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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.
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Letter to EU Commission on sustainable carbon cycles
Carbon removals cannot replace real cuts to actual greenhouse gas emissions.
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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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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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Activists colour EU Parliament green to expose greenwashing of farming reform
Fourteen activists from Greenpeace Belgium covered the entrance of the European Parliament in Brussels in green-coloured water, accusing the politicians inside the building negotiating the EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP) of greenwashing. Two climbers also scaled the platform over the main door and unfurled a banner reading “Stop Greenwashing European Farming”.
