Climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity and the natural world. To avoid the worst effects of a changing climate, our governments and the EU must act to keep global warming below 1.5°C.
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…
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…
With money and meetings, subsidies and sponsorships, the oil and gas lobby is fuelling the climate disaster Read the full report here Since 2010, just five oil and gas corporations…
November 2019
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…
November 2019
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…
October 2019
With money and meetings, subsidies and sponsorships, the oil and gas lobby is fuelling the climate disaster Read the full report here Since 2010, just five oil and gas corporations…
October 2019
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] –…
October 2019
189 civil society organisations support a statement declaring “we need a firewall that protects our democratic institutions and our decision-making from fossil fuel industry interference: no more private lobby meetings,…
October 2019
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…
October 2019
Greenpeace joined over sixty other NGOs in sending a letter to the President of the European Investment Bank, Werner Hoyer, telling him to stand firm behind the proposal to stop…
October 2019
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…
October 2019
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,…
September 2019
New York city/Brussels – A United Nations climate summit taking place today in New York city is expected to expose Europe’s lack of progress to tackle the climate emergency, warned Greenpeace.…
September 2019
Brussels – Incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced a new team of commissioners, but her game plan for the environment still falls short of what science demands,…
September 2019
Incoming EU Commission President greeted in The Hague with burning globe The Hague – Greenpeace activists greeted incoming President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, this evening in…
August 2019
Twenty-six NGOs sent an open letter to European leaders urging them to end European complicity in the fires raging in the Amazon. NGOs believe the EU can act decisively in…
August 2019
EU Green Deal must begin shift to climate change-resilient farming, Greenpeace Brussels – A landmark UN report on the impact of human land exploitation has exposed a giant gap in the…
July 2019
Brussels, 24 July 2019 – A deforestation action plan released today by the European Commission paints a bleak picture of Europe’s responsibility for global deforestation, but fails to address the…
June 2019
The trade deal that could be agreed this weekend between the EU and Mercosur countries is a disaster for the environment on both sides of the Atlantic, said Greenpeace.
June 2019
Poland blocks progress with small number of opponents Brussels, 20 June 2019 – After talks at an EU summit in Brussels, European leaders have failed to back an EU target…
June 2019
Urgent EU action is needed to avoid climate breakdown, climate activists warned European political leaders ahead of a crucial summit in Brussels.
June 2019
Brussels – Ahead of a crucial summit that could define the EU’s collective response to the climate crisis, the European Commission has released its recommendations to EU countries on their…
June 2019
European political leaders attending a crucial summit in Brussels on 20 and 21 June will face three major tests of their commitment to tackle the climate crisis. Test N. 1…
June 2019
A leaked five-year plan setting political priorities for Europe has exposed a stubborn reluctance by governments to take urgent action against the existential climate and ecological crisis, warned Greenpeace.
June 2019
Luxembourg, 6 June 2019 — Activists from Germany, Poland, Belgium and Greenpeace Luxembourg are peacefully demonstrating outside a meeting of EU Transport Ministers in Luxembourg with a crashed car and…
May 2019
Brussels, 28 May 2019 – The choices for the EU’s top jobs and the bloc’s immediate priorities should be guided by voters’ calls for urgent climate action, said Greenpeace. EU…
May 2019
Brussels – Greenhouse gas emissions from European farming have been rising steadily since 2012, according to a new European Commission report about the climate impact of the EU’s common agricultural policy.…
May 2019
Brussels – Commenting on a pivotal EU election that will have a major impact on Europe’s ability to preserve fundamental rights and confront the twin crises of climate and ecological…
May 2019
Brussels/Petersberg (Germany) – After months of dithering, German chancellor Angela Merkel has shown support for a target to make the European Union climate-neutral by 2050 and asked her government to…
May 2019
Sibiu, Romania – Student strikers from all over Europe and Greenpeace activists displayed a giant message ahead of a summit on the future of Europe
April 2019
What comes to mind when you think of the EU? Brexit? Freedom of movement? The European debt crisis? How about protecting the environment? Safeguarding the living world isn’t something most…
April 2019
Brussels – Today’s likely approval by European governments of new mandates to start fresh trade negotiations with the US could raise the infamous TTIP from the dead, despite concerns over…
April 2019
**High-quality photos and video available here soon** Brussels – Climate activists hung a giant banner from a European Union building across the road from the Brussels venue where EU…
March 2019
EU leaders fail to agree 2050 decarbonisation target Brussels, 22 March 2019 – European heads of government meeting in Brussels on Friday failed to back a plan to fully decarbonise…
March 2019
In response to a petition from Food & Water Europe, ExxonMobil is at the center of yet another inquiry into its role in promoting climate change denial. This time in Brussels,…
March 2019
Brussels – The European Parliament has endorsed the European Commission’s plan to reduce the EU’s net greenhouse gas emissions and called for EU emissions to fall to zero as soon as…
March 2019
Brussels – As climate change protests intensify across Europe and beyond, energy and environment ministers meeting on Monday and Tuesday in Brussels will discuss whether to back a plan to fully…
February 2019
Brussels, 27 February 2019 – A new report by Adelphi, a German think tank, has shown that the next European Parliament could see a greater share of MEPs opposed to…
January 2019
Between 23 and 26 May, people across the European Union will be voting for the members of the next European Parliament. Here are three reasons why you should vote: 1.…
December 2018
Brussels, 19 December 2018 – Days after the international community failed to call for more climate action to limit global warming to 1.5°C at the UN climate conference in Poland,…
December 2018
Brussels – In a roadmap released today, the European Commission has promised to address global deforestation and cut the EU’s footprint on the world’s forests. The roadmap highlights the link between…
December 2018
It may have been the record-breaking heatwaves and wildfires last summer, or perhaps the dire warning by UN scientists that we only have 12 years left to avoid the worst.…
December 2018
Brussels, 13 December 2018 – Activists calling on European heads of government to “change course on climate” diverted official motorcades on their way to an EU summit meeting in Brussels…
November 2018
Brussels – A draft EU climate strategy offers upcoming global climate talks a glimmer of hope, said Greenpeace. Media have leaked the strategy, ahead of the scheduled launch this afternoon.…
November 2018
The European Commission is expected to publish its proposal for a long-term EU strategy on climate change on Wednesday, 28 November. This proposal will set the stage for negotiations between…
November 2018
Brussels – Seven European governments have ramped up pressure on the European Commission to deliver a long-awaited action plan by the end of the year to tackle global deforestation. The letter…
October 2018
Brussels – After the publication of a landmark report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), EU heads of government meeting in Brussels recognised the need for stronger…
October 2018
Brussels – European agriculture ministers made no reference to meat and dairy production’s contribution to climate change, as they set out their national positions on the EU’s ongoing reform of…
October 2018
It started in the early hours of Monday morning. I rolled out of bed and tiptoed to the kitchen table to stare at my laptop bleary-eyed: 3.04 am in Brussels,…
October 2018
15 governments call on EU to up its game in wake of UN climate report Brussels/Luxembourg, 8 October 2018 – 15 European environment ministers have called on the EU to…
October 2018
UN panel exposes inadequacy of EU climate action Brussels/Incheon (Korea), 8 October 2018 – In a special report released today in Korea, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
October 2018
New climate change report seen as final warning to keep global warming to 1.5°C ***Photo/video opportunity: 28 oil drum climate percussion protest by Brussels activists. Midday-2pm on 6 October, European…
September 2018
If Europe is to honour its commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C, sales of petrol, diesel and conventional hybrid cars must end
