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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…
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Taxonomy: Putin and polluters lose key vote in EU Parliament
Two key European Parliament committees have voted to cut off a vital flow of cash for Putin’s war machine by rejecting the European Commission’s controversial plan to give fossil gas
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Reduce EU meat factory farming to replace Ukraine’s wheat
Brussels – An 8% reduction in the use of cereals for animal feed in the EU would save enough wheat to make up for the expected deficit in Ukraine as…
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110+ NGOs demand improvements to EU anti-deforestation plan
Over 110 environmental, human rights and other civil society organisations have called on the European Parliament and EU national governments to greatly improve upon the European Commission's proposed law to cut the EU's contribution to global forest destruction.
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Analysis: EU Commission’s proposed anti-deforestation law
Forests are essential for life on earth. Despite this, forests have been cleared and degraded at an accelerating rate in recent decades mainly due to agricultural expansion, illegal or unsustainable…
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14 protests across EU ask ministers to stop forest destruction
"Around the world, an area of forest the size of a football pitch is destroyed faster than even the best player could kick a ball across it"
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Taxonomy: inclusion of nuclear and gas is “attempted robbery” – Greenpeace
The plan would cause billions of euro to flow away from clean energy like renewables and instead go to nuclear energy and fossil gas, accelerating the climate crisis.
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EU Commission’s taxonomy plan is “licence to greenwash”
The European Commission intends to label certain fossil gas and nuclear activities as “sustainable” investments in the EU’s taxonomy of green economic activities, according to a draft communication released late on 31 December 2021.
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Letter to EU Commission on upcoming hydrogen and gas package
NGOs call for revisions to the proposed gas market reform to bring it into line with the EU's climate and energy commitments.
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Two-thirds of EU’s military missions help secure oil and gas imports, research
Almost two-thirds of all EU military missions monitor and secure the production and transport of oil and gas to Europe. Italy, Spain and Germany have invested more than €4 billion to protect climate-damaging fossil fuels since 2018, according to research by Greenpeace Italy, Greenpeace Spain and Greenpeace Germany.
