CAN Europe Position on Best use of ETS auctioning revenues
CAN Europe recommends using half of the auctioning revenues for international climate finance, and the other half for domestic climate finance.
28/07/2012
Small step forward in Europe: a new Energy Efficiency Directive
The EU Council, Commission and Parliament agreed a new Directive for Energy Efficiency (the “EED”). It still needs to be formally approved by the Parliament but is expected to go
27/06/2012
Press release
Chancellor Merkel: Get to work on Climate Change!
Picture Credit: Lode Sodaine/FoEE CAN Europe and six environmental organisations today made a symbolic handover of a pair of gloves to encourage German Chancellor Angela Merkel to keep working for
25/06/2012
Blog
The IPCC’s Special Report on extreme events and climate change: The link is there; now, how to prepare?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a Special Report, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). It examines the links
21/06/2012
Environment Ministers must get serious about climate change
On the 11th of June, EU environment ministers discussed several climate change issues. They had debates on the provision of financial support to developing countries for reducing emissions and adapting
19/06/2012
Briefing on Member States position on the 2050 Energy Roadmap
Since the communication from the European Commission (EC) on the Energy Roadmap 2050, in November 2011 , energy ministries in all 27 Member States have been discussing an official European
14/06/2012
Blog
Counting the effects
A report from the climate finance workshop held at the UN Climate talks Amid the buzz of the high level negotiations taking place at the UN Climate Conference in
14/06/2012
A Recipe for transparent climate finance in the EU
CAN Europe, Aprodev, German Watch, CIDSE and Oxfam commissioned a report in order to identify how the EU can improve the current process for monitoring their climate finance commitments.
21/05/2012
Bloomberg report: Clever with numbers but what does their 30% equal?
Bloomberg New Energy Finance launched its new report yesterday in Brussels, analysing the costs of moving toward a 30% GHG cuts in the EU. The report lays out a number
27/04/2012
Dismal carbon price to be fixed. We are waiting to see the plan and the ambition.
Last week EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard announced a review of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) by the end of this year. It may result in a limit to the
26/04/2012