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 […]

Europeans paying tens of billions in health costs for coal-fired electricity

European coal companies including RWE, EPH, and PGE, continue to push the cost of dirty energy onto society, with air pollution from their coal plants burdening people across Europe with both health […]

Court’s decision makes a case for excluding dirty energy from capacity mechanisms subsidies

The General Court of the European Union has decided today to annul the European Commission’s decision not to raise objections to the aid scheme establishing a ‘capacity market’ in the […]

Bigger EU budget must entail bolder action on climate change

The European Parliament has called today in its plenary session for a larger long-term EU budget than that proposed by the European Commission. They also ask for the share of […]

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 […]

EU ministers recognise stronger support to developing countries in dealing with climate change is needed

Today at an Economic and Financial Affairs Council, EU ministers discussed their commitments to international climate finance ahead of the climate summit in Katowice (COP 24).

Awards to name and shame the planned support to fossil fuels in the next EU budget

The European Commission claims that the next EU budget should tackle common challenges, including climate change. But unless the EU climate-proofs the entire EU budget, it will continue to prop […]

Turkey’s coal investments poison people, air and seas across borders

The real price we all pay for Turkey’s coal is too high, shows CAN Europe’s new study “The Real Costs of Coal: Muğla”. The research is a case study on […]

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 […]

European Parliament calls for stepping up EU climate action

In today’s vote on the European Parliament’s position on December’s COP24 climate summit, MEPs called for increasing the EU’s 2030 climate target to a 55 percent emission cuts compared to […]

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