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EIB’s climate promises go up in flames
Brussels – The European Investment Bank (EIB) board of directors approved a climate roadmap for 2021-2025 that fails to require all companies and intermediaries receiving funding to adopt adequate decarbonisation…
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Withdraw CAP proposal to save EU green deal, NGOs tell Commission president
Leading environmental NGOs have written to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to call on her to withdraw the Commission's proposal on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to safeguard the European green deal.
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EU Parliament backs strong law to protect forests
The European Parliament has voted to call for a strong law which would go a long way towards ending the EU’s complicity in deforestation, ecosystem…
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Letter to Werner Hoyer, president of the European Investment Bank, on the loan for the extension of the A49 motorway
Greenpeace sent a letter to the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) president asking to cancel the bank’s €264 million loan (signed in September) to fund the extension of the A49 motorway…
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ECB’s purchasing policies skewed towards carbon-intensive industries – report
Brussels/Frankfurt - A new report reveals how the ECB’s proclaimed "market neutrality" policy actually skews the bank’s corporate bond purchases in favor of carbon intensive industries. Decarbonising Is Easy: Beyond Market Neutrality in the ECB’s Corporate QE was published by the New Economics Foundation, SOAS University of London, the University of the West of England,…
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False sense of security
The global Covid-19 crisis has given us the opportunity to rethink how and where we produce what we consume.
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All bark, no bite: EU Commission’s rule of law report, Greenpeace
Brussels, 30 September 2020 – The European Commission has stopped short of recommending sanctions for EU governments guilty of a list of breaches of the rule of law documented in a new report it released today, said Greenpeace.
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1.5°C is the limit! Activists urge EU ministers to raise climate target without accounting tricks
Berlin - Ten Greenpeace activists greeted EU environment ministers arriving for a meeting in Berlin with a four-metre high image of a burning planet and the words: “1.5°C is the limit!”. The protesters called on ministers to take climate science seriously and back a 65% cut in EU greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
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“Inadequate and irresponsible”: NGO analysis of EU Commission’s 2030 climate plan
Analysis by eight leading green NGOs.
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Locking down critical voices
To protect public health, governments have adopted measures that radically change the way we live. Temporary restrictions on certain freedoms may be necessary to save lives and protect at-risk groups.…
