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The European Commission’s trade sustainability impact assessments: a critical review
This study establishes the state of play of the EU’s use of SIAs since they were first introduced more than 20 years ago.
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Europe goes despot shopping in misguided response to Putin’s war
As the leaders of the EU’s 27 governments are joined in Brussels by US president Joe Biden to consider a further response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, they seek alternative suppliers to prolong fossil fuels, nuclear energy and industrial farming, and backtrack on measures to tackle the escalating climate and nature crisis, warned Greenpeace.
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Activists install live deforestation counter on EU Council building while ministers meet
Brussels – Six Greenpeace Belgium climbers scaled the facade of the EU Council headquarters in Brussels to display a live counter of the amount of forest destroyed around the world while environment ministers meet to discuss a proposed EU law to tackle deforestation. The counter on the Europa building displayed the number of hectares of…
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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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Analysis: EU Commission’s proposed anti-deforestation law
Forests are essential for life on earth. Despite this, forests have been cleared and degraded at an accelerating rate in recent decades mainly due to agricultural expansion, illegal or unsustainable…
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14 protests across EU ask ministers to stop forest destruction
"Around the world, an area of forest the size of a football pitch is destroyed faster than even the best player could kick a ball across it"
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EU Commission plans carbon offset scheme for big polluters
The European Commission’s ‘sustainable carbon cycles’ plan, announced today, risks becoming an excuse for big polluters to stall their own climate action, Greenpeace has warned.
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Letter to EU Commission on sustainable carbon cycles
Carbon removals cannot replace real cuts to actual greenhouse gas emissions.
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Glimmer of hope for EU anti-deforestation law
Brussels – A European Commission draft law, published today, to cut deforestation out of the EU’s supply chains is a tentative first step towards protecting the world’s forests, but still…
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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.