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Despite a series of eye-catching announcements, a package of policy proposals released by the European Commission on Wednesday is unfit to tackle the climate crisis, warned Greenpeace.

Brussels/Frankfurt – The European Central Bank (ECB) has agreed today that soon only companies in line with the Paris climate agreement will be eligible for corporate sector asset purchases.

EU rules and national subsidy schemes that encourage the use of wood pellets to meet renewable energy targets are driving the destruction and degradation of forests

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…

Brussels – Companies profiting from the sale of products linked to forest destruction, and their lobby groups, are trying to undermine a draft EU law to limit the impact of…

A new legal analysis commissioned by Greenpeace Germany reveals that Europe's central banks are obliged to take climate action and include climate criteria in monetary policy. The study, issued ahead…

EU transport ministers have acknowledged the need to shift from air and road travel to rail to decarbonise transport, but failed to take urgent and concrete action, said Greenpeace.

Brussels, 28 May 2021 – Following the collapse of this week’s negotiations over the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), Greenpeace is calling on the European Commission to start from scratch…

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)…

Plans discussed at an EU summit in Brussels to tackle the pandemic will again ignore the role of climate change and habitat destruction in the emergence and spread of viral…