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Happy 30th birthday, EU! Time to grow up.
A significant birthday is a good time for a reality check. As the Maastricht Treaty hits 30, it’s time for the European Union to rethink its fiscal priorities and face up to the planetary emergency.
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Taxonomy: inclusion of nuclear and gas is “attempted robbery” – Greenpeace
The plan would cause billions of euro to flow away from clean energy like renewables and instead go to nuclear energy and fossil gas, accelerating the climate crisis.
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Taxonomy greenwashing: activists cover Macron portraits in oil ahead of speech to MEPs
Activists at the European Parliament plunged official portraits of Emmanuel Macron in fake crude oil to denounce the French president’s “climate sabotage.”
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EU Commission’s taxonomy plan is “licence to greenwash”
The European Commission intends to label certain fossil gas and nuclear activities as “sustainable” investments in the EU’s taxonomy of green economic activities, according to a draft communication released late on 31 December 2021.
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EU must face up to gas phase-out
Brussels – The EU Commission’s proposed update of the EU’s gas market rules fails to acknowledge the need to phase out gas in order to tackle the climate crisis, warned…
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Letter to EU Commission on upcoming hydrogen and gas package
NGOs call for revisions to the proposed gas market reform to bring it into line with the EU's climate and energy commitments.
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‘Taxonosaurus’ wrecks EU plans for green investment guidelines
Greenpeace Belgium activists protest against the inclusion of fossil gas and nuclear energy in the EU's list of sustainable investments.
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COP26: EU hypocrisy exposed as climate conference wraps up
Brussels 13 November 2021 – Greenpeace has slammed the EU’s double standards as the COP26 climate conference draws to a close in Glasgow.
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Exposed: French nuclear companies dumping radioactive waste in Siberia
Activists call on EU not to count nuclear energy as sustainable as a new investigation reveals dumping of radioactive waste in Siberia
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Greenpeace blocks Shell refinery in Rotterdam port
More than 80 activists from 12 EU countries used fossil fuel ads from all over Europe to block the entrance to Shell’s refinery in the port of Rotterdam, calling for an EU ban on fossil fuel advertising