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Report: EU spent €252 million advertising meat and dairy
Europeans consume around twice as much meat as the global average, and about three times as much dairy. To protect public health and nature, and to tackle the climate emergency,…
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Paragliding activists land on ECB to expose support for fossil fuels
Brussels/Frankfurt – Activists on paragliders landed on the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt on Wednesday, on the eve of a meeting of the ECB’s governing board, to protest its climate-killing monetary policy. The protest comes in the wake of a new report revealing how the rules governing which assets private banks…
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The hypocrisy of the fossil fuel industry’s “genderwashing”
Climate breakdown and pollution hurt women more, but fossil fuel companies use International Women's Day as a branding exercise.
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EU Commission sleight of hand keeps money flowing to dirty gas
The European Commission’s proposed update of the rules for Europe’s energy networks leaves the dominant role of the gas industry untouched and public money still flowing to dirty gas
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Study: EU forests could absorb twice as much CO2
Brussels – If managed differently, the EU’s forests could absorb twice as much CO2 every year, according to new research by Naturwald Akademie. [1] The study, commissioned…
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The European Commission must stop flying into climate crisis
Brussels – A new study published by the European Commission on the non-CO2 impacts of aviation on the climate crisis confirms that the non-CO2 impacts of air…
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Letter to MEPs on excluding fossil fuels from the Recovery and Resilience Facility
The Green 10 – the ten largest environmental networks in Europe – have called on the European Parliament to exclude fossil fuels from the EU recovery fund, the Recovery and…
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EU Parliament signs death sentence for small farms and nature, Greenpeace
Brussels, 20 October 2020 – A vote on the EU’s common agricultural policy by the European Parliament plenary session is a signature on the death sentence of European farming, said…
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EU summit: Covid response shows climate action is possible
Brussels – The unprecedented response to the coronavirus pandemic is proof that governments can take radical climate action, said Greenpeace as European government leaders met at a summit in Brussels to discuss a higher EU greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for 2030.
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MEPs vote to exclude fossil fuels from coronavirus recovery fund
Brussels - MEPs in the European Parliament’s environment committee have voted to exclude fossil fuel investments from the €672.5 billion Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the largest fund under the EU’s coronavirus recovery plan.
