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Joint statement: EU omnibus deregulation slashes human rights and environmental protections
Greenpeace activists take part in a demonstration in Brussels against the EU's omnibus law and deregulation weakening corporate accountability
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Open letter by civil society on the rollback of green measures in the EU
With only a month to go until European elections, over 140 civil society organisations are raising the alarm in a new open letter about a broad attack on many of the EU’s flagship green measures and commitments.
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Statement in solidarity with farmers
The social, environmental, and economic sustainability of European food systemsdepends on the dignity, viability, and wellbeing of the farming community.Farmers are not only stewards of the land but also providers…
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Polluting farms’ industrial emissions must be regulated
Livestock farms are major sources of air pollution, water pollution and soil pollution.
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EU negotiators must protect forests and human rights
Greenpeace and over 140 other environmental, social justice, Indigenous rights and human rights organisations have written to the European Commission, European environment and agriculture ministers and Members of the European Parliament involved in negotiations on a new EU law to protect forests.
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Rethink and repower the EU’s energy system
Europe is facing multiple crises at the same time: the war in Ukraine, the ongoing pandemic and economic fallout, rising cost-of-living and energy bills, and a worsening climate and ecological…
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Feeding fears: tackling the farming fallout of the war in Ukraine
The recent disruption of Russian and Ukrainian exports of cereals, oilseeds, fertilisers and fossil gas (used in the manufacturing of synthetic fertilisers that underpin modern industrial farming) makes it clearthat Europe’s farming sector…
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Renewable heating for all
As fossil gas prices have soared and energy poverty is threatening millions of Europeans, it has never been clearer that we need renewable, affordable energy for all.
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110+ NGOs demand improvements to EU anti-deforestation plan
Over 110 environmental, human rights and other civil society organisations have called on the European Parliament and EU national governments to greatly improve upon the European Commission's proposed law to cut the EU's contribution to global forest destruction.
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Does the new EU farm policy measure up?
The new EU farm policy is strikingly similar to the previous one which failed to deliver environmental improvements.