Permanent removal of toxic pollution permits must follow EU carbon market fix

CAN Europe and WWF welcomed today’s final approval by EU ministers for the “backloading” measure that will temporarily withdraw 900 million pollution permits from the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). […]

Member States must back Parliament’s vote to delay auctioning of pollution permits to help fix the EU’s carbon market

Today in Strasbourg, the European Parliament confirmed the position it adopted on 3rd July to amend the EU ETS (Emissions Trading System) Directive to allow the backloading proposal to move […]

Report launch: This is Climate Change in Europe

CAN Europe has just launched an exciting new publication, This is Climate Change in Europe. It brings together dozens of sources ranging from the IPCC, national adaptation plans, UN studies, […]

After Warsaw, EU Leaders Need To Agree Ambitious 2030 Targets

With a minimal agreement on the pathway to defining an ambitious binding climate agreement in Paris in 2015, the climate conference in Warsaw pushed most of the work that needs […]

STOP CLIMATE MADNESS: Civil society sends a loud message to Ministers at COP19

Last night as ministers and their delegations gathered in the COP plenary, more than a hundred remaining activists at the COP – after yesterday’sprotest walkout by many of their NGO […]

This Is Climate Change In Europe

This new report highlights the climate impacts hitting Europe from a variety of perspectives, including ecological and food security.

Letter to Secretary general on impact assessment for the 2030 climate and energy framework

CAN Europe, the Coalition for Energy Savings and the European Renewable Energy Council wrote the following letter to the Secretary General on the Impact assessment for the 2030 climate and energy […]

Climate Change Performance Index: Emissions are rising – but there is a glimmer of hope

The new edition of the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) was released by Germanwatch and CAN Europe in Warsaw at the UN climate talks today. The results show emissions worldwide […]

Expectations for COP19 in Warsaw

The world’s governments agreed at the Durban climate meeting in 2011 two things: first that they would increase their short-term climate ambition; and, second that in 2015 they would agree […]

CAN Europe Position paper on post-2020 EU climate and energy targets

CAN Europe calls upon the European Union (EU) to recognise that its commitment to making a fair contribution to the effort to avoid dangerous climate change means that it should […]

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