Number of climate cases increase in Europe, so does the pressure to step up climate action

People around the world keep turning to the courts as politicians fail to deliver anything close to the necessary level of climate action. The Portuguese children’s case filed today with […]

Climate impacts intersecting with the COVID-19 crisis require robust political action

Europe is once again hit by heat waves. Impacts of the climate crisis are threatening lives, livelihoods, jobs and fundamental rights of many Europeans. The EU must urgently and drastically […]

EU leaders’ Summit: No recovery without increased climate ambition

For the first time, EU leaders will discuss the European Commission’s proposals for a revised long-term EU budget, including significant recovery funding to address the economic shortfall caused by COVID-19, […]

EU leaders vow to tie recovery to higher climate ambition for 2030

EU Heads of State and Government agreed on a more ambitious green recovery proposal, which includes an increase of the climate action spending target to 30%, with a view to […]

Disarm fossil fuel firms

Two recent examples of the Dutch and German coal exit show how fossil fuel firms are using an outdated international investment treaty, the Energy Charter Treaty, to attack climate policies. […]

Industrial decarbonisation needs circularity and resource use reductions

Today EU environment ministers have met to discuss the contribution of environmental and climate policies to the recovery from COVID-19, with a focus on circular economy. Ministers overwhelmingly acknowledged the […]

CAN Europe messages to Environment Ministers on climate, circular economy and biodiversity

This letter offers our views on key aspects of the Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) and the Biodiversity Strategy.

CAN Europe’s position on Carbon Capture and Storage and/or Use (CSCU)

If countries want to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change, temperature increase must be limited to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels: a central objective of the Paris Agreement, adopted […]

The EU’s Recovery Plan: next steps to deliver on the European Green Deal

This briefing provides an assessment of the European Commission proposal ‘The EU budget powering the recovery plan for Europe’ and analyses a number of new and revised pieces of legislation […]

Letter to European Commission on industrial transformation

CAN Europe calls upon the Commission to build policy frameworks that guarantee economy-wide transformations that meet several environmental objectives.

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