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NGOs file complaints over systemic failures in climate plans across Europe
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PR: Western Balkans: Environmental groups challenge Commission’s breach of Reform and Growth Facility safeguards  

Western Balkans: Environmental groups challenge Commission’s breach of Reform and Growth Facility safeguards   13 January, 2025 CEE Bankwatch Network and Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe have formally requested a review…
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EU Competitiveness Compass must safeguard social and environmental protections

Brussels, January 13, 2025 – Almost 270 civil society organisations, trade unions, consumer groups, farmers organisations, civil rights groups and environmental organisations representing millions of citizens, call on  European Commission’s…
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EU countries need to move faster than Brussels on market design reform

Written by Thomas Lewis, Energy Policy Expert at CAN Europe. In June this year, the revised Electricity Market Design Regulation and Directive came into effect, introducing a host of new…
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Funding Fairer Futures: calls for proposals open now!

Funding Fairer Futures is an initiative dedicated to strengthening the climate movement and building capacities for an inclusive, just transformation, by ensuring that the needs and perspectives of diverse stakeholders,…
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Briefing: Fossil fuel subsidies and the European Semester - Progress or regression?

Introduction Although the European Union has committed to “phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies by 2025”, in several international fora such as the G7 and the UNFCCC, in practice this…
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Europe’s electric avenue: the path to lowering energy prices and emissions

Brussels, 16 December 2024 — If the EU does not urgently modernise its grid network, costs relating to congestion could rise from 26 billion euro in 2030 to a staggering…
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Climate action

Bolstering EU climate ambition to reach the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement.

CLIMATE ACTION

Bolstering EU climate ambition to reach the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement.

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* Effort sharing
* Industrial decarbonisation
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Energy transition

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FINANCING THE TRANSITION

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EUROPE IN TRANSITION

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Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe is Europe’s leading NGO coalition fighting dangerous climate change. We promote sustainable climate, energy and development policies throughout Europe.

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CAN Europe works to prevent dangerous climate change and promotes sustainable climate and energy policy in Europe. CAN Europe is part of a worldwide network of more than 1,300 NGOs: CAN International.

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CAN Europe empowers civil society organisations to influence the design and development of effective climate change policy in Europe, both in the European Union as well as in its Member States and in European countries outside the EU.

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