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MEP backing for GMO deregulation threatens rights of farmers
The European Commission proposal on new GMOs, and amendments supported today by the European Parliament’s environment committee, risk violating the rights of farmers and consumers, according to new legal analysis by Greenpeace.
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EU climate science advisors call for end to fossil fuels
Brussels – The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change made a series of recommendations for changes to EU policy needed to cut carbon emissions and avoid catastrophic climate breakdown.
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New EU debt rules agreement slams brakes on green investments
EU finance ministers have agreed new national debt and deficit rules that would heavily impact governments’ ability to pay for the transition to clean energy and transport, sustainable farming and nature restoration, Greenpeace has warned.
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EU governments fail to agree Commission plan for new GMOs to escape safety testing
Agriculture ministers failed to reach a political agreement on a plan by the European Commission that would allow a new brand of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) produced with new genomic techniques (NGTs) to escape safety testing. The proposal would scrap most safety checks governing the release of GMOs, despite scientist warnings.
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EU dodges conflict of interest in new hydrogen grid
Brussels – The fossil gas industry will not be handed control of a future European hydrogen network, according to a deal concluded today on updated rules for the EU’s gas…
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EU nature restoration law survives conservative ‘kill list’
Brussels – Despite attempts by the conservative European People’s Party group in the European Parliament to shoot down the new EU law to restore nature, the Parliament’s…
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EU gives factory farms a free pass to pollute
Brussels – In a blow to the climate, nature and the vast majority of EU livestock farmers, EU lawmakers agreed to give the most polluting factory farms…
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Commission funds fossil fuels industry through controversial infrastructure projects
Brussels - The Commission’s list of Projects of Common Interest (PCI) includes a number of projects that, under the pretence of facilitating the development of hydrogen technology, risk being just…
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EU handing future hydrogen grid to fossil gas industry
The planning and management of much of Europe’s future hydrogen infrastructure could be left in the hands of the fossil gas industry, after the European…
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Greenpeace installs radiation sensors in Ukraine and calls for EU sanctions against Rosatom
Greenpeace and SaveDnipro have installed sensors to monitor radiation levels in Ukraine