Brussels, 9 September 2024 – Following Mario Draghi’s presentation of his report on Europe’s competitiveness, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe is urging European leaders to focus on a green industrial policy that secures long-term economic and environmental sustainability. While Draghi’s report acknowledges that climate and industrial policies should be mutually

The state of nature continues to decline due to changes in land and sea use, overexploitation, harmful forestry practices, pollution, and climate change. Despite large societal support and clear evidence that restoring and protecting nature is crucial to halt biodiversity loss, combat climate change, and enhance human well-being, the Nature

International climate finance is essential to strengthening climate security and protecting those on the front line of the climate crisis. The report “Assessing International Climate Finance by the EU and Member States: Key Insights for Shaping the New Climate Finance Goal” tracks the evolution of the European Union’s (EU) contribution

Foreword from Cornelia Maarfield, Head of Energy at CAN Europe This week, two years ago, the European Commission published its landmark RePowerEU package on 18th May 2021, in response to Russia’s war on Ukraine, which is still raging. Our timeline below takes a look back at the major energy milestones

  Dear Commissioner Simson, Executive Vice-President Šefčovič, Commissioner Hoekstra, and Commissioner Sinkevičius Monday 18 March 2024 We, the undersigned organisations, are writing regarding the guidance on designating renewables acceleration areas to drive harmonised, fair, and sustainable implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED). Renewables Acceleration Areas (RAAs), focusing on solar

Millions of European households have been making the difficult choice between heating and eating this winter as the cost of living and heating bills remain relatively high. This burden is felt more in the rental sector, as tenants contend with ever rising rent prices across the continent, further adding to

Click here for the full report CAN Europe’s latest briefing explores the opportunities and challenges within the Central Eastern European region when it comes to development of energy infrastructure and the grid network within the region. However, countries within the Central Eastern European (CEE) region are grappling with numerous challenges

In the global fight against climate change, the process of transitioning from fossil-fuel-based energy sources to zero-carbon ones has complex, and significant, technological, economic and social effects. Ensuring that this transformation to a decarbonised and sustainable production process does not create technological and socio-economic injustices, and is instead socially beneficial,

  Making Europe more energy secure and ensuring an ambitious and just energy transition, that puts energy savings first in the switch to a fully renewable energy system, will need to focus on the areas that can spur a real system change, while paving the way towards a resilient economy

EU fails to walk the talk as coal and nuclear hijack the Electricity Market Design Reform Brussels, 14th December 2023 – In the early hours of this morning, the EU Council and Parliament reached a very controversial compromise on the Electricity Market Design revision. Despite resistance from parts of the European

A sack of dirty coal for Christmas? Threat of coal derogation lingers for Final Electricity Market Design trilogue Brussels, 13 December 2023 What is Happening:  Today, 13th December, trilogue negotiations on the Electricity Market Design (EMD) reform are expected to come to a conclusion. Co-legislators will have to agree on

EU Buildings Directive could leave millions of homes behind, hope now rests on Member States Brussels, 8th December 2023 – Yesterday evening, the final trilogue of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) came to a conclusion, bringing to an end a tumultuous revision process. The European Parliament, the Council and