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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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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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‘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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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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Nuclear industry ties call EU research body’s impartiality into question
In March 2020, the Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG) established by the European Commission recommended excluding nuclear power from the green taxonomy, a European classification of low-carbon and…
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Leak: polluters gut EU green finance rules
Major concessions to polluting industries under new EU sustainable finance rules, leaked on Monday, would stab the EU green deal in the heart, said Greenpeace.
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EU climate neutrality rut must not delay urgent climate action, Greenpeace
27 out of 28 European governments agreed to reach climate neutrality by 2050, opening the door for discussions about more immediate EU action.
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Climate change activists demand EU ministers stop spending billions on dirty energy
Linz, Austria/Brussels – Greenpeace activists challenged EU energy ministers meeting in Linz to stop using billions of public money to fund coal, gas and nuclear energy, which heat the climate, contaminate the environment and endanger lives.