All articles
-
Declaring a climate emergency is not enough – our house is on fire
Today the European Parliament is expected to adopt a resolution declaring a climate emergency. The move is likely to be approved by all political groups, the EPP, S&D, Renew Europe, the Greens and GUE, with the latter two objecting to the lack of substance in the declaration.
-
Gas slips through as EIB slashes fossil fuel funding
Luxembourg/Brussels – The European Investment Bank (EIB) will limit funding for new fossil fuel projects starting at the end of 2021, but some gas infrastructure will continue to be eligible…
-
Brazilian indigenous leaders ask Timmermans to stop forest destruction
Protest with flaming tree trunk brings Amazon fires to Brussels Brussels, 5 November 2019 – Leaders of indigenous communities in Brazil are in Brussels to ask European Commission vice-president Frans…
-
Big oil spent over €250 lobbying the EU
Brussels – The world’s five big oil and gas majors and their lobbyists have spent at least 251 million euro lobbying the EU since 2010, new research reveals [1] –…
-
European Parliament backs new protections for bees
Brussels – The European Parliament has backed new protections for bees, thwarting a move by the EU Commission and national governments to maintain outdated guidelines for how to evaluate the dangers…
-
Timmermans grasps scale of radical climate action needed, stumbles on substance
Brussels – Incoming EU commission vice-president Frans Timmermans’s vision of the radical economic and social changes needed to tackle the climate crisis is promising, but he stumbled on some key…
-
Protecting forests, natural ecosystems and human rights
Read the full briefing here. If everybody in the world lived like the average EU resident, humanity would have consumed the equivalent of 2.8 planets by the end of 2019.…
-
EU environment boss nominee turns blind eye to forests as Amazon burns
Brussels – Virginijus Sinkevičius’s near silence on an EU plan to tackle deforestation is disgraceful, said Greenpeace. The nominee to be the next European commissioner on environment and oceans, answered…
-
Backing gas spells disaster for incoming EU energy head’s climate credentials, Greenpeace
Brussels – Kadri Simson, the nominee to be the next EU energy commissioner, has made conflicting promises on climate action and gas that could spell disaster for her climate credentials,…
-
Incoming EU farming boss must back less and better meat and dairy, Greenpeace
The nominee to be the next European agriculture commissioner, Janusz Wojciechowski of Poland, must steer EU farm policy away from industrial production of meat and dairy to keep his promises to protect small farmers and the environment, Greenpeace has said.