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.
Exciting news: Inspired by the millions of people like you calling for urgent climate action, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has promised to bring forward an unprecedented EU…
Strasbourg/Brussels – The European Parliament has challenged governments and the European Commission to accelerate EU climate action, following a vote in Strasbourg about the European Green Deal.
Access to EU ‘green’ funding must be limited to governments committed to coal phase out dates, said Greenpeace, as the European Commission released a €1 trillion investment package for the…
January 2020
Exciting news: Inspired by the millions of people like you calling for urgent climate action, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has promised to bring forward an unprecedented EU…
January 2020
Strasbourg/Brussels – The European Parliament has challenged governments and the European Commission to accelerate EU climate action, following a vote in Strasbourg about the European Green Deal.
January 2020
Access to EU ‘green’ funding must be limited to governments committed to coal phase out dates, said Greenpeace, as the European Commission released a €1 trillion investment package for the…
December 2019
27 out of 28 European governments agreed to reach climate neutrality by 2050, opening the door for discussions about more immediate EU action.
December 2019
*** Action photos and videos will be uploaded here. Committing future generations to climate neutrality isn’t enough, Greenpeace Brussels, 12 December 2019 – 62 activists representing seven European countries have…
December 2019
Brussels, 11 December 2019 – The European Commission officially presented its plan for a European Green Deal today. Greenpeace warned that although the volume of policies is impressive and the…
December 2019
Greenpeace sent a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her team, calling on them to use the European Green Deal to restructure the economic system that for…
December 2019
Brussels, 4 December 2019 – The European Environment Agency (EEA) has warned in a new report that “Europe will not achieve its sustainability vision of ‘living well within the limits…
November 2019
Brussels, 29 November 2019 – Draft plans for a European Green Deal would have minimal impact on the worsening climate and ecological emergencies, warned Greenpeace. Greenpeace has obtained a recent…
November 2019
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,…
November 2019
As the climate emergency escalates and world leaders assemble for another global climate conference in Madrid in December, all eyes will be on Brussels.
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.…
