#Oceans
The European Union governs the largest maritime zone in the world and one of the largest global fishing fleets. It has a responsibility to preserve the planet's oceans.
The European Union governs the largest maritime zone in the world and one of the largest global fishing fleets. It has a responsibility to preserve the planet's oceans.
January 2020
Today, 102 environmental organisations are launching the “Blue Manifesto” – a rescue plan that lays out concrete actions to turn the tide on Earth’s ever-degraded and polluted oceans and coastlines. …
January 2020
Brussels, 15 January 2020 – The European Parliament is set to adopt a resolution on actions to combat the biodiversity crisis and protect nature, including a call to protect half…
December 2018
After months of intense negotiations, the EU has agreed much-anticipated laws to slash single-use plastics in the EU.
October 2018
National governments must follow suit and cut single-use plastic, Greenpeace Strasbourg, 24 October 2018 – The European Parliament has voted to protect people and the environment from the most common single-use…
October 2018
European Parliament must close loopholes, say campaigners Brussels – Producers could simply market items like throwaway plastic cups as reusable, under changes to a draft EU laws on single-use plastics…
September 2018
Strasbourg – Biodegradable and compostable plastics do not prevent plastic pollution and should not be an excuse to keep consuming single-use plastics, the European Parliament recognised in a vote today.
January 2016
Brussels – On 26 January 2016, two Greenpeace representatives attended a meeting hosted by Ulrike Rodust, Member of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group in the European Parliament, about the…