back affordable, cosy homes – not serve property developers
The EU’s housing strategy, proposed by the European Commission today, must focus on affordability for people to live, not simply free up property developers to boost their business, Greenpeace has warned.
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Right-wing MEPs have made a mess of the EU deforestation law
Creating uncertainty and calling it “simplification”
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EU Parliament backs governments’ botched climate target
Brussels – The European Parliament has voted for a 2040 climate target that fails to cut pollution enough to fulfil the EU’s responsibility to tackle the climate crisis, Greenpeace has…
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EU Commission backs weakening of EU deforestation law
The European Commission has announced a plan to amend the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) to weaken reporting requirements for EU traders (a category that includes manufacturers and retailers, regardless of their size) and small and micro companies that produce commodities and products in the scope of the law.
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EU Commission must not delay forest protections
One tree is lost ever second due to EU consumption of products that put forests at risk. The European Commission must not further delay the EU's deforestation regulation – it is the best tool to end Europe's complicity in the destruction of the world's forests.
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EU court rules Hungary’s funding of Paks nuclear plant illegal
The EU’s highest court has ruled that Hungary’s public funding of a nuclear power plant, after awarding the contract to the Russian state nuclear corporation, was illegal. The…
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EU climate target: dodgy accounting and offshore carbon laundering
Brussels – The European Commission’s proposed climate target for 2040 falls short of what its own climate scientists advised, amounting to a 90% cut in carbon pollution on paper alone,…
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Greenpeace urges Polish EU presidency to lead rapid ratification of Global Ocean Treaty
Activists greeted guests at an event on Tuesday night inaugurating the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union in Brussels with an urgent call for EU governments to accelerate ratification of the Global Ocean Treaty.
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225 global groups say “Hands off the EU deforestation regulation!”
Global civil society groups urge the European Parliament and national EU governments to vote down the plan to delay the EU's deforestation law by one year
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EU finance ministers let big polluters off the hook
EU finance ministers agreed that public funding is critical to support developing countries facing climate breakdown, but failed to mention the responsibility of the fossil fuel industry and other big polluters to pay up for their role in driving the climate crisis.
