CCPI: European countries fail to take adequate climate action

The Climate Change Performance Index 2019 (CCPI), published today at the climate summit COP24 by Germanwatch, the NewClimate Institute and Climate Action Network (CAN) shows that three years after the […]

Courts are increasingly forcing emissions cuts

At the end of a year that has seen an increase in climate-related litigation cases globally, plaintiffs, lawyers and campaigners representing six cases made clear at the UN climate talks […]

People’s Climate Case: The EU must honor the call of its citizens and stand with them, instead of hiding behind Court procedures and formalities

As part of the proceeding of the People’s Climate Case – the case challenging the EU’s 2030 climate target for its insufficiency to protect the citizens and their fundamental rights-, […]

European Commission takes a step forward on climate change

The proposal to upgrade the EU’s long-term target to net zero emissions by 2050 included in the draft Long-Term EU Climate Strategy released by the European Commission today is an […]

Judging the EU climate strategy: Will it be enough to prevent the worst climate breakdown?

The European Commission is expected to publish its proposal for a long-term EU climate strategy on Wednesday, 28 November. This proposal will set the stage for negotiations among European governments […]

16 European leaders call for raising climate targets by 2020

Just ahead of the world’s foremost summit on climate change, COP24, 16 European leaders have called upon all countries of the world to commit to review the levels of ambition […]

Briefing: EU Long Term Strategy and the Paris Agreement

This briefing concerns the draft EU Long-Term Strategy. It explains that while setting a net zero by 2050 target would be a clear improvement as compared to the current roadmap, […]

10 EU countries call for raising the bar of the EU’s long term climate plan

In a letter to the European Commission sent last week, environment ministers representing 10 EU Member States have called upon the EU’s executive to clearly support a target of reducing […]

More than 160 000 Europeans are supporting the People’s Climate Case

Today, the Luxembourg NGOs -ASTM, Greenpeace, Mouvement Ecologique and natur&ëmwelt- together with Wemove.eu and Climate Action Network Europe, showed their support to the families and young people who are suing […]

The EU must urgently ramp up its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Preliminary estimates published today in the European Environment Agency (EEA)’s annual ‘trends and projections’ assessments show a 0.6% emissions increase in 2017 from 2016. IPCC scientists have made a call […]

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