Climate crisis: Extreme heat waves hit Europe
Long-predicted impacts of climate change are wreaking havoc in Europe. An extreme heatwave is expected to affect millions of people in large parts of west-central Europe. In recent months, Eastern […]
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Polish, Czech, Estonian and Hungarian governments block EU climate ambition
EU leaders meeting in Brussels today failed to agree to reduce emissions to net zero by 2050 and to commit to revising the EU’s 2030 climate target, due to a […]
Four new EU countries announce support for reaching net zero emissions by 2050
On 17 and 18 June, four new EU countries, namely Bulgaria, Hungary, Ireland and Slovakia announced their support for the net zero emissions by 2050 goal, increasing the total number […]
National Energy and Climate Plans: improvement needed to comply with the Paris Agreement
Today the European Commission has published its recommendations for improving the draft National Energy and Climate Plans wherein EU Member States have to draw concrete pathways to reduce their greenhouse […]
EU on track to reach agreement on net zero emissions by 2050 this week
Strong support from progressive countries key to a successful outcome Brussels, 17th June 2019, for immediate release Feeling the pressure from the public, and in particular from young people, EU […]
Letter from UN Secretary General urging EU leaders to ramp up climate action
In a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk leaked by the media last week, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urged EU leaders to adopt a long-term vision for a carbon-neutral economy […]
Briefing: the battle over the EU’s climate ambition
This briefing shows that since the beginning of 2018, 22 EU Member States in total have signed on numerous statements calling for increasing efforts to tackle the climate crisis. Only […]
Fragmented Parliament needs unity to tackle climate emergency
As a result of the European elections concluded yesterday, the two traditional major parties of the social democrats and conservatives will no longer have a majority in the European Parliament. […]
Climate tops the European elections debate, forcing laggards to finally take a stand
Thanks to hundreds of thousands of young people protesting across European cities over the last months against the lack of adequate action to confront the climate emergency, climate change for […]
People’s Climate Case: Court acknowledges climate change is affecting everyone but dismisses the case
The European General Court dismissed the People’s Climate Case on procedural grounds stating that the families and youth impacted by climate change do not have a right to go to court to […]