A true Leaders Summit on Climate? Commitments on emissions reductions and finance urgently needed

MEDIA ADVISORY What is happening? US President, Joe Biden, invited 40 World Leaders to the Leaders Summit on Climate on 22-23 April 2021. This is a critically important initiative as […]

EU Court turn a deaf ear to citizens hit by the climate crisis

Photos of the NGO action in front of the Court can be found here. Recording of the press conference can be found here. The European Court of Justice announced its […]

Forest restoration must not offset climate inaction

This letter was sent to President of the European Commission von der Leyen, Executive Vice-President Timmermans, Commissioner Simson, Commissioner Sinkevičus , Minister Matos Fernandes, MEP Guteland and other Members of […]

Carbon border mechanism: Parliament fails to prevent double protection of EU industry

Yesterday EPP MEPs chose to support industry greenhouse gas emissions, in stark contradiction with the EU’s Green Deal and climate ambition. In its plenary vote, the Parliament failed to support […]

United Nations report calls for unprecedented, urgent global action against climate change

The United Nations have launched a Synthesis Report analysing the impact of the level of ambition from all climate plans submitted by December 2020. This is yet another stark warning […]

European Commission ups its game on adaptation, but the strategy lacks teeth to protect societies against worsening climate change

The European Commission presented its updated climate change adaptation strategy today. Besides much-needed mitigation efforts, the EU must step up its game on adaptation, as impacts of climate change are […]

NGOs stand in support of the Portuguese youth in their landmark case against 33 European countries

Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, Germanwatch, Notre Affaire à Tous and 2Celsius applied to the European Court of Human Rights to intervene in the Portuguese youth’s climate case to support […]

Key priorities for a greener EU Industrial Strategy

The forthcoming update of the EU Industrial Strategy provides a welcome opportunity to re-frame and prioritise actions from the 2020 strategy. With Member States drafting national recovery and resilience plans, […]

Carbon border tax: EU industry cannot have its cake and eat it

The Environment Committee of the European Parliament took its position on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), a financial instrument meant to put a price on carbon-intensive imports from outside […]

France is yet another Member State ordered by the Court to step up its climate action

In the historic climate case, l’Affaire du Siècle, launched by French NGOs in 2018, the Paris Administrative Court has found that the French State is not taking sufficient climate action […]

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